Past Meetings
November 16, 2022
Eliminating the Gap Between
Wrap and Edit
Camera to Cloud workflow is impacting creative teams in new and exciting ways. Join Adobe’s Laura Pursley and Shawn McDaniel as they discuss the democratization of the hardware necessary, how camera makers like RED and Fujifilm are building this function directly into their latest cameras, and -most importantly- the benefits to editors and creative storytelling in post-production.
Presenters
Laura Pursley
Product Marketing Manager | Frame.io, an Adobe company
With a career spanning movie marketing, independent film production, and imaging technology, Laura Pursley brings deep audience knowledge and communication prowess to her work within Frame.io and Adobe. Pursley previously launched the FX9, FX6, and FX3 cameras while at Sony Electronics. She was also instrumental in the expansion of post house Light Iron from its origin in Hollywood to locations in New York, New Orleans, and Atlanta. Pursley frequently volunteers as a career mentor, and is an expert grower of heirloom tomatoes.
Shawn McDaniel
Instructional Media Specialist| Frame.io, an Adobe Company
Shawn McDaniel’s career as an independent filmmaker began while he honed his video editing skills working at Buzzfeed, MGM, and Riot Games and as a trainer for Apple. At Frame.io, an Adobe company, McDaniel is the Instructional Media Specialist, teaching technical filmmaking skills and post-production workflows to industry professionals. Still possessing a passion for directing, McDaniel recently produced a proof-of-concept web series called My Death Co.
October 12, 2022
Exploring the Making of "American Murderer" - Previs On an Indie Budget
Join us for a behind the scenes look at of the making of the true crime film American Murderer. Director Matthew Gentile and Editor Matt Allen will be particularly highlighting their pre-production planning and how they used previs on an indie film budget to achieve the vision for the film.
Be sure to check out the full film, American Murderer, in theaters on October 21st and digital on October 28th.
Our Presenters:
MATT ALLEN (EDITOR) is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and the recipient of the American Cinema Editor’s prestigious Eric Zumbrunnen Fellowship. Matt recently edited his first feature film American Murderer. He also served as the film’s pre-visualization editor, music editor, and score producer. Matt began his movie journey in the studio offices of CBS Films and Voltage Pictures (which included working at the Cannes Film Festival twice). Through his work experience and ACE fellowship, Matt has been mentored by academy award nominated editors including a long term editor/assistant-editor collaboration with Matt Chesse ACE (Finding Neverland & Quantum of Solace). Matt’s assistant editor credits include Hollywood feature films Disney’s Christopher Robin, Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel and Sweet Girl starring Jason Momoa. Matt holds a BFA in Media Production from Pepperdine University and a MFA in Editing from the American Film Institute.
MATTHEW GENTILE (DIRECTOR) is an award-winning director and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. He most recently completed his first feature film, American Murderer, a true-crime drama that stars Tom Pelphrey (Ozark, Outer Range), Ryan Phillippe (Breach, Crash), Idina Menzel (Uncut Gems, Frozen) and two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook). Saban Films & Universal Pictures have acquired the film’s worldwide distribution rights; it is slated for a theatrical release on October 21st, 2022.
A graduate of the prestigious directing program at the AFI Conservatory, Matthew’s thesis film “Frontman” won the Student Emmy for Best Directing. Shortly after graduating, Matthew was hired to come back to AFI as an alum and direct a second thesis film Lawman which starred Lance Reddick (The Wire, Bosch). That short played over 100 festivals worldwide and won the Dolby + Vizio Vision Award at AFI Fest. After completing “Lawman”, Matthew went on to direct a proof-of-concept short for American Murderer which starred Jonathan Groff (The Matrix: Ressurections, Mindhunter) and Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley).
Currently, Matthew is writing his second feature, The Socialite, a true-crime drama that is based on the book “A Socialite Scorned” by Kerrie Droban and developing multiple projects in the true-crime genre.
*To be eligible to participate in our giveaway you must stay to the end of the meeting.
**Winners will be chosen offline after the meeting and notified the next day at the email given at registration.
***This meeting will be live streamed on YouTube.
September 8, 2022
What's New in RX 10
Join us for our September meeting as we take a look at the new features in RX 10, which include an entirely new way to navigate and edit speech and dialogue files, major improvements to assistive technology, an expansion of frequency resynthesis, and a few things post production professionals have been asking for. We are thrilled to have RX Product Manager, Mike Rozett for our tour guide as we explore this brand new version!
Mike Rosett
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 iZotope (Soundwide), 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.
*We will be hosting our monthly giveaway. In order to be eligible to win you must stay to the end of the meeting.
**Winners will be chosen offline after the meeting and contacted the next day at the email provided at registration.
***This meeting will be live streamed on YouTube.
August 11, 2022
Solutions Not Numbers;
Picking the Best Storage for Creators
Join us for our August Meeting with Jeff Greenberg and OWC for a discussion of what you need to think about when assessing and weighing your storage needs and options. We’re going to talk about solutions that make sense, and we’ll include as little about numbers or data rates as possible and focus on what matters in production and post production.
The good news is you won’t need a calculator for this one, but will need to bring your storage questions for any project(s) you are working on or intend to work on.
About Jeff Greenberg
Jeff I. Greenberg is an editor, colorist, educator and consultant in the field of post-production. He works with large and small clients to help smart people become smarter. A Master Trainer who speaks at events like NAB, Adobe Max and the Editors Retreat, about tools and methods professionals and “new professionals” need to know about. From storytelling to Artificial Intelligence, he focuses on the concrete techniques that make our lives easier. You can find him on all your favorite social networks as filmgeek or at JGreenbergConsulting.com.
July 13, 2022
Blackmagic Cloud & DaVinci Resolve 18
Ever wanted to work with other post production artists on the same project at the same time… from anywhere in the world? Join us as Blackmagic’s Resolve expert Shawn Carlson breaks down the Blackmagic Cloud, and shows us how Blackmagic Design is opening a world of possibilities for your post workflow.
You can also win a seat of DaVinci Resolve Studio, too!
*We will be hosting our monthly prize giveaway. To be eligible to participate you must stay to the end of the meeting.
**We will be contacting the winners the day after the meeting so be sure to use your current email address when you register so we can let you you if you win!
***This meeting will be live-streamed on YouTube.
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