MEMBER APPRECIATION NIGHT: FREE ADMISSION!

6:00 - 6:30pm: Networking and food. As always, Digital CONNtent Creators will supply food and beverage for our members as you mingle and swap stories and business cards!

6:30 - 6:45pm: AJA News and Updates. Learn what's new from AJA.

6:45 - 7:45pm:"Compress This" Sorenson Media's Coby Rich returns to Connecticut to give us a lesson in Compression. Most notabley, compression using Sorenson Media's top notch compression tools. In this presentation we'll cover the the new Squeeze 6 Final Cut Workflow, including the integrated review and approval tools. We'll also cover web compression best practices and a few tips and tricks to get your online video looking amazing.

About Coby: Coby Rich has been the Marketing & Events Director at Sorenson Media since 2007.As Marketing & Events Director, Rich oversees the video production, advertising, marketing and all trade shows and events for Sorenson Media. Possessing a deep background in video editing, he loves to dig far into the nuts and bolts of encoding to get the best quality video possible. Previously, Coby worked in various marketing roles for companies such as LoveSac, SingleHanded and Rhodes International. Coby holds an MBA from Michigan State University and a BS in Public Relations from the University of Utah.

7:45 - 8:00pm: BREAK. Not enough time before the meeting to eat & mingle? Here's your chance. Enjoy food and beverage while you swap anecdotes and business cards with your peers.

8:00 - 9:00pm: "Color Me This Batman!" Patrick Inhofer returns from NYC to show you how to perfect your color grading skills using 3-Way Color Correction tools in your NLE of choice (FCP, Premiere, Avid MC, etc). Patrick will also show you the next level of color grading inside applications such as Apple Color and discuss BMD's soon to be released DaVinci Resolve.

About Patrick: Patrick Inhofer is a post production professional with over 20 years experience in corporate, broadcast, indie, and documentary production. He specializes as a Color'ist and is Finisher-In-Chief at his own boutique, Fini.tv. In just the past 18 months he has color corrected documentaries, television series, and independent films for directors Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Wag The Dog), Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost), Dorothy Lyman (The Nanny), and the Prime Time ABC News documentary series "Hopkins". Patrick's work has been distributed to many outlets: Showtime, NBC, ABC, Discovery, ESPN, Museum of Modern Art, Tribeca Film Festival, Lifetime, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, TV One, Virgin Records, Astralwerks, and DVD distribution for the rock band Genesis... plus many more..

9:00 - 9:15pm: "Michael Vitti Big Prize Raffle". Good luck winning a prize from our generous sponsors

The evening will also have a few words from Jay Ignaszewski of AJA Video Systems 

and of course, the "Michael Vitti Big Prize Raffle" immediately following our presentations. 

Raffle Prize List (value $1,282 as of May 12, 2010)

Sorenson Squeeze 6 (value $799)

(2) Conoa EasyFX (value $109 each)

(2) Apple Pro Training Series: Color Correction in Final Cut Studio (value $55 each)

(2) Apple Pro Training Series: Motion 4 (value $55 each)

Movie of the Month: Inglorious Basterds Blu-Ray & Digital Copy (value $25)

Artbeats T-Shirt (value $20)