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Adobe After Effects / Creative Suite User Group for Dayton?
Just wondering if there would be enough local interest to establish an Adobe After Effects / CS User Group in Film Dayton?
Groups like AETO (http://aeto1021.eventbrite.com/) attract the attention of both Adobe and the Plug-in manufacturers and often get group discounts on software and/or free software to distribute to their members. (no guarantees that will happen, though!)
I could see where this could be attractive to working professionals, college students and even high school students, as well as hobbyists.
In the beginning, it would simply require a meeting place; later on, you'd want more comprehensive facilities, but that can be figured out as we go.
Any interest?
Frank Wylie
Dayton Digital Filmworks
Groups like AETO (http://aeto1021.eventbrite.com/) attract the attention of both Adobe and the Plug-in manufacturers and often get group discounts on software and/or free software to distribute to their members. (no guarantees that will happen, though!)
I could see where this could be attractive to working professionals, college students and even high school students, as well as hobbyists.
In the beginning, it would simply require a meeting place; later on, you'd want more comprehensive facilities, but that can be figured out as we go.
Any interest?
Frank Wylie
Dayton Digital Filmworks
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Tyler Back on -
Definitely I would be interested.
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Permalink Reply by Frank Wylie on -
Tyler, great! I am thinking it make take the participation of WSU and UD students, as well as all Independent Media Makers in Dayton to get enough people to make a meaningful user group. I am thinking that making the Dayton Microcomputing Association (DMA) part of the equation would also bring in some more people. Any other ideas?
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Permalink Reply by Wayne K. Broyles on -
Adobe After Effects, is it like Adobe Premiers Elements 8, are does it work with Premiers Elements 8?
if so i am interested, my e-mail is
evangelistwayne@att.net Wayne Broyles P.0. Box 371 Dayton, Ohio 45404
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Permalink Reply by Frank Wylie on
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Wayne,
Adobe After Effects is a compositing program that allows you to do special effects, graphics creation and in general, very sophisticated digital image manipulation. Adobe Premiere Elements 8 is more of a video editing tool, After Effects is more of a "special effects" program, although you can do primitive editing in After Effects and primitive sfx in Adobe Premiere Elements. If you take a look at Tyler Back's demo reel you can see what is possible with the package, (I assume at least some of it was done with AE, maybe a bad assumption here...) Personally, I use it for film restoration, image stabilization, dust busting, damage mitigation and so on, so you hopefully don't see anything AE specific when you view my work, so it is very versatile.
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Permalink Reply by Rusty Pietrzak on -
I'm in the long process of building a 64-bit editing computer with Premiere CS-4, so I would be interested!
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Permalink Reply by Tess Cortes on -
I'd be interested. It would be helpful to have a local user's group. I'm using CS3 cause I have PowerPC, if that matters.
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Permalink Reply by Frank Wylie on
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Tess Cortes said:I'd be interested. It would be helpful to have a local user's group. I'm using CS3 cause I have PowerPC, if that matters.
Tess, I think most of the Dayton contingent I have spoken to so far are still using CS3 for various reasons, so you'll fit right in.
Until we can solidify a membership and meeting place, I suggest everyone subscribe to the Media Motion Website:
http://www.media-motion.tv/
and consider subscribing to the email list for After Effects.
It is an AMAZING list with a treasure trove of information. Trish and Chris Meyer (After Effects Apprentice, Creating Motion Graphics, and other books), Todd Kopriva of Adobe and Mark Christiansen (AE CS3 Professional Studio Techniques) are among the many very talented people who post there on a regular basis and just lurking and reading is an education onto itself.
There is also a Listserv that deals with compression in video issues, but I have yet to delve into it, but I bet it is equally good.
If you're not a dinosaur like me and know about Listservs from back BEFORE the Internet had web browsers, you might want to study up on the subject and/or choose "DIGEST" mode until you are ready for the extra email traffic, which can be considerable when these gurus get on a roll.
Cheers and keep in touch.
Frank
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Permalink Reply by Gregory A. Tucker on
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I am currently using cs3 and would be interested in the users group.
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