Boston Avid Users Group - BAVUG Meetings

BAVUG Meeting Archive - June 10, 2009

MEDIA SILO / FCP TO AVID WORKFLOW
Rule Broadcast Systems, Inc.
395 Western Ave
Boston, MA 02135
617-277-2200
*note there is no parking available on the Soldier’s Field Road entrance side*

We are excited to announce the first ever joint-meeting between the Boston Avid Users Group and the Boston Final Cut Pro User Group.

Schedule of Events:
6:30pm - 7:00pm | Registration & Networking
Come early to check-in, purchase your raffle tickets, and socialize.

7:00 - 7:45pm | Media Silo product demo with Kai Pradel

Kai Pradel, MediaSilo’s lead Silo Head, walks us through his online suite of video tools which streamline video workflow in production and corporate environments. If you haven’t heard of it before, MediaSilo is an online platform for collaboration, content management and web broadcast, MediaSilo empowers users in managing video assets online, anywhere, anytime. Connect with clients, crew or executives for feedback and approvals. Cast your next project in half the time at a fraction of the cost. Upload dailies for approval, easily find that perfect shot, archive your content for online review or even launch your own online channel with native format download. Kai will also teach us how to master metadata from afar with MediaSilo’s powerful asset management tools. Come see why MediaSilo is "video content made easy."

Kai Pradel is an experienced Internet entrepreneur, offering a rare blend of creative and operational strengths that combine a software engineering background with a knack for business. As co-founder of College Publisher, a Web-based ASP serving college newspapers, Kai acted as CTO/Director of Product Development. In 2000, he sold the company to Y2M: Youth Media and Marketing Networks; the company has since been purchased by Viacom, where the network of 500 college newspapers using College Publisher has become a key asset for MTV’s college channel, mtvU.

Kai’s entrepreneurial spirit then led him to found Productorials, Inc., a marketing services agency creating innovative online video campaigns focused on customer communication, education and conversion. Most recently, Kai has developed MediaSilo, an online video collaboration service. As president and founder of MediaSilo, he is focused on penetrating the online video market and developing new technologies to improve workflow for both content creators and owners.

8:00 - 9:00pm | FCP to Avid Workflow with Chris Fournelle

With the advent of a very mature NLE marketplace, it is no longer certain that an edit will proceed from offline to online with the same non-linear platform. Chris Fournelle, Post Production Director at FRONTLINE’s OutPost finishing facility, presents their workflow for "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story". This Final Cut Pro project with file-based 24p acquisition, tape-based 30i stock footage, and FCP based graphics was finished at OutPost in an Avid online environment on a short turnaround. Chris will talk about the methods they used and some of the lessons learned in the process.

Chris Fournelle is the Post Production Director for the PBS weekly public affairs documentary series, FRONTLINE, based at WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts. Chris oversees the day to day post operations for FRONTLINE and manages Outpost’s facility operations and their finishing services for a diverse client base that delivers programming to PBS and other major distribution networks.

9:00pm - 9:15pm | Raffle

The BAVUG would like to thank our presenters, Chris Fournelle and Kai Pradel, as well as Rule Broadcast Systems for sponsoring/hosting this month’s meeting. Also special thanks to the BOSFCPUG for co-hosting this meeting.

We are always seeking additional sponsors and volunteers to help continue the efforts of the Boston Avid User Group. The BAVUG Board is currently just a few people who volunteer their time and it requires a lot of work to continue to have high quality meetings. If you would be interested in providing sponsorship or simply helping out at future meetings, send an email to volunteers@bavug.org

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