Past Meetings
December 11, 2024
Adobe & AI
Join Karl Soule’ as he explores the latest in Adobe tools like Premiere Pro and Photoshop, and how AI is already speeding up creative workflows for professionals. Karl will also talk about Adobe Firefly, and provide the latest updates on generative AI for editors and filmmakers.
Registration is required.
This meeting will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
November 13, 2024
New Fairlight Features in
DaVinci Resolve 19
Whether you are working on a podcast, promo, documentary or narrative project, DaVinci Resolve 19 offers powerful tools to analyze, improve, repair, edit, balance, sweeten and deliver your audio files.
Join Mary Plummer, Fairlight Workflow Specialist at Blackmagic Design, for an online guided tour of the new and enhanced audio features in DaVinci Resolve 19 including native AI based Track FX, Fairlight FX, unique IntelliTrack AI based point tracker for audio panning to video, built in EQ with realtime analysis, extensive dynamics, improved automation and sidechain processing, selective monitoring, editing by transcription, full native Ambisonic immersive workflows and more to quickly enhance your project’s audio.
About Our Presenter:
Mary Plummer is a professional video editor, audio artist, sound designer and composer with over 20 years experience in video and film production. She has worked on wide range of productions from coast to coast including shorts, PSAs, trailers, music videos, documentary and independent feature films. Between projects, Mary has been a trainer and presenter at major industry trade shows and written over a dozen industry training books including: The Fairlight Audio Guide to DaVinci Resolve. Mary currently works for Blackmagic Design as a Workflow Specials for Fairlight Audio Post Production and is working on the latest version of The Fairlight Audio Guide for DaVinci Resolve 19.
Registration is required.
This meeting will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
October 9, 2024
LIVE WEBINAR
NO TWO WORKFLOWS
ARE THE SAME
The power of flexible no-code automation with Mistika Workflows
Join us for an exclusive live LAPPG Webinar Meeting, where we delve into the exceptional power of Mistika Workflows – a flexible, no-code, node-based, automation platform designed to streamline and customize every media pipeline.
In today’s challenging M&E landscape, with shrinking budgets and tighter deadlines, efficiency is more critical than ever. The industry is feeling the unprecedented pressure to do more with less, making it essential to adopt tools that streamline workflows, reduce manual tasks, and ultimately save both time and money. During this webinar, we’ll show you how Mistika Workflows can help navigate these demands by automating key processes, allowing you to stay productive and efficient while cutting unnecessary costs.
Whether you’re managing VFX, handling transcoding and media metadata, or delivering content to VOD services, Mistika Workflows unlocks endless possibilities to optimize your unique processes – all without coding expertise. However, it’s all Python scriptable for those who want to exploit the flexibility of Mistika Workflows even further!
*****As a bonus, all attendees will have the chance to win one of two:
1-Year license of Mistika Workflows Professional Edition, each with a 2-hour personalized workflow consultation and initial automation design.******
Key Topics
💎VFX Pipeline Management including BMD Resolve API integration
💎Transcoding, Media, and Metadata Management
💎Seamless Delivery to VOD Services
💎Effortless Media Localization
Don’t miss this game-changing opportunity to explore how Mistika Workflows can easily and quickly be tailored to your unique needs and unlock unparalleled flexibility in your post-production processes.
You have to be in it to win it!
Presenter
Adrian Gonzalez Diaz, Creative Solutions Architect at SGO
Adrián González Diaz is a Creative Solutions Architect at SGO. For the past 11 years, he has been working with SGO as a demo artist, training mentor, and product manager. With a profile halfway between the creative and the technical, Adrián consistently works with SGO’s development team to define and refine new features and products, while also actively engaging with SGO clients to develop creative post-production workflows and address even the most difficult bottlenecks with innovative and efficient solutions.
Registration is required.
This meeting will also be live streamed on YouTube.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
*****EVENT IS FULL*****
We are excited to announce our next meeting will be IN PERSON! We can’t wait to connect, network, learn, and enjoy seeing one another IRL!!
Please join us at Avid Technology Inc. in Burbank for:
Getting Started with Immersive Audio
in Pro Tools:
An Introduction to the Internal Dolby Atmos Renderer
In this specially crafted evening for LAPPG members, come and get an overview on how to setup and use the internal Dolby Atmos renderer in Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate. Learn best practices and workflows to get started mixing in Dolby Atmos, as well as how to transition back and forth from the new internal renderer to the external Dolby renderer. Avid‘s Pro-Audio Solutions Specialist, for the Americas, Christopher Mallamaci will be presenting and answering all of our questions!
And no evening would be complete without our amazing LAPPG giveaway as well as ample time for networking, light refreshments, and intimate listening sessions throughout the evening.
Time Information:
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Meeting starts at 7:00pm.
Parking Information:
- Free Parking Available Throughout Downtown Burbank
- Free Limited Self-Parking Available in parking structure of BJ Restaurant Parking Lot
- Valet available in the BJ Restaurant Parking Lot, $8 – Gratuity Not Included
Event Address:
Event entrance in the rear of 101 S First St, Suite 200 Avid Technology, Inc Burbank
****EVENT IS FULL****
Because there are very limited spots, please only register if you are certain you can attend. Thank you!
May 16, 2024
RX Goes to 11!
New Release demo with Mike Rozett
Come see the latest release from
Izotope by Native Instruments
We are incredibly excited that our May meeting will be one of the first public showings for the soon to be released, iZotope RX 11!
Industry-first tech and upgraded machine learning are on the way with RX 11, coming this May. Please join Principal Product Manager, Mike Rozett as he walks through the new and improved features they’ve been cooking up for you, including new real-time dialogue isolation. They’ve introduced a cutting-edge neural network that provides a more natural separation of noise and reverb from voice recordings, plus a new high-quality processing mode that unlocks new possibilities for recovering dialogue. And that’s just the beginning! Mike can’t wait to show you more and answer any of your questions.
We’ll also be giving away one RX 11 Standard and one RX 11 Advanced to two lucky attendees! To be eligible for a chance to win, just register and attend the meeting and stay until the end.
Presenter:
Mike Rozett – Principal Product Manager, Native Instruments
Mike Rozett is a product leader with more than 20 years of experience creating, developing and launching products and content for professionals, consumers, viewers, and listeners. A principal product manager at Native Instruments, Mike is the product manager for RX, the industry-standard software for repairing and restoring damaged and noisy audio. Under his leadership, RX won a Scientific and Technical Oscar in 2020 and an Engineering Emmy in 2019. Prior to that, he was a producer at Chedd-Angier-Lewis in Boston and a writer / producer for the History Channel series Tougher In Alaska (Moore Huntley Productions). He has worked on television and film projects for Moody Street Pictures and Northern Light Productions, and was an Associate Producer at WGBH Radio. He received his MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and has a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College.
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