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YOUR CHANCE TO WIN $500

of ARTBEATS ROYALTY-FREE

STOCK FOOTAGE TONIGHT!

PLEASE NOTE: NEW VENUE

QUESTION and ANSWER session

Viewfinder NOVEMBER 2014

From the President’s Desk

PROGRAMME For NOVEMBER Meeting

Wednesday, 12th November 2014

www.swvc.org.au

MEETING BEGINS AT 7.30PM and CONCLUDES AT 10.00PM

“SHOW AND TELL” segment -You are invited to bring “items of interest” to show –including videos (David Llewellyn will bring his new Panasonic GH3 -mirrorless- to show us) - Please present videos on DVD or USB flashdrives before commencement of meeting.

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NEW PRODUCT Segment: David Tran

“THE CROSSING” 33 MADDECKS AVE

MOOREBANK

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What a great night it was at last

month’s meeting, with our

interview experiment! Many

thanks go to Trish Glossop for

her fine directing, and getting

this idea up and running. The

night turned out to be fun and

interesting.

The questions that were written out for our

interviewers, made it easier for them to control the

interview, and made it easier for the person who

was being interviewed, to answer. We had many

cameras operating, so I hope that the camera

operators got some great angles while capturing the

interviews, so when we edit the footage we will

have a lot of shots to use.

VIDEO COMPETITION

- Screening of entries in the September Video Competition - Presentation of awards

PRESENTATION by David Llewellyn - how to trace a line or road on a map - ProShow Producer -demonstrate creation of slide show (using photo and video files) (For more info, see p.3)

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Stay Focused and Start Shooting.

Bob Hallett

President

Good luck to the entrants who submitted

their final entries in our September

Video Competition. I would like to see

more of our members enter our

competitions, or even bring some of

their footage in, to show on our big screen.

Thank you to John Wilson for his presentation on

how he gets to shoot and prepare for an unassisted

interview. I have worked with John many times

when he interviews people and he has an ability to

get the right information out of the person he

interviews, while using only one camera.

Don’t forget we have a “Show and Tell” segment,

so if you have something of interest for us to look

at, please bring it along.

Christmas is

rushing towards

us and our

committee is

planning our

Christmas

function, so I hope you will make

it, as we have planned a new venue and an

excellent meal will be served.

Congratulations to the winners of our Lucky Draw,

Albert Parisek and Mark Franks. Thank you all

for supporting it as it is one of our means of

keeping our very successful club running.

Thank you to all our committee

members for your input and ideas to

keep our members interested in what we

do at the club, and especially to Josie

Milgate for the wonderful newsletter we

get each month.

How nice is it now in our new Club room? I am

sure that we may now be able to get new members

interested in film making once we get

our Promo up and running

on Face Book, Vimeo, and

what other Media outlets that

are at our disposal.

Entry 1 “Indian Pacific”

http://vimeo.com/105824234

By Harold Pollard

Entry 2 “South Africa -

Feeding Time for a Leopard”

http://vimeo.com/105839860

By John Stimson

Entry 3 “Rio”

http://vimeo.com/105837380

By Max Milgate

Entry 4 “Allira and the Rainbow Serpent”

http://vimeo.com/106331803

By Maureen Tarrant & Patricia Glossop

Entry 5 “Corey’s Story”

http://vimeo.com/106333252

By Maureen Tarrant & Patricia Glossop

Entry 6 “Aquarium”

http://vimeo.com/106331348

By David Llewellyn

Mark Driver John

Trish

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From the Vice President

Be Inspired and Keep the Batteries

Charged !!

Mark Franks Vice President

It’s always interesting to view other people’s work.

We can draw many conclusions about their video

that they have total control over. They can be for

totally private use, or broadcast internationally over

the web. But some have to work and edit with what

people have shot. A student who had shot a video

was editing and asked for some advice. The shots

were focused sharply and exposure was correct.

The subject was in the frame with no bits missing.

So far, so good, but it lacked

something to make it “look

good”. The missing element

was in the framing. The missing

element in the framing is called

the “Rule of Thirds”.

Good composition in the

frame in nearly all

situations can have the

“Rule of Thirds” applied

to make aesthetically

appealing to the human

eye. It can enhance a

video beyond belief and just make it “work”.

To many artistic folk it comes naturally without

knowing why. To plebs like myself, it had to be

learned. Speilberg uses it, so does George Lucas,

and just about every great director. Salvador Dali

being a notable exception.

We see video that is correctly shot by professionals

and they will always frame up using the “Rule of

Thirds”. It becomes so natural after a while, that

they don't have to think about it, unless you are like

me and have to think about every shot, and have to

apply the “Rule of Thirds”.

At our next meeting, David Llewellyn

is going to show how to trace a line or

road on a map…perfect for those

travel and documentary videos.

He will also give a small presentation

on ProShow Producer. This is

software for slide shows that is easy to

use and powerful at the same time…

even video files can be inserted!

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TREASURE

ISLAND

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What a "productive" meeting we had last month as

we filmed a series of short interviews with some of

our members, on how they became interested in

videoing, what facets of videoing they find most

interesting and enjoyable, and why they like being

involved with South West Video Club.

After several bloopers as well as retakes, due to the

noise from the passing traffic outside, I know I was

relieved when Trish announced "That’s a Take",

at the end of my interviewer role with Laraine.

With the aim of creating a promotional video on

our club, its activities as well as profiling some of

our members, our experienced camera operators

Bob Hallett, Reinfrid, Max and

Mark Franks, and myself as the

"roving" camera recording the film

shoot, and off-screen audience

reactions, responded to the instruc-

tions of our very expert Director,

Trish, as she called for "Quiet on

Set"..... "Cameras Rolling".....

.... and with a clapperboard countdown, the

audience watched on as our WILLING

interviewees, David Llewellyn, Harold Pollard,

Mark Franks and Laraine Harris expertly

answered the questions put to them by their

respective interviewers, Bob Hallett, Kevin Mid-

dleton, John Wilson and myself, Jan Hudson.

David L. Bob H.

Harold Kevin

Mark F. John W.

Laraine Jan

Jan

Mark F.

Max Reinfrid

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www.artbeats.com

At the end of

the "shoot",

Ron Potter

downloaded

the footage

from all

cameras,

which will be

available on disk to any club members who would

like to create their own video about our club, as

well as being used in a future project by our Edius

User Group.

Thank you to all

members who continue

to support us by

buying tickets and

especially Artbeats for

supporting our club by

donating the monthly

voucher for one lucky

member to obtain $500 worth of Artbeats Royalty

-free footage for use in their video productions.

The Artbeats prize was won by Albert Parisek.

There is now only one more meeting until we hold

our annual Christmas party, and as I was on

holidays at the time of our committee meeting, I

will have to rely on other

committee members to

report on the details of our

Christmas Party which will

be held on Wednesday

10th December.

Having just returned from a short two week

vacation in Hawaii, Disneyland and onto

Universal Studios with our son, daughter-in-law

and three young grandchildren, I have lots of video

to download from our trip, and look forward to

recalling the happy memories of this time as I edit

and create a DVD of this footage using my Edius

program for us all to remember the fun we had.

Just a reminder that members can hire the

camera slider on a weekly basis at a cost of $10.00

per week. We ask for a security deposit of $50.00

which will be refunded when the slider is returned

(damage free).

Please contact me

on 0408 160150

if you wish to

make use of this

facility.

Mark Franks was

the lucky winner of

the bottle of wine.

Congratulations to

both members, and

once again, thank

you all for supporting

our lucky draw each

month.

Thank you Trish, for organising this

night. It was a lot of fun and I am sure

that all members who attended, agreed

it was a success, and we hope to hold

more of these events in the new year.

A reminder that the Edius User Group will be

held at our new premises at "The Crossing" 33

Maddecks Ave Moorebank on Wednesday 5th

November, and our next club meeting on

Wednesday 12th November, so until then...

Happy Videoing…….

Jan Hudson

Treasurer

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Voice from ... The Planet

David Tran

Digital Planet Technologies/

Technical Co-Ordinator

Starting this month, November 2014, Digital Planet Technologies is beginning to supply the whole range of

Titling and Special Effects software from Prodad including Mercalli, Heroglyph, Adorage and Vitascene.

Please contact our office if you need to order any of this software. More info - please check out

www.prodad.com

1. Prodad

2. Pinnacle Studio 18

Pinnacle have just released their popular software Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 18.

The new version supports 64-bit performance with the new Live Screen Capture which allows users to

capture their live screen on their computer and turn it into a video which they could then use the platform to

edit it.

Pinnacle Studio 18 comes with NewBlue effects pack with over 700 presets and 55 plugins including Motion

Blends, Light Blends, Film Effects, Stabilizer, Video Essentials 2,6,7..

This time the software will also support 4K Ultra HD Video and 4K smart editing as well, for anyone who has

4K footage.

For more info, please check out: www.pinnaclesys.com

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EDIUS User Group

Report

Reinfrid Langmann

I would also like to draw your attention to our

Scottish friend from Japan, Douglas. He has, on

his website, a very interesting comparison between

AVID Media Composer and Edius, and I would

like to show it to you.

Well, are you aware that our User Group has now

been in the making for nearly

twelve months?! Yes, it was

at our Christmas get-together

at David's place when I

mentioned to Jan about

forming an Edius User group.

Now nearly one year on, and we are all getting

quite good at using Edius. However, I must say

that I would like more users to become active and

present some of their work, and show how they

have achieved it.

Now that we are all using Edius 7.4.... it amazes

me how I was expected to pay for an upgrade of

AVID Media Composer (and the price was not

cheap). Here with Edius, we have the upgrade

free of charge!

I would also like to direct you to Douglas’ website

the Gaijin-Eyes Tutorials Forum!

http://forum.gaijin-eyes.com/forum2/index.php?

action=pm;sa=send;f=inbox;pmsg=2;quote;u=1

As I mentioned on different occasions, I have

learned more from Douglas regarding AVID than I

have from other training programs. So give it a go

and see what you think of his tutorials.

I would also like to inform you that David Tran is

now in a position to get all the ProDAD programs

(see page 6) for you in record time...

just ask Ron Potter... he purchased

Heroglyph version 4. I'm sure he will

be happy to also do a demo in the

not-too- distant future.

Here goes ... the result was quite interesting:

Avid Media Composer 6.5

Render time -23 minutes 55 seconds

Avid Media Composer 8.0

Render time -25minutes 27 seconds

Edius 7.31

Render time -13minutes 34 seconds

Not so bad is it?!

This one is about rendering, which was

mentioned at our meeting in the past.

So until the next time when we will meet again at

the Edius user group or our monthly meeting...

Regards,

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Looking forward to seeing you at our next meeting

on Wednesday, 12th November.

Have fun sharing knowledge.

Josie Milgate

Editorial Officer/Librarian

Editor’s

Corner

The venue for our

Christmas Party has

been decided, and

details have been

emailed to all our

members. It will be held on Wednes-

day, 10th December (7pm -10pm).

As the November meeting is the last one before

the party, we request that names and numbers

(of members and partners) attending, be made

available, as well as payment of $25 per person,

at this coming meeting, Wednesday, 12th Novem-

ber.

If you are unable to attend this

meeting, and would like to attend

the Christmas Party,

please notify me (or

any other committee

member) as soon as

possible, and then you

may pay David Tran at his shop.

It was great to see so many members bring their

cameras to the interview session at our last meeting

and participate in the activity.

Our Edius User Group meetings continue to be

productive. At our last meeting, Reinfrid Lang-

mann demonstrated the mirroring effect which

proved to be quite fascinating.

Thank you to all the volunteers who played a major

role in this multi-camera interview shoot,

especially the interviewees who enlightened us

with their interesting and at times, rather humorous

answers! It turned out to be such a FUN NIGHT.

John Wilson’s presentation was very informative.

Thank you, John for demonstrating the “unassisted

interview process” and sharing many interviewing

tips which you have learned throughout your

professional career.

Ron Potter demonstrated the many uses of the

“mask effect” accompanied by comprehensive

notes that he distributed.

I would like to thank both Reinfrid and Ron for

sharing the knowledge that they have gained by

experimenting with the various features that Edius

provides. Thank you also to David Tran for

attending the meetings and offering his support.

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JOKES of the MONTH

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Photo Gallery

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SWVC website:

www.swvc.org.au

CONTACTS:

Bob Hallett (President) Email: robmargo@optusnet.com.au Ph: 0416 139 797

Mark Franks (Vice President) Email: mfranks2010@optusnet.com.au

Max Milgate (Secretary) Email: secretary.swvc@gmail.com

David Tran (Digital Planet Technologies) Ph: (02)9734 7066 Email: sales@dpt.net.au

COMMITTEE:

Bob Hallett (President)

Mark Franks (Vice President)

Jan Hudson (Treasurer)

Max Milgate (Secretary)

Josie Milgate (Editorial Officer/Librarian)

Ron Potter (Competition Manager)

Trish Glossop (Public Officer)

David Tran (Technical Co-Ordinator)

CLUB MEETINGS:

Venue:

"THE CROSSING"

33 MADDECKS AVE, MOOREBANK

Time: - 7.00pm -for coffee and a chat

7.30 pm - 10.00 pm - Meeting

Second Wednesday of the month

February - November

(Christmas Party in December)

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