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Past AVID Toronto Users' Group Meetings:Tuesday, June 8, 2010The Royal Theatre Share the experience Toronto Avid Users’ Group | June Meeting Tuesday, June 8, 2010 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Royal - 608 College St. + Clinton (West of Bathurst) 6:30 – 7:00 pm | Networking 7:00 – 7:30 pm | Media Composer Version 5 Tease 7:30 – 9:00 pm | Workflow and Challenges of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Please register at http://atug.ca/register.asp?event=royal100608 There will be a draw for some limited edition Avid swag and a six month subscription to A.L.E.X. (Avid Learning Excellerator) valued at over $199 USD! http://shop.avid.com/store/product.do?product=306755606242128 Tickets will be 1 for $2 or 3 for $5. Workflow and Challenges of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics For Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, broadcasting the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games was an exercise in large numbers. 17 days. 2450 hours of programming. 12 TV channels 20 Radio stations 22 languages. 1400+ staff. 7 Production Control Rooms, 6 studios, 15 crews. 21 edit suites and more than 30 editors. Of the many Production, Operations and Engineering groups that were responsible for executing the Olympic broadcast package, the Post Production group had one of the longest running and most intricate involvements. Join Matt Sherman, Michael Nunan and Roy Janke for a behind-the-scenes look at Post Production for the first Olympic Winter Games to be presented in 100% HD and 5.1 Surround. Matt Sherman: Sr. Mgr. CTV Creative Technology Systems Matt and his team coordinated the physical design and build of all graphic design, and Avid editing systems used in the Olympics. A member of the senior engineering management group that designed the complex file transfer workflow between all production equipment used at the Games to and from servers, remote sites, edit suites, graphic design, and control rooms. Michael Nunan: CTV Post Sound Supervisor From Infrastructure development and Training, to Workflow, Sound Design and Music Production – Michael was involved in virtually every aspect of the Games with regard to Sound. He’ll share with us a few thoughts about large-scale 5.1 Production as it relates to life in the Edit Suite. Roy Janke: Senior Editor at CTV As part of the advanced deployment of operations staff on the ground in Vancouver, Roy was tasked with ensuring that all the Avid Media Composer DX systems were fully operational prior to the arrival of the remaining contingent of Avid editors. You’ll find his observations of working in such a high profile, high pressure, highly collaborative environment while dealing with multiple new technologies and workflows to be intriguing. Open to all ATUG Members and Guests Wednesday, December 9, 2009The Royal Cinema Media Composer 4.0 introduces major new features which we will demonstrate and answer questions about. These include: · Mix and match frame rates, formats and resolutions in the same timeline · Instantly access and edit GFCAM 100 Mb-formatted media through AMA · Create low-res proxies of archived HD 720p media for faster reviewing and retrieval · Encode and deliver final masters in Panasonic AVC-Intra format · Be more creative and productive with new updates to the included Production Suite · Capture and preserve ancillary and captioning data on Nitris DX and Mojo DX systems · View stereoscopic material side-by-side for a more natural line of sight · Get more monitor choices for viewing stereoscopic media · View & monitor 16 audio tracks at a time · Work with AAF files larger than 2 GB · Get more levels of undo · Work with complex scenes with multi-camera editing improvements · Auto-zoom for motion tracking and stabilization · Move clips without having to rebuild transitions with transition preservation Please feel free to stay for the screening of "A Hard Name" at 9:30pm. Open to all ATUG Members and guests Wednesday, May 27, 2009Dynamix Professional Video Systems Please join us… May 27th – Dynamix invites you to our Annual Post NAB Open House! Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Time: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm Location: Dynamix Professional Video Systems 100 Leek Crescent, Suite 1 Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3E6 RSVP to Anna by May 22 Register online at: www.dynamix.ca Email: anna@dynamix.ca Phone: 905.882.4000 Monday, May 11, 2009The Royal Theatre Schedule of Events: 6:30 – 7:00 pm | Networking 7:00 – 7:30 pm | “Avid NAB 09 Recap” Jeff Simpson Avid Jeff will share all the exciting news from Avid at last month’s National Association of Broadcaster’s convention in Vegas. If you haven’t noticed Avid has a new logo and a new corporate direction. 7:30 – 8:15 pm | “Avid Media Composer Version 3.5” Don Kinzinger Dynamix Professional Video Systems We’ll have all the gear to demonstrate the Sony HDCAM-EX workflow announced at NAB. Don will show how easy and fast it is to go straight from an EX camera directly onto the Avid timeline. Don will also point out some other great new features of the Version 3.5 release. 8:15 – 9:15 pm | “Tips & Techniques: Avid FX” Michael Burshtyn PPD-Post Producers Digital Ltd. Avid FX is a powerful plug-in based on the very popular Boris Red package. Michael will show how Avid FX is often an efficient and powerful way of handling compositing and effects work within the avid environment. Avid FX also provides tools for creative titling and manipulating real 3D objects. Don’t miss this informative meeting Register now! www.atug.ca/register.asp?event=royal051109 Open to all ATUG Members and guests (non-registered guests welcome) Monday, March 23, 2009The Royal Cinema We’re assembling an amazing group of very talented editors to discuss the challenges of editing daily news. Moderator: Vish Gajadhar: Avid Production Editor for CBC “The National” and CBC News Specials... Ed MacDonald: Editor for CBC News Morning and has also worked extensively on “The National”. His experience includes editing in NYC during 9-11 and in Sri Lanka during the Tsunami... Sat Nandlall: Field camera/news editor has worked all over the world including Kandahar, Afghanistan. He has also worked in troubled countries in Africa... Check www.atug.ca for other editors as they are announced... Don’t miss this informative meeting Register now! http://www.atug.ca/register.asp?event=royal032309 Wednesday, February 18, 2009The Royal Theatre Schedule of Events: 6:30 – 7:00 pm | Networking 7:00 – 8:00 pm | "The future of AVID" talk and discussion with Bill Roberts, Director of Market Solutions – Post Production for AVID 8:00 – 9:00 pm | "Tips, Tricks and Techniques" with Peter Hordylan 9:00 pm | Nominations and free raffle The evening will feature: Bill Roberts, Director of Market Solutions – Post Production for AVID, will host a discussion about where AVID Technology is heading in the next 36 months. As well he will be taking your feedback to improve the current and future products. So this is your chance to make recommendations and suggestions to the guy who can implement them. Tips, Tricks and Techniques: AVID Guru Peter Hordylan will showcase overlooked and underutilized tools within AVID. Tools to be demonstrated will include- advanced motion effects, BCC Glow (Boris), plus other Boris effects, scratch removal, and HD Symphony secondary colour correction. We will also be taking nominations for the ATUG executive committee. Free Raffle for AVID swag! Open to all ATUG Members and guests (non-registered guests welcome) Thursday, November 27, 2008The Royal Theatre Secrets of Documentary EditingSchedule of Events:6:30 – 7:00 pm | Networking 7:00 – 9:00 pm | “Secrets of Documentary Editing” Free registration required Monday, October 27, 2008Regent Theatre Are you an editor or assistant looking for work or looking to change positions? Then this meeting is for you. Join our discussion as recent Sheridan College Grad Jay Brant interviews the interviewers and gets insights on how broadcasters and post production facilities look for and hire new people. Are you looking to hire a new editor or assistant? Then you won’t want to miss this opportunity to hear how others find and hire their post production teams. Moderator: Jay Brant - Freelance Assistant editor - Panel: Peter Tanner Post Production Manager CTV / MTV 299 Queen St W : Julia Marsh Director of Business Development Triangle Studios : Dave Rowe Post Production Manager CTV Operations : Jerry Borys Manager of Editing CBC News Monday, April 7, 2008The Royal Theatre Avid Technologies New Direction & Panel Discussions Date: Monday April 7, 2008 Join us Monday April 7th at 6:00 pm for an "Evening of Editing" at The Royal Theatre (608 College (at Clinton St.), Toronto. We will be giving away 3 copies of AVID XPRESS PRO plus many other generous prizes. You must register to attend this event. Scheduled Events: 6:00 pm. Doors open, meet and greet. 7:00 pm. AVID TECHNOLOGY. What's up with AVID? Find out as Avid Technologies sends Senior staff from Tewksbury to discuss and answer questions on their new products and direction. 8:00 pm. Canadian Cinema Editors Association (CCEA) ATUG proudly welcomes Paul Winestock, Paul Day & Roger Mattiussi of the Canadian Cinema Editors Association. If you have heard of A.C.E than welcome the creators of their Canadian counterpart the CCEA. The new professional editor association will be on hand to discuss the preservation of editing as an artform. 9:00 pm Comedy Panel Currently Karl Dipelino, director & editor of "Pigs" has agreed to participate on the panel. 10:00 pm Raffle Film screening of "Pigs" Registration is now open: www.atug.ca/register.asp?event=royal040708 Thursday, January 24, 2008CTV South (formally CHUM) YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THIS EVENT Join the Toronto Avid Users Group Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 6:30 pm for an interesting, informative and for the 1st time ever….hands on workshop meeting. For our 1st meeting of the year we are delighted to have Eric Gardner from Channel Wolves representing Boris FX, demonstrating BCC 5 AVX & Boris Blue 2 on a Media Composer. Following Eric’s demo, attendees will have an opportunity to “get their hands dirty” on several workstations sponsored by Dynamix and apply what they’ve learned about Boris on sample footage. If you need help or have questions using the BCC plug-ins shipped with your AVID, this is the meeting for you! For security reasons you must register to attend this event. To Register please follow this link: www.atug.ca/register.asp?event=citytv012408 Thursday, October 25, 2007CityTV Bravo Rehearsal Circle Thursday October 25th on your calendar as the next ATUG meeting takes place in the Bravo Studio of the CTV owned CHUM city building at 6:30 pm. The first half of the meeting will be dedicated to a PANEL discussion on Dramatic Editing featuring some of our city's greatest talents, followed by a work flow demonstration of XD CAM HD on an Avid Symphony. Registration is required to attend this event Thursday, October 4, 2007Liberty Grand Avid: 20 Years of Pure Passion! Enjoy drinks and hors d'oeuvres at the Liberty Grand and help us celebrate 20 years of cutting-edge technology. Mix it up with friends, colleagues, and Avid experts while you experience the tools that are hotter than ever:
Plus meet the new ATUG (Avid Toronto Users Group) president, Peter Hordylan. Don't hold back, register today! Space is limited. Visit www.avid.com/avidtown/ to register or for more information. Registration opens at 5:30pm; Avid presentation begins promptly at 7pm. Wednesday, May 23, 2007Toronto Star Media Group - Shop TV Share the experience Toronto Avid User Group | May meeting Join the Toronto Avid Users Group Wednesday, May 23, 2006 at 6:00 PM for interesting and informative evening. Schedule of Events: 6:00 – 6:30 pm | Networking Come early to network and enjoy some refreshments with other editors and video professionals 6:30 – 7:30 | Mac-Intel Architecture Glen Seaman of Avid Technology will present the new features in Media Composer® and Avid Xpress Pro systems with Intel-based Mac compatibility. See how this powerful upgrade for the Mac platform provides workflow efficiencies and creative control that exceed what you can get with other editing systems. 7:30 – 8:30 | Navigating the Avid Website Kevin Micalizzi, Web Project Manager for Avid Technology Inc. will present the ins and outs of the expansive Avid website. Learn how to navigate Avid’s website to easily find what you need and what’s new. Find places to go for training and assistance and give your feedback. 8:30 – 9:00 | Q & A and Raffle Wednesday, Aril 5, 2007 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Toronto Star Media Group – Shop TV 1 Yonge Street (at Queen Quay) 3rd floor meeting room (416) 869-4966 Soft Drinks and refreshments will be served All members and guests are welcome Monday, January 15, 2007The Royal Cinema Share the experience Toronto Avid User Group | January meeting Join the Toronto Avid Users Group Monday, January 15, 2007 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Royal 608 College St. + Clinton (West of Bathurst) 416 534 5252 Schedule of Events: 6:00 – 6:30 pm | Networking 6:30 – 6:45 pm | TheatreD Digital’s new landmark cinema! TheatreD Digital partner John Hazen will welcome us to their newly renovated Hi-Definition theatre mixing environment “The Royal”. During the day this is a state-of-the-art post audio mixing stage with Toronto’s first dual operator ICON system while at night it continues to serve as it has since 1939 as one of Toronto’s premier independent movie houses. John will be on hand through out the evening to lend his extensive post audio knowledge to the evening’s agenda. 6:45 – 8:15 pm | 5.1 the reality of delivering audio for HDTV, from Media-Composer to Pro Tools! Using HDTV sessions from CTV, this presentation will show in Media Composer and Pro Tools 7.3 how Avid editors should tackle, organize and track sound for HD production. Advice for HD audio will expose today’s geography of current tools, options and limitations, and how to prepare for acquisition, multi-channel formats, mixing, exchange, delivery and shelf life. Anybody who’s wondered how to best prep for audio, and keep things flowing in the process (and clients happy), will benefit from this presentation. The new audio buzz words for broadcasters include: 24p frame rate conversions, discrete audio, Dolby-E, HDCAM-SR, Dialnorm, and more. How do these new audio requirements combine with the old, how do they affect editors and what do we need to do differently in our workflow to accommodate these changing audio post demands? Mike Nunan is Post Sound Supervisor for CTV and Luc Bourgeois Senior Product Specialist with Digidesign will team up to address these multi-platform, cross-production issues that flow from the shoot until the final mix. 8:15 – 9:00 pm | Music for Dummies How often are you asked to find great music, edit it down to length and have a hard start and end to the track? Stephanie Joyce from SmartSound will be in the house to show us how easy that can be with their NEW release: award-winning Sonicfire Pro 4 software with Mood Mapping. That's right, Mood Mapping... Using Sonicfire Pro 4, you can find any style of royalty-free professional-quality music, automatically cut it to ANY length with a real beginning and button ending, pick from a full list of different musical arrangements and now with Mood Mapping, you have full control over every instrument! It's every video editors new secret weapon. Join us and see for yourself. For more info: http://smartsound.com This meeting is hosted by TheatreD Digital and sponsored jointly by Digidesign and SmartSound. Refreshments and soft drinks will be served Please register on www.atug.ca to let us know you’re planning to attend. http://www.atug.ca/register.asp?event=theatred011506 Don’t forget to check the help wanted postings on www.atug.ca if you’re looking for a new challenge. Wednesday, November 29, 2006CHUM – Bravo Rehearsal Hall Share the ExperienceToronto Avid User Group | November meeting Do to limited capacity in the Chum/City Environment, we regret to inform anyone who has not registered for this event that the meeting is full. To those that have registered, we encourage you to please attend. If you don't, it's a space another member of ATUG could have used.Join the Toronto Avid Users Group Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 6:00 PM for interesting and informative evening. Schedule of Events: On October 2, 2006 CHUM Television started daily programming in HD. CityTV News @6 and 11, BT-Breakfast Television and CityLine are all now broadcast in Full 1080i on CityHD. We’ll see their new HD studio and discover the fastest field to edit to air system with their tapeless workflow. Learn about the challenges CityTV engineers faced with the transition. We’ll examine how by using disk based IMX 30 wide screen cameras from Ikegami the editors at CHUM can instantly injest images directly into their Avid Adrenaline systems by using native MXF media files. Tours of the CHUM environment will be available at the end of the meeting. Wednesday, November 29, 2006 This meeting is sponsored jointly by Applied Electronics, Dynamix Professional Video Systems and Avid Technology. Refreshments and soft drinks will be served Don’t forget to check the help wanted postings on www.atug.ca if you’re looking for a new challenge. Tuesday, June 20, 2006Bell ExpressVu Tuesday June 20, 2006 Avid NAB Update There were lots of product announcements at this year’s NAB convention in Las Vegas. If you did get a chance to see them in person we’ll fill you in on the all highlights. For those who have Unity systems there are major improvements coming which will help you integrate non-avid products into your post-production workflow! Avid Symphony Nitris – Motion Tracking The new motion tracker in Symphony Nitris has the power to do multi-point tracking including off screen tracking and provides for rock-solid stabilization of shaky footage. We’ll have a full demonstration on motion tracking and we’ll also show off some of the other upgrades in Symphony’s latest release. If you’ve ever tried to do motion tracking you won’t want to miss this presentation! If you haven’t seen the facilities at Bell ExpressVu you’ll want to come to the meeting just to check out their environment! All members and guests are invited. Refreshments will be served. Special thanks to Dynamix Professional Video Systems and Avid for their technical support and to Bell ExpressVu for hosting and sponsoring our event. Wednesday, April 5, 2006Toronto Star Media Group Topics Covered:
A copy of the "Keep Your Avid Happy" by Alex Andruszkiw is online here: www.atug.ca/happyavid/ Thursday, February 9, 2006TV Ontario Share The Experience Join the Toronto Avid Users Group Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 6:00 PM for an informative product demonstration and tour of the TVO Post Production facilitySchedule of Events: 6:00 – 6:30 pm | Networking 6:30 – 7:30 pm | HDV and the HDV workflow Glen Seaman, Senior Applications Editor from Avid Technology will demonstrate Avid’s Xpress Pro HD and share his perspective on HDV and the HDV editing workflow. 7:30 – 8:30 pm | Avid Liquid Thursday, December 1, 2005Toronto Star Media Group Come join the Avid Toronto User Group for their December Meeting. Mingle with your colleagues, enjoy some festive refreshments, learn about new technologies, and have a chance to win one of our exciting door prizes. Schedule of Events: 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Networking Barry Fairhurst of Avid Canada will present a brief overview of Avid’s purchase of Pinnacle Systems and how it will impact Avid Users. Barry will also present a case study for the new storage solution, Avid ISIS 7:30 pm – 8:55 pm Avid Marquee 3D Titles Mike Hale of Avid Technology will demonstrate the awesome power of the Avid Marquee Title Tool available on Avid Adrenaline and Avid Symphony. You will learn the steps to create exciting dynamic 3D titles within Avid! 8:55 pm – 9:00 pm Door Prize RAFFLE All ATUG members and guests are invited. Refreshments and soft drinks will be served. Thursday, June 23, 2005Toronto Star Television - Shop TV Over the years Avid editors have been familiar with terms like AVR, OMF, Meridien and now we need to embrace the new terminology and technology of High Definition editing. As editors we will all be working with HD projects in the near future if we aren't already, this meeting will help explain the new terminology and technology so that we're ready to face the HD challenge. 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm - Networking We'll show how this HD Codec will enable editors to work in the HD environment without the need for huge media storage drives while still providing gorgeous quality and amazing efficiency. 7:15 pm - 8:50 pm - Avid Symphony Nitris HD This will be the first appearance in Canada of the new Avid Symphony Nitris HD! We'll take an in-depth look at this new product which includes:
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm Door Prize RAFFLE Come out to the meeting to enjoy our refreshments, catch up with colleagues, learn about new technologies and have a chance to win one of our exciting door prizes. Special thanks to Dynamix Professional Video Systems and Avid for their sponsorship and technical support and to Torstar Media Group for hosting our event. Tuesday, January 18, 2005Toronto Star Avid Toronto User’s Group Meeting Tues. Jan. 18th 2005 Happy New Year to all, we’ve got an exciting 1st meeting lined up and we hope to see you on Tuesday night! Selling Yourself: We’ve assembled a panel of Avid Facility owner/managers and a panel of editors to discuss what the work environment is like for staff, contract and freelance editors in various facilities. We’ll share with you tips about how to find work, what experience is required, what typical wages are and how to market yourself. We’ll also look at a couple of DVD demo reels to see what the current editor reels look like. Avid Certified User Program (ACU): Didier Kennel from Sheridan College will be on hand to explain Avid’s new ACU program and to announce that Sheridan will now be offering ACSR recertification. ATUG.ca has a great new Freelance Editor Directory: Instead of relaxing over the holidays, Alex Andruszkiw from Dynamix took up the challenging task of writing code to enable a very high level of interactivity on our website. In addition to being able to sign up as a member of ATUG you will now be able to update your information as it changes. More importantly if you come out to ATUG meetings you will have access to our freelance editor directory where you can post your qualifications for potential employer’s to browse. We’ve also make it easier for employers to post help wanted ads in our job postings area. For a full tour of the update site and our secret access code, be sure to attend this meeting. Special thanks to Dynamix Professional Video Systems and Avid for sponsoring the meeting, and to Torstar for hosting our event. Next Meeting – Wednesday March 16th. 2005 - Theatre D Digital Thursday, November 25, 2004Bell ExpressVu Lorraine Grant a professional colourist will be showing us tips and techniques for colour correction. Thursday, October 14, 2004TVOntario Avid Xpress Studio! Thursday, March 4, 2004TheatreD Digital Master Audio on Avid John's extensive career has taken him through almost every possible extension of audio engineering and design since he built his first digital workstation in 1986. John has supervised and mixed dozens of film and television projects over the years. John mixed the first Dolby Digital feature in Canada in 1994 (When Night Is Falling), and has since followed that by innovating a digital media and tapeless post system, initially for use in the feature film Curtis's Charm (1995). A co-founder of TheatreD Digital, John's unique combination of audio artistry and technical vision will make for a very informative and fun evening. Wednesday, January 14, 2004Bell ExpressVu Avid & High Definition Tuesday, November 25, 2003SIM Video BorisFX RedGL Boris Red is a great solution for editors who require broadcast-quality features for titling, effects compositing and 3D directly inside their avid editing system. Red 3GL is a powerful new version of Boris and takes advantage of the Open GL Card. Doug Price from Boris will be on hand to demonstrate how RedGL integrates with Avid and how fast and easy the new interface is. Tuesday, October 28, 2003Toronto Star Television - Shop TV Need an Avid Editor? Want an Avid Assistant? Looking for work?
After a long wait Xpress PRO with MOJO has arrived and is getting rave reviews. We'll get a look at how this new editing system can fit into your post-production workflow. Handling 24P and Film Projects Jeff Krebs of Serial Digital Post will demystify 24P projects and review how to correctly digitize footage in an Xpress/Media Composer environment. If pull-down and match back are foreign terms then take notes as Jeff takes us on a digitizing 101 course for HD and Film projects. The role of Assistant Editors and Editing workflow
All members and guests are invited. Refreshments will be served. Special thanks to Dynamix Professional Video Systems and Avid for sponsoring Tuesday, July 22, 2003Sheraton Centre Hotel Special Invitation to all ATUG Members!
Chas Smith Chas Smith will be here in Toronto next Tuesday for the Avid DNA Tour www.avid.com/dnatour, which you're all invited to. After the day's events Chas has agreed to stay behind to meet with our members in an informal grass roots session to address some of your concerns. This is a very important chance for Avid Owners and Users to provide constructive ideas to head office and we encourage you to come out and share your thoughts. This event is not part of the Avid DNA Tour and only ATUG members and their guests are invited. Beer and Wine will be served. Special thanks to Paul Friedman from Avid for sponsoring the meeting. Thursday, May 22, 2003TVOntario AVID MEDIA COMPOSER ADRENALINE!
TVO AND AVID
All members and guests are invited. Refreshments will be served. Special thanks to Dynamix Professional Video Systems and Avid for sponsoring the meeting. And to TVOntario for hosting our event. |
