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Finish Your Film! Presented by AJA Systems

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)

New York, United States

Finish Your Film! Presented by AJA Systems

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This ticket includes 3 free door prize raffle tickets for our monthly meeting raffle, entry into the Helen Mills theater, and light food, water. All sales are non-refundable.
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Event Details

MoPictive Monthly Meetings continues in our new venue: the Helen Mills Screening room - featuring 130 stadium-style seats, with a projection booth, 5.1 surround system, free food and soda, and an opportunity to meet and network with a wide range of New York City's best and brightest filmmakers. 

Doors open: 6:00pm
Meeting starts: 6:30pm

If you missed it, Show Notes from February's meeting can be found here.


March Theme: Finishing Your Film
Between picture lock and your final compression for delivery lies: Finishing.

This month:

• Philip Hodgetts: Reveals his latest, super-secret software for FCP

• Autodesk's Smoke on Mac OS X finishing system

Dolby Demystified with veteran mixer 
Peter Levin

• MoPictive Short Film Series: (2) short films by filmmaker Bat-Sheva Guez.

• Monthly Door Prize Raffle

Media Tracking in Final Cut Pro

Philip Hodgetts will reveal the first public viewing of his new super-secret software tool from Intelligent Assistance. It will revolutionize media tracking in Final Cut Pro.

More details on the product will be updated when the embargo is lifted, so stay tuned!

  • Philip Hodgetts is an expert and consultant in digital production and post-production workflows, encoding, web applications, digital delivery and technology innovation. He is the President and CEO of Open Television Network, a company dedicated to making "podcasting" a professional service.


Smoke on a Mac Demo

Previously unavailable at under $80,000, Autodesk has released a “roll your own” version of its non-linear finishing platform Smoke for Mac OS X.

  • Join Scott Malkie (blogger, post production supervisor, Smoke / Flame artist) as he takes us through the unique toolset of Smoke and helps us understand how Smoke can be used in a Final Cut Studio workflow as the ‘Hero Room’. And why a Final Cut Studio production might want to finish their projects on Smoke.
  • Special thanks to Brett Yager and VCA Fusion for configuring and providing the hardware/software for the demo!

Demystifying Dolby Deliverables

Dolby 5.1 Surround, Dolby ProLogic, Dolby E, RtLt, Split Stems – There are a multitude of ways to produce and deliver Dolby Surround Sound for DVD, BluRay, or any of the professional tape stocks.

  • Veteran Mixer Peter Levin (Splash Studios) helps us navigate the waters of Dolby deliverables. The next time a client (or your mixer) asks if you should get an LtRt with the Dolby E fold-down, you’ll be able to answer intelligently and with authority.

MoPictive Shorts March Selection

This month we’ve selected two shorts by filmmaker Bat-Sheva Guez.

  • morning is a musical piece starring two dancers from everything smaller.
  • whorl was shot in a single day while Bat-Sheva was on vacation in Barcelona, Spain. It is a tale about a traveler who is lost forever in the labyrinth of the old Bari Goti.

Door Prize Raffle

As always, we continue our monthly door prize raffle of a basket of goodies donated to us from our favorite vendors:

When & Where



Helen Mills Theater
137 West 26th Street
New York, 10001

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)


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  News and Updates
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

2 Updates: No "Audio for Editors" this month. We've added a special Philipp Hodgetts presentation.