6:30 - 6:45pm: AJA News and Updates. Learn what's new from AJA.

6:45 - 7pm: NAB Preview. Going to NAB this year? Thinking about it? Not even sure what NAB even is? Well, join our discussion about this year's big show in Las Vegas and drive the rumor mill.

7pm - 8pm: SHHH for now...Join us for the first public viewing of Matchback Master, a new super-secret software tool from Intelligent Assistance Founder Philip Hodgetts that will revolutionize media tracking in Final Cut Pro live in person.

About Philip: Philip Hodgetts is an expert and consultant in digital production and post-production workflows, encoding, web applications, digital delivery and technology innovation. He is the President and CEO of Open Television Network, a company dedicated to making "podcasting" a professional service.  He remains President of Intelligent Assistance, Inc - a systems and technology developer - and one of the "Big Brains" of Big Brains for Rent" consultancy. He is an experienced trainer and has written extensively online across a range of topics. He is the co-creator of “Assisted Editing” and an expert on metadata-based postproduciton workflows. Philip is the author of "The HD Survival Handbook"; "Awesome Titles with FCS" and "The New Now: How to grow your production or postproduction business in a changed and changing world". He has presented at many conferences and seminars including Keynote addresses for the New York DV Show; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' NEXT TV symposium in 2006; and the 2007 Podcast Summit at NAB as well as presented at Streaming Media East and West; NAB Post|Production, Seybold among others. 

8pm - 8:15pm: BREAK. Not enough time before the meeting to eat & mingle? Here's your chance. Enjoy food and beverage while you swap anecdotes and business cards with your peers.

8:15 pm - 9:15pm: Getting Pluggd-in with BorisFX. Indy filmmaker Paul Ezzy will be trekking down from Boston to show us some cool stuff using Boris Continuum Complete 6 and Boris XML Transfer.

Boris Continuum Complete 6 is the Swiss Army Knife of Visual Effects, giving compositors and editors the most complete and useful plug-in suite ever created. Nearly 200 plug-in filters include 3D Objects, image restoration tools, time-based effects such as Optical Stabilizer, distortion andperspective effects such as UpRez, generators such as Snow, Rain, and Fire, lights such as Glint, Glare, and Glitter, wipe transitions, keys and mattes including Motion Key for automated foreground object removal, colors and blurs, and film, glow, and cartoon effects.

Boris XML Transfer is a new plug-in that allows you to seamlessly transfer an Apple Final Cut Pro program sequence to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, transitions, and geometric transformations. When you use

Boris XML Transfer to transfer a Final Cut Pro sequence to After Effects, all Boris Continuum Complete effects are carried over - including individual parameters! 

About Paul: Paul Ezzy is an independent filmmaker and videographer. He is trained formally as a filmmaker, editor, and actor at the New York Film Academy and the Rockport Photographic Workshops. Paul has degrees in Education, Chemistry, and Psychology. His past-times of choice include creating visual special effects, art, and video games.

9:15 - 9:30pm: "Michael Vitti Big Prize Raffle". Good luck winning a prize from our generous sponsors