Live Streaming Basics for Fun and Profit!

Helicopter Video Demo Postponed Until October Meeting

Web - Video Crossroads - Thursday, September 9

Guest Presenter

Working Smarter in Today's Economy: The New Now, Part 2

General Meeting/Creative Suite User Group - Tuesday, September 21

Philip Hodgetts will join us again for part 2 of his presentation for ways to increase your income in today's environment. Last year he covered:

• Defining and creating a brand,
• Your Selling Proposition and how to phrase it Social Marketing.

The New Now, Part 2 goes on to cover:

• Getting more customers and more sales;
• Advertising (Display Ads vs Search; Adsense, Adwords)
• Cutting Costs - Producing less expensively (Lower cost, same income equals higher profits)
• Working smarter, using the Internet better to get paid faster, and
• Finding your own income.

Philip Hodgetts is an expert and consultant in digital production, post-production workflows and metadata-assisted editing. He is also a specialist in encoding, web applications, digital delivery and technology innovation. He is the President and CEO of Open Television Network: a service that makes it easy to sell direct to iTunes without Apple. He remains President of Intelligent Assistance, Inc — a systems and technology developer — and one of the "Big Brains" of Big Brains for Rent consultancy. He is an experienced trainer and has written extensively online across a range of topics. He is the co-creator of Assisted Editing and an expert on metadata-based post production workflows. Philip is the author of The HD Survival Handbook; Awesome Titles with FCS and The New Now: How to grow your production or post-production business in a changed and changing world.

He has presented at many conferences and seminars including Keynote addresses for the New York DV Show; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences NEXT TV symposium in 2006; and the 2007 Podcast Summit at NAB as well as presented at Streaming Media East and West; NAB Post|Production, Seybold among others.

Member Showcase

David Salahi, owner of Artistic Web Design will present some recent examples of his work including:

• Two credit union websites developed with the open source Joomla content management system (CMS)
• A travel/tourism website developed in Flex which uses Google Maps and plays YouTube videos
• A non-profit organization's Joomla website which includes a custom Flex app that combines use of the Twitter and Google Maps APIs
• A WordPress website with a custom theme and custom functionality developed using PHP and WordPress functions

The Joomla websites all have custom developed templates and include various Joomla extensions, some of which will be discussed.

Dave is a software engineer with 30 years of experience in the software development field. In 2008 he left his job at Thomas Bros. Maps, a subsidiary of Rand McNally, to start his own web design business. Dave is also the author of the Flexperiential blog on Flex development.

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Special Events - September 24, 2010

JOIN FILMMAKERS TOUR OF OC GREAT PARK

What other location can provide filmmakers a military backdrop, a functional runway for aircraft as well as a concert venue, restaurants, kids park and agricultural fields? Don't miss this very
special VIP tour of OC's GREAT PARK for Filmmakers.

GREAT PARK is ready for FILMMAKERS:

Great Park is 1,400 acres in total and all will be built out eventually. Currently, Great Park has 30 acres built-out including the Hanger cafe, a green belt, and various areas of land. Once finished,
the Great Park will be bigger than NYC’s Central Park.

For location filming there are old military living quarters, outbuildings, hangers, air traffic control towers. The huge runways often used for stunt work for vehicles are a feature of the grounds.
The American version of the popular TV show, Top Gear, will be utilizing the runways and spaces at Great Park to film their upcoming episodes. Planes can also be landed on the runways.  There is plenty of space to shoot any outdoor situation imaginable and you, as a director/producer, have total control of the exterior space. No traffic, no pedestrians, no hassles.

Delivering the Goods!

DV - After Effects Abuser Group Meeting - Tuesday, September 28

A short time ago things were a lot simpler. At the end of your video project, you would output it to DVD and occasionally do a lesser-quality web version. Today, you may be streaming your video shoot live and then producing versions for Blu-Ray, DVD, the web (standard, high quality & high def.), the mobile web (HTML5 for iPhone, iTouch, iPad & Flash 10.1 for some Android based phones) and video podcasting (including high def versions for those with AppleTV).

If you are in the business of videography or that of web development, it is extremely difficult to keep up.
If you are in both realms, like our guest speaker, Mike McGready of Album of Life video studios http://www.albumoflife.com, it is a constant race to stay ahead of the tech tsunami that is pushing us into tomorrow.

Tonight Mike is going to cover Part 1 of a 3-part series. Here is a synopsis of what he will cover: 
Delivering the Goods! PART 1

DVD Authoring Beyond the Basics:

- Avoiding the Embarrassment of Your DVD Not Being Recognized by Your Clients Player.
- Customizing DVD Menu Designs
- Creating more elaborate DVD navigation.
- Using angles to switch between camera views.
- Using DVD package design as a marketing tool.