Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, September 27, 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:

	Stephen Neary (that's actually his drivers license photo) will present his AE masterwork- Shark Suit: The Musical. This is your chance to see some amazing After Effects character work, and ask questions about how it was done. See the trailer here. We bet you can't stop singing the song!
	Total Training's After Effects Guru Brian Maffit will share tips and tricks for getting the most out of After Effects. If you think you know AE, think again! With Brian Maffit in the house, there's always something new and powerful to learn.

Door Prizes Include:

CreativeCow.net - Internet Killed the Video Star
The new DVD by Aharon Rabinowitz that teaches you everything you need to know about getting your video on the web: Video Compression, Flash Video, Video Podcasting, Creating Video Tutorials.

Artbeats - Ambient Textures
These gorgeous, seamless looping backgrounds will surround your project with alluring texture, glorious color and unique flare. The amazing variety of fluidly moving, abstract shapes and designs will give you practical background elements! Collection contains 38 clips.

Red Giant Software - Instant HD
Instant HD up-converts DV video into a variety of HD video formats. You can choose from a list of preset

Total Training - 1-year subscription to Total Training Online
For over 10 years, Total Training has been dedicated to providing you with the best training experience imaginable. Now for the first time, our award-winning tutorials are available online. Accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Total Training Online is designed to let you set the pace for your online learning experience. Value: $299

ToolFarm - Professional Video Templates Vol. 1
These five high-quality templates for Adobe After Effects give you a classy looking head start in your projects. The comps are sized for HD (1920x1080) and SD NTSC and Pal.

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.

CreativeCow.Net - Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro
So you know how to use Final Cut Pro, but now you have a big project. Where do you start? How do you organize it? Where should your media go? What about your project files, audio files and picture files? In this in-depth series of 9 video tutorials spanning over 90 minutes, CreativeCOW.net leader Shane Ross will show you time-saving techniques that the manual left out!

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 - DE:Noise
DE:Noise makes it easy to remove excessive noise in one easy-to-use tool! DE:Noise reduces the visual impact of various problems such as: noisy video (that can happen with low-light capture), excessive film grain, CG renders affected by ray-tracing sampling artifacts, fingerprints and dust captured during film scan/transfer and printing, snow, drop-outs and many other defects.

GridIron Software Nucleo Pro 2 (x2)
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 +
CreativeCOW.net particleIllusion Fusion Vol. 1 & Apprentice Magicians's Guide to 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 DVD's: "The apprentice Magician's guide to ParticleIllusion 3" (Elvis Deane) and "particleIllusion Fusion" (Aharon Rabinowitz).

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?