Meeting takes place here.

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 usual you get a raffle ticket if you turn up.

In December we will have a draw for an AJA io Express!

If your not in you can´t win.

Paul will be doing a solo show continuing his overview of Final Cut, looking in particular at sound editing and getting the mix right!

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:

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

09.09.10

18 – 20 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.

Or inform me about events etc so that I can post them.

paul(at)paurray.de

Join the FCPUG Network, including BOSFCPUG, LAFCPUG, UK, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Belgium, France and other FCPUG and digital video user groups around the Globe in Amsterdam for the largest gathering of FCP, Avid and Adobe editors, HDSLR filmmakers and digital content creators and Gurus during IBC 2010!

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

* When? – Sunday 12.9.2010 – 19:00 – 23:00 (Doors open 17:00)
* How Much? – EARLYBIRD €10.00 each through 12 August 2010.
€7,00 for Students with Valid I.D. through 12 August 2010.
After 12 August 2010:
€15.00 General Admission and €10.00 for Students (€20.00 at door)
Includes 2 raffle tickets per person.
* 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’s SuperSecret)-

http://supermeet.com/index.html

eg the 25,000€ mentioned the post below!

Wally Wood´s 22 panels that always work.

Who is wally wood?

Stay tuned for updated info on this Friday night social in Amsterdam to promote the Vimeo Festival + Awards! Learn more about the actual Festival + Awards event taking place in NYC on 8 & 9th October, 2010. Submit your film for a chance to win $25,000 (deadline to submit is Saturday 31 July, 2010). All filmmakers globally are eligible to enter!

http://vimeo.com/awards

So we usually take a break in August and what with the foot ball and all that…

There will be a 2 month final BUG pause.

In september Paul Murray will be back with his fcp tips and tricks

Paul Paulson will be continuing his voyage into space, in the film theory world.

It would be pointless to try and compete with the football. On Wednesday.

Absolutely off topic but

The photo above was released from Nasa relating to Oil!

“To promote Creative Commons licensed music and the musicians behind it, Musikpiraten e.V. launches this year once again the Free! Music! Contest. Last year we had about 60 submissions, this year our goal is 150! Until the end of July, musicians and bands who are releasing their music under a Creative Commons license, can register for the contest. Until August 22th there will be an additional remix-phase: the participating artists are invited to submit single stems or acapellas in addition to the individual songs. By submitting individual tracks or the submission of music videos, the chance to be added onto the sampler that will be a result of the contest, will be increased – if only just a little bit.” Christian sez

Project site

http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de

A panel of music bloggers, artists and netlabel enthusiasts then decides who will be promoted on the Free! Music! Sampler 2010. It will be made available as a free download and also be pressed on CD. The highlight of the Free! Music! Contest will be on October second: a party at the Wiesbaden Kreativfabrik

In addition to artists, we are also looking for sponsors. If you are interested in getting involved monetarily or with a prize, all the necessary information can be found at here

found http://boingboing.net/

The DaVinci EMEA Roadshow 2010 provides the opportunity for you to see Resolve on Linux with the new Resolve Control Surface, Resolve on Mac operated with third party low-cost control panels and DaVinci Revival’s amazing film restoration tools.

Come and see DaVinci products in key European cities and meet colorists, product professionals and local DaVinci resellers.

DaVinci Resolve allows full unlimited grading of raw RED files in real time so you’re not limited by time consuming rendering before grading. DaVinci Resolve reads and browses files direct from your disk array, SAN or files captured from the video input. Choose from a huge range of file formats such as native DPX, CIN, QuickTime, DNxHD and native RED R3D in 4K with full de-bayer all in real time. You can even work with TIFF, JPEG, TGA and BMP and up to 16 channels of audio!

Berlin, Munich, Paris & London…

Some things to look out for. How it intergrates with other software like FCP?

Berlin Tuesday 8th June 10:00-17:00

Munich Thursday 10th June 10:00-18:00

Munich Friday 11th June 9:00-14:00

Paris Tuesday 15th June 10:00-17:00

Paris Wednesday 16th June 10:00-17:00

London friday 18th June 10:00-17:00

Register here :

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/davinciroadshow/

Where in Berlin :

Melia Hotel

Friedrichstraße 103
10117
Berlin
Germany

For more information, please email
davinciroadshow@blackmagic-design.com

From June 10-12 Berlin’s original Videokunst Club Visual Berlin presents the Visual Berlin Festival.

http://festival.visualberlin.org/

Berlin’s original Videokunst Club, Visual Berlin reflects the richness of the city. With members from nine countries it is a diverse family bound together by a shared commitment to the progression of the projected image. Founded in 2005 the collective has become an institution in Berlin with members specializing in everything from underground party visuals to hardware-hacking, programmed arts, experimental performance and media philosophy. The group includes established local VJs as well as internationally renowned artists and AV performers who collectively illuminate countless venues and stages across Berlin every week.

Since 2003 members of Visual Berlin have hosted international artist meetings and exchanges, promoting a network of dialogue and support across the global visual community. In 2010 they proudly present their third installment in one of the city’s most fascinating industrial spaces: the legendary Tresor complex.

Want to get involved with the festival? VisualBerlin is looking for volunteers to lend a hand at our event!

This whole festival is organized by people out of sheer love for the artform. Everybody involved is working for free to make this a special weekend, however we are only so many. So we’d like to take this opportunity to invite people who share a love for visual and electronic arts to get involved. To show our appreciation we invite you to join us for the entire festival with a free festival pass.

You can help immediately with flyer/poster distribution (now – 12.06)
Technical setup on site (09.06-14.06)

Plus general helping hands, communication and support at our events (10.06-12.06)

Enquires festival@visualberlin.org

Geekery, Visual Story Telling, Networking and Beer at the best address for Final Cut and Co. in Berlin.

Meeting takes place here.

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 usual you get a raffle ticket if you turn up.

In December we will have a draw for an AJA io Express!

If your not in you can´t win.

Paul will be continuing his overview of Final Cut, looking at the trim tools, slip & slide & extend edit.

Ernest Linker will be doing a brief photoshop introduction.

Preferences, interface, tools, filters, effects & plugins.

Clemens will be looking into his crystal ball and talk about things to come beyond RED and Apple like Alexa and Lightworks open source…

Last but by no means least Berlin based Media guru Paul Paulson will be continuing his Film Theory workshop.

This time round Limited & Ambigious space! With examples from “Fanny & Alexander” & “Don´t look know”

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

02.06.10

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.

Or inform me about events etc so that I can post them.

paul(at)paurray.de

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt

BDF-Online TV is a five-day online television program on the first edition of the BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM. It captures the Forum’s crucial moments and a number of selected shows, presentations and discussions. The Online TV program also includes in-depth interviews and reports on the role of the documentary today and its online representation.

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/2010/berlin_documentary_forum

photo courtesy of © Dan Mihaltianu 2009

The Road Junky Film Festival is all about showing documentaries that change the way you see the world.

Two days of short films, workshops and talks from the craziest adventurers on the planet to change the way you see the world.

Festivals page is here

http://www.roadjunkyfilms.com

Features and shorts from independent film makers that take you on strange, enlightening and sometimes disorientating journeys across the planet.

detailed program here

http://www.roadjunkyfilms.com/?page=program&lang=en

Betahaus

Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20

Berlin

Saturday – 6 euros
Sunday – 5 Euros

So what is with this EditShare thing?

In August 2009 the dutch company EditShare acquired the Lightworks editing platform from Gee Broadcast (together with their video server system Geevs).

At the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, NAB Show, on 11 April 2010 EditShare announced that they are going to transform Lightworks into Lightworks Open Source.

EditShare Road Show : German Tour

18. Mai - Köln – Mediatec
20. Mai – Wiesbaden – Teltec
27. Mai – Zürich – Avision
01. Juni – Hamburg – Creative Tools
03. Juni – Hamburg – Teltec
08. Juni – Berlin – Teltec
15. Juni – Graz – Pro.Media
17. Juni – Wien – Pro.Media
18. Juni – Wien – Mediaprofis
22. Juni – München – Videocation
24. Juni – München – SMM

http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=213

What they will be showing

Ingest & Log :

Ingest clip files. Work with Proxies. View & log.

Pre Edit & send sequences to FCP or Avid.

Or edit with lightworks. Soon to become Open Source!!!

Allows several editors to edit with the same material

Send finished clips to play-out server.

Archive material

They will be showing a workflow involving a 3D camera, FCP, Dashwood Stereo 3D Toolbox & Cineform Neo 3D.

To round things up material at the event will be displayed on a 3D Production monitor BT-3DL2550!

There are two addresses for this presentation, Berlin & Wiesbaden

TELTEC Berlin
Oberlandstr. 26 – 35
12099 Berlin

Monday 17.05.2010

10:00 till 13:00 hours
13:30 till 16:30 Uhr

Presented by :

Markus Nägele & Manuel Skroblin

and

TELTEC Wiesbaden
Kreuzberger Ring 38
65205 Wiesbaden

Tuesday 18.05.2010

10:00 till 13:00 hours
13:30 till 16:30 hours

Presented by :

Rainer Breitkopf & Manuel Skroblin

The Camera

The Edit Software

The 3D toolbox

More 3D software

The 3D Monitor

MORE DETAILS HERE

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

As usual you get a raffle ticket if you turn up.

In December we will have a draw for an AJA io Express!

If your not in you can´t win.

Paul will be continuing his overview of Final Cut, looking at the different types of edits, working with layers, filters, text elements & Master Elements.

We will be taking a look at a workflow using RED 4k material, Color, FCP & an AJA Io Express. Monitoring on a good old fashioned CRT HD monitor.

Editing in FCP, Color correcting the original R3d files in Color, Sending to FCP and rendering out as Prores 4444.

By the way Professor Paul Paulson from the Media Academy of life will now be starting a new series about “Visual Story Telling”

Once again our meeting at the Akademie der Kunste:

05.05.10

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.

This one is huge.

One of the original and best editing systems of all time is becoming open source!

Which means that people get the code and get to develop stuff.

Details slightly hazy at present but it looks as if developers then sell back to Edit Share.

http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164&Itemid=160

http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=203

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

Lightworks is an all time classics with respect to editing systems.

Rock solid editing for the masses!

Might just give some of the big players food for thought.

Mind bogeling list of features and supported formats

With Gerald Golisch from Apple doing a presentation.

Prises and stalls with info on various film related topics.

http://club.berlinerfilmforum.de/

Monday, 26.04.10, in the Berlin-Steglitz Cyber Port Store

Friday, 30.04.10, im Winter’s Hotel Berlin-Mitte

There will be an expert from Apple who will answer questions and there are special offers.

Click on the above links to register

We have a plethora of kick ass programs now available on the mac, in addition to the recent arrival of Smoke, Nuke & Co

Both Avid & Adobe showing there teeth with some serious updates to there programs.

Media Composer 5

http://www.avid.com/US/products/media-composer-software?intcmp=AV-HP-S2

Media Composer Cutting Edge LIVE from the NAB 2010 Show Floor from Avid on Vimeo.

Directly access and edit RED files through AMA, without transcoding (images are scaled to HD frame size)
Work natively with QuickTime video formats, including Apple ProRes and H.264
Edit video and audio by dragging and dropping elements in the timeline
Keep high-end finishing projects in-house and gain great color precision with HD-RGB support (including dual-link I/O support with Nitris DX systems)
Monitor video externally with support for the Matrox MXO2 Mini
Mix and match frame sizes and aspect ratios — in addition  formats, frame rates, and resolutions — in the same timeline
Take a break during long renders and have your system email you when the job’s done
Import AVCHD files directly from cameras and other devices
Capture to and edit XDCAM HD and DVC PRO HD formats from baseband without additional hardware
Access low-res XDCAM proxies for offline work, with full-quality audio
Import text-based ancillary data and embed it in the video signal with the new “Data Track” and SMPTE 436M support using Nitris DX- and Mojo DX-based systems
View stereo audio tracks as single channels in the timeline for easier handling
Create high-quality sounds and mixes with support for RTAS audio processing plug-ins
Natively access and edit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 media from the new Canon cameras using AMA

Also interesting in conjunction with Avid, Matrox!

The Matrox MXO2 Mini is the first 3rd party hardware monitoring support for Avid Media Composer.

http://www.matrox.com/video/en/press/releases/mxo2_mini_avid_nab2010/

Matrox® Video Products Group today announced a cost-effective HD monitoring solution for the newly launched Avid® Media Composer® V5 and NewsCutter® V9 editing systems.

An experiment in web browser editing.

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/NABrealtime/story/avids_web_based_editing_demo/

Adobe CS 5

The master colection looks pretty good for video folk.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/mastercollection/

Adobe & Avid are really throwing down the gauntlet and if that was not enough Black Magic are also bringing out a serious alternative to color! Lets hope that Apple steps up to the challenge.

A handy way of searching sound files for sound bites. eg. specific worked in a sound archive.

http://www.getphonetic.com/

Product Features

Quickly locate your media & import directly into your FCP projects or timeline
Search directly from your Mac’s Menu Bar
Automatically discover important media with watch folders
Save your frequently used searches and have ‘get’ tell you when you’ve got results, saving you even more time
Use multiple language packs for multi-lingual media

Phonetically Index & Search all your media

Huge advancement in Accuracy & Processing time compared with typical speech to text technology

This little one could radically change editors work flow!

Black Magic have also sent waves through the industry with the film restoration tools, audio monitors and high end color correction on a mac.

DaVinci Resolve on the Mac for $995. CRAZY! from PrepShootPost on Vimeo.

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/davinci/resolve/

Grade raw RED files in realtime!

DaVinci Resolve allows full unlimited grading of raw RED files in real time so you’re not limited by time consuming rendering before grading. DaVinci Resolve reads and browses files direct from your disk array, SAN or files captured from the video input. Choose from a huge range of file formats such as native DPX, CIN, QuickTime, DNxHD and native RED R3D in 4K with full de-bayer all in real time. You can even work with TIFF, JPEG, TGA and BMP and up to 16 channels of audio!

In the sound department. Although USB 3 could be a problem for mac owners!

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/ultrastudiopro/

UltraStudio Pro Key Features
10 bit 3 Gb/s SDI for capture and playback, supports both SD and HD.
10 bit HDMI 1.3 for capture and playback, supports both SD and HD.
10 bit analog component capture and playback, supports both SD and HD.
S-Video capture and playback, down converted when working in HD.
Composite capture and playback, down converted when working in HD.
Dedicated SD-SDI output for down converted SD output when in HD, or SD key channel out.
Hardware up, down cross converter selectable Letterbox, Anamorphic 16:9, center-cut SD and more.
Built in internal SD keying, or select to output both fill and key via SD/HD-SDI and SD-SDI outputs.
8 channels of SDI audio capture and playback in HD and SD.
2 channels of AES/EBU audio capture and playback with sample rate converter on input.
4 channels of XLR professional analog audio capture and playback.
Genlock/Tri-Sync reference input for locking to large systems.
RS-422 remote control for broadcast decks.
Includes 2 meter or 7 foot breakout cable.
Includes developer SDK for custom development.
USB 3.0 computer connection at 4.8 Gb/s speeds for maximum real time effects.
Includes Media Express software for real time capture and playback of media.
Real time effects in Adobe Premiere™ Pro, supports After Effects, Fusion, Photoshop and more.
Availability and Price
UltraStudio Pro will be available in late April for US$895 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide.

The big news is that DaVinci, now owned by Black Magic are bringing out a Mac Software version of Resolve from DaVinci for a $995!

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/davinci/revival/

This should work with for devices from tangent.

The Wave panel was shown running with Resolve on the Blackmagic booth at NAB

http://www.tangentdevices.co.uk/products_wave.asp

Also The Wave is now supported by CineForm’s First Light application that is included with Neo4K and Neo3D on both Windows and Mac.

http://www.tangentdevices.co.uk/news.asp#cineform

A link for an innovative little digital super 16mm camera!

http://www.ikonoskop.com/dii/

Flanders Scientific Monitors for sheer bang for buck.

Flanders Scientific, Inc. 17″ Multi-Format LCD Monitor (Grade 1) with SD/HD-SDI, Component, Composite, & DVI-I Inputs. Includes Basic Desktop Stand & Basic Rack Mount Ears.

http://www.flandersscientific.com/

(Header Photo : Las Vegas Skyline : courtsey of Bert K)

Dear Final BUG members

THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN CHANGED SLIGHTLY AS DIRK ELLIS FROM AJA IS IN TOWN.

We are meeting on the 1st Wednesday of April 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 Murray will be continuing with his FCP basics.

Dealing specifically with how the Timeline & Canvas work together.

Clemens will be demonstrating an interesting tool for working with Aux Time Code in FCP

http://www.videotoolshed.com/product/26/fcp-auxtc-reader

The big news is the new Adobe Creative Suite 5 is to be released on April the 12th.

Register for the launch here

http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

What hard kind of hardware do you need

http://www.adobe.com/products/

The hype is about sheer power and harnessing, GPU & CPUs power in a 64 bit environment!  you need a NVIDA Mercury graphics card.

And the truth about the Mercury Myth is here

http://provideocoalition.com/

They also have a Beta version of screen writing software called Story.

https://story.adobe.com/#o

The idea being to link in with their  speech recognition software!

And the truth about the Mercury Myth is here

http://provideocoalition.com

Speaking of speed the truth about Final Cut 6 versus Final Cut 7

http://barefeats.com/fcp7.html

Plenty of new SLRs from Cannon with cool codecs. For example.

http://prolost.com/blog/2010/2/8/

And an interesting new Cannon video camera in the works

http://thetechnofile.com/2010/02/20/

A very cool Blog not related directly to editing but great all the same

The name of this particular post says it all. Some Users Want Terrible User Interfaces

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/03/25/

Also a nice link for an interesting new interface idea for an iPad world!

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/

Color Correction. How doing the same stuff in different programs produces very different results!

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/

And last but by no means least. Here is a really nice Motion work around from Motion Guru Patrick Sheffield the author of a new book How to Cheat in Motion. Get to adjust more stuff in your Motion Master Templates!

http://provideocoalition.com/