Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, June 28, 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:

	Automatic Duck Pro Import AE: Wes Plate will show you how this awesome software can quickly and easily translate a sequence from an Avid or Final Cut Pro editing system, or a project from Apple's Motion into After Effects.
	GridIron Nucleo Pro 2 - Nucleo Pro revolutionized AE workflow buy speeding up RAM previews and renders, while allowing you to work in AE at the same time. Come see how Nucleo Pro 2 kicks it up a few notches and get your Nucleo Pro- related questions answered as well.
	But wait! There's more... Yeah... We'll let you know...

Door Prizes Include:

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.

Automatic Duck
Automatic Duck is the leader in timeline translation between the worlds most powerful NLE and compositing systems.

Maxon Cinema 4D R10
Robust, Professional, Easy to Use 3D Animation Software. So well-integrated with Adobe After Effects, both Maxon and Adobe are going on tour together this summer. Learn more here.

Digital Juice - (TBA)
Digital Juice is the world leader in royalty-free professional animations, stock footage, music, layered graphics, clip art, and templates.

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 apprenctice Magician's guide to ParticleIllusion 3" and "particleIllusion Fusion."

Artbeats - (TBA)
The leader in royalty free stock footage.

Red Giant Software - Light FX Bundle
Includes Knoll Light Factory + Trapcode Shine + Trapcode Starglow. From the company that gives you Magic Bullet, MB Colorista and Instant HD

ToolFarm - AE Expressions Tutorials (Ser. 1 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 3 parts - 20 minutes each: Introduction to Expressions, Introduction to Arrays and Variables, 3D Text.

ToolFarm - Creative Background Design Tutorial Bundle
John Dickinson, motion graphic artist and Toolfarm Forum Expert shows you how to a range of professional, broadcast-style backgrounds in After Effects. He uses an ingenious approach that WILL improve your workflow and technique. This bundle contains all 7 Creative Background Design lessons.

Re:VisionFX - RE:Map
Re: Map takes a UV Map, probably rendered from a 3D system, and renders an image using this mapping. Easily clean up texture maps and remap in post without having to go back to your 3D system for re-rendering. In addition, this plugin allows you you to come up with cool 2D and 3D animated texture map templates and reuse them over again with different image sequences.

Neat Video - Noise Reduction Plug-in for AE
Neat Video is a filter plug-in designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital video sequences produced by digital video cameras, camcorders, TV-tuners, digitizers of film or analog video. Neat Video is a video noise reduction plugin for Adobe Premiere, After Effects, VirtualDub and Sony Vegas.

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.

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?

Adobe - 1 License of After Effects 7
Do we really need to give the details on this one? You know darned well what it is!