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Next Meeting - Thursday, October 2, 2008

You are invited to attend the next meeting of the DC Avid Users Group.

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm |Round trip with After Effects and Media Composer

Charles Hoff, Producer | Director at DoDEA, (The Department of Defense Education Activity) will give us a demonstration of the Avid to Adobe After Effects to Avid workflow, as he likes to do it. Bring some paper and take some notes, I hope you'll pick up a few techniques that will save you some time.

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm| Avid Discussion: Tips & Hints & Raffle!

Share your Favorite Tips & Hints. Charles Hoff and Bruce Dixon will lead the discussion. Bring your questions about working with Avid and third party applications. Together we will try to answer them.

Also, please share your thoughts on the new 3.0 Media Composer software. How many of you are already using it? Rumor has it that version 3.1 is just a few weeks away. Let's talk about working with footage from the RED camera.

Our final activity will be a raffle of Avid items to raise money for the group. Raffle items are supplied by our friend at Avid, Brenda Bergin. Tickets are one dollar each. Please buy as many tickets as you can afford. Remember that there is only one prize per person.

Our host for this meeting is Future Media Concepts (FMC). FMC provides manufacturer-authorized training in all areas of digital media including digital video and film editing, etc. You may have heard, they have just expanded and now have 5 state of the art training suites!

We are also expecting a visit from Lindsay Lacher-Katz of Mediasilo, a web-based collaboration and broadcast tool for editors and producers. I don't know much about this, I want to here more.

When:
Thursday, October 2,, 2008

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Where:
Future Media Concepts - DC Branch
1627 K Street NW
Suite 900
Washington D.C. 20006
Phone: 202-429-9700

For directions go to: MAP

The closest Metro Stop is Farragut North, on the Red line.
The building will be locked at 8PM, so please arrive before that time.
The security guard will assist group members in and out of the building.

RSVP NOW as space is limited to 30 people. To register please email Bruce Dixon at engineer@efxmedia.com
I will confirm your registration. If you later discover that you can't attend, please let me know so others can have your seat.