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Thursday Feb 25, 2010
Adobe NAB / SMART Pass and Conference Flex® Pass.
 

Adobe NAB / SMART Pass and Conference Flex® Pass.

NAB Show 2010: Where Content Comes to Life
April 10-15, 2010

Come to the NAB Show for unparalleled opportunities to evolve, innovate and grow smarter!

Be sure to visit the Adobe® booth to see how Adobe is revolutionizing the world of entertainment-one screen at a time. You'll experience our complete portfolio of solutions for broadcast, film and post-production that give you a competitive edge for creating, distributing, and monetizing video.

For 2010, the NAB Show is proud to offer smarter registration packages that give you access to more sessions, cross-conference access, year-round learning opportunities, and networking - all for one great price. Check out the Best Value Packages including a new SMART Pass and Conference Flex® Pass.

http://www.nabshow.com/2010/?trackingid=FDEMO

 
Tuesday Feb 23, 2010
LensBaby turns 6.... 6?
 

LensBaby turns 6.... 6?

Lens baby is running a little celebration in light of its recent birthday.  I can't believe it's 6. 

The grand prize will include a Lensbaby Composer® and all six Lensbaby Optics (one for each year of Lensbaby’s life).   Additional winners will receive prizes provided by Lensbaby’s friends in the industry including: Kubota Image Tools, Digital Photo Academy, Tamrac, Joby, Hoodman, Bay Photo, Plywerk, Nasty Clamps, Trek-Tech, Lenspen, SmugMug and others. 



http://www.lensbaby.com/birthday/

March 5: Photoshop CS4 Seminar
 

March 5: Photoshop CS4 Seminar

Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks Tour
Coming to Los Angeles, CA | Friday, March 05, 2010


BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Three of the best graphic designers on the planet, Corey Barker, Dave Cross and Scott Kelby have joined forces to bring back one of the most successful seminar tours in history. They have created an amazing new tour packed full of the hottest, most-requested, eye-popping, jaw-dropping Photoshop effects, that look hard, but are easy (once you know the secrets). You'll learn the very latest Photoshop tips, tricks, and advanced techniques that give you the design skills to stand-out in a competitive market, and take your photography and Photoshop creativity to a whole new level!
These five amazing classes reflect the latest trends in Photoshop special effects, photographic effects, and design tricks. But this isn't a bunch of "bouncing text" and "exploding planet" type tutorials you find on the web; these are nothing but today's real world techniques-the same ones used by leading photographers, designers, and special effect masters, and it's all here in the only live workshop of its kind.

 
Wednesday Feb 10, 2010
Imagineer at DMALA
 

Imagineer at DMALA

>planar tracker SDK

Larger facilities have always asked for the ability to port our planar tracker to their proprietary tools. To address this request we created the Planar Tracker SDK, software developers kit and documentation for our planar tracking technology.

Now customers can access over 9 years of technology innovation in motion tracking and image analysis within their custom workflows and tools. For more information, please contact: RossS-AT-imagineersystems-DOT-com

>tutorial: Top 5 workflow tips

Imagineer Product Specialist, Martin Brennand recently created this great video tutorial for users who are new to: mocha, mocha for After Effects and mocha for Final Cut. The video covers 5 of the top workflow tips and offers some solid foundations to get the most out of your planar tracker.
watch the video

 >event: mocha demo in Los Angeles - Feb 16th

Ross Shain will be demonstrating a preview of mocha v2 to the Digital Media Artists group in Los Angeles alongside some great guests including Ahraon Rabinowitz and Big Machine on February 16th. Come say hello and learn some new tricks!

Feb 16th, 7pm at The Barnsdall Gallery Theater, 4800 Hollywood Blvd.

 
Monday Feb 08, 2010
DMALA: Another Group Site
 

DMALA: Another Group Site

As though there weren't ENOUGH places to put notices about the meeting, I've gone and signed up for the ADOBE GROUPS page.

If you haven't signed up for an Adobe Membership - you should check it out.  It's free and gets you access to all of the Adobe groups from around the world.

http://groups.adobe.com/pages/home


 
Monday Feb 01, 2010
EditShare for FCP users / at BVE
 

EditShare for FCP users / at BVE

EditShare™ today announced plans to exhibit at the Broadcast Video Expo
(BVE) 2010 exhibition held in Earl's Court, February 16th through the
18th. The 60 sq meter stand located at the front of the exhibition hall
will offer demonstrations of the EditShare Complete Collaboration
product line and the newly acquired Geevs and Lightworks technologies.
Highlights of the technology showcase include;

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Tuesday Jan 26, 2010
Photoshop 20th Anniversary & NAPP
 

Photoshop 20th Anniversary & NAPP

Photoshop 20th anniversary! Celebrate with Adobe and NAPP
February 18, 2010

Take a walk through history and see a glimpse into the future. Join notable Adobe® Photoshop® gurus, including Adobe leaders and NAPP's Scott Kelby, as we celebrate the software that changed photography and design forever.   
http://www.photoshopuser.com/photoshop20th?trackingid=FCGYV

 
Thursday Jan 14, 2010
Samy's Adobe Sessions
 

Samy's Adobe Sessions

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 software is essential for today's
digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process,
manage, and showcase your images ? from one shot to an entire shoot.
With Lightroom 2, you spend less time in front of the computer and more
time behind the lens.

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Tuesday Jan 12, 2010
Adobe's online education / Jan 13 / Jan 20
 

Adobe's online education / Jan 13 / Jan 20

There are two separate online events from Adobe this week and next that will help you get more out of your CS4 software.  Check out  the webinars on Wednesday of this week and next...
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=860577&loc=en_us

 
Wednesday Jan 06, 2010
Independent Filmmakers in LA
 

Independent Filmmakers in LA

Eric Harnden has started a new group dedicated to the topic of independent filmmaking. 

http://wordpress.quintessentialstudios.net/?p=255

Eric has connections to people in every aspect of filmmaking - from script to distribution.  There are so many people in the Los Angeles area who have a film that they want to finish as an independent producer.

If you're in the Inland Empire, you might have difficulty finding people who are like you.  Well, Eric is solving this by setting up a MeetUp group.

Check out his page for more information.   If you're in Hollywood  (January 19) you might even get a few minutes with him in person at dmala.  Don't forget to sign up at http://dmala.eventbrite.com to get your FREE ticket (thanks to Adobe)


 
Tuesday Jan 05, 2010
David Stripinis talks about Avatar with Brad Peebler
 

David Stripinis talks about Avatar with Brad Peebler

Luxology's President and Co-founder Brad Peebler is back on the Web again with a captivating podcast ("modcast") interview with virtual camera operator David Stripinis, currently at Double Negative in London's SoHo. Prior to Double Negative, Stripinis worked alongside Director James Cameron for three years on the recently released feature film Avatar.

In this extensive interview, Stripinis provides insight on the brand-new virtual filming techniques that are blurring the boundaries between pre-viz, production and post. Stripinis discusses how modo was his "swiss army knife" in a suite of CG tools, props and other content that were used daily to provide Cameron with a real-time environment to plan scenes in intricate detail. The challenges and deep benefits of this real-time approach to film-making are monumental, even beyond the obvious implications for visual effects.

To listen to this modcast, or previous weekly installments, please visit http://www.luxology.com/modcast/.

 
Monday Dec 07, 2009
Talkin about Nuke
 

Talkin about Nuke

Speaking of Nuke - - The Foundry will be speaking about Nuke at Siggraph Asia...Places are limited, so REGISTER NOW to reserve your space and see how VFX professionals from JL Design, Beijing Wonderstar, OLM Digital and Animal Logic have been using Nuke. 

In addition, The Foundry team will be taking you through new developments and features in Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0 as well as some resarch magic.

The User Group is in Rooms 313 & 314 at The Pacifico, where Siggraph Asia is being held, and starts at 5pm (registration from 4.30pm) with beer and nibbles afterwards.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8HMGDDQ

 
Tuesday Oct 13, 2009
CVMP : London November 12/13
 

CVMP : London November 12/13

CVMP, the European Conference on Visual Media Production
(www.cvmp-conference.org), taking place on 12th & 13th November
2009 at the BFI Southbank, London, is putting out the final call for
short papers presenting the latest research in media production.

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Friday Sep 25, 2009
Red Giant Weekend: Do it now
 

Red Giant Weekend: Do it now

Say goodbye to keyframes and complicated math. PlaneSpace eliminates
the tedious task of managing the individual layers in multi-layer
effects. For the next few days, PlaneSpace is on sale for just $139.30
(regularly $199). Enter Coupon Code NLPS0909 to redeem your 30%
discount.

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Working with Greenscreen Shots
 

Working with Greenscreen Shots

Working with Greenscreen Shots



Make your green screen shots look great on the Web, Mobile Devices and TV



Cost: $25US

Date: October 22nd

Time:10A -11A PST

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Tuesday Sep 22, 2009
MAX Discount for Adobe MAX
 

MAX Discount for Adobe MAX

Adobe MAX 2009
October 4-7
Los Angeles, CA

An
extraordinary opportunity to learn new skills. A unique chance to
explore emerging technologies. A once-a-year event for connecting with
thousands of other industry leaders, Adobe products users, and Adobe
teams. That's MAX, and version 2009 is set to be the best ever.

[Read More]

 
Monday Sep 21, 2009
DVExpo / Pasadena
 

DVExpo / Pasadena

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the DV Expo in Pasadena.  If you haven't registered yet, you can still register on site for some really informative conferences.

Wednesday, I hope to get out there to see some of the conferences and talk to the vendors on the show floor.

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Friday Sep 11, 2009
cvmp 2009 in London
 

cvmp 2009 in London

The future of pixels, pipelines and productivity will be high on the
agenda at CVMP, the 6th European Conference on Visual Media Production
(www.cvmp-conference.org), taking place on 12th and 13th November 2009
at the BFI Southbank, London.

[Read More]

 
Thursday Sep 10, 2009
IBC 2009 / The Pixel Farm updates to PFClean 5.0
 

IBC 2009 / The Pixel Farm updates to PFClean 5.0

The Pixel Farm will be introducing version 5 of PFClean at IBC. Designed specifically to work with PFSilo but also incorporating new industry leading features such as a new timeline with reference movies for film assembly, primary grading tools, and new effects for de-quantizing, de-blocking and chroma re-sampling, PFClean continues to be the market leading image restoration and remastering application.

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IBC 2009 / The Pixel Farm introduces PFSilo
 

IBC 2009 / The Pixel Farm introduces PFSilo

Introducing PFSilo, a new collaborative film restoration product.
PFSilo allows a number of restoration artists to work on a single film
at the same time by providing simple-to-administer project management
and asset handling tools. Using a client to database relationship,
project managers and producers can administer and manage workloads for
restoration artists, while also managing deadlines and deliverables
from a comprehensive yet simple to read interface.

[Read More]