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January 30, 2025

Our January meeting has been rescheduled. Please register below.

It is impossible to convey the impact the wildfires have had on our community. Our hearts go out to everyone who has lost so much in this great city of ours. It is truly inspiring watching how our community has come together to support one another.

 

As this recovery will be more of a marathon than a sprint, we encourage you to continue reaching out to those in need.  As many of you know, Los Angeles Post Production Group has been long time supporters of the Westside Food Bank. As they continue to serve our community, they are seeking monetary donations, weekday volunteers, food donations, as well as wishlist items, which can be purchased online. If you are looking for a place to give, please visit: Westside Food Bank.




Please sign up again for our rescheduled January meeting featuring:


Say What??? 
A Panel Discussion on Intelligibility
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Flat panel TVs, 5.1, Atmos, streaming studios. . . With all these innovations and changes over the last 20 years, why has dialog intelligibility become a subject of concern and discussion among consumers and content creators? This panel will discuss some of the factors that cause viewers at home to feel they have to opt for watching with subtitles on. What are EBU R128 and ITU BS.1770, and why didn’t we need these specifications 20 years ago?  What is the correlation between dialog intelligibility & loudness?  And what steps can mixers, producers and studios take to make sure that what they hear on the mixing stage will translate to a wide variety of different viewing and listening environments? 

Moderator

Marc Fishman, CAS

Marc Fishman, CAS studied film at USC and recording arts at Full Sail University. His career started with an internship at the independent post facility EFX in 1990. He spent the next 6 years as a dialogue editor, ADR supervisor, and Supervising Sound Editor before transitioning full time into re-recording mixing, which he has been doing for over 26 years. Some of his feature credits include Superbad, Bridesmaids, The Old Guard, and Anchorman 2.  He recently mixed the broadcast series The Last of Us, Hunters, Little Fires Everywhere, and Lovecraft Country. He was honored to win a Primetime Emmy for the miniseries John Adams and has been nominated for several other Emmy, BAFTA, and CAS awards.

Panelists

Bob Bronow, CAS, MPSE

Bob Bronow, CAS, MPSE is a re-recording mixer and sound designer working in television and film for over thirty years. He has received three Primetime Emmy Awards with an additional eleven nominations, four CAS Award wins and two MPSE Golden Reels. Projects include: Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, Genius: Einstein and Picasso, Blue Ribbon Baking Championship, Sweethearts, How to Become a Tyrant, American Soul, Barkskins, Tacoma FD, A Christmas Prince, The Last Ship, Graves, Nightcap, Wizard of Paws, Deadliest Catch, Storage Wars, 1000 Ways to Die, Shelter Me, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime, The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses and The Wrecking Crew. Bob has also served at the former governor of the Television Academy’s Sound Peer Group, former co-chair of the Primetime Emmy Awards Committee and is a current member of the Sound Peer Group Executive Committee. He also presently serves as Awards Chair of the Cinema Audio Society.

Alexandra Fehrman, CAS

Alexandra Fehrman, CAS is a re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor with more than 15 years of sound department experience in film and television. She recently mixed two Oscar winning films, serving as final dialogue, music and fx re-recording mixer on Sian Heder’s Sundance hit CODA in 2022 and as fx re-recording mixer on The Daniels Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2023. In 2021, Alexandra received her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Sound Mixing for A Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) for her work on Amazon’s The Boys, serving as the dialogue/music mixer. Alexandra began her career in mixing as a teenager, following her love for music. While taking guitar lessons she found her way into the recording studio where she immediately fell in love with the art of crafting sound. After working at that local studio, she moved to Los Angeles to study recording engineering and entered the film sound industry soon after.

Jon Greasley, CAS, MPSE

Jon Greasley CAS, MPSE is a Los Angeles-based, Brit-transplant sound designer, re-recording mixer, and general noisemaker with 15+ years of experience designing and mixing for film, TV, and streaming. He has been nominated for multiple awards, been a featured speaker of the CAS/MPSE Sounding Board, Mix Magazine, and Grammy Museum events, is an AES contributor on the topic of intelligibility, and has written multiple articles for the CAS Quarterly and MPSE Wavelength. His credits include Abigail, Godzilla x Kong, Kung Fu Panda 4, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Cosmos: Possible Worlds.

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!

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