February 21st Meeting of the Boston Final Cut Pro User Group - BOSFCPUG

The February meeting of the BOSFCPUG will take place on Thursday, February 21st, this time at the in the First Floor Gallery at the Arsenal Center for the Arts at 321 Arsenal Street in Watertown, MA, next to Watertown Mall, with plenty of free parking. 

 

Please join us! Joining us for this meeting will be special guest FCP Guru Philip Hodgetts, who will be presenting on his new venture, Open Television Network, as he engages in an extremely relevant topic for Boston-area filmmakers and FCP editors, "The Democratization of Distribution."  Philip will be on hand to answer your questions about producing web video with Final Cut Studio.

 

Note: If you would like to learn more on how to distribute your video content over the web, this is a meeting we strongly encourage you to attend.

 

FEBRUARY BOSFCPUG MEETING
When: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Where: Arsenal Center for the Arts

First Floor Gallery
321 Arsenal Street

Watertown MA 02472

http://arsenalarts.org   

(617) 923-0100 

 

Registration is free to attend this event. For our February meeting, we will NOT be having you register off of the Apple seminar website. Rather, please send a rsvp email with your contact information to Daniel Berube at .  

 

6:30PM: Doors Open: Mingling with fellow BOSFCPUG members

 

7:00PM: Philip Hodgetts, Open Television Network   

"The Democratization of Distribution"

Philip's hands-on presentation will cover three main areas: codecs and compression and getting video online; using free distribution for profit; and how to make direct income from online distribution. Philip will start with an overview of what is Television and why it's moving to Internet distribution. Building on that we'll take a detailed look at what formats work best for online distribution and the practicalities of preparing material for digital distribution, including some pre-processing tricks and techniques to get the best quality from sites like YouTube and MySpace.

Part two of the session will cover methods that work with free distribution and yet provide a return to the producer, and in Part three we'll trace the history of Television from inception to present and how the future is likely to work, to that more producers will be able to make a decent middle class income doing what they love to do.

Philip Hodgetts is an expert and consultant in digital production and post production workflows, encoding, web applications, digital delivery and technology innovation. Philip is the CEO of Intelligent Assistance, Inc - a systems and technology developer - and one of the "Big Brains" of Big Brains for Rent" consultancy. Philip is an experienced trainer and co-developed the Intelligent Assistants for digital creation software "training". He has written extensively online across a range of topics. Philip has been the founder and managing editor of Creative Planet's Digital Production BuZZ weekly show (live stream and podcast) through the end of 2007. He recently added duties as CEO and President of the Open Television Network. Philip has presented at many conferences and seminars including delivering a Keynote addresses for the New York DV Show; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' NEXT TV symposium in 2006; and the 2007 Podcast Summit at NAB as well as presented at Streaming Media East and West; NAB Post|Production, Seybold, etc.

 

The Open Television Network is available to content owners who want to sell their shows to viewers and for viewers who want the option of controlling their own programming. It is built on a new technology called klickTab. klickTab is the technology that makes the Open Television Network possible.

 

Content owners who use klickTab can sell audio, video and PDF content for digital download through a standard RSS feed (a podcast feed) that can be loaded into iTunes, Miro or compatible RSS aggregators.

With a Channel feed loaded, viewers can preview, get, download, manage and view their programs in one piece of software. Viewers have options like iPods, AppleTV and other applications to deliver their content to a big screen TV for the traditional television experience.

9:00PM: Big Dig Raffle

See you Thursday, February 21st, at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA!