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Bob Paulson, very distinguished engineer, passes
Phil Livingston, Technical Liason for Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems, Passes
In Memory of Bob Turner, Influential Columnist and Consultant to the Post Production Industry
The (Painful) Way It Was: Editing Video the Old-Fashioned Way
A Behind-The-Scenes look at the Democratic National Convention
BF/VF Closes: Memories of Boston's Premiere Media Arts Center
SIGGRAPH/2003: Impressions of the Computer Graphics Extravaganza
A New Englander Abroad: The BBC Television Centre
Product Management: How to Build Consistently Successful Products
Product Management, Part II: Selling a Better Mousetrap
Digital Cinematography: HDTV is alive and well
Lighting for Inner Peace
The Webcasting Medium: How the technology is advancing
In memory of Jack Newcomb, former Associate Director at pioneering video production facility at MIT
Technical Innovations at NAB: New Englanders star at the show.
QuickTime 3.0 and the Avid/Microsoft Advanced Authoring Format
QuickTime 3.0 Allows Adobe To Move Into Pro Video Editing with Premiere 5.0
Demo Reels
A Eulogy to CMX, by Bob Turner
Switcher NT: Ramblings from IBC
A Producers' Lament
Keeping the Bank Happy and Credit Flowing
An Historic Parable, A Lesson for April 1
Meeting Follow-Up: Film Preservation News
Technical Report: New Developments in Nonlinear Video, a three-part series. Part 1: Putting High-Performance Nonlinear Systems on Personal Computers.
Part 2: Networking and Video Servers.
Part 3: System Design Issues
Editing Video with Adobe Premiere
The Coming of Video and its Influence on Home Movies
From Vintage Film to Betacam: Saving the Past for the Future
A Personal View of Curt Rawley's (Avid President) Dismissal, by Bob Turner.
4:2:2 Profile in MPEG-2 Compression Heirarchy
Technician's Corner: Questions people have asked me lately
Film/Video Museums Around the World
Recent Progress in Computer Graphics
Wicked Funny April Fool Article
Virtual Reality Movies
Fall Survey Results

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At the Thursday, February 16 meeting...
THINK METADATA!
With Philip Hodgetts at the Emerson Paramount Center

Join us for cutting-edge conversation on the process of editing and visual storytelling.

BOSCPUG is very pleased to have our first joint mixer of 2012 with the Boston Avid UG and SMPTE-NE featuring special guest Philip Hodgetts. Metadata plays a crucial role in editing workflows, and yet each of the major NLEs have very different philosophies about metadata. Learn how to optimize the use of metadata in Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium, Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro (both versions) during production and to manage assets after editorial.Q&A will follow.

This is a rare opportunity to interact with one of our Industry's most respected production and post-production gurus. If you want to learn more about the future of Television and content distribution, this is a must-attend event.

INCLUDES After-BOSCPUG Social Hour at SALVATORE'S

About Philip Hodgetts

Philip Hodgetts is a technologist, presenter, editor, post production supervisor, industry pundit, early adopter of social media, blogging and podcasting, and adventurer.

With a strong background in production, writing, directing and editing, Philip Hodgetts has worked all areas of production: writer, director, editor, post supervisor, motion and graphics designer, across broadcast, film and Internet distribution. He is a technologist, presenter and commentator on the ever-changing digital landscape. He has an enviable record of recognizing technology changes and moving to take advantage of it to increase the productivity and reduce production costs, with a particular focus on the use of metadata in production and asset management.

Philip shares his knowledge via his highly praised blog (philiphodgetts.com), multiple books on production and business topics, and regular presentations at conferences and for companies or organizations.

With his partner in Intelligent Assistance, Inc, he has been instrumental in developing many technologies, including Assistance on Demand, klickTab (Patent Applied for), and various XML workflow tools. He is widely acknowledged as an expert in production and archiving metadata.

Philip is President of Intelligent Assistance and Open TV Network. Intelligent Assistance develops metadata-based post production workflow software tools for TV and film, as well as developing post workflows for productions.

Win a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5!

Win a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium (value $1,699)! But you must be registered in order to be able to win Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium and other prizes featured at the event!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Thursday, February 16, 2012
Doors open at 6:30pm
Presentation at 7:00pm

Bright Family Screening Room
The Paramount Center
559 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
www.emerson.edu/about-emerson/campuses-facilities/boston/paramount-center

Directions:

The Paramount Center is in downtown Boston, right in the heart of the Theater District: Enter the main entrance to The Paramount Center at 559 Washington Street. Go up the elevators to the left and to the 4th floor. There will be front of house staff to greet you at the Bright Family Screening Room.

Special validated $10 flat-rate parking: SALVATORE'S (545 Washington Street, directly between The Paramount Center and The Boston Opera House) offers validated discount parking for a $10 flat rate between 4pm-5am at LAFAYETTE GARAGE, across the street from the restaurant (Additionally, inside the Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston) - stop by before BOSFCPUG at Salvatore's for a bite toe at or coffee/drink!

Emerson recommends to park in the Millennium Place Garage at The Ritz-Carlton Boston Common, 47 Boylston Street (617-574-7252).

By MBTA:

  • Orange Line: Take the Chinatown Exit
  • Red Line: Take the Park Street Exit
  • Green Line: Take the Boylston Street exit

http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/

For more information, please contact Daniel Bérubé at 617-331-8991 or dberube@bosfcpug.org.

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SMPTE/New England meetings are usually held at 7:00pm (refreshments at 6:30) on the third Wednesday of every month from September through June. Locations vary to allow attendees to tour various sites of interest. You don't have to be a SMPTE member to attend and there is no admission charge. Students and the public are invited to attend. Join our e-mail meeting announcements list and we'll send you e-mail every month so you don't have to keep on checking the web site. You don't have to be a member to get these announcements.

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Updated: 2 February 2012
Bob Lamm, SMPTE/New England Newsletter/Web Page Editor
blamm@broadcastpix.com



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