Our Doors open at 6:30 for Refreshments and Social Networking

 VIDEOTAPING OR ELECTRONIC RECORDINGS OF SF CUTTERS MEETINGS by attendees ARE PROHIBITED. Violators will be required to surrender and/or erase any recordings, and recording equipment for examination. Disregard may result in being banned from our meetings and activities and also subject to any potential legal proceedings from SF Cutters, meeting presenters and their companies and the meeting sponsors. SF Cutters bears no responsibility should any attendee violate trademark, copyright, or confidentiality laws or agreements and will cooperate fully with any potential proceedings.

Please bring your business cards to exchange - sometimes we give rewards for the best networkers

Presentations will start a few minutes before 7 and end just before 10 pm. 

Validated Parking is free at 650 King Garage, and Plenty of free on street Parking.

save your ticket to validate at the front desk and also to get through security locks

Numerous coffee and snack shops on Townsend if you wish to arrive early and beat traffic

Numerous bus lines, MUNI/Bart and Caltrain connections nearby.

Many thanks to Adobe Systems our Location Host

http://www.adobe.com/

Advanced Systems Group  for providing meat, cheese, salads and

http://www.asgllc.com/ 

Alberto Palacios of Createmore for providing Amicii's East Coast Pizza

http://www.sfmacsupport.com/

Also thanks to our Monthly Sponsors: Createmore, Adobe Systems, Kinemac, DVD Copycat, Flip4Mac, and Royalty Free Music

Logos and links on our website: www.sfcutters.org 

 July 31 Speakers and Raffle - (not necessarily the final agenda order)

Alberto Palacios of Createmore:

Alberto is one of our founding members and the longest and continuous Sponsor. Createmore hosts SF Cutters website, and hosts SF Cutters Announcements, Cutter-Talk and SFC Members List. 

Createmore sells professional Mac systems and installs custom networks. and much more. Alberto Palacios is a Certified Apple Specialist and he will be talking about some new ways to work with Createmore. Createmore is located in San Francisco 689 3rd Street @ Townsend, San Francisco, CA 94107

http://www.sfmacsupport.com/

Kevan O'Brien,  of Adobe Systems:

Editor of the 2008 Oscar winning short film "Peter and the Wolf" edited in Premiere Pro

Kevan O'Brien will illustrate elements of the production process for the 

Academy Award winning "Peter and the Wolf" highlighting how Adobe Production

Studio CS2 was used at the core of the workflow. Kevan will also illustrate

how Production Premium CS3 is now being used for producing the Blu-Ray disk

for public presentation and distribution. 

to learn more about the workflow on this film - tune into this free "on demand seminar"

tinyurl.com/5z2epk

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 Charles Meyers of Apple 

Final Cut Pro Studio Workflow

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Dr. Sassi Animation and Betsy Kopmar presenting  Cinema 4D,  3D Animation software

Dr. Sassmannshausen, aka Dr. Sassi,  has had a varied career combining art and technology. He has an advanced degree in Architecture, a Bachelor second (MoFA) from the University of Art in Berlin in Art, Set-Design and Architecture, Painting and Video and a Ph.D. from Technical University Berlin in Computer Animation.

He was the chief designer in an Architecture firm, ran his own paint studio and provided technical support and set design for award winning feature and short-films in Europe. In 1999 he founded his own company, doc-media communication.

Based on an O-1, a Visa for his outstanding achievements in his field of expertise, he supports the 3D community since 2006 in California.

Along the way he has had his work featured in over 20 exhibitions in Europe. He has been working with 3D, and numerous other compositing applications over more than one decade.

Dr. Sassi has produced over 700 dtts tutorials on CINEMA 4D for its members. 800 tutorials over all.
Since 2006: instructor of Cineversity as well as trainer for studios in L.A.

Betsy Kopmar, www.eyefusion.net:

Betsy is an artist, an instructor and a writer or tutorials. She is active in the Pixelcorps and is a Course Director in Motion Graphics at "Expression, College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, CA.

Courses Taught: Motion Graphics 1, 3D for Designers, Motion Graphics & Sound 
Education: BA in Theology and Philosophy from Marquette University

Betsy is an Adobe Certified Expert in After Effects 7, has been recognized by Adobe as a Master teacher for her contributions to educational development in digital arts, and has pursued her MA in Education at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Betsy has taught both graduate and undergraduate classes in After Effects and Motion Graphics at the Academy of Art University. She also teaches After Effects classes for the Digital Media Academy, and Apple and Adobe certified training company with summer programs at Stanford. Betsy is an active member of Pixel Corps, an active San Francisco-based visual effects guild with members worldwide, where she continues to explore new technologies and techniques for 3D, digital filmmaking, and visual effects. 

More details for presentaters, presentations, and raffle to follow.