February 2020 Photos

For the 2nd year in a row we had a Valentine’s meeting visit from the LOVE-ly Mary Poplin from Boris FX. The evening started with members checking in and each receiving beautiful journals and pens from the our fantastic partner, Shutterstock. These were used to take notes during our first presentation and for our members to use to do their own journaling to help reduce stress. The journaling advice was only a small part of the wisdom that came from the entertaining and informative presentation from Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists Bill Leavitt. He discussed the often ignored topic of mental well-being and shared insights on the topic of stress which affects many of us in this industry when we are dealing with job insecurity, deadlines and long work hours. He shared some helpful tools for dealing with stress including The Four Fold Breath and No-Thing Meditation.

After his presentation we enjoyed some Valentine’s themed refreshments during the networking break and then Boris FX’s Senior Product Specialist Mary Poplin came to the stage to present an overview of the latest 2020 releases of Sapphire, Continuum and Mocha Pro. There was a lot of ground to cover and Mary, in her own inimitable fashion, knocked it out of the park by showing us many new features as well as showcasing the power of the newly acquired Silhouette. Silhouette is a best-in-class, GPU-accelerated compositing application, delivering the industry’s most robust, non-destructive, paint and roto tools for feature film and visual effects teams. We were all wowed! At the end of the evening we had another amazing giveaway thanks to our generous partners.

December 2019 Photos

Talk about ending the year on a high note! Our members rock! For our 9th Annual Food Drive benefiting the Westside Food Bank members brought hundreds of non-perishable food items for those in need in our community. We also enjoyed a night of Adobe with Adobe Master Trainer and Emmy Award winner Christine Steele who brought us up to speed on their latest from including a deep dive into Auto Reframe for all of us who need to get content onto multiple social media formats. Christine also took the time to answer our questions plus, she showed us some great shortcut keys to help us be more efficient! And a thank you to our seasonal guests, Kent Luck (aka Santa) and Jeffrey Stansfield (aka Hanukkah Harry/The Rabbi) for handing out gifts to everyone at our holiday meeting. No one went home empty handed! Plus, a huge thank you to all our members, partners, friends, family and Crossroads School for another great year! Can’t wait to share what is in store for 2020!

October Meeting Photos

Back on the Westside after two months of being “on location” at SONY and ZEISS, we settled back in at the Community Room for a very full night.  First up we had Derick Rhodes, VP of Creator Programs jetting in from NYC to share with us the exciting new updates happening at Vimeo. He shared a great new resource called For Hire jobs marketplace where you can find professionals to work on your projects as well as find work for yourself! He also detailed Vimeo stock and spoke about both licensing the footage as well as selling your footage to be licensed. And lastly, Derick shared Vimeo’s workflow tools including their Review page which is key to working collaboratively. After the networking break with some Halloween inspired treats we jumped into Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 16 with Mary Plummer who showed us in detail how the cut page works for creating speedy short form content like the cooking demo she walked us through. And then she switched over the Fairlight audio page where she showed some of the powerful  tools in this  fully integrated professional audio post platform now inside DaVinci Resolve 16.