Hello everyone! This is Chris Bové from your friendly neighborhood Avid user's group (Western New York Post-Production Group).

BUFFALO
The Next WNYPPG Group meeting is next Thursday night, November 12 at WNED 6pm-9pm. The topics on the agenda are:
1. WNYPPG update
2. Avid News and a look at Avid's new Media Composer updates (version 4.0.3 on a Mac)
3. Open Discussion on all post-production trends (Avid, Final Cut, Adobe, Audio, tapeless formats, etc.)
4. "DVD Production for Producers" -- a presentation with Brian Kreib. A must for Producers and any one who is not familiar with the process taking your show from completion to finished DVD.

Go to our website to get the details... WNYPPG.org. If you plan on attending, please RSVP to wnyppg@gmail.com. Of course if you forget to RSVP, you are still welcome… but this helps us to order the pizza!

For those first time attendees who like the meetings and are interested in continuing attendance, PLEASE remember to bring your $10.00 membership dues (unless you have already). That lasts until the end of calendar year and basically just pays for all the food, drinks.


ROCHESTER
For those who came out to the last meeting a couple weeks ago in Rochester, we hope you had a great time. It was an excellent turn-out! We had great round table discussions with Adam Kranitz from Avid (thanks so much Adam!); we discussed methods of designing video elements for and delivering to the internet; and we had a wonderfully detailed walk-through by Andrew Croucher of WXXI of the process by which audio runs through the Pro-Tools environment.

Many thanks to WXXI's Fran Lipani, Joanne Gordon and the rest of the WXXI staff for helping us to host our first Rochester event. Then next Rochester meeting will be some time in February, and possibly held at Monroe Community College. We are planning on having presentations on:
1. After Effects
2. Editing Workflows
(Final agenda will be determined as we get closer to the date.)

For that meeting we ask you bring $10.00. for a membership fee. That enrolls you for an entire year of membership and basically covers our cost of the food and maintaining the website.

SYRACUSE:

It is on our agenda to begin these user group meetings in Syracuse. Our first approach will be to their PBS station to host it. If you have any alternative ideas, please reply this post.

IN GENERAL

We hope to see all of you at your next meeting. In the meantime, please visit our YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/wnyppg and view all the tutorials there. Also, post comments, questions and suggestions for the next meeting!

But most importantly, I HIGHLY recommend  you go here (http://www.avid.com/products/Media-Composer-Software/index.asp) and download the latest version of Media Composer. It is a 100% full version of the software you can trial for 30 days. No more restrictions, you can acquaint yourself entirely with the Avid environment and deliver a final product with this download. If you have any questions about this whatsoever, please go to Avid's Gurus directly on the Avid Community here (http://community.avid.com/forums/).

Thanks!

Cordially,

Chris Bové

Editor: WNED-TV

Co-Chair: WNYPPG

Fan: Buffalo Sabres, Rochester Americans, Syracuse Crunch