Our last meeting was on August 28, 2008.
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, September 25, 2008

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

The Place:

We have a new location that can sit up to 400 people!!!!

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

The food: Sorry - but due to site rules - no food this time. If you can live for 2 hours without eating, you'll have a great time!

The meeting is FREE.

Our Lineup Includes:

	Danny Princz from Exposed Ideas and fxphd will be showing us some of his recent work. Danny's mograph work has appeared on Bravo, HGTV, the YES Network, NBC, and The History Channel, just to name a few. And he's not just an AENY presentor... He's also a member!
	Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work will be showing his work for PSST! Pass It On... as well as other recent projects. Bran runs the PSST! project - a collaborative film series, which is currently in production on its third edition.

Door Prizes Include:

GridIron Flow
This insanely essential tool will change everything for you! It keeps track of the connection between files as you work, so that you can't accidentally delete a crucial project file. And if you do erase it, or even overwrite it, Flow will let youbring back any previous version of the file. It allows you to see the connection between files (even when you're just copying and pasting text from Microsoft word to an AE Project) and makes sure to package up every related file (even fonts) when archiving. With additional features, like Time Tracking and Visual Versioning, Flow is idiot proofing your project from start to finish. And best of all, it does it without you having to change the way you work.

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.

Red Giant Software TBD
From the folks that bring you the Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, and now the tools previously seen at Digital Anarchy, you know this prize will be good, whatever it is...

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.

CreativeCow.net - After Effects: The Next Level Vol. 2
The new DVD by Aharon Rabinowitz that covers the features in AE CS3, with all of last year's AE podcast episodes, + 80 minutes of new material that includes updates to older podcasts to account for changes in CS3, some cool tutorials on shape layers and 50 Minutes devoted to the new, powerful puppet tool.

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.

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.

ToolFarm - Sorenson Squeeze 5
Squeeze 5 is the latest version of Sorenson Media’s award-winning compression and encoding software. In only three quick steps users can select, pre-process, and compress video for output in a variety of formats and publish directly to websites or burn to DVD. Offering best in class workflows, the highest quality audio & video codecs, simultaneous multi-file encoding, and optimized filter presets, along with an unmatched level of automation. Squeeze requires no in-depth knowledge of compression formats and allows users to work faster without compromising quality.

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.

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.

6-month Membership to the Pixel Corps
In development for almost 7 years, the Pixel Corps has nearly 1800 members in 30 countries. The Pixel Corps is designed to create a global production community capable of generating content around the world. It's not just about acquiring skills...it's about becoming part of a community. The Pixel Corps blends training, real-world challenges, and community participation to build a development system unlike anything else available. Our goal: To build a highly networked, highly skilled, highly organized group of artists prepared for the next opportunities that emerge in the media field.

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.

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