EAR Professional Audio/Video in Phoenix will be on hand with Jim McGowan, District Sales Manager for Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems. They will be presenting the new AG-HPX300 P2HD camcorder & the P2/FCP workflow. Jim will also show the new HPX300 studio configuration.

Check out this link for details on the HPL300: http://www.videography.com/article/79152

When: Monday, January 25th. 6:30-7:00 (networking), 7:00-8:30 meeting.

Where: UA Media Arts Marshall Building – 845 N. Park Ave., Room 211

Holiday Cheer and Tips and Techniques will be featured at our December Meeting. An informal meeting to celebrate the holidays and share our favorite FCP secrets. Come prepared to demonstrate your favorite tip. We’ll have a rig up and running with FCP 7 so just bring your ideas and questions.

When: Monday, December 21 – 6:30-7:00 (networking), 7:00-8:30 meeting.

Where: UA Media Arts Marshall Building – 845 N. Park Ave., Room 211″

Jeff Way, AJA’s Western Region Territory Manager, is our guest speaker for November’s tucfcpug meeting. Jeff will demonstrate the multi-award winning Ki Pro tapeless high quality recording device and the IO Express, a portable cross-platform Audio/Video Interface.

AJA looks forward to meeting the Tucson Final Cut Pro User Group to discuss their products as well as get feedback and input on future solutions.

As a special offering Jeff will raffle off one AJA IO Express, a $1000 value!

When: November 16 – 6:30-7:00 (networking), 7:00-8:30 meeting.

Where: UA Media Arts Marshall Building – 845 N. Park Ave., Room 211

We are very happy to announce that Stephanie Joyce of SmartSound (www.smartsound.com) will be our guest speaker for October’s meeting. Stephanie will show us the new Final Cut Pro/Sonicfire Pro music plug-in. This plug-in turns scoring markers into fully produced and edited music for Final Cut Pro projects. This is a brand-new and powerful tool for FCP users!

There will be a raffle in which one winner will go home with a full version of SmartSound with the FCP Plug-in and two albums of SmartSound music, a value of $149.00.

When: October 19 – 6:30-7:00 (networking), 7:00-8:30 meeting
Where: UA Media Arts Marshall Building – 845 N. Park Ave., Room 211

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a GREAT summer. The next meeting of the Tucson Final Cut User Group is going to be really exciting:

Join NVT Digital of Arizona, JVC Professional Products, and Apple for a presentation about the new JVC GY-HM100 and GY-HM700 solid state cameras!

These cameras were designed with Apple to record natively in the .MOV format for drag-and-drop editing with Final Cut Pro! These cameras also record in .MP4 format, which is the XDCAM EX format, so can work directly with Avid, Adobe Premiere, and GV Edius as well. You have a choice of ergonomic shoulder-mount or hand-held cameras, and both allow you to record 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, in up to 35MBps! Also these cameras use inexpensive SDHC card media, so save you loads in media costs. The talk will be given at the September Meeting of the Tucson AZ Final Cut User Group, and non-members are welcome. You will get a chance to see the cameras in person there and ask questions too. There will even be an Apple representative to help answer any Apple questions about using Final Cut Pro with JVC’s new cameras, and we’ll give you highlights about the newest Apple FCP software.

WHEN: Sept 21 – 6:30 to 8:30
WHERE: UA Media Arts Marshall Building – 845 N. Park Avenue, Room 211