Tuesday NAB 2006
In contrast to last year, they sent me an offer to attend the exhibit and the keynote sessions for free this year, so I went. (Yes, I'm jobless once more. Such is a life of a freelancer. Sigh.)
I scored tons of industry mags before entering the main exhibit area, so you should go if you are interested in picking up some pro magazines for free. Hehehe.
Today's keynote was delivered by Chris Franklin, an award winning commercial editor. He gave a casual talk of his works, including Martin Scorses's AMEX commercial at last year Tribeca Film Festival, and the hot off the Avid system, new Ellen DeGeneres' AMEX commercial, which charmed the audience including yours truly. He didn't go specific about technologies or his editing skills or philosophy but just talked like another industry professional who's content with his job. He warned aspiring editors to learn everything and prepare to sit for 14 hours straight. (Yeah, my butts getting too big for its own good. TMI, indeed.)
The exhibit floor was rather small, but Panasonic and JVC had a grand booth to try out their latest cameras, Avid had another big booth to showcase their systems. (I'm falling in love with their new black Mojo SDI.)
Future Media Concept was primary sponsor and they had nice half-hour tutorial sections of Apple programs that I sat in one for Motion. I got a taste of it and it was pretty good. The interface was more 'friendly' compare to After Effects. AE changed its interface in its new version and I can understand why, even though new interface bothers old pros like my bro to no end.
I saw some nice pro gears, and some other stuff that you wouldn't know unless you attended one of these events. It is really different from reading reviews from magazines, interacting with the developers/manufacturers and the actual products.
I don't know why Apple didn't care to have a booth. I'm surprise that SGI cared to attend with a small booth.
I'm going back tomorrow for another keynote, a career fair, and a free session on one of many post production classes. Stay tuned.
I scored tons of industry mags before entering the main exhibit area, so you should go if you are interested in picking up some pro magazines for free. Hehehe.
Today's keynote was delivered by Chris Franklin, an award winning commercial editor. He gave a casual talk of his works, including Martin Scorses's AMEX commercial at last year Tribeca Film Festival, and the hot off the Avid system, new Ellen DeGeneres' AMEX commercial, which charmed the audience including yours truly. He didn't go specific about technologies or his editing skills or philosophy but just talked like another industry professional who's content with his job. He warned aspiring editors to learn everything and prepare to sit for 14 hours straight. (Yeah, my butts getting too big for its own good. TMI, indeed.)
The exhibit floor was rather small, but Panasonic and JVC had a grand booth to try out their latest cameras, Avid had another big booth to showcase their systems. (I'm falling in love with their new black Mojo SDI.)
Future Media Concept was primary sponsor and they had nice half-hour tutorial sections of Apple programs that I sat in one for Motion. I got a taste of it and it was pretty good. The interface was more 'friendly' compare to After Effects. AE changed its interface in its new version and I can understand why, even though new interface bothers old pros like my bro to no end.
I saw some nice pro gears, and some other stuff that you wouldn't know unless you attended one of these events. It is really different from reading reviews from magazines, interacting with the developers/manufacturers and the actual products.
I don't know why Apple didn't care to have a booth. I'm surprise that SGI cared to attend with a small booth.
I'm going back tomorrow for another keynote, a career fair, and a free session on one of many post production classes. Stay tuned.
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