Our last meeting was on January 29, 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, Feb. 26, 2009

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:

	Animator/Illustrator Kirsten Lepore, will share some of her awesome work. Her animation and live action films have been seen on TV, in Film Festivals, in commercial theater, and on the web. Check out her awesome work here.
	BorisFX's Product Manager Peter McAuley will show us their latest motion graphics and effects tools. Peter has been involved in the development of state of the art graphics technology for print, video and film since the mid-'90s.

Door Prizes Include:

Red Giant Software - TBD
Something cool.

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.

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 (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.

Video Copilot – Twitch
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.

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 - 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.

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.

BitJazz SheerVideo Pro
This Mac and PC Codec Works twice as fast at half the uncompressed file size, with perfect fidelity to your original video and digitized film. The ultrafast nondestructive power of SheerVideo saves you time, space, and money in your professional video and film production, post-production, and archival workflows, while faithfully preserving every single bit of image information. ANyone can use your Sheer Video files with the free decoder.

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.

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

dvGrage -Conduit Suite
The Conduit Suite is one application and six plug ins in one. With Conduit Suite you can composite and analyze live videoinput on set , use nodal techniques in Photoshop(pc or mac),After Effects , Final Cut Pro and Motion.

dvGrage - dvMatte Pro
dvMatte pro is the best option for Final Cut Pro /Express and Motion users needing to "key" footage from green or blue screen background from DV or HD footage.

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