Image Highlights from our Thursday, February 19 Event & After Party featuring Jason Levine of Adobe, Heather Williams of Atomos, director Maxim Jago and Rick Hohmann of HP Workstations – as part of the Bright Lights Film Series in the Bright Family Screening Room, The Paramount Center – Emerson College.
Special Thanks to Marty Feldman and SMPTE-NE for inviting SMPTE members to our event!
Thank you Heather, Jason, Maxim and Rick for visiting!
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ABOUT JASON LEVINE
Jason Levine, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, travels the globe enlightening and educating users on Adobe Creative Cloud, focusing on video, photography and mobile workflows. Levine has conducted training/workflow sessions for many top broadcast corporations in Europe and Asia including BBC, RTL and SVT. Prior to Adobe, Jason was a full-time recording engineer working in studios coast-to-coast, engineering hundreds of recordings in a multitude of genres, prompting the formation of BoodahJooMusic Publishing. Since 2003, Jason has presented to more than 250,000 people, from Syracuse to Singapore and everywhere in between.
Twitter: @Beatlejase | Website: Jason on Behance
ABOUT HEATHER WILLIAMS
Heather Williams has been working with manufacturers for nearly 10 years helping to bring the best video production tools to market, meeting the important and evolving needs of today’s creative professionals. She began her career as part of the original team at G-Technology and helped grow the company into the world’s leading supplier of external drives to the creative community. She now continues her dream of working with creative professionals as the VP of Sales at Atomos and sharing how their line of award-winning products are revolutionizing today’s production workflow.
Heather is stopping by to discuss the exciting world of 4K, UHD, recording formats, recording media and how the new Atomos Shogun Recorder-Monitor can be used with today’s 4K digital camera systems to both improve picture quality and create an easier workflow.
ABOUT ATOMOS
Atomos designs and manufactures creative production weapons: affordable, easy-to-use field monitor/recorders, converters, power management, C-Fast cards and HDMI Cables that save video professionals time and money, reducing complexity without sacrificing quality.
Included in Atomos’s field monitor/recorder product line up is the Ninja Blade and Samurai Blade portable, touchscreen-operated 10-bit HD recorder, monitor, playback and playout devices with HDMI and HD-SDI input/output that record to either ProRes or DNxHD codec. They capture pristine video direct from the camera sensor and encode in real-time onto low-cost, removable 212-inch hard disks, or solid-state drives. And perfect for Drones, RC Helicopters and other UAVs Atomos produce the Ninja Star, the world’s smallest, lightest Apple ProRes recorder (130g/4.6oz), small enough to fit in your pocket.
New to the Atomos line up is the Shogun, the world’s first 12G SDI & 4K HDMI I/O monitor recorder and deck that utilizes both 4K and HD clean output from HDMI cameras such as Sony A7S, Panasonic GH4, 4K SDI Canon C500, and can record 24, 25 or 30p from the camera and up to 120fps HD if the camera is capable.
Twitter: @Atomos_News | Website: www.atomos.com
ABOUT MAXIM JAGO
Maxim Jago is an infectiously energetic creative media technology speaker, author and trainer for conferences, events and organizations who want to communicate a techno-societal vision of the future. Maxim has authored over 30 media technology books and video courses and has trained many creative and technology innovators to excel in their field. He has also directed over 40 films, winning awards as a screen writer and director.
As a Tai Chi Ch’uan instructor and life-long student of philosophy, Maxim blends his coaching, corporate experience and quintessential British gentlemanly humour to present, discuss or solve complex challenges and act as an enabler for anyone with a curious learning disposition.
Maxim’s interest is in the principles that are the meeting point for life’s multiple disciplines, where function, design, group purpose, architecture and social change meet and blend. Current major projects are a PhD in Metaphysics on ‘The Nature of Being’; ‘Orpheus Rising,’ the new feature film project based on an award winning script that integrates games design into the full production process, and a consultancy service to enable individuals, groups and organizations to obtain clarity and plan ahead effectively.
Maxim is the author of the Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book, the Adobe Premiere Pro Learn By Video course, and 23 other courses housed at Lynda.com.
Twitter: @MaximJago | Website: www.maximjago.com
ABOUT RICK HOHMANN
Rick Hohmann is a member of Hewlett-Packard’s workstation technical marketing group. He is responsible for working with HP’s partners and customers in the Media & Entertainment industry, supporting their use of HP Z desktop workstations, ZBook mobile workstations, the Z1 all-in-one workstations, and HP’s line of professional displays, including the DreamColor color-critical monitor.
Twitter: @HP | Website: HP Workstations
ABOUT THE BOSTON CREATIVE PRO USER GROUP 
The Boston Creative Pro User Group (BOSCPUG) is a story driven, globally connected community of ready-to-collaborate digital filmmakers and broadcast professionals focusing on the craft of Visual Storytelling and related tools for digital cinema and distribution. BOSCPUG regularly brings top industry filmmakers and creatives to Boston to share and discuss their latest work and their workflows. BOSCPUG also regularly holds affordable production and post-production workshops. BOSCPUG is a professional, creative outlet to pitch ideas for episodic content creation and to discover talent, crew and distribution for your projects.
Read about ‘American Hustle’ editor Crispin Struthers, ACE at BOSCPUG.
Read about BOSCPUG at the Emerson Film Festival.
From NewEnglandFilm.com: “Boston Creative Pro User Group Nurtures New England Filmmakers”
ABOUT THE BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM SERIES
The Bright Lights screening and talk series is sponsored by the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. The mission of the series is to provide engaging visual media related events to the Emerson College community as well as the wider Boston community. These events range from screening of student, faculty and alumni work to the work of local, national and international artists as well as demonstrations, lectures, discussions and presentations by industry professionals. Bright Lights seeks to create an environment where visual media is not only viewed and appreciated but where a dialogue is fostered and a community of media makers, academics and aficionados are engaged and supported.
All events are free and open to the public. Events take place every Tuesday and Thursday evening during the semester with the exception of occasions when the college is closed (such as holidays, spring break, inclement weather). Check out the Bright Lights Film Series now at: http://web.emerson.edu/brightlights/
ABOUT THE BRIGHT SCREENING ROOM 
BOSCPUG is proud to work with Emerson Visual and Media Arts to offer an evening of production and post-production conversation in the intimate and state of the art Bright Family 2K Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College.
Named for the family of Kevin Bright ’76, the Bright Family Screening Room seats approximately 200 people. It features the latest film and 2K digital video projection including 35mm and DCP playback. The dramatic double-height Gallery and Lobby connects to the Paramount Mainstage.
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