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The GL2 is a must-have for the person looking for the very best video-making experience. The GL2's excellence begins with its outstanding Fluorite lens and includes pro-level picture adjustment features found only in Canon's top-of-the-line, trend-setting XL1S camcorder.
So the time has come for mere mortals — even poor, starving artists — to produce fine-tuned documentaries, commercials, music videos, and other works of video artistic expression. It just takes equal parts desire, dedication, and creative talent.
The program includes several films from local comics, among them Jamaica Plain's Ravi Jain, whose Web sitcom ''Three Abreast '' was the focus of a recent Associated Press story.
Final Cut Pro 3 is a first-rate sequel, and the only choice for day-in and day-out video production.
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, April 18, 2002.
Cool News! We'll be raffling off another copy of Final Cut Pro 3. We're asking for a $5 donation (give what you can), which includes 5 tickets to the Big Dig Raffle. And, in an effort to streamiline our event we will be merging the Big Dig Raffle and our Questions from the Hat together. Ask a question, win a prize!
What's in store for April? Our next meeting is going to be a post-NAB EVENT. Our "Man About Town" Tim Wilson will discuss what's new with BorisFX and demo the AMAZING new title 3d generator in FCP 3. Local FCP guru David Bigelow will focus on what's NEW at NAB and will present his 8 minute short, "5 Days to Sunday," filmed in 24P HDCAM and edited on FCP. And Don Berube from Canon USA will join forces with Focus Enhancements and Lacie to show how you can now CAPTURE WHILE YOU SHOOT by recording directly to a FireWire PocketDrive on the Canon Xl1S camera with the new portable FireStore.
We are also very pleased to announce that local indie filmmaker MARLO PORAS will join us. Marlo recently completed "Mai's America," a feature documentary edited in FCP and which recently won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the South by Southwest Film Festival. "Mai's America" will air nationally on PBS' P.O.V. series in August, and will be screened at the upcoming New England Film and Video Festival and Visions du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland (complete schedule at (www.marloporas.com). Marlo will show excerpts from her film and discuss the DV filmmaking process in a SPECIAL DV roundtable panel with Tim Wilson, author Charles Roberts, David Bigelow, and indie filmmaker Lorre Fritchy (www.masterpeaceproductions.com).
And don't forget the Big Dig Raffle, featuring a copy of Final Cut Pro 3!
There's an iFilm Festival being planned for students in grades 8-12 that will showcase digital movies made with iMovie or Final Cut Pro.
The Magic Bullet technology -- which has been used in such projects as Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky and the Cher video "Song for the Lonely" -- will be available initially as a suite of five plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, offering film and broadcast post professionals, visual effects artists and independent filmmakers finishing tools to make material originated on digital video exhibit all the characteristics of celluloid film.
Do an initial lens-cap-on recording of every new tape in VTR mode to lay down a black background and avoid timecode burps."
Five people face charges in connection with an amateur film made of an attack on a 19-year-old woman.This is why getting a release form signed is important.
