Meeting Notes from 6/12/08

Last night’s FCPUG meeting went off without a hitch. We met at AMS at 7:00 - ajourned sometime after 9:00 PM - then went to Two Rows for dinner. We had about 40 people in attendance.

www.DallasFCPUG.org : Wayne Walker gave us an introduction to our new website. We are going to start using a new discussion forum for communication. Please everyone - sign in and give us feedback. Thanks to Jønny ReVøl†! for design ideas!

Color : Ryan Holmes gave us a real world workflow example using Color to correct and grade poorly shot video. Ryan showed how to take media from Final Cut - to Color, grade it, render it, and send it back to Final Cut. Check our Ryan’s video podcast (Studio006) for color training - as well as other production applications.

Viewzi - Steve DeVoll introduced us to a new way to graphically view web search results. Steve was one of the founding members of our FCPUG and is now the CTO of a great new company. Viewzi takes the best of web search results (Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask and others) and delivers those results in a radically new way. You’ve never seen your search results look so good. Who though web searches could be fun again?

ShotPut Express - Ned Soltz gave us a demo of this utility used to copy media from your Sony SxS card (from the Sony EX1 XDCam) to an external Firewire, a usb drive, or your internal drive. After you shoot - you need a quick way to empty the card so you can keep rolling.

Matrox - A rep from Matrox came to visit us and gave us a demo of the MXO and MXO2. He led a fun discussion of these two products. The MXO is an output device - that enables you to output from your computer - in the correct color space to a standard DVI LCD monitor (or SDI, Component, or composite). The MXO2 is an IO box. It is not codec dependent. You can use it to import and export over SDI, Component, Composite, SVideo, or HDMI. It can be powered by a 12 volt source, and lists for $1595.
It used your express34 slot - thus will only work with Intel based macs. Very lightweight and compact. It competes with the AJA IO HD.

Thanks guys - I’m sure discussion will kick up quickly in the forum. Please remember to leave us feedback about the site. What do you want to see her?

~Wayne