Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, March 27, 2008

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:

	Videocopilot.net's Andrew Kramer is in the house! Unless you've been living in a cave without an internet connection, you know that Andrew provides some of the best AE training and products out there. He'll share some tips on creating cool effects with AE.
	Maxon CEO Paul Babb will be giving a short demonstration on the power of C4D R.10.5 and Mograph, as well as showing the integration between C4D and After Effects. If you've ever had trouble getting your 3D App to play nice with AE - don't miss this!!!
	Since we're talking integration, Adobe's Steve Whatley will be on hand to show us how easy it is to move projects between AE and Premiere. These simple tips could save you hours of editing work.

Door Prizes Include:

Video Copilot – Twitch (x2)
Twitch is a Plug-in for After Effects that synchronizes random operators to create stylistic video effects for motion graphics and visual effects. And controlled chaos to Color, Light, Scale, Position, and Time to create effects in Motion Graphics, Music Videos, Film Flashbacks, Transitions, Horror & more.

Video Copilot - Evolution
Evolution is a collection of high quality decorative design elements for creative video professionals. Flourishes and othe motion graphics elements that will rock your world. VideoCopilot.net did the hard work so you can be the artist.

Maxon Cinema 4D R10.5 + Mograph
Robust, Professional, Easy to Use 3D Animation Software. Mograph: Powerful tools that make it easy to create motion graphics elements. This is the 3D program most integrated with AE.

Red Giant Software - Instand HD (x2)
Instant HD up-converts DV video into a variety of HD video formats. You can choose from a list of preset resolutions to make it easy to integrate DV video into your next High Definition production. When scaling from standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD), the missing pixels are generated in an intelligent way.

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.

Zaxwerks 3D Flag (x2)
Zaxwerks 3D Flag plug-in can turn any picture or movie into a realistic flag animation. Is is easy to use and add a very professional look to your videos and graphics. One click adds a flag to your project. Another click adds a flagpole to hang it from. Keyframe the flagpole to wave the flag back and forth. Keyframe the wind to create gusts, breezes or hurricanes!

CreativeCow.net - Zaxwerks Invigorator Training
The industry's first complete training for Zaxwerks Invigorator, the leading plug-in for 3D model creation inside Adobe After Effects. Even if you've got no 3D modeling experience whatsoever, Serge Hamad shows you how easy it can be, and how great it can look.

ToolFarm - AE Expressions Tutorials Bundle (x2)
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 6 parts - 20 minutes each: Introduction to Expressions, Introduction to Arrays and Variables, 3D Text.

Imagineer Systems - Mocha AE (x2)
Tthis stand alone 2D tracking tool is packed with features that make the After Effects compositor's life easier. Based on Imagineers unique 2.5D Planar Tracking technology, mocha AE helps solve problematic shots that traditionally break point based trackers, such as footage with objects moving out of frame, lack of detail, motion blur and heavy grain.

Stash DVD Magazine - (TBD)
STASH delivers the planet's most innovative and outstanding commercial animation, VFX and motion graphics plus insightful behind-the-scenes extras in a monthly DVD magazine. Also tucked inside the STASH DVD case is a companion book of color stills, details on the featured work, credits and tech notes. Each SIXPACK collection contains the complete DVDs from six issues of Stash in a single case. The books for all six issues are included as PDF files on the disks.

CreativeCow.Net - Apple Color Training
Stop Staring and Start Grading with Apple Color - Apple Color looks completely different than just about any other Mac application, but there's a method to Color's madness. Walter Biscardi provides nearly 2 hours of trianing to help you begin to enjoy this powerful tool.

Artbeats - HD footage Clip (x2)
Artbeats is the leader in Royalty Free Stock Footage. Much of their huge and diverse hight quality library of clips are now available in HD. 2 winners will walk away with certificates for any HD clip they want (A $300 value).

Digital Film Tools - PowerStroke AE
Designed with the creative workflow of colorists, film/video editors, graphic designers and artists in mind, Power Stroke introduces a simple, interactive stroke-based workflow to quickly and intuitively perform targeted adjustments - Adjust, Blur, Colorize, Diffusion/Glow, Fill Light,Re-Color & Selective Black & White.

Digital Film Tools - PowerMatte
Power Matte is an easy to use interactive image matting tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image--even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. Once a matte is extracted, the foreground object can be seamlessly composed onto a new background as well as apply filter and image corrections only within the area defined by the matte.

DigiEffects - Delirium
Delirium contains over 39 special effects plug-ins. It also contains tools for creating particle-based fire, smoke and bubbles. These particle effects enhanced with built-in turbulence processing to create realistic imagery without resorting to complex 3D programs.

Digital Juice - Editors Toolkit 1
Editor’s Toolkits are complete animated graphics packages for video producers. They contain thousands of graphical elements that are an essential part of any production. Many of these elements are organized into matched sets so that it is effortless to create a coordinated and professional look.

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.

Wondertouch particleIllusion 3 +
CreativeCOW.net particleIllusion Fusion Vol. 1 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. + the Creative Cow Master Series Training DVD "particleIllusion Fusion" by Aharon Rabinowitz).

More Prize info will be listed soon.