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And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.

September 30th, 2008

Well not yet but on Thursday October 2 I will be. MediaSilo will be presenting at the DC Avid Users Group. So take a break from the debate and come check it out. The details are below.

When:

Thursday, October 2, 2008

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Where:

Future Media Concepts – DC Branch

1627 K Street NW Suite 900
Washington D.C. 20006
Phone: 202-429-9700

The closest Metro Stop is Farragut North, on the Red line. The building will be locked at 8PM, so please arrive before that time. The security guard will assist group members in and out of the building.

7:00 PM – 8:00 pm |Round trip with After Effects and Media Composer

Charles Hoff, Producer | Director at DoDEA, (The Department of Defense Education Activity) will give us a demonstration of the Avid to Adobe After Effects to Avid workflow, as he likes to do it. Bring some paper and take some notes, I hope you’ll pick up a few techniques that will save you some time.

8:00 pm– 9:00 pm| Avid Discussion: Tips & Hints & Raffle!

Share your Favorite Tips & Hints. Charles Hoff and Bruce Dixon will lead the discussion. Bring your questions about working with Avid and third party applications. Together we will try to answer them.

Also, please share your thoughts on the new 3.0 Media Composer software. How many of you are already using it? Rumor has it that version 3.1 is just a few weeks away. Let’s talk about working with footage from the RED camera.

Our final activity will be a raffle of Avid items to raise money for the group. Raffle items are supplied by our friend at Avid, Brenda Bergin. Tickets are one dollar each. Please buy as many tickets as you can afford. Remember that there is only one prize per person.

Our host for this meeting is Future Media Concepts (FMC). FMC provides manufacturer-authorized training in all areas of digital media including digital video and film editing, etc. You may have heard, they have just expanded and now have 5 state of the art training suites!

We are also expecting a visit from Lindsay Lacher-Katz of Mediasilo, a web-based collaboration and broadcast tool for editors and producers. I don’t know much about this, I want to hear more.

RSVP NOW as space is limited to 30 people. To register please email Bruce Dixon at engineer@efxmedia.com I will confirm your registration. If you later discover that you can’t attend, please let me know so others can have your seat.

Tags: avid, dc, user group
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Thanks LAFCPUG!

September 25th, 2008

We’re fresh off a great meeting of the LA Final Cut Pro Users Group. If you’re a SoCal cutter and haven’t attended, you should! We presented MediaSilo to the crowd of big-time pros, corporate creatives, post editors, indie creatives and newbies. It’s a great mix of experience, talent and networking. Some of the biggest names in the business are there every month and it’s a great opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest, solve that workflow issue that’s been haunting you or just hang with the Final Cut crowd.

It’s fun, informative, there’s great food and the best raffle west of the Mississippi. Thanks to Michael and everyone at LAFCPUG! Learn more about the group and look for details on next month’s meeting here.

Tags: Demo, Final Cut, LAFCPUG, Los Angeles
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MediaSilo University

September 16th, 2008

It’s September, and that means back-to-school. Good news is, you’ve been accepted to MediaSilo University and classes start right away. And don’t sweat it, you’re already enrolled.

We’ve crafted a curriculum to maximize your workflow using MediaSilo’s online toolsuite. At MU you can set your own class schedule and learn at your own pace. On the new section of our website, you’ll find a series of screencasts (classes) on video tools for Content Management, Online Collaboration and Web Broadcast. There’s also a companion book that outlines all the features taught through the screencasts. It’s a pdf, you can download or print out and use as a quick reference. Check out the syllabus for this semester:

Getting Started - toolset summary and overview for asset management, collaboration and broadcast.

Content Management, Workspaces - managing workspaces for optimum asset management, FTP workflow and using your dropbox, browsers, customizing workspace displays,

Content Management, Clips – tags and sorting assets, asset options, working with clips, downloading files, direct links to assets, tags and sorting files, screen resolution and shortcuts

Collaboration, Users – user management, roles and permissions, notifications and customizing messages

Collaboration, Workflow – annotations, comments, ratings, approval workflow

Web Broadcast, Tools – single clip players, managing channels, managing and maximizing line-ups, native file channel download, programming and distribution, channel embeds, re-programming channels

So, get to class! Hit the books! The short time you spend in class at MediaSilo University will mean big savings in time, money and headaches and is far more practical than all that time you spent in college trying to figure out what “x” was.

Then, for old times sake, after an afternoon of studying, break out the beer bong!

Tags: screencasts, university
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MediaSilo in Chrome

September 4th, 2008

As you likely know, Google has released their entry into the browser market. Dubbed, “Chrome” it’s positioned as a revolutionary take on browsers. Don’t know about that, but I’ve been test driving this thing operating MediaSilo for a couple days now and I’m fairly impressed.

Gotta tell you, I’m a little disappointed Google decided to release the PC version with just a tease for Mac and Linux, but given their target, it’s probably the right move. If you haven’t seen Chrome, the biggest change is the shift of the tabs. They’ve been moved from below the adress bar to the very top of the browser window. It took me a little while to get used to it, but after a couple days, I think it’s better. There are loads of other features they say are really revolutionary, and most are pretty good, but honestly when something like this comes out, the first thing we want to know is how MediaSilo runs and looks on it.

After two days of running my MediaSilo account in and out of Chrome, I’ve yet to find a glitch. (It should be pointed out, I’m on the short bus with the other remedial kids at MediaSilo when it comes to code, structure and processing, so I’ll defer to Simon and Kai on those things.) Still, the browser seems to handle MediaSilo well, in fact it seems a lot faster than IE or Firefox on the PC. If you’re on a PC platform and you try it, please let us know what you think.

Maybe the coolest thing I like about chrome is the “application shortcut” feature for online apps. It puts a MediaSilo shortcut right on your desktop, start menu or quick launch bar. The app then opens in a dedicated window, so it feels almost like a true desktop app. Give it a try:

1. Go to http://youraccount.mediasilo.com

2. Click the Page menu in the upper right of the browser. (it’s to the left of the wrench

3. Select Create Application Shortcuts

4. In the “Google Gears” dialong box, select the checkboxes where you want your MediaSilo shortcut placed on your computer: Desktop, Start Menu, and/or Quick Launch Bar

5. Click OK

Give it a try. You can learn more about the benefits of app windows on Google Chrome here. Many of the shortcuts don’t really apply to MediaSilo, but we’re still working on giving you more and more features, so they might come in handy, soon.

Can’t wait to see the Mac version.

Tags: Chrome, Google, online applications, review, shortcut
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West Side, I mean West COAST – LAFCPUG Here we come!

September 2nd, 2008

For all our MediaSilo fans out there who are upset by our frequent appearances on the east coast can finally quit their complaining. On Wednesday September 24th we will be presenting at the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group in Hollywood, CA at 6:45PM. You can find out more information here http://www.lafcpug.org/

Here’s a little info. about the meeting …

Join us as welcome Mark Altekruse who will show off the the music making capabilities of Abaltat. Film Editor Billy Fox will show us how he used all of the apps in the Final Cut Studio suite to bring the recently released film, “Traitor” to life. MediaSilo is the affordable video content management and collaboration platform that puts an end to expensive overnight deliveries and time consuming client review meetings. Dan Green will show it to us. Ron Diamond will demo a brand new super secret utility that will make its world debut at lafcpug. Logic Keyboards are among the best editing keyboards for FCP users. Stephen Moore will show us why. Plus Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells, and of course, World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

The agenda will be set one week before meeting date.

Hope to see you all there!

Tags: LAFCPUG
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Inside Mac Radio, have a listen.

September 2nd, 2008

We posted about a month ago about speaking on Inside Mac Radio … well we didn’t lie, we actually did. Have a listen here Inside Mac Radio 8/9/08 – Big hand to Dan Green for doing a knockout job.

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