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The 9th Annual MediaMotion Ball (MMB) was held Monday April 24th at the Stardust Casino and Hotel Las Vegas. The event was brought to you by members of the International Media Users Group and the AE-List - totally independent, non-profit and volunteer organizations.
The MMB, now a tradition at NAB, is for media professionals who work in post production and motion graphics. Everyone is welcome. The ticket price includes a multi-course buffet meal, entry onto the prize draw and the opportunity to mix with your peers. As a special addition to this years MMB attendees saw renown inspirational speaker Michael York present his entertaining and passionate view on how to get the best not only from our businesses but ourselves as well.
Click here to see more details and a Michael York video clip or visit his website here.
Each year our generous sponsors help make the MMB possible and also provide one of the biggest NAB prize pools on offer. Contact stevegriffiths@imugonline.com for more information.
MediaMotion Ball Prize Pool was $28,023.00 - Details below
In addition to the FireMAX FireWire drive that Promax are giving away they'll also be offering 5 Inside Final Cut Pro DVDs, which include comprehensive training for the entire Final Cut Studio. Promax are also adding a SteadyTracker Ultralite, a SteadyTracker Xtreme, and a CobraCrane carrying case to the mix. Cool prizes from Promax.
RE:Vision Effects are at the MediaMotion Ball again with a great combo prize.
One winner on the night will walk away with copies of Shade/Shape, RE:Fill, Smoothkit and the newly announced RE:Vision Effects plugin RE:Map!
... and don't forget Pete and the crew will be at NAB in the Plugin pavilion near the Adobe stand.
Thanks Pete and the team at RE:Vision Effects.
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From Philip Hodgetts and Intelligent Assistance:
2 x Mastering Clips and Media
2 x Killer Titles and
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Our friends at Smartsound have just donated a copy of Sonicfire Pro 4... the first-ever music solution with "Mood Mapping™" for dynamically matching the mix and feel of music to the changing moods of any production. Built with SmartSound’s patented technology, Sonicfire Pro gives visual storytellers unprecedented control and flexibility over their music scores resulting in unlimited creative options right from their video editing workstation.
I have just started using Smartsound, and it is an amazing product and now with mood mapping, it gives me so much more flexibility. This product has a retail value of $199 and you can be eligible to win it by being at the MMB.
Our friends at AVID have jumped on the prize band wagon and offered the following prizes...
Avid Liquid Pro, retail Price $999.00 Avid Liquid Pro combines the powerful SD and HD video editor. Avid Liquid software and the Avid Liquid Pro breakout box. The Avid Liquid Pro breakout box adds analog and digital video and audio I/O as well as 1:1 and MPEG capture codecs. Avid Liquid Pro provides video editing integrated with DVD authoring from the timeline; surround sound audio processing; and amazing visual effects. PC only
Avid Xpress DV - Price $495.00 Platform: PC & MAC Avid Xpress DV is the portable, affordable, professional digital video studio. Avid Xpress DV provides over 100 customizable real-time effects, automatic expert color correction and legendary Avid media management for both the Windows and Macintosh systems. Avid Xpress DV software is designed for DV-only editors needing professional-strength editing tools and is the perfect, low-cost way to enter the Avid family of professional editing products.
From Redgiant Software some great prizes for the MMB.
2 x Magic Bullet Editors $395
2 x Instant HD (new) $99
1 x Magic Bullet Suite $795
1 x Film Fix $1295
2 x Knoll Light Factory $395
Thanks to the team at Red Giant and look out for them at the Plugin Pavilion at NAB (near Adobe).
The team from Total Training are back as MMB sponsors and considering the vastness of the Total Training product line these days, and to allow the winner to choose any training product they want...How 'bout a...
$500 Gift Certificate from Total Training, a leader in video based training. Gift Certificate can be redeemed online at Total Training for up to $500 in merchandise.
Use your gift certificate towards any of Total Training's core products including Total Training's brand new series for Adobe After Effect 7 Professional Features where you'll discover real strategies of broadcast design and how to think like a broadcaster with host Dean Velez, an Emmy award-winning broadcast designer, or towards Total Training for Final Cut Pro where visual effects guru Brian Maffitt helps you get up to speed on the leading Mac-based video editing application.
We've just heard from Ethan Ede and Dan Hatch of Promax systems that they will be returning as a major sponsor of the Media Motion Ball again this year!
Promax will be giving away a FireMax™ Firewire 400/USB 2.0 hard drive.
Beauty meets utility with the sleek and elegant new FireMax™ product line from ProMax. FireMax™ combines the performance needed for demanding applications such as video editing while looking great on the desktop. And we still test our drives for 48 hours prior to shipping - every one. With our years of experience providing reliable storage to the industry, ProMax's affordable FireMax™ products are a great investment for your business.
This Firemax drive is 160GB in size and has a value of $199.
Details can be found at Promax
Of course don't forget Promax's 11th annual Charles McConathy Digital Cafe to be held Tuesday April 25th at the Stardust...you know...the same place you are going to the Media Motion Ball the night before! You can register for the Promax event at their site linked above.
Peder Norrby from Trapcode is giving away a whole host of Trapcode prizes at the event. One suite of ALL the Trapcode plugins to a lucky winner plus individual copies of every plugin. Echospace, Shine, Particular, Starglow, 3D Stroke, Lux and Sound Keys as prizes.
Trapcode will of course also be on the show floor at NAB at the Plugin Pavilion near the Adobe Booth.
Thanks Peder - who has been a long time supporter of the MMB!
We've just heard from our friend Wes Plate of Automatic Duck that they are delighted to be a part of this great user event again this year! Automatic Duck, the world leader in timeline translation plug-ins is pleased to offer three copies of Automatic Duck's products-- the choice of the winner. Automatic Duck's plug-ins make it very easy to move timeline information between the industry's most popular desktop video applications. Each plug-in is valued at $495 US.
All the details can be found at Automatic Duck's website
Artbeats is going to give away two Artbeats collections. The first one is Film
Clutter 2 (a very popular collection with lots of versatility). Here's the
description for this collection:
All new footage of countdowns, leaders, grain, scratches, light leaks and gate artifacts. Many clips include mattes for layering over your existing footage for an incredible look! This product explores a new category we call Gate Havoc which includes threading film, de-railed and twisted film, hair-in-the-gate and the highly requested frame burn. Retail price is $599
The other collection (Glass Illusions) that Artbeats are going to give away will be debuting at NAB2006. Here's the description for this collection:
Refractions, reflections and transparency is what this product is all about.
Includes soft backgrounds that are incredibly useful without taking away
from the foreground message.
Retail price is $499 You can check all this out at Artbeats.
Blackmagic Design are giving away 3 prizes at the Ball! First up they have 2 Decklink HD Pro PCIe cards to go! If you're looking for the highest quality, with PCI Express 4 lane compatibility then the new DeckLink HD Pro PCIe model has all the features you need at an even more affordable price. DeckLink HD Pro PCIe features two HD-SDI inputs and outputs, so you can use it for normal 4:2:2 SDI or instantly switch easily to uncompressed 10 bit 4:4:4 RGB. That’s incredible quality and great for feature film work. DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 is fully dual rate and includes HD/SD-SDI in and out, combined with incredible 14 bit analog component YUV/NTSC/PAL switchable video out. It also features unbalanced AES in and out, word-clock out, reference in as well as RS-422 remote control. And just to round things off there's an HDLink up for grabs too! HDLink connects SDI video directly to any supported DVI-D based LCD computer monitor for incredible true HDTV resolution video monitoring.
Thanks to the Blackmagic Design team for their continuing support of the MMB. Look out for the Blackmagic team on the night.
We are very pleased to announce that Maxon are supporting the event and are putting up 2 copies of Cinema 4D Core for 2 lucky winners at the Media Motion Ball! CINEMA 4D offers you all you need to create highend 3D pictures and animations - right out of the box. Filled with countless high-end features, CINEMA 4D's outstanding workflow and performance make it the tool of choice for broadcast animation, motion-picture special effects, medical illustration, classroom instruction and nearly any other 3D modeling and animation application you can imagine.
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Maxon are putting up 2 copies of Cinema 4D Core for 2 lucky winners at the MMB! CINEMA 4D offers you all you need to create highend 3D pictures and animations - right out of the box. Filled with countless high-end features, CINEMA 4D's outstanding workflow and performance make it the tool of choice for any animation application you can imagine.
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MAXON Computer is the developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions. Its award-winning software has been used extensively in the film, television, science, architecture, engineering and other industries. MAXON products have been used in the production of The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Serenity, Polar Express, Hero, Van Helsing, The Flight of the Phoenix, Spiderman 2, Gladiator, Star Wars Episode II:The Attack of the Clones, Mad TV, CBS NFL, Monday Night Football, The Emmys, The WB, Fox Kids, and many more. MAXON has offices in Friedrichsdorf (Germany), Newbury Park (CA, USA), Bedford (UK) and Tokyo.
These two prizes are valued at $695 each making the total value of this prize pack $1390!! All kinds of great info can be found on the Maxon site:
Many thanks to Paul Babb, Josiah Hultgren and everyone at Maxon for their support of the Media-Motion user community!
We are also happy to report that Maxon will be well represented at the Media Motion Ball. The entire Maxon team will be there!!! This is your opportunity to rub shoulders with them and enjoy a great evening together!
The IMUG family would like to welcome a brand new sponsor with a brand new product.It's XPROVE ..... an online subscription service which streamlines the client review process . Based on needs,the service runs from 2gb of storage all the way up to 10 gb of storage.If you are lucky enough to draw the XPROVE winning ticket you will win an annual contract for 5 gigs of storage. This prize retails for $420.00 Many thanks to XPROVE and it's president Frank Capria who has been a long time IMUG fan and member.
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The IMUG would like to thank Jason, Robert, Michele and the whole gang at Toolfarm for their sponsorship of the year's Media Motion Ball event! Thanks for being so committed to supporting the user community!
Toolfarm will be presenting a $100 Gift Certificate good for anything at Toolfarm.com. Use it just like cash. Now *that's* a flexible prize! Have you looked at the Toolfarm product catalog lately? Pretty big!
Also, check out http://www.toolfarm.com for great resources like the 'Plug-In Finder' and of course the oft-updated After Effects 7 plug-in compatibility list. What a resource!
How about 2 copies of Nucleo valued at $149.95 each! Your processors will be ripping through your AE comps with a speed never before imaginable....Plus, you'll be stylin in that spankin' GridIron T-shirt that comes with it!
GridIron Nucleo for Adobe After Effects allows you to maximize the power of your multi-processor or multi-core workstation, effectively speeding up your renders and previews. Really easy to install, and even easier to use, Nucleo opens the door to high performance workflow - making it easier for you to use your time to be more creative, instead of waiting for previews and renders to finish.
Genarts are once again supporting this lists NAB event with a great prize.
One lucky person at the MediaMotion Ball will walk away with a choice of one of the Sapphire box sets:
Sapphire is one of the most comprehensive plugin collections available and some of the coolest plugins to use in AE. This is what DV had to say about them:
"Sapphire Plug-ins, with their on-screen controls and sensitivity to high production value, offer a uniquely intuitive interface and allow the user to create a high-end look in less time and with less effort."
Genarts will be at Booths SL5138J and SL1513P at NAB
Todd Prives from Genarts will once again be there on the night to draw prizes and answer any questions about Genarts. Thanks Todd and the Genarts Team!
Some great prizes from our good friends at AJA. This is the 2nd year they have supported our event with prizes.This year they are providing 3 prizes.
1 KONA LHe 10-bit Uncompressed SD/HD QuickTime Capture Card. 12-bit HD Analog Component I/O, 12-bit SD Analog Component/Composite/S-Video I/O 10-bit Hardware HD to SD Downconversion DVCProHD hardware acceleration, HDV hardware acceleration, Dynamic RT Extreme hardware acceleration, SDI or HD-SDI Input, 2 Independent SDI/HD-SDI Outputs # 2-ch Balanced XLR AES and 2-ch Balanced XLR Analog Audio I/O, 8-ch SDI Embedded Audio I/O, HD/SD Genlock and RS-422 Machine Control, Support for Final Cut Pro 5, Motion, After Effects, Combustion, and More Cables Standard, KL-Box Breakout.Retail value $1790 US MSRP
1 XENA LHe ;XENA LS supports SD capture and playback. Both products ship with AJA’s own stand-alone deck-control, playback and capture application, Machina™, and a host of powerful plug-ins for seamless integration with leading graphics and effects applications, including Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop®, Autodesk Combustion® and Eyeon Fusion®. Optimal file format support is offered in QuickTime and AVI, as well as in file-per-frame formats such as DPX, Cineon (LH/LHe), TIFF, TGA and BMP. Retail Value $1790 US MSRP
1 Io LA - RS-422 Control, 9-pin D, for machine control. Analog (10-bit A/D and D/A) video inputs/outputs: S-Video In/Out -Composite NTSC/PAL Video In/Out Component YPbPr/RGB Video In/Out-Genlock/Reference Video (looping) Four channels of Analog balanced Audio In/Out are available using a supplied XLR breakout cable. Front Panel Status Indicators: Power On/Off, FireWire (active/inactive), Ref (Genlock), NTSC or PAL.
Front Panel Mode Indicators: Input/Output. Front Panel Video Input Source Indicators:-Present, Component, S-video, and Composite.
Retail Value $1190 US MSRP
When you do the math, they add up to $4,770 just from AJA and this are just the first batch in a long list to be announced.
As many of you know, aside from great food, great music and the chance to hang with the many cool folks from online forums and email lists, we give out mucho prizes, all made possible by vendors who over the years have become FOI (friends of IMUG). We am delighted to announce that our good friend Jim Weibe and Wiebetech has jumped in with the first prize of the year a combo dock GB with a 60 gig drive. The combo dock is a perfect solution for computer techs and anyone who deals with bare 3.5" IDE drives. It quickly attaches drives via FW 800 (400 compatible) or USB and lets you access the data. With two FW ports, it's daisy-chainable for more versatility. The retail value is $238.95. For more information on Weibetech products, visit their website at www.wiebetech.com
Standby for more!
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