Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, August 23, 2007

The Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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:

	Red Giant Software: Owner & engineering manager Sean Safreed will join us to show some of the latest tools from Red Giant Software. If you've wanted to see some of the best solutions for creating film looks and color correction, don't miss this!
	Animator/Designer Danny Princz will share the After Effects workflow from some of his recent projects for Live Earth, the Yes Network, and A&E. Danny has worked for Oxygen, SpikeTV and others. You can see his demo reel and recent work here.

Door Prizes Include:

Artbeats - (TBA)
The leader in royalty free stock footage. Arguably the best stock footage collection on-line in both SD and HD. A huge variety of content for all of your video project needs.

Red Giant Software - Magic Bullet Colorista (x2)
Red Giant software's powerful color correction tool.

Red Giant Software - Trapcode Suite (x2)
Echo SPace, Particular, Shine, Starglow, 3D Stroke, Soundkeys, Lux

Red Giant Software - Magic Bullet Suite, plus Update to Looks (x2)
Includes 18 After Effects plug-ins that deliver a complete production pipeline for processing digital video footage for output to DVD, TV, or film. + a really cool and powerful tool for creating different film and color looks.

ToolFarm - AE Expressions Tutorials (Ser. 1 Bundle)
Harry J. Frank, freelance motion graphics artist, instructor and Adobe Certified Expert, goes over the basics of Expressions – Expressions for the average designer. The tutorials are in 3 parts - 20 minutes each: Introduction to Expressions, Introduction to Arrays and Variables, 3D Text.

Digital Juice - (TBA)
Digital Juice is the world leader in royalty-free professional animations, stock footage, music, layered graphics, clip art, and templates. 4 titles will be given away at the meeting!

Re:VisionFX - SmoothKit
SmoothKit is a set of filters that complements the basic blurs provided by host applications. SmoothKit's emphasis is precise control of the filtering process with no compromise on image quality. For example, wouldn't it be useful to smooth out the skin in someone's face but not eliminate the details of the hair that hangs in front of the face? In addition SmoothKit can be used to reduce image defects.

GridIron Software Nucleo Pro 2
Nucleo Pro is a plug-in for AE that produces faster RAM previews and allows rendering AND working at the same time in Adobe After Effects 7.0 - while still maximizing your computers performance. Nucleo Pro 2 allows you to render non-AE projects without slowing down AE.

Video Copilot - Riot Gear
Andrew Kramer's latest post production tool is a Stock footage DVD-ROM containing 155 Hi-Def Visual elements including paint spatter, paint in water, and other VFX and textures - all pre-matted and ready for your projects.

Video Copilot - Designer Sound FX and Elements
2-DVD Set with 500 Powerful Sound FX Elements + Extras - Royalty Free Sound FX for all your productions
+ After Effects Project File for the DVD Promo - Free Tutorials and Extras!

Wondertouch particleIllusion 3 + 2 Creative Cow Master Series pIllusion training DVD's
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 DVDs: "The apprentice Magician's guide to ParticleIllusion 3" and "particleIllusion Fusion."

CreativeCOW.net - After Effects: The Next Level
You've seen the AE podcast and the tutorials - Now 50 of Aharon Rabinowitz's tutorials (in full 800x600 res) have been put together on one 6-hour training DVD. Who needs an internet connection to learn more about AE?