April 4th, 2005
[ business / artist works /Jeff Kryvicky / MAP/ZONE / TWIXTOR 4.5 ]

Business

Minutes and Review of the March meeting.
Chat about Hacking AE 6.5 preferences.
Slhouette Roto Noe shipping

Artist's Works:
The following artists showed their works at the April Meeting.

Nicholas D. Kent
no2spam@optonline.net
www.technopopinfo/ndkent

Todd Sines
sines@scale.gs
www.scale.gs

Featured Artist:

Jeff Kryvicky: president, Collider, and CO-host of NYCmg.org

"The Final Cut" starring Robin Williams
Collider did all the design and graphics for the monitors used on the set and design and production for both "ON SET PLAYBACK" and "POST PRODUCTION".

Jeff ran through a few clips from the film and showed some of the project files he used to make it all happen, and briefly talked about some of the technical aspects of film production and working remotely as the film was shot in Canada

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SOFTWARE DEMO:

Allegorithmic

Sebastien Deguy,CEO of Allegorithmic:

Allegorithmic is a new developer with a fresh take on creating motion graphics.
Its two plug-ins, MaP Time and MaP Zone, are based on the patented FX Maps technology offering a revolutionary feature: the ability to interactively edit a procedural map, letting you completely control even the most complex textures and effects. With MaP Time, animate all the 450+ provided presets, create your own and utilize them directly into Adobe After Effect or Discreet Combustion to create never-seen motion graphics and visual effects.

There is be a 20% discount for all members via a special code. Existing Members will get this code via email. New members can attain the code by joining NYCmg.org and emailing us.

Re:Vision Effects Twixtor:

Presenter: Shin Kurokawa - RE:Vision Effects, consultant
Shin's website: Maximum Output Design, a producer, engineer and R&D consultant for production studios and software companies in America and Asia.

Twixtor is RE:Vision popular retiming program. Twixtor 4.5 introduces a complete rewrite of its tracking Twixtor now includes a smart blending option for pans and zooms to prevent inappropriate streaking or weird artifacts at frame borders. Twixtor also adds an option to automatically enhance dark imagery or imagery with poorly defined edges. Twixtor 4.5 is currently available for After Effects, Combustion, Final Cut Pro and Premiere.
For more detailed info please click here.

There was a 20% discount for members who attend the meeting.
In addition, we'll be raffled off a copy of Twixtor during the presentation.

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[ business / artist works /Jeff Kryvicky / MAP/ZONE / TWIXTOR 4.5 ]