Tomorrow night is the monthly meeting of the Sierra MMUG, the Sacramento region’s Adobe user group.
This month, we’ll be doing an overview of Adobe’s video tools. We’ll be looking at recording live video using OnLocation, editing video in Premiere Pro, editing audio in Soundbooth, adding effects in After Effects, and finally creating menus and burning a DVD in Encore.
If you’ll be in the Sacramento area, please join us. If not, feel free to join us online. Details of both the location of the meeting and the URL to log in online are on the group’s website.
We held the December meeting of my Adobe user group last night. I had asked the people if they wanted to do something party-ish or just have a normal presentation-based meeting, and they voted for the later, so I did a preso on using Flash, After Effects, Soundbooth and Photoshop to create an animated greeting card.
It’s been a tradition of ours to encourage members to bring an unwrapped toy to the December meeting that we then donate to the Toys for Tots program. Last night, I ended up being about fifteen minutes late for my meeting (yet another time when I’m very glad to have a co-manager…) and when I did arrive, I was taken aback by my group’s generosity: there was a really big stack of toys laid out a table. Not only that, but they were *nice* toys – a stack of games like Battleship and Sorry, a couple of dolls, even a fairly big playset.
So there are going to be a bunch of kids that will have a better holiday season this year thanks to the group, and as I said in the subject, it’s a day that makes me proud to be associated with these folks.
This Wednesday night (Aug. 6), the Sierra Adobe User Group is going to be having a preview of the next version of Dreamweaver, presented by yours truly.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 PM Pacific time. We will be broadcasting the meeting online, so everyone anywhere is welcome to join us. You can get details, RSVP, and find a link to the online meeting room at our website, www.sierrammug.org.
Hope to see everyone there!
Next week, our Sierra MMUG meeting is going to feature Nolan Erck, who will be doing an introduction to ColdFusion. This is the second part of our occasional, on-going series introducing members to the key concepts behind creating dynamic, data-driven pages.
Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend the meeting myself. I accepted a gig to teach Flash to the Army at Fort Polk, Louisiana. For those not familiar with Ft. Polk – and you’re not alone – it’s at the corner of No and Where in central Louisiana. Seriously – it’s about 3 hours south of Shreveport, 4 1/2 hours northwest of New Orleans, and 3 1/2 hours northeast of Houston – literally in the middle of nothing. The class is Tuesday and Wednesday, so during the time of the meeting, I’ll actually be on a plane flying home.
One important result of my not attending is that this meeting will not be broadcast online, so if you want to participate, you’ll need to get up to Auburn.
I will be presenting at the Sierra Adobe/Multimedia User Group meeting on February 13. Since it’s the first meeting of the year and I like to start off things with good attendance, I’m going to do a presentation on converting a tables-based web site to a CSS-based site – a topic that is usually certain to draw a crowd.
I also have lots of schwag to give away, since both Adobe and the publishers have been being pretty generous of late.
If you want to join us and see the preso live (as well as be eligible for the schwag), then jump on over to the Sierra MMUG home page for a map and directions.
If you can’t make it to Auburn but want to participate anyway, we will (barring technical difficulties) be broadcasting the meeting online. You can join the meeting by going to the Acrobat Connect meeting room. The address and link for the meeting room is also on the the Sierra MMUG home page.
If you’re going to attend, either virtually or in person, please drop me a line at rsvp@sierrammug.org to let me know.
