SPECIAL EVENTS ARE FREE TO ALL ATTENDEES!
(All events take place in the location noted next to the event. Please note that some locations are NOT on the show floor.)

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5

10:30am   AVCCAM Workshop: Affordable, Next-Generation HD (Open to All Room 503)

11:30am   Filmmaker Keynote  Presentation Theater booth 530

1:00pm     DV Expo Drawings!  Presentation Theater   YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!

1:00pm     Full Resolution HD Workflows - Panel Presentation by SMPTE  Presentation Theater booth 530

1:00pm     Lighting Master Class Lighting Pavilion booth 131

1:30p.m    Tools for Web Video Production Room 507

3:00pm     Raising the Bar: AVC-Intra Production (Panasonic)  Presentation Theater booth 530

3:30pm     HPX170: P2 HD in Production Room 503

3:30pm     Lighting Master Class Lighting Pavilion booth 131

3:30pm     Lights, Camera ... Zzzzz: Producing Compelling Corporate Interviews  Room 507

4:00pm     Introduction to Adobe CS4 (DVPA)  Presentation Theater booth 530

5:00pm     Documentary Post: Blindsided Screening and Discussion  Room 507

5:30pm     Best of Slamdance Shorts Presentation Theater booth 530
5:30pm     Digital Cinema Society After Dark (DCS) Group Meeting  Room 502A
7:30pm     LAFCPUG: Live! Group Meeting  Room 502A

 

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6

10:30am   Around the Floor Tour: What’s New Presentation Theater booth 530

10:30am   AVCCAM Workshop: Affordable, Next-Generation HD (Open to All Room 503)

12:00am   RED Show and Tell Presentation Theater booth 530

12:30pm   Lighting Master Class Lighting Pavilion booth 131

1:00pm     DV Expo Drawings!  Presentation Theater   YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!

1:15pm     RED User Group Meeting (LARED)  Room 502A

1:15pm     WEVA Institute: Photo Montages Made Easy Room 507

1:30pm     HD Editing Seminar (DVPA)  Presentation Theater booth 530

2:30pm     Lighting Master Class Lighting Pavilion booth 131

2:45pm     Let the Chips Fall: DLSR and HD Motion Videography  Presentation Theater booth 530

4:00pm     WEVA Institute: Adobe CS4 ... Your Workflow Just Got Easier and More Efficient  Room 507

Descriptions for each of these events are below:

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5


10:30am AVCCAM Workshop: Affordable, Next-Generation HD  (Room 503)
Videographer Bernie Mitchell, president of Silver Platter Productions, presents attendees with an overview of AVCCAM, Panasonic¹s affordable, professional solid-state AVCHD solution for acquisition. Mitchell will demonstrate the new AG-HMC150, a 3-CCD handheld production camcorder that captures HD images in 1080 or 720p on SD cards.

11:30am Filmmaker Keynote (Presentation Theater)

1:00pm Lighting Master Class  (Lighting Pavilion)
Former President of Cinematographer's Guild Local 600 and current ASC Education Committee chair to moderate four discussion sessions at the show. The DV Expo's Master Classes in Lighting will be led by a master of the craft of cinematography: veteran director of photography George Spiro Dibie, ASC. The four Master Classes will each feature a different top cinematographer who will show clips from recent projects and discuss how the lighting was accomplished — also taking questions from the audience at hand. Dibie will serve as the host and moderator for the four sessions.


1:00pm  DV Expo Drawings!  Presentation Theater
You must be present to win!!




1:00pm Full Resolution HD Workflow Workshop (Sponsored by SMPTE) Presentation Theater
To properly navigate today’s HD production “jungle”, and plow through all of the rhetoric on the path to success, we’re bringing together some top personnel in the business to help cut through the BS in the areas of “full resolution” workflows, both 422 and 444 at 1920x1080.  What works, what doesn’t, what has been tried, what the future holds and how best to get your full resolution project from start to finish.  Put on your combat fatigues and pith helmets and join us as we help to open up the full resolution production roadway.


2:30pm  AVCCAM Workshop: Affordable, Next-Generation HD
A look at Panasonic's AVCCAM line of solid-state camcorders, a new generation of affordable camcorders that record HD quality on widely-available SD cards.


3:30pm  Lighting Master Class
Former President of Cinematographer's Guild Local 600 and current ASC Education Committee chair to moderate four discussion sessions at the show. The DV Expo's Master Classes in Lighting will be led by a master of the craft of cinematography: veteran director of photography George Spiro Dibie, ASC. The four Master Classes will each feature a different top cinematographer who will show clips from recent projects and discuss how the lighting was accomplished — also taking questions from the audience at hand. Dibie will serve as the host and moderator for the four sessions.
 

4:00pm  INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE CS4
Members of the Digital Video Professionals Association reveal the newest features of Adobe’s just-shipped Creative Software suite.


5:30pm Best of Slamdance Shorts
The Slamdance Film Festival presents a selection of award-winning short films, showcasing emerging directors working within the creative confines of limited budgets. Started in 1995 by a group of independent artists, the Slamdance Film Festival continues to be organized and programmed exclusively by filmmakers, for filmmakers.


5:30pm Digital Cinema Society After Dark
Por Que 4K? The DCS explores 4K for production, post and exhibition in this special event. Society President James Mathers will lead a discussion that features special guests including RED's Ted Schilowitz, Dalsa's Rob Hummel, and Sony's Steve Banaszek.


7:30pm LAFCPUG; LIVE!
Michael Horton and his expert team from the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group offer attendees a night of presentations, panels and, yes, prizes, Scheduled to appear will be the folks from DigitalFilm Tree who will show attendees how they online the hit Showtime series, Weeds, sing FCP; Philip Hodgetts who will debut another tool as part of his Intelligent Assistant First Cuts for FCP software; FCS Guru Larry Jordan, who will provide FCP Tips and tricks. Also scheduled will be a show-and-tell from filmmaker Michael Addis, who recently completed the critically acclaimed documentary Heckler, starring comedian Jamie Kennedy.


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6


10:30am AVCCAM Workshop: Affordable, Next-Generation HD
Videographer Bernie Mitchell, president of Silver Platter Productions, presents attendees with an overview of AVCCAM, Panasonic's affordable, professional solid-state AVCHD solution for acquisition. Mitchell will demonstrate the new AG-HMC150, a 3-CCD handheld production camcorder that captures HD images in 1080 or 720p on SD cards.

10:30am Cool Tools from the Show Floor
This informal session offers an "around-the-world" tour of cool tools from the show floor, with first looks at more than 15 new products!


12:00am RED Show and Tell
RED Digital Cinema presents an up-close — and much-anticipated
— look at its current, upcoming and prototype products, including the RED ONE, Scarlet 3K camera and Epic 5K camera. After the session, the audience is invited to continue the conversation at the L.A. Red User Group meeting, which will start at 1:15.

12:30pm Lighting Master Class
Former President of Cinematographer's Guild Local 600 and current ASC Education Committee chair to moderate four discussion sessions at the show. The DV Expo's Master Classes in Lighting will be led by a master of the craft of cinematography: veteran director of photography George Spiro Dibie, ASC. The four Master Classes will each feature a different top cinematographer who will show clips from recent projects and discuss how the lighting was accomplished — also taking questions from the audience at hand. Dibie will serve as the host and moderator for the four sessions.

1:00pm  DV Expo Drawings!  Presentation Theater
You must be present to win!







1:15pm LA RED User Group Meeting
Seeing RED: Experienced RED One users from LARUG converge to discuss the unique camera’s performance in production and post, screening footage of completed projects and offering candid insight during an open Q&A session.


1:15pm   WEVA Institute: Photo Montages Made Easy (& Profitable)  


1:30pm HD Editing Seminar
The Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA) gives attendees an interactive tutorial on techniques for the HD postproduction process using Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro.


2:30pm Lighting Master Class
Former President of Cinematographer's Guild Local 600 and current ASC Education Committee chair to moderate four discussion sessions at the show. The DV Expo's Master Classes in Lighting will be led by a master of the craft of cinematography: veteran director of photography George Spiro Dibie, ASC. The four Master Classes will each feature a different top cinematographer who will show clips from recent projects and discuss how the lighting was accomplished — also taking questions from the audience at hand. Dibie will serve as the host and moderator for the four sessions.


2:45pm Let the Chips Fall: DSLR and HD Motion Videography
The Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Vincent Laforet's Reverie caused the biggest sensation in motion photography since the Lumiere Brothers. DSLR meets HD motion videography. Learn why Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic and RED are poised to battle it out in the still photography arena. Find out what the experts are saying about the most exciting advance in digital cameras since HD.



4:00pm WEVA Institute: Adobe CS4 ….
Your Workflow Just Got Easier and More Efficient