final (cut) Berlin User Group

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:

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* what is malware?

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