Our last meeting was on July 30, 2009.
Click here for the meeting Archive page where you can get a recap of the last meeting, and see its archived meeting page.

Next Meeting & Door Prizes:

Next meeting: Thursday, August 27

The Time: 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

The Place:

P.S. 41
116 W est 11th St., NYC
(corner of 11th Street and 6th Ave.)

Thanks to our sponsors, the meeting is FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Mixtape Club http://www.mixtapeclub.com Too technical for the arts, too creative for the sciences; Chris Smith, Jesse Casey, and Michelle Higa knew they had to work together as soon as they met at Brown University. They funneled their collective love of music, computer science and semiotics into the world of animation, and Mixtape Club was born.
	Florian Witzel, born in Germany '79, is a New York City based Director, Designer and Computer Graphics Artist. Before and while he studied Media Design at the GSO Universityin Germany and Film& TV at Bond University in Australia, Florian worked at various post production and broadcast design companies until he joined the highly creative team at Psyop NYC in 2004, where he currently works as 3D Lead and Technical Director. The bi-costal studio Psyop is an award-winning provider of design based 3D animation, innovative visual effects and digital content. http://florianwitzel.com/

Door Prizes Include:

Video Copilot – TBD
Stuff from Andrew Kramer.

All Bets Are Off Productions: Crowd Control: Pre-Keyed Alpha Stock Footage - $100 Credit
Introducing Crowd Control - The world’s largest stock-footage library of actors keyed out from their green background, and ready to be added directly into motion graphics, 3D architecture, and visual effects projects.With over 45,000 clips and over 500 actors, Crowd Control provides the ultimate variety of talent and themes, including: sports, holiday, romance, religion, fantasy and science fiction, as well as business and telecommunications.

Red Giant Software - TBD
Dude, you know what it is. And now it supports lights, shadows, streeklets, 3D transofrmation and a whole mess of other awesome stuff.

Pond5 stock video footage $100 gift certificates(x2)
Pond5 is the world's first open marketplace for stock video footage. Pond5 offers the most affordable broadcast quality HD and SD footage in the market today.

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).

Imagineer Systems - Mocha AE 2 (x2)
This 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.

Divergent Media-Scopebox
Scopebox replaces a cart full of tools:Preview Monitor,Waveform,Vectorscope,Audio Meters,Direct Disk Recorder and goes even further adding Luminance and RGB histograms ,RGB and YUV Parades. Whether you're building a new color correction suite , or looking for a way to ensure you get the shot in the filed, Scopebox offers you all the tools you need on your Mac.

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).

ToolFarm - TBD
Check out toolfarm.com to see all of the great products they offer.

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 - Suite
A powerful Suite of effect that includes: Delirium, Berserk, Aurorix, Buena Depth Cue, and, the new plug-ins, Damage and Simulate: Illuma.

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.

Cram for Compressor
Over 330 compression presets for Apple compressor. Tons of target formats to make you;re life a little easier.

More Prize info will be listed soon. There are lots more coming!!!