From: Paul Izbicki To: CONE-CAL@Blu.Org Subject: *CAL* Boston M100 UG June 9 Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 11:46 AM The Boston Media 100 User Group is pleased to announce our June meeting at 6:30pm Wednesday, June 9th, at Pulse Media, 205 Arlington St., in Watertown. This month our focus for the first half of the meeting is on the new releases from BorisFX, our Boston Harbor friends at Artel Software. Their new BorisFX 4.0 for Media 100 is a complete revamping of the product, from interface to features. Olivier Karfis, The Director of Product Planning, a real friend to user groups, and an all-around great guy, will show how this tightly integrated software DVE module has gotten faster, more powerful, acquired a new interface, and just plain smokes! It now includes Bezier functions in Motion paths and Animation graphs, resizeable windows for preview and timeline, AE-like real time ram-based preview, automatic ease-in and ease-out, both up and downstream filters, timeline nesting, 3D containers (whatever that is-come see!), extended color correction and keying capabilities, a new Pixel Chooser operating mode for new pixel-based effects, extended lighting parameters and loads more. For you dedicated After Effects users, the BorisFX 3.0 upgrade was one of the major buzzes at NAB this year. It added all of the goodies in their edit packages, now available for a wide variety of NLE's, and debuted their new 3D Text module, which adds scalable, moveable, extruded text to AE, with the ability to map animation, video or textures to the front/rear and side surfaces separately! Combine with their new, more flexible lighting and camera movement for great 3D titles and logo treatments without a 3D package in sight! You HAVE to see this package to appreciate how advanced it is, and what it can add to your production values. Where the typical AE filter has 2-6 parameters, Boris AE adds a dozen. The latter half of our meeting will be devoted to system upkeep, project management, problem solving, and our new round-table discussions. Join us the 2nd Wed of June for a pleasant, informative, and entertaining evening. Directions: In Watertown, turn onto Arlington St. from Arsenal St, at the traffic lite by the Bugaboo Steak House neon sign on the Arsenal Mall. Pass the SuperFitness gym, over the RR tracks with the flashing yellow lite, to the intersection of Calvin Rd.. Pulse is on the corner, tel 617 923-4646. Paul Izbicki Producer i 2 i newMedia Boston M100 UG IMUG iMagix@worldnet.att.net t