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Media Professionals of Florida, Inc. provides informative meetings on the second Tuesday of each month For more information contact David Rosenblatt at info@mediaprofessionals.org

June 2003

"Technology 2003, Pushing the Envelope"

Steve Brown, president of MPFI and owner of "10-20 Productions", Joel Freedman of "2 Hungry Dogs Productions" and Rod Harlan, president of the Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA) a national media origanization gave us a great look at some of the newest items from NAB.
Networking can be fun as well as productive. The food was catered by "The Party Crew" and it was great. For more information contact them at http://www.thepartycrewinc.com
Vocal entertainment was provided by Nancy and Jerry of Unforgettable Classics. If you missed them, they will be at next month's dinner meeting....DON'T miss them! For more information contact them at (727) 418-4578

This month's Technical Track was presented by Barry Bienstock and he gave us a good look at "Smart Sound," a music editing, timing and playback program that works within Premiere (a video editing program). The demonstration was good and Barry showed us how well it worked within Premiere.

Steve Brown and Joel Freedman enlightened us with in-depth looks at audio, vdieo, grip, lighting and other technologies from NAB.
Joel and Steve are showing more of the new Grip and gaffer products from Penguin Products a local company owned by cathy Straka that produced custom made and ready- to-order video products. Cathy can be reached at corduracreations@yahoo.com
Rod gave us a good look at some of the new digital products such as the massive upgrade for Apples "Final Cut Pro" non linear editing system. Apple has included three additional program into Final Cut Pro 4. Just look below to see what they are.

Cinema Tools

A database that tracks the relationship between your original film and its digitized counterpart in Final Cut Pro 4

• Generates precise film cut lists in Final Cut Pro 4

• Supports 16mm and 35mm film

• 24P High-Definition video with support for 24fps EDL's

• Supports ink numbers to let you track two different sets of time code information

• Generates film change lists from your last edit

Soundtrack

Lets you create high quality royalty-free music.

• Combine and arrange music loops

• Import Final Cut Pro 4 video projects complete with Scoring Markers to create perfectly timed professionals soundtracks

• Starter library with several thousand royaliy-free loops and sound effects

• Use powerful search engine to quiclky find audio loops and sound effects

• Utilize over 30 professional audio effects from Apple and Emagic

• Import AIFF, WAV, and ACID format audio files

LiveType

LiveType revolutionizes titling with a breakthrough new font standard — LiveFonts, the world’s first animated font standard, available only on the Macintosh platform — as well as a whole new way to create effects.

• Buildable animated behaviors let you create and share text effects between projects.

• Professional templates let you get your project off to a fast start (and you can build and save your own templates, as well).

• Royalty-free content library lets you create broadcast-quality animations right out of the box.

• Keyframe animation in LiveType makes it easy to create and save your own effects.
for more information contact Apple at http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/

or contact Rod for more information about DVPA at rod@dvpa.com or at http://www.dvpa.com