Special Note! Next Meeting - April 30
This Monday's April 23 meeting is being moved to April 30. Sorry for the confusion but we still have some people trying to recuperate from all the fabulous announcements at this year's NAB conference.
As usual we will have raffle prizes, and we would love to hear from any members that made the trek to NAB this year.
Appetizers and raffle prizes are complementary, but you'll need to purchase your own beers.
Date: Monday, April 30, 2012
Time: 6:30 - 8:30p (presentation starts at 7:00p)
Place: Auld Dubliner, 800 E. University Blvd., (University/Euclid)
Platinum Sponsors
AJA Video Systems
Since 1993, AJA Video Systems has been a leading manufacturer of high-quality and cost-effective digital video interface, conversion and desktop solutions. Tucson Final Cut Pro User Group appreciates AJA's ongoing support.
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Adobe Creative Cloud Released
Right on schedule Adobe followed up its Monday release of CS6 with the release today of Creative Cloud. Adobe Cloud is a monthly subscription service that subscribers can use to download and install the latest versions of all of Adobe’s applications on two computers, whether on a Mac and PC.
Magic Bullet Looks and Sapphire Edge Updates Fix Bugs in FCPX 10.0.4
Magic Bullet and GenArts have moved quickly to fix problems caused by the recent FCPX 10.0.4 update form Apple by releasing updates to their products. Both Magic Bullet 2.0 Looks and Sapphire Edge 1.1 have updates available now either through the programs themselves or on their websites:
NAB Update! Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Blackmagic Design, primarily known for it's I/O editing solutions, has jumped deep into the waters of the camera world with the announcement of their Raw 2.5k Cinema Camera. As an added bonus they've decided to through in DaVinci Resolve 9 and UltraScope software with the purchase of the Cinema Camera.
A preliminary review can be found at John Bawley's Blog Here.
NAB Update! AJA Announces T-TAP, Ki Pro Rack and Ki Pro Quad
Dateline Las Vegas, Nevada! AJA has announced three new products: the T-Tap, Ki Pro Rack and Ki-Pro Quad.
The T-Tap, is a small and simple Thunderbolt to HD-SDI adapter.
From the T-Tap page:
T-TAP Key Features:
NAB Update! New Autodesk Smoke
Autodesk has been touting it's new Smoke 2013 as a real game changer in the days leading up to NAB. Seems Autodesk was aiming for the holy grail of NLEs: the all-in-one, super editor and compositor. I'll leave it up to more knowledgable people to determine if it lives up to the hype. Here's the lowdown from Autodesk:
NAB Update! FCPX Roadmap
Where to start? So much has happened in the last 24 hours. Well, since we're a FCP site I guess we start with FCPX. We'll put aside that Apple has made taken the unprecedented action of actually providing a roadmap of sorts (through a third party) for one of it's products and talk about the details instead.
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Digital Juice – The Leader in Royalty Free Professional Animations, Stock Footage, Music, Layered Graphics, Clip Art and Templates.
Genarts Visual Effects Software
Since 1993, GenArts, Inc. is the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, broadcast and video industries.
Larry Jordan is an internationally-renowned consultant and Apple-Certified trainer in digital media with over 30 years experience as a television producer, director and editor with national broadcast and corporate credits.
The NewBlueFX collections of video plugins consists of both audio-oriented and video-oriented effects, filters and transitions.
Noise Industries, LLC was founded in 2004 with the mission of bringing innovative graphics software to editors, compositors and motion graphics artists worldwide.
Peachpit has been publishing top-notch books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video, and general computing since 1986.
Founded in 2002, Red Giant Software creates an ever-expanding universe of effects tools ranging from plug-in suites, applications and mobile apps to Guru Presets, free products and sharing communities.