Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thurs., March 29, 2007, 6:30-9:00PM

The Place:

Pratt Manhattan
144 West 14th Street (b/w 6th and 7th Ave)
Room 213

The food: Pizza and soda/water

Thanks to Adobe and Pratt, the meeting is FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Andrew Kramer Presents Serious FX Training: Andrew is the host of the Creative Cow Serious FX and Compositing podcast, and the founder of VideoCopilot.net. He'll share some tips on creating some cool effects with AE.
	After Effects 8, baby!!! Steve Kilisky, Adobe’s After Effects expert, will be demonstrating After Effects 8 and it's integration with other Adobe CS3 Apps. Oh, you know you want to be there!

Door Prizes Include:

AJA - Xena LHe Card
AJA Xena cards are the most respected names in video and audio capture and playback for Windows. XENA models support SD, HD, even 2K, with professional analog and digital connectivity, SD and HD conversions in hardware, and a wide mix-and-match environment of file format support.

Video Copilot - (TBA)
Products and tutorials to assist all visual effects artists and talented visionary's seeking the benefits of post production.

Wondertouch particleIllusion 3 + Training DVD
Award-winning standalone particle effects application that enables you to quickly and easily add a huge variety of particle effects to your images, animation, or video. + Creative Cow Master Series Training DVD: "ParticleIllusion Fusion Vol. 1."

Artbeats - 1 stock footage collection TBA
The leader in royalty free stock footage. Artbeats offers a unique variety of subject matter at a quality that you won't find anywhere else.

Red Giant Software Magic Bullet Bundle
This bundle allows you to use Magic Bullet in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere Pro and Sony Vegas and as a bonus you get Instant HD for a high-quality HD finish.

GridIron Software Nucleo & Nucleo Pro 2
Nucleo is a plug-in for AE that produces faster RAM previews and renders. Nucleo Pro introduces rendering AND working at the same time in Adobe After Effects 7.0 - while still maximizing your computers performance. Nucleo Pro 2 will allow users to render 3D applications in the Background Render Queue.

Toolfarm Buena Fabuloso Gigante Bundle
3 plug-in packages which give you A) much more natural looking results when compositing, blurring, or correcting your footage, B) realistic depth effects to 3D layers and C) 10 professional plug-ins for Adobe After Effects

Threadless T-Shirts - 10 Vouchers ($20 each)
Threadless T's are the hippest in all the land. That's our opinion. If you're an animator and you don't have one, you should be ashamed of yourself! Hopefully this will help you start your addiction...er... collection.

Digital Anarchy - ReSizer
ReSizer is a plug-in used to up-rez video. It provides two algorithms for intelligently resizing footage and images. This gives you great flexibility in the way that you scale images in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere Pro.

Adobe - (TBA)
Creators of After Effects and a full line of products for the creative professional.