Agenda Set For Third Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet

Los Angeles CA / Boston MA – The agenda has now been set for the Third Annual FCPUG Amsterdam SuperMeet to be held Sunday, September 12, 2010 at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in the heart of Amsterdam during IBC week. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at the SuperMeet web site. Doors open at 16:30

Scheduled to appear will be Joran Maaswinkel, Senior Editor of Bake Post will join Autodesk’s Grant Kay to help demystify Smoke for Mac OSX. Grant will have his bag of tips and tricks with examples that range from pulling the impossible key to using 3D compositing tools to take your motion graphics to the next level. Grant and Joran will also show the latest in stereoscopic 3D editorial finishing – an out-of-the-box feature in Smoke.

Warren Eagles, a color artist for more than 20 years on movies such as “The Great Raid” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” as well as TV series such as “Rush,” will give an in-depth look and demo at the new DaVinci Resolve for Mac, including workflow demos within Final Cut Pro.”

Max Burgess, Offline/Online Editor at SpliceTV, one of the leading creative editors in London will showcase some incredible work edited on Avid Media Composer and shot with the RED Digital Cinema camera; Max will demonstrate some of the new features in Media Composer 5 and how these can benefit any editor on any platform; Avid will in turn demonstrate complete integrated workflow with Final Cut Pro.

The entire 2nd half of the show will be devoted to Final Cut Studio Tips & Tricks. Apple Master Trainer Abba Shapiro will host and will share numerous FCP tips and tricks, many of which you do not know and will not see unless you are at the SuperMeet. Abba will be joined on stage by the UK’s Simon Walker, Russia’s Andrei Nazarov and Germany’s Andrea Rud.

Simon Walker will show how to animate text in Motion and FCP in just 10 minutes. Simon will be showing techniques in Motion that editors can use to create graphical sequences and flourishes, but to make them quickly, whilst also avoiding those evil keyframes!

Editor Andrei Nazarov who will also show off more FCS solutions.

Andrea Rud, a Final Cut Pro Trainer, with more than 22 years editing experience, will show amazing time-saving technique for Editors to sync cameras and audio files in Final Cut Pro. She will demonstrate two workflows, with SD and Red cam material.

In addition there will be a show and tell from a local Netherlands filmmaker, and of course the “World Famous Raffle,” where over Euro40,000 (Euros) worth of valuable prizes will be handed out to dozens of lucky winners.

Doors will open at 16:30 with the SuperMeet Digital Showcase featuring over 20 software and hardware developers including Autodesk, Blackmagic Design, Avid, Adobe, Foundry, Genarts, Vimeo, RE:Vision Effects, Pond 5, G-Tech, Matrox, Noise Industries, CoreMelt, Pond 5, Singular Software, GET, Red Giant Software and many others.

As part of the Digital Showcase, there will be the inaugural “Open Screen Theater.” Filmmakers and digital content creators wanting to “Get Seen” will have a 10 minute chance to do so in an informal, collaborative setting. Those who are shooting with DSLRS, camcorders, iPhones or anything that makes video, and who want to screen their content, can just show up and sign up, get up and show off. Sign-ups begin at 16:30 when the doors open and are open only to ticket holders.

Tickets are only Euro15.00 each (includes 2 raffle tickets) for Adults and Euro10.00 for students and are on sale online only. It will be Euro20.00 each at the door. Food, (snacks) and cash bars will be available throughout the evening. To purchase tickets and for complete details on the SuperMeet including a current list of raffle prizes and details on Open Screen Theater, visit the SuperMeet web site.

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SuperMeets are gatherings of Final Cut Studio, Adobe, Avid editors, gurus and digital filmmakers from within the US, Europe and the world over who use or want to learn to use Macintosh-based workflows and solutions such as Apple’s Final Cut Studio suite of applications, most importantly Final Cut Pro. SuperMeets are held annually in San Francisco, Austin, Las Vegas, Amsterdam, London and Boston. The SuperMeet agenda usually includes demos of new products, digital video tips and tricks and filmmaker show and tells, including a SuperMeet Digital Showcase featuring hardware and software developers providing workflow solutions for digital filmmakers and content creators. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Best of Smartphone Experts, 5 Sept 2010

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The Creeps! Free on 9/5

$1.99→FREE

The Creeps is back for free again!  This time with iOS 4 support and bonus levels.  Play one of the best tower defense games in the App Store. Toy blasters, flashlights, glue bottles and boomerangs are your weapons. You can even summon giant spiders or UFO’s slow the enemies in their run. Tons of levels and hours of gameplay should have you hooked for days!

App Store Score: 4-stars with 12250 Votes

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AcChen HD 1.0 – An Addicting, Find the Matching Tile, Board Game

Flensburg, Germany – Stefan Preuss today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of AcChen for Apple’s revolutionary iPad device. AcChen HD is a simple to learn, arcade style ‘find the matching tile’ type of game. The easy rules and the ‘hot seat’ mode makes AcChen a great game for all ages and the whole family. Play 60 different maps and 12 bonus level. Play in a single player campaign or compete with a friend in Battle Mode. Battle Mode is a 3 minute ‘hot seat’ multi player game mode.

Some of the features of AcChen are:
* Fast arcade style ‘find the matching tile’ game
* Multi player ‘hot seat’ mode
* 60 levels
* 12 bonus maps (fill the board in 3 minutes instead of clearing it)
* Various bonus items
* Multitouch support (use two fingers to improve your speed)
* Global high score list
* Eight unlock-able achievements

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 12.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
AcChen for iPad 1.0 is only $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Stefan Preuss started coding games back in 1987. After developing on many different platforms including Atari 800, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Nintendo DS, the Web. The current focus is on iOS devices. Copyright (C) 2010 Stefan Preuss. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

NFL 2011 Review: Second String

It’s football season, and App Store heavyweight Gameloft has released NFL 2011, the update to last year’s popular title. While the game shows improvements over last year’s already playable app, NFL 2011 is still the lesser of the Football apps out there.

As is typical for Gameloft, production values are high.  The players move realistically; uniforms are authentic; the turf is nicely textured; menu and selection screens are slick and blue.  The audio track is pretty standard, with the expected grunts and whistles and a generic – very generic – announcer. One thing I really liked about the audio was the ability to play songs from your iPod without switching off incidental sounds, something the other big NFL game on the iPhone, Madden 11, lacked.

In practice, it’s a decently playable game. On offense, you generally do one of three things: choose a receiver, control the receiver, or run the ball. Like in most football games nowadays, you can choose a call from the playbook or create your own original hot routes before play. Throwing the ball is a simple tap gesture, and receivers, in keeping with other football games, are coded red, yellow, or green to indicate how open they are. There’s nothing here that you won’t find on Madden 11.

As is common with these sorts of games, defense is a mixed bag. You have control over tackle strength, but oddly, no ability to control pass blocking. It’s really far easier to just let the computer control defense. Call a play, then sit back and watch it unfold. This isn’t terrible, but after experiencing some of the things that Madden 11 offered – things like the Total Control feature, or even a button for pass blocking — it feels a bit underdeveloped.

If it seems like I’m mentioning Madden 11 a lot, that’s because it’s impossible to ignore that title when reviewing this one. They’re so similar in so many ways. Heck, it’s Gameloft’s stock in trade – creating ciphers for popular console games.  Unfortunately for them, EA has successfully brought Madden to the iPhone, so the lesser nature of the Gameloft imitation really glares here.  It lacks the depth of control and play that Madden 11 offers. Last year, when Gameloft’s NFL 2010 was the only game in town, that wasn’t a big deal. Now that we’ve seen such features implemented on the iPhone, it’s hard not to notice.

I do think it’s the more causal footballer’s game, however, because the game is very easy to play. Even on harder levels, you’ll be playing games with scores in the 40s and 50s, on both sides of the gridiron. While I love scoring as much as the next guy, sometimes I wish these games played out a little more like real football. Sometimes, games DO get decided by a score of 3-0! But here, If you can connect a pass or break your runner off the line, there’s a very good chance you’re going all the way. And the AI always seems to make the impossible play when they need to to keep the score close. Can you say “rubber band”?

In the end, NFL 2011 is playable enough, but true football fans are going to go for Madden 11 first. They’ll recognize the name, and in the end they’ll get more football bang for their buck. That leaves NFL 2011 as the choice for those who don’t want to pay that premium price, those who want a ridiculously easy play experience, and those who, for whatever reason, don’t like the Madden franchise. And that doesn’t strike me as a very large audience.

Our Score: 3/5

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