final (cut) Berlin User Group

Dear Final BUG members

We are meeting on the 1st Wednesday of March at the ADK in Tiergarten.

http://www.adk.de/de/orientierung/hanseatenweg/

If you have never been to one of our meetings. Please feel very welcome.

We are usually out back in the “Club” room or one of the adjacent rooms.

Ask at the desk for final BUG or the BErlin Final Cut User Group.

Or ring Paul 0163 269 21 23

Paul will be giving a one man show.

Continuing with his to FCP basics.

Talking about working in the timeline and looking at some at the tool palette.

And becasue it didn´t work out last time, taking a look at the

Preference Management for the Final Cut Studio Suite

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm

and Loader from Digital Heaven

http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/loader

Got a technical FCP or related problem?

Then bring ALL the relevant files with you to the meeting?

Perhaps the group has the answer your looking for!

Geekery and Networking and beer at the best address for Final Cut in Berlin

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

03.03.10

18 – 21 Hours
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
etc

P.S. As always, If you would like to demonstrate some thing at a future date please feel free to contact Paul.

New ways of interacting with programs

A little bit like in minority report

http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/minority-report-interface-is-real-hitting-mainstream-soon-video/

New Apperture

http://www.apple.com/aperture/

200 new features here

http://www.apple.com/aperture/features/

Tale of Caution here from veteran Mike Curtis from HD for Indies and the ProVideo Coalition

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/mcurtis/story/on_iphoto_to_aperture_3_migration_and_new_hard_drives/

New plugins for FCP from Sheffield Software

http://www.sheffieldsoftworks.com/

Reconnection Dance

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/story/final_cut_pros_achilles_heel_or_how_i_hate_the_reconnection_dance/

http://www.buttonpusher.tv/2008/10/27/avoiding-fcp-reconnecting-an-option-i-use/

An affordable color correction interface?

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/story/first_impressions_of_the_euphonix_mc_color/

Speaking of Color and color correction

http://prolost.com/blog/2010/2/15/memory-colors.html/

Camera Stuff

http://www.hocusproducts.com/index.php

And last but by no means least, been there done that

The Whoosh

Dear Final BUG members

We are meeting on the 1st Wednesday of February at the ADK in Tiergarten.

http://www.adk.de/de/orientierung/hanseatenweg/

If you have never been to one of meetings. Please feel very welcome.

We are usually out back in the “Club” room or one of the adjacent rooms.

Ask at the desk for final BUG or the final cut user group.

Or ring Paul 0163 269 21 23

Paul will be going back to FCP basics.

Talking about how best to navigate the interface and start cutting

Basically for  beginners but with some tips for the seasoned pros!

Clemens will be telling us about

Preference Managment for the Final Cut Studio Suite

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm

and Loader from Digital Heaven

http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/loader

Got a technical FCP or related problem?

Then bring ALL the relevant files with you to the meeting?

Perhaps the group has the answer your looking for!

Geekery and Networking and beer at the best address for Final Cut in Berlin

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

03.02.10

18 – 21 Hours
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
etc

P.S. As always, If you would like to demonstrate some thing at a future date please feel free to contact Paul.

Workflows for Final Cut Studio & Final Cut Server.

http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutstudio/workflows/

Summarizes the overall post-production process

and explains how the various applications in Final Cut Studio fit into it

final BUG : Post News : Links

Here is another random list of software links

Expanding the capabilities of FCS

Better text crawl for Final Cut Pro

http://vimeo.com/alex4d

And Alex4d´s site

http://alex4d.wordpress.com/finalcut/

Lock & Load

Core Melts alternative to Apples Smoothcam

http://www.coremelt.com/products/lock-and-load

Final Cut Blue Ray Templates from FCP Guru Kevin Monahan.

http://www.fcpworld.com/

Color Correct Skin tones with Magic Bullet Mojo

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/categories/color-correction/mojo/

Get the look of sci-fi holograms with Red Giant Holomatrix

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/new-releases/holomatrix/

Or for the animated look, stylized looks with easy presets, and faster output in v2

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/new-releases/toonit/

3D text i FCP & Motion from Zaxwerks

http://zaxwerks.com/proanimator/index.shtml

Tools for FCP from the Foundry maker of Nuke!

Furnace & Keylight

Keylight is an extremely capable blue/green screen keyer,

Whilst Furnace provides high-end tools for editors and compositors

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk

Smoke from Autodesk is now available on the Mac

There is a demo version which should help to bring Smoke to more people.

http://usa.autodesk.com

The usual discussions are brewing in the forums e.g.

“You have to know how you want the project to look,

know techniques to achieve the desired look,

and then how to get your software to do it: in that order.

Don’t be scared Smoke artists.”

And last but by no means least a Motion Tip

Changing the Color of LiveFonts in Motion from Motion Guru Mark Spencer.

http://provideocoalition.com

Dear Final BUG members

We are meeting on the 2nd Wednesday of January at the ADK in Tiergarten.

If you have never been to one of meetings. Please feel very welcome.

We are usually out back in the “Club” room or one of the adjacent rooms.

Ask at the desk for final BUG or the final cut user group.

Or ring Paul 0163 269 21 23

Paul will be going back to FCP basics.

Talking about the interface, preferences and fcp & finder parallels.

Basically for  beginners but with some tips for the seasoned pros!

After a brief break Paul will provide an overview of his new favorite program

Omni Graffle,

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/

Omni Graffle is an intuitive powerful program for mind mapping!

Last but by no means least Clemens will be telling us about the restoration of Bladerunner.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/

Got a technical FCP or related problem?

Then bring ALL the relevant files with you to the meeting?

Perhaps the group has the answer your looking for!

Geekery and Networking and beer at the best address for Final Cut in Berlin

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

13.01.10

18 – 21 Hours
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
etc

P.S. As always, If you would like to demonstrate some thing at a future date please feel free to contact Paul.

IMPORTANT

P.P.S. Some people still seem to be having problems viewing this site!

i.e. they get a “malware” warning, saying this site may harm your computer etc*

please do the following visit the site

http://www.berlinfcp.de/BLOG/

And then report back if you could look at the site or not?

Also please answer the following

What Browser are you using : ?

What version of the Browser are you using?

What Operating System are you using:

Any Comments are greatly appreciated  : ?

* what is malware?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

General Stuff Related to FCP

Probably the best tech Blog out there for post geekery

http://provideocoalition.com/

Great solutions for FCP

http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/

Great address for Motion templates also a great BLOG

http://www.motionvfx.com/

Dont forget the holy grail for Final Cut Studio Heads

http://www.lafcpug.org/

Specific Software : Video

Kicking off with stop motion software

http://www.boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/

Converting stuff one of the best freewares  out there

http://www.squared5.com/

Simple Alternative to photoshop

http://www.pixelmator.com/

And last but by no means least FCS

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/

Specific Software : Web

for simple static site

http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/

web tools

http://www.rapidweavercentral.net/software/software.php

interesting community software

http://elgg.org/

http://www.joomla.org/

Geeky web stuff

for more complex deployment and development

http://versionsapp.com/

might just need

http://developer.apple.com/technology/

and for good measure

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Specific Software : Plan

Mind mapping bliss with Omni graffle

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/

Omni Graffle link heaven

http://katewalser.com/omnigraffle/

Omni Plan

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/

Hardware

Hardware laptops now with Matt!

http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC118LL/A?mco=MTM3NDcyODk

AJA turning heads with the Ki Pro

http://www.aja.com/products/acquire/

profesional drives save tears

http://www.promax.com/

http://www.g-technology.com/

http://www.sonnettech.com/index.html

Color Corection Controler price break through

http://www.euphonix.com/artist/products/mc_color/

Some thing completly different….;-)

Avid

http://the_basics_of_avid_media_composer_for_a_final_cut_pro_editor/

Ever wanted to give “that Linux thing” a try…?

The brand new version of openArtist, based on the latest Ubuntu (KarmicKoala), is out now and here is you chance to get everything that’s hot in the open-source world (plus some non-free test versions of a couple of apps) all in one package, including documentation/links and all ready to be used!

From the openArtist website:

“openArtist features a streamlined interface (gnomebased), with integrated mousegestures, custom menus, reorganized and extended system configuration tools, terminal-on-desktop integration (guake, ctrl+esc), dropbox for collaboration between artists, extended tooltips for the program launchers, documentation for (nearly) every program, ordered by appearance in the menu structure (just look at the homepage, it IS the documentation, too)”

This latest version of openArtist now includes my own Blender title/video editing presets (previously mentioned here on this blog), but there are of course many other open-source video editing/post production tools available in openArtist, see the “Vid” menu (top left) for all the alternatives.

For the full list of included 2D, 3D, Audio, Video, VJ etc. software see the openArtist website.

Download is 3.47 GB, you will need about 12 GB of hard disc space. Mac users note that openArtist is for i386 (currently only 32-bit). See the online documentation for “how to make a persistent (=writeable) live USB stick”. More online help for Mac users will be coming soon I’ve heard.

Download directly:

MKL Graz
openMaterials
groundhog media

Or download the torrent here.

Of course don’t forget to make back-ups before testing new software and make sure to read the readme before/after installation files that are on the openArtist desktop!

Dear Final BUG members

We are meeting on the 1st Tuesday of October at the ADK in Tiergarten.

If you have never been to one of meetings. Please feel very welcome. We are usually out back in the “Club” room or one of the adjacent rooms. Ask at the desk for final BUG or the final cut user group.

Or ring Paul 0163 269 21 23

Clemens will be telling us about a recent production using the RED one camera.

And Paul will have more Final Cut Studio Tips and tricks.

An editors holiday film in the making.

Specifically looking out how a film is edited and finished.

Check the user group site for more details after the weekend.

Last but by no means least Uwe will hopefully fish another Gem out of the ADK archive.

Got a technical FCP or related problem?

Then bring ALL the relevant files with you to the meeting?

Perhaps the group has the answer your looking for!

Geekery and Networking and beer at the best address for Final Cut in Berlin

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

06.10.09

18 – 22 Hours
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
etc

P.S. As always, If you would like to demonstrate some thing at a future date please feel free.

P.P.S. WHO CAN HELP PAUL REMOVE THE WORM FROM THE USER GROUP SITE AND MOVE IT TO ANOTHER OPEN SOURCE PLATFORM?

Dear Final Cutters

final BUG is back once again after a long sumer break.

We are meeting on the 1st Tuesday of September in the ADK in Tiergarten.

If you have never been to one of meetings. Please feel very welcome. We are usually out back in the “Club” room or one of the adjacent rooms. Ask at the desk for final BUG or the final cut user group.

Or ring Paul 0163 269 21 23

As most of us already know there is a new Final Cut 7 out!

So we will be looking at some of the new features.

TC WINDOW
ICHAT THEATER
New speed change tools
Easy Export

etc

Last but by no means least Uwe will hopefully fish another Gem out of the ADK archive.

Got a technical FCP or related problem?

Then bring ALL the relevant files with you to the meeting?

Perhaps the group has the answer your looking for!

Geekery and Networking at the best address for Final Cut in Berlin

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

01.09.09

18 – 22 Hours
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
etc

P.S. As always, If you would like to demonstrate some thing at a future date please feel free.

Contact : paul(at)paurray.de

*  Where? – The Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
Dam 9. 1012 JS Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Click HERE for map.

* When? – Sunday 13.9.2009 – 19:00 – 23:00 (Doors open 17:00)
* How Much? – €15.00 each.
€10.50 for Students with Valid I.D.
(€20.00 at door)
Includes 2 raffle tickets per person. Tickets go on sale 20.7.2009
* Any raffle prizes? – Of course. €2.00 per raffle ticket or 3 for €5.00
* Who should attend? – Everyone who wants to learn more about Final Cut Studio, digital filmmaking and meet others who may know more than you do.
* Food and Drink? – Food (free) and Cash Bars will be available.
* What is on the Agenda? – It is SuperSecret.

More Details here

http://www.lafcpug.org/Amsterdam_2009.html