RSVP and Complete Details Including Directions & Easy Validated Parking:  http://boscpugmar19.eventbrite.com

Join the Boston Creative Pro User Group Thursday, March 19 for our next event – with post networking + refreshments (pizza and cocktails) following at SALVATORE’S!

Get out to meet & mingle with fellow filmmakers in the Bright Family Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College – Enjoy a great night of networking, engaging screenings & conversation – swap stories and business cards, discover talent and crew for your next project – and interact with members of Massachusetts’ Production and Post community.

Then, join us for an industry reception featuring Cocktails, Refreshments + Networking next door at SALVATORE’S. Grab a seat now!

Our BOSCPUG events and speakers that BOSCPUG invites to Boston are part of Emerson College’s Bright Lights Film Series: http://web.emerson.edu/brightlights/

FEATURED SPECIAL GUESTS:

INDIE FILMMAKING USING ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD WITH MAXIM JAGO

We are thrilled to have MAXIM JAGO return to BOSCPUG! Maxim will a special conversation on indie filmmaking with Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe Creative Cloud users have an incredible range of choices when working with video, including fast cutting in Adobe Premiere Pro, advanced compositing and animation in Adobe After Effects, powerful audio editing and clean-up in Adobe Audition and professional grading and finishing in Adobe SpeedGrade. The key question is, how do you share your media and creative choices between all of these applications?

In this fast-paced presentation, filmmaker and Adobe Master Trainer Maxim Jago shares the key information you need to work creatively with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and SpeedGrade, all at once! You’ll learn how to get your media into Premiere Pro and share work seamlessly in the Adobe creative application ecosystem.

Bring your questions for Maxim!

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

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#MONIFF 2015 MONADNOCK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: LAIN BARAKAT

We’re excited to have indie film producer and MONIFF Executive Director LAINA BARAKAT join us for a preview of the 2015 Monadnock International Film Festival, taking place in Keene, New Hampshire April 16-18, 2015.

MONIFF honors cinema as the modern campfire, shining a light on compelling stories, international filmmakers and engaged audiences, gathered around our love of film. MONIFF is where Artist and Audience Are One.

**NOTE: We will be making a special announcement about our April BOSCPUG related to MONIFF this Thursday!**

MONIFF was created through a collaboration of artists, local filmmakers and producers, community leaders from local non-profits, universities and colleges, social service agencies, and businesses. MONIFF’s Board of Directors draws from a diverse group of individuals from throughout the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire.

The original steering committee began meeting in late 2009 to explore creating a film festival in southwestern New Hampshire, drawing from a long tradition of artists and filmmakers making this region their home. In June of 2011, the Monadnock International Film Festival partnered with Arts Alive! as its fiscal agent and began planning its first festival.

In 2012, Executive Director Laina Barakat joined the MONIFF team and launched the 2013 film festival. In the fall of 2013, MONIFF became a 501©3 Non-profit and welcomed Program Director Aaron Wiederspahn who created the Screenwriting in the Schools program.

ABOUT LAINA BARAKAT
Laina Barakat is an independent film Producer, committed to telling stories of grace and light, revealing themselves in dark and at times desperate worlds. After pursuing a liberal arts degree in Philosophy and Literature at Ave Maria University, she headed to New Hampshire, choosing an apprenticeship with Either/Or Films instead of the more traditional film-school route. Joining the company for the theatrical release and distribution of the their first feature film, ‘THE SENSATION OF SIGHT,’ starring Academy Award Nominee David Strathairn, Tony Award Winner Jane Adams, and Television Star Ian Somerhalder, Laina went on to cut her teeth on several smaller projects including – ‘GLOBSTER’ (Producer), ‘UNWOUND’ (Co-Producer, 2nd AD), and ‘PROJECT OPEN VOICE’ (Production Manager). In between film work, Laina Co-Founded The Starving Artist, a non-profit artist collective where she managed and booked nationally touring musical acts for three years, and was the 2012 Director for Art Walk. In 2012, she was the lead Producer, Art Directer, and Music Supervisor for the feature film, ‘ONLY DAUGHTER,’ which premiered at Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose California, won Audience Choice Award at New York No Limits Film Festival, Best Screenplay and Best Actress at Orlando Film Festival, and Best Film, Best Performance, Best Director and Filmmaker of the Year at New Hampshire Film Festival.

As a musician, Laina is also known as Americana songwriter and performer GirlandPiano, currently recording her third album. In 2013, she was a songwriter in residence for Image Journal’s Glen Workshop in Sante Fe New Mexico, where she has also workshopped with the band Over The Rhine for several years, and has been invited to participate as a writing captain for several Soul Kitchen songwriting workshops.

Over the past three years, Laina has delivered a world-class film festival with programming and filmmakers of note for the Monadnock International Film Festival, where she is Executive Director. She is currently in development of her next feature film, set to be produced Summer, 2015.

Twitter: @MonadnockIFF | Website: www.moniff.org

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DCP FOR FILMMAKERS, POST HOUSES, SCHOOLS AND FESTIVALS: KEITH DOUGHTY, QuVIS

*** SEE THE FIRST PUBLIC SHOWING OF QuVIS OVATION II DCP PLAYER IN ACTION ***

We are absolutely thrilled to have Keith Doughty of QuVis for the first US premiere showing of the QuVIS Ovation II Digital Cinema Package (DCP) player – in action showing both 2K and 4K DCP footage created with QuVis Wraptor 3.1 within Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Media Encoder CC at BOSCPUG!

We will screen DCP examples provided by Rob Bessette of Finish Post using the Ovation II.

BRING YOUR QUESTIONS FOR KEITH!

The QuVIS Ovation II moves DCPs beyond the domain of major studios and commercial theater exhibition, into the world at large. Think Independent Filmmaking. This product features the QuVIS 2K and 4K DCP player, combined with a very capable, compact, portable computing resource.

When setting out to create a 4K DCP player, QuVIS had three main objectives:

• Use of standard off the shelf components
• Small form factor and portable
• Low cost

The result has been the creation of the smallest and most affordable 4K player on the market, less than $1,500.

QuVIS Ovation II uses Linux which has been tuned and configured to preserve the full dynamic range and fidelity offered by the DCP format.

The target audience for QuVIS Ovation II is:

• Independent film producers
• Post production houses
• Film schools
• Independent film festivals

ABOUT KEITH DOUGHTY
Keith Doughty is currently the Vice President of Sales for QuVIS Technologies, a digital cinema products company. Keith joined QuVIS in 2011 and has seen the company transition from a hardware manufacturer of high end mastering tools and playback equipment for the digital cinema industry, to that of a software company focused on reducing cost and complexity of DCP generation and playback. After growing up in South Africa and graduating from the Witwatersrand College of Mines he moved to the Boston area in 1986. Spending almost 30 years in Boston, Keith decided for a change in scenery and weather and moved to sunny Florida where the snow never falls. He is currently focused on extended the reach and assistance of QuVIS to independent producers and film schools.

Twitter: @QuvisInc | Website: www.quvis.com

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PLUS OUR BIG DIG RAFFLE!

Featuring cool filmmaker prizes you want to use on your projects –

– We are giving away Fusion 7 Studio (value $995)!

Fusion is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators. With over 25 years of development, Fusion has been used on over 1000 major Hollywood blockbuster feature films.

– We are giving away mocha Plus from Imagineer Systems (value $299)!

mocha Pro 4 Quick Look from Imagineer Systems on Vimeo.

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– We’re giving away iZotope RX 4 Standard & Advanced Complete Audio Repair – (total value $1,290)!

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– We’re giving away Rampant Design Tools (downloadable product of choice) to 2 winners (value TBA)

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– We’re giving awayThat Studio Atmospheres from THAT STUDIO!

That Studio Atmospheres – 50 custom-created atmospheres for film and TV designed to move your story forward. Hand-crafted, hand-created atmospheres composed by award winning composer Jesse James especially for That Studio and you. 

Here is the link to our tutorial how to use the product: https://vimeo.com/112603269

And the great video from HDSLR Shooter about the Atmospheres as well: https://vimeo.com/119303872

and the article: http://hdslrshooter.com/music-makes-difference-studios-atmospheres/

We’re also giving away:

– Digisuite from digiEffects – total value $299: (http://www.digieffects.com/)

– $100 in Imagine Bucks from Imagine Products – value $100: (http://imagineproducts.com/)

– $100 credit from IntelligentAsisstance.com – value $100: (http://intelligentassistance.com/)