The Creative Suite Podcast has a new one up: Mixing different video formats in Premiere Pro CS3.

Labels: Adobe, Creative Suite, Podcast, Premiere Pro

The New York Post|Production Conference will be held from November 11 - 13. I went the first two years and it was really cool. Much smaller and lower key than NAB in Las Vegas, plus focused more on what I'm interested in.

Cutting-edge technical training sessions will be presented by an elite team of manufacturer-authorized instructors, developers and power users. This event is for professionals at all levels, and is the East Coast's largest resource for the latest and most up-to-date production, post-production and content delivery education. With the recent updates to Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and Adobe Creative Suite 3, there has never been a better time to take advantage of this one stop training opportunity.

Labels: Adobe, Creative Suite, Event, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, na, NAB

Adobe is having a Digital Video Tools Showcase on Thursday, May 29 in New York City.

From planning to playback, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium drives video content creation. Combined with a diverse group of Adobe's partners, including AJA, Blackmagic Design, CalDigit, Creative COW, Digieffects, GenArts, GridIron Flow, Matrox, Maxon, MOTU, Panasonic, and Wacom, Adobe offers solutions and workflows for getting today's content out to air, tape, disc, or online faster than ever before.

First Session: 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Second Session: 3:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

New Yorker Hotel
Crystal Ballroom, 2nd Floor
481 8th Avenue at 34th Street
New York, NY 10001

Register now!

Labels: Adobe, DigiEffects, GenArts, GridIron Flow, Maxon Cinema 4D, Wacom Tablets

One of the biggest Plugged-In podcasts ever, Show 21 NAB Special Edition! Keith Larsen and Alan Spaulding talk to dozens of guests.

From the NAB Show

Rob Birnholz, Absolute Motion Graphics
www.absolutemotiongraphics.com

Zax Dow, Zaxwerks
www.zaxwerks.com

John Dickinson, Motionworks
www.motionworks.com.au

Harry Frank, Gray Machine
www.graymachine.com

Jim Tierney, Digital Anarchy
www.digitalanarchy.com

Wes & Harry Plate, Automatic Duck
www.automaticduck.com

Dan May, BlackMagic Design
www.blackmagic-design.com

Stephanie Joyce, SmartSound
www.smartsound.com

From the FCPUG SuperMeet

Kristi Prost, Larry Jordan Associates
www.larryjordan.biz

Jay Ignaszeski, Tek Serve
www.tekserve.com

Kevin Fischer, Lite Panels
www.litepanels.com

Kevan O'Brien, Adobe
www.adobe.com

Ben Syverson, DV Garage/PixelCorps
www.dvgarage.com

Brendan Cass, Quantum
www.quantum.com

Dan Montgomery, Imagine
www.imagineproducts.com

Marco Solario, Cinesoft
www.mediabatch.com

Francisco Scartozzi, Matrox
www.matrox.com

Frank George, Roland
www.roland.com

Jeff Greenberg, Philadelphia FCPUG
www.finalcutpronews.com

Greg Clarke, Open Television Network
www.opentvnetwork.com

Damon Hampson, Peachpit Press
www.peachpit.com

Jim Davis, LaCie
www.lacie.com

Justin McCarthy, Albatat
www.albatat.com

Jon Schilling, CalDigit
www.caldigit.com

Peter Wiggins, Ricardo Silva & Nancy Schopoff, Noise Industries
www.noiseindustries.com

Norman Zeledon, GMax Storage Solutions, LLC
www.gmaxstorage.com

Sharon Cedars, Lynda.com
www.lynda.com

Roger Mabon, G-Tech
www.g-technology.com

Steve Forde, Gridiron Software
www.gridironsoftware.com

Chris Heffner, Other World Computing
www.macsales.com

Simon Hollingworth & Victoria Battison, BlackMagic Design
www.balckmagic-design.com

Bernie Mitchell, Silver Platter Productions,
www.panasonic.com

Call the podcast toll free: 877-809-8145

TRT: 135 min.

Labels: ., Adobe, Automatic Duck, Digital Anarchy, GridIron, NAB, Noise Industries, Podcast, Zaxwerks

If this is your first NAB, I'll warn you, it's HUGE! You will not be able to see everything. Impossible. The South Hall is where all the stuff I want to see is anyway.

Exhibit floor map

Adobe Booth - Booth SL3220

Last year Adobe has some major stuff to show. This year they'll be showing off the Adobe Media Player. mocha-AE from Imagineer will also be shown in Adobe's Booth.

Automatic Duck - Booth SL2128F

From their press release about Edison and Leo, Automatic Duck will also be announcing new enhancements to Pro Import FCP at NAB 2008. Wes Plate, president of Automatic Duck, will be on hand in their booth #SL2128F to meet with customers and share all new developments in Pro Import FCP, as well as new features in Pro Export FCP, Automatic Duck's export tool for Final Cut Pro users.

Boris FX - Booth SL8720

Boris Blue 2.5 and Final Effects Complete FxPlug will certainly be shown. I will be demoing at Boris FX's booth, showing Final Effect Complete. Come by and watch the presentation!

Cineform - Booth SL10609

CineForm will be showing Prospect 4K and Neo 4K, their new products. Neo 4K is compatible with virtually all Windows AVI or QuickTime applications that support image resolutions up to 4K including After Effects. Prospect 4K includes CineForm's real-time video processing engine optimized for Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows, which enables the industry's first real-time multi-stream 4K editing workflow.

Digieffects - Booth SL02128D

See two new packages from Digieffects, as well as Damage, that came out in March.

The Natural Forces series debuts with Natural Forces: Vapor and Natural Forces: Aqua, both with a retail price of $99. Natural Forces: Vapor is a collection of effects designed around the creation of clouds, fog, haze and smoke. Natural Forces: Aqua is a collection of effects focused on various forms of weather and water effects.

The first two packages in the Simulate series are Simulate: Illuma and Simulate: Camera, providing practical lighting and camera filter effects for a variety of visual applications.

Also, Alicia from Toolfarm and I will be demoing at the Digieffects booth, which is in the Plug-in Pavillion, so come on by and say hello! We'll be in the Toolfarm shirts.

Digital Anarchy - Booth SL2128C

FLUIDZ for After Effects and Premiere Pro, ToonIt! and Text Anarchy FxPlug (FCP and Motion) will be shown. FLUIDZ uses the power of 2D fluid dynamics developed by SpeedSix to produce beautiful, flowing, fluid effects and transitions. It has three plug-ins that create realistic flames, smoke, and liquid effects.

The Foundry - Booth SL8605

From their press release: Headlining the show will be Nuke 5, the first major release of its powerful desktop compositing application, the recently launched Furnace 4 plug-ins for Nuke and eyeon Software's Fusion, plus a special preview of Furnace for Apple Final Cut Pro and a technology demonstration of its stereoscopic workflow VFX tools.

Stereo 3D Technology Preview - Responding to the worldwide interest in stereoscopic 3D production, The Foundry has laid the groundwork for efficient multi-view compositing in Nuke 5 and is now concentrating R&D efforts on creating unique tools to further support 3D stereoscopic workflow, and will preview its work in this area during the show... This sounds really interesting!

GenArts - Booth SL14516

GenArts will be showing off their new FxPlug version of their popular Sapphire plug-in package. It runs in Final Cut Pro and Motion.

Gridiron Software - Booth SL6220

GridIron Flow is digital content management software for creative professionals working on graphic design, web, and video projects. Flow automatically tracks the design process from idea to end result and manages assets and applications for the most complex workflows.

Imagineer Systems - Booth SL12405

Imagineer Systems' CEO, Allan Jaenicke will be making a big announcement about a new product called mogul on April 14 at 12:30pm. mogul is an entirely new and open, collaborative VFX architecture.

From the press release: Imagineer Systems is also announcing it has teamed up with another leader in the VFX software development marketplace, The Foundry UK (www.thefoundry.co.uk), to provide visual effects artists with a streamlined, efficient solution to move planar tracking data between two of the industry's most powerful tools -- Imagineer Systems' mocha and recently-announced Nuke 5 from The Foundry. The two companies have also entered into a marketing partnership agreement, in which The Foundry will offer a specially priced bundled version of Nuke 5 with mocha. Executives from Imagineer Systems will be on hand at NAB to demonstrate the benefits of this new agreement.

Imagineer mocha-AE will be shown in the Adobe Booth.

Maxon - Booth SL6826

See the latest versions of the company's professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions. MAXON's flagship software solution, CINEMA 4D, one of the fastest-growing and most widely-used 3D products for digital content creation, is utilized by artists around the world to create compelling motion graphics for some of the broadcast industry's most widely recognized entities, including The Weather Channel, MTV, CMT, Comedy Central, BBC, Al Jazeera, NBC, FOX, NFL, Court TV, National Geographic Channel, Univision, and the BBC, to name just a few.

Noise Industries - Booth SL2128H

The Noise Industries team will showcase new versions of their visual effects plug-in applications for Apple Final Cut Studio/Express and Avid AVX as well as introduce new partner releases.

Red Giant Software - Booth SL2128A

Be sure to check out a demo of the Magic Bullet Suite, plus Radium Glow will be shown. This is a new package of plug-ins that creates glows. Other new products from RG are Primatte 4 and the Instant HD upgrade. Alicia from Toolfarm will be showing Magic Bullet Frames and I will be demoing Magic Bullet Looks and Colorista at the booth at NAB so be sure to stop by and say hi. In addition to Alicia and I, the winner of the MyToolfarm/Red Giant NAB contest will be presenting on Wednesday at 10am. Don't miss him!

RE:Vision Effects - Booth SL2128J

Pete and Pierre will be showing the new releases for RE:Vision Effects

SmartSound - Booth SL7712

Get a sneak peek of SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 5, which is set to be released in early summer.

Sony Creative Software - Booth SL12413

Sony will surely be showing Vegas 8.

NewBlueFX's CTO, Todor Fay, will be making daily presentations at 11 am at the Partner's stage in the Sony booth.

Sorenson Media - SL6526

They just released a major upgrade to Squeeze, so I'm sure you'll be seeing Squeeze.

Synthetic Aperture - Booth SL2128B

Synthetic Aperture announced Test Gear 2.0 for Adobe After Effects CS3 today. Also, they'll be demonstrating the 3cP/Color Finesse/ASC CDL workflow.

Telestream - Booth SL5405

Featuring the latest Flip4Mac products including WMV Components for QuickTime, MXF Professional Components for Final Cut Pro, Episode desktop media encoding applications, and Pipeline network encoder for Mac OS X.

Ultimatte - Booth SL4920

They will be showing the Ultimatte 11 and 500, the Ultimatte DV and our software AdvantEdge.

Zaxwerks - Booth SL21281

ProAnimator 4.5 came out recently. I'll bet you'll see it!

Labels: Adobe, Automatic Duck, NAB

Colin Sharp, Toolfarm's VP Sales, and I (Michele) have flown in to attend the first meeting of SF Mograph. It should be great!

The lineup includes:

David Simons & Dan Wilk: Original creators of CoSA After Effects, now on the Dynamic Media Advanced Product Development team at Adobe.

Matt Silverman, Creative Director, Phoenix Editorial | Designs

Chris Prosser, After Effects Engineering Manager at Adobe

Brendan Bolles, Former Orphanage Technical Director, fnord software

Marcello Grande, Creative Director, WESTERNIZED Productions.

YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER

Thursday March 20th 2008 6:30pm - 10:00pm. Adobe Systems Incorporated. 601 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Labels: Adobe, After Effects, Event, SFMograph

Adobe will be presenting at the MCA-I meeting tomorrow night in Rockford, MI, which is just north of Grand Rapids. I'm on the board and Toolfarm is the food sponsor for the meeting. If you're in the area, please RSVP (link below) and you can meet me (Michele Yamazaki) and also see a terrific presentation from Adobe. The info below is from Scott VanderSchel who is our President Elect.

The forward momentum continues with our next Mid-Michigan MCA-I event showcasing Adobe Creative Suite 3. Adobe Production Premium trainer Josh Fozzard will join us at Wolverine World Wide to present this workshop on real-world workflow for both Mac and PC. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software enables exceptional productivity with the ability to create visually innovative work for film, broadcast, web, mobile phones and other portable devices. Josh will show this software in action. He’s also an After Effects guru so this has the makings of an interesting evening!

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 12th at Wolverine World Wide in Rockford, Michigan. The address is 9341 Courtland Drive NE. Join us for networking and refreshments at 6 PM. The meeting will begin at 6:45PM. The event is free to MCA-I members. There is a $5 charge for non-members. If you are not a current member, this would be a great opportunity to join.

We would like to thank Wolverine for hosting this event. Come early to check out their facility. Please come out and bring a friend! If you are planning to attend let us know with an RSVP at the following address: mcai.eventbrite.com. This will help us make preparations for food, etc. Hope to see you there!

Labels: Adobe, Event

Steve Whatley's After Effects Cookbook blog has a movie that shows you some 3D Layers, lights and cameras in After Effects. They also talk about the Adobe/Maxon Power Integration Tour. The video is being put up in small chunks.

Labels: Adobe, Maxon Cinema 4D, Tutorial

The 2008 Adobe School Innovation Awards information is available. The theme this year is "My Community - My Planet - My 21st Century." The competition is open to high school students in grades 9-12.

Students can submit entries in three categories:

• Web Design & Development
• Film & Video
• Graphic and Print Design

Prizes include software, cash, a laptop computer, and a trip to NECC being held in San Antonio, Texas.

I know we do get high school students and educators at Toolfarm and AE Freemart, as witnessed by the demo downloads. More Information

Labels: Adobe, Contest

Compose an engaging 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video of the Photoshop brand logo that illustrates the theme of 'See What's Possible.' The winning work must incorporate and close with the Adobe Photoshop logo and will be used by Adobe as part of an upcoming Photoshop marketing campaigns.

Accepting submissions February 15 through March 15, 2008

Learn more at Cut&Paste.com

Labels: Adobe, Contest, Photoshop

I didn't hear that Adobe had discontinued Adobe Stock Photos, but Dennis Radeke's Blog, the Genesis Project filled me in.

If you're in need of some space on your drive, you can uninstall.

Mac Uninstaller

Windows Uninstaller

Labels: Adobe, Genesis Project

Joint Motion Graphics Seminars with Adobe to Illustrate Benefits of a Combined MAXON CINEMA 4D and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Workflow

NEWBURY PARK, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE - MAXON Computer USA, the developers of CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D, today announced the 2008 schedule of its highly anticipated Power Integration Tour. The tour is a joint road show with Adobe Systems Incorporated that highlights the ease of integrating MAXON CINEMA 4D 3D software with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium for a powerful 2D/3D cross platform solution. Representatives from both companies will present a range of dynamic visual effects and compelling motion graphics presentations geared to creative professionals seeking to integrate these two industry leading software applications into film, video, DVD, Web, and mobile device pipelines. The Power Integration Tour kicked-off in seven markets in 2007, drew over 1,500 participants and was deemed an overwhelming success by attendees and industry notables.

The 2008 leg of the tour will include stops in eight major markets, including: -- San Francisco, CA February 26th -- Vancouver, BC February 28th -- Seattle, WA March 4th -- Minneapolis, MN March 20th -- Boston, MA March 25th -- New York, NY March 27th -- Montreal, QC April 1st -- Toronto, ON April 3rd.

Space is limited. Register online at: http://tour.maxon3d.com/

Labels: Adobe, Event, Maxon Cinema 4D

From Adobe Labs Blog: Adobe Media Player brings the best of both the broadcast television and web video worlds to your desktop. This second prerelease version includes a new UI, many new features, and compatibility with the latest Adobe AIR beta 3 runtime. See the release notes (pdf) for more information regarding this prerelease application.

Labels: Adobe

NewBlue's much-anticipated plugin collection delights desktop video users

Video, Multimedia and Technology Editors

LA JOLLA, Calif. (Jan. 24, 2008) - Adobe® Premiere® Pro, the powerful desktop video-editing software, just became even more powerful thanks to a host of new video and audio plug-ins from innovative technology developer NewBlue, Inc. The company released its NewBlueFX product line for Adobe Premiere Pro, making its full line of NewBlue effects, transitions and filter collections available through the popular desktop video-editing software.

Adobe Premiere Pro users can now enjoy 978 presets and 114 effects encompassed in 12 distinct and competitively priced collections designed to enhance the video editing experience. Among the NewBlueFX collections released for Adobe Premiere Pro are 7 VideoFX collections and 5 AudioFX collections, including NewBlue 3D Effects, NewBlue 3D Transformations, NewBlue Art Blends, NewBlue Art Effects, NewBlue Equalizers, NewBlue Essentials, NewBlue Film Effects, NewBlue Motion Blends, NewBlue Motion Effects, NewBlue Production Tools, NewBlue Scrubbers and NewBlue Sound Benders.

"This has been a much anticipated release among our users and we're thrilled to deliver for them and Adobe Premiere Pro," explains Melissa Jordan Grey, chief strategic officer, NewBlue, Inc. "Our company roots are in film and music production, and this innate understanding of the creative process shows in our work."

"NewBlue's innovative range of video and audio effects, transitions and filters is a great complement to the already powerful feature set in Adobe Premiere Pro," said Giles Baker, Premiere Pro group product manager, editing workflows at Adobe. "The addition of NewBlueFX will enhance the video editing experience in Premiere Pro and allow users to add new, creative components to their projects."

The NewBlueFX product line for Adobe Premiere Pro consists of two main categories, VideoFX and AudioFX. In the VideoFX collections, users will find plug-ins that provide artistic techniques, such as air brushing, pastel sketching and line drawing, as well as motion effects, such as earthquake, spin blur, wiggle and zoom. Features of the AudioFX collections run the gamut from audio filtering, such as equalization, noise reduction and compression to creative sound manipulation tools, such as "Insectoid," "Buzz" and "Robot Fog."

Included in the VideoFX category are 7 collections:

• NewBlue 3D Explosions, 180 presets in 13 different plugins that introduce creative new ways to blast a scene into pieces. Plugins include: Blow Apart, Bouncing Cubes, Bouncing Frames, Box Explode, Confetti, Grid Fall Away, Grid Explosion, Intensity Grid, Plane Explode, Spiral, Spiral Rotation, Vortex, and Wiggle. ($119.95 USD)
• NewBlue 3D Transformations, 165 presets in 13 high energy transitions breaks creative ground with new ways to slice, fly and reassemble a scene with every technique. Plugins include: Box Fold, Checker Board, Comb, Flip, Fly Away, Louver Grid, Louvers, Magic Carpet, Page Turn, Pizza Boxes, Rotating Frames, Spiral Bounce, and Twist. ($119.95 USD)
• NewBlue Art Blends, 101 transitions in 10 specialized video effects that shift images through unique, stunning graphics filters. Plugins include: Color Melt, Color Wash, Contrast, Duochrome, Glow, Halo, Metallic, Shiny Fog, Sketch, and Vivid. ($119.95 USD)
• NewBlue Art Effects, 99 effects in 10 specialized video filters that shift video into a visually stunning alternate reality. Plugins include: Air Brush, Colorize, Color Melt, Dream Glow, Duochrome, Ghost, Hand Drawn, Line Drawing, Metallic, and Pastel Sketch. ($139.95 USD)
• NewBlue Film Effects, 81 presets in 5 dynamic filters that recreate the inexact mechanics of hand cranked cameras, dirty projectors, and decades sitting in film vaults. Plugins include: Film Camera, Film Damage, Film Express, Film Look, and Film Pro. ($159.95 USD)
• NewBlue Motion Blends, 112 transitions in 10 specialized video effects that twist, turn and transmogrify video from one scene to the next. Plugins include: Liquify, Roll, Shake, Shear, Shredder, Smear, Spin, Twirl, Wave, and Zoom. ($119.95 USD)
• NewBlue Motion Effects, 99 effects in 10 specialized video filters that add movement to images in a number of ways. Plugins include: Active Camera, Earthquake, Motion Blur, Ripple, Rolling Waves, Shear Energy, Spin Blur, Warp, Wiggle, and Zoom Blur. ($139.95 USD)

Labels: Adobe, NewBlueFX, Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas

Just the facts:

What: SF Cutters next meeting (San Francisco Final Cut Group)

Who:

• Stu Maschwitz, founder of the Orphanage and developer of Red Giant Magic Bullet
• Mark Christiansen, VFX Creator of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and author of After Effects CS3 Professional Studio Techniques.
• Bob Donlon of Adobe Systems: Many SF Cutters ask for Bob to return after his incredible overview of the entire Adobe CS3 Production Suite last Sept. Bob is back with more specifics on Flash and Audio in Adobe CS3.

When: Jan 31, 2008, 6:30pm PT - 9:15pm PT

Where: Adobe in San Francisco, 601 Townsend, San Francisco, CA 94103
Map

How: Register here

Labels: Adobe, Final Cut Studio, Magic Bullet, Magic Bullet Looks, Red Giant, SF Cutters

Todd Kopriva of Adobe posted about the latest AE update on Toolfarm Expert Forum. Todd says:

The After Effects 8.0.2 update is live, and so is the new After Effects CS3 Help on the Web. To get the update, choose Help > Updates. To see all of what has changed, see the ReadMe document.

Here's a link to After Effects Help on the Web, in case you forgot.

And here's a link to the page from which you can download a PDF copy of the Help document.

Beyond the additions to Help for P2 functionality, we made several hundred changes to the document for this version, most of which fall into two categories:

• We fixed a lot of little errors and clarified explanations based on feedback in LiveDocs comments and feedback from the LiveDocs survey.
• We added a lot of links from Help to external resources.
  

First, about that survey: We are doing a survey each quarter about our documentation resources. If you took the survey last quarter, please consider taking it again so that we can tell how our changes are working. This quarter's survey has additional questions about kinds of examples and illustrations:

Take the survey

I strongly urge all of you to take this survey. As you may have noticed, After Effects documentation is being done a bit differently than it used to be, with more links to external material, more frequent updates, et cetera. We need feedback about how well this is working for you so that we can decide how to go forward.

Now, about those external links: One of the things that we heard from last quarter's survey was that After Effects documentation is incomplete (but accurate, yay!). One very fast way to fill some gaps is to point users to the example projects, tutorials, and other materials that people like you create and publish. Some of you have been adding LiveDocs comments to Help on the Web that point to these great materials. We've incorporated many of those links ---plus a great many more--- in the parts of Help where we thought that these external materials could help the user. We intend to do much more of this if you tell us that you find it valuable.

Also, there are a lot of extensions to After Effects (some free, some not) that make After Effects work better. We also point to some of those. How did we pick which ones to point to? In part, we went by what we were being told in LiveDocs comments and on forums. If you don't see a mention of a plug-in, script, or other tool that you think is great, tell us through the LiveDocs comments in Help on the Web.

Todd also added a huge list of thank you's. You may be on that list! I was. ;-)

Labels: Adobe, After Effects, Poll

John Nack has an article on his blog, John Nack on Adobe, about the new GridIron Flow.

GridIron has posted a cute movie on YouTube about GridIron Flow. Read the article first!



More on GridIron Flow

Labels: Adobe, GridIron Flow

The Videoguys rated the top 10 video products of 1007.

1. Adobe Production Premium CS3
2. Apple Final Cut Studio 2
3. Matrox RT.X2 with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Encore CS3
4. Sony Vegas Pro 8
5. Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks & Colorista
6. Newtek TriCaster Studio
7. Pinnacle Studio 11 MovieBox Ultimate
8. Black Magic Intensity Pro
9. Pioneer BDR-202 Blu-Ray Disc Burner
10. Canon HV20 HDV Camcorder

Labels: Adobe, Apple, Colorista, Final Cut Studio, Magic Bullet, Magic Bullet Looks, Red Giant, Sony Vegas

TOMORROW: Tuesday, January 15 - Gallery Theatre at Barnsdall Art Par, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Cover charge: FREE courtesy of Adobe Systems

From Ninja Crayon: On the heals for the opening day of the MacWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco (Monday, Jan. 14), DMA/LA (formerly MGLA) will be having its first meeting of 2008 - not to mention its first meeting under the new name: Digital Media Artists / Los Angeles - on Tuesday, Jan. 15.

As any long time MGLA member can tell you, the first meeting of the year is usually big and this one fits the bill. As early as May of last year you may have heard of MAXON’s " The Power Integration Tour" for 2008, a joint road show with Adobe Systems Incorporated where motion graphics artists will learn how to bring their vision to life with blockbuster visual effects and compelling motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. A quick glance at the show dates, set for next summer, may have even left you feeling anxious to see what MAXON and Adobe have to show. The third Tuesday of January, the wait is over.

Read more at Ninja Crayon

Labels: Adobe, DMA/LA, Ko Maruyama, Maxon Cinema 4D, MGLA

Posted by Ko Maruyama to the AE List:

The next MGLA - well, it's no longer MGLA. It's a group that meets every third Tuesday of the month to talk about Motion Graphics and other digital graphics creation and content. As Chris explained to the group in December's meeting, the name "MGLA" was originally intended for the continuation of the group, but there'll be a new name for the group soon.

The user group continues in 2008 with a kickoff meeting by our two major sponsors. Adobe Systems and MAXON Computer are coming to give the Power Integration Tour presentation. It promises to be a big one, with several of the CINEMA 4D users from the Hollywood community spreading the word around and to be in attendance.

Chris is graciously giving us time to keep the same format on the web pages - until Warren can figure out how to flick the switch to the new site design, and more importantly what the new name is going to be! :) For now, the sites appear the same on http://www.mgla.org and http://www.mgla2.org.

The next meeting will be on January 15, 2008 from 7:00 - 10:00pm (yes, the night of the first day of the MacWorld Expo, so there'll be plenty to talk about).

It's the same spot - Barnsdall Art Gallery Theater in Hollywood, California. If you need directions, they're still on the website. We'll have prizes from both MAXON and Adobe, as well as other prize sponsors! (Including Toolfarm!)

Okay, so what's the new name going to be, Ko?

Labels: Adobe, Apple, Maxon Cinema 4D, MGLA

Oh, this is a fun one! Keith Larsen & Alan Spaulding of Plugged-In talk to loads of people. Check out this crazy guest list!

• Greg Clarke, Intelligent Assistance
• Michele Yamazaki, Toolfarm
• Jim Kanter, Digital Film Institute
• Michael Horton, LAFCPUG
• Frank Capria, XProve & KingPin Interactive
• Andrew Marcus, Buck & Buck
• Anne Renehan, Apple
• Gary Adcock, Studio37
• Mik Vitti, VittiPhoto Productions
• Chuck Whitlock, AJA Video Systems
• Jon Thorn, AJA Video Systems
• Nick Rashby, AJA Video Systems
• Dan Berube, BOSFCPUG
• Brian Maffitt, Total Training
• Steve Martin, Ripple Training
• Ben Kozuch, Future Media Concepts
• Christopher Phrommayon, Apple
• Gene Czarnecki, CZAR Productions
• Daren Dochterman, BetaFive.com
  
• Stephanie Joyce, SmartSound
• Rob Birnholz, Absolute Motion Graphics
• Don Peebles, Apple
• Bob Donlon, Adobe
• Terry Curren, AlphaDogs
• Anita Engleman, Adobe
• Douglas Spotted Eagle, VASST
• Larry Jordan, Larry Jordan Associates
• Jerry Hofmann, JLH Productions
• John Dickinson, Motionworks
• Ko Maruyama, MGLA
• Chris & Trish Meyer, Cybermotion
• Kiki Stockhammer, NewTek
• Rich Lenoce, Middlesex Community College
• Ramy Katrib, Digital Film Tree
• Carey Dissmore, Carey Dissmore Productions
• Kevin Monahan, SF Cutters
• Steve Jobs, Apple
• Jon Higgins, Northeast Utilities Corporate Communications
• Lacey Girard, Northeast Utilities Corporate Communications
• Daina Dodge, Northeast Utilities Corporate Communications

Labels: Adobe, Apple, John Dickinson, Ko Maruyama, Podcast, SF Cutters, Total Training

The latest Plugged-in: The Digital Landscape is ready! Listen to a great interview with Bob Donlon, Sr. Manager of Dynamic Media at Adobe. Check out Bob's Adobe blog. Bob answers all of the answers you've been yearning to know. The podcast also features regular guests Philip Hodgetts and Michele Yamazaki of Toolfarm. Philip has some big news and Michele and the guys discuss roller derby. Subscribe today. It's freeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Labels: Adobe, Podcast

The Genesis Project mentioned the update which includes bug fixes and some minor things with the titler and P2 workflow issues, in addition to the Leopard compatibility.

Labels: Adobe, Leopard, Premiere Pro