The MUG Event Calendar for May 21: Adobe CS3, Adam & Tonya Engst, Cinesoft, a Student iMovieFest, Photo Contest Results and More
The MUG Event Calendar for this week features two notable speakers, another look at the Adobe Creative Suite 3, several Final Cut Pro User Group meetings, the results of a MUG photo contest, a student moviemaking event and more.
Brian Chau of Adobe will show off their latest flagship release in Australia, while Adam and Tonya Engst of TidBits and Take Control will talk to a group in Tennessee.
Final Cut Pro User Groups will meet in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Chicago and Hong Kong, offering up presentations on Soundtrack Pro, Media Batch, Final Cut Studio Pro and much more. A student group in Massachutes will hold a movie-making event while a group in the United States capitol will show off the results of their results of their member’s digital photography contest.
Elsewhere, a group in Japan will look at getting entertainment off the web, Flash will be demonstrated in Canada and lighting for digital photography and video will be explained in the United Kingdom. HTML will be the topic in Philadelphia, Mac OS X tips and tricks will be revealed in Detroit and favorite web sites will be shown in Florida.
Let us know what’s coming up at your group and we’ll add it to the most complete list of Mac User Group events anywhere.
The week’s complete listing include:
| Monday | 21-May | Naples MacFriends – Eric Strachan, Managing Editor of the Naples Daily News on photography at the paper, and how Macs helps the paper function |
| Center City Philadelphia Macintosh Users Group – Everything You Need To Know to be Slightly Dangerous with HTML… Oh, and Effectively Build/Maintain a Simple Web Page | ||
| DuPage Apple User Group – Genealogy | ||
| San Gabriel Valley Macinosh User Group – TBA | ||
| Tuesday | 22-May | Louisville Computer Society – Adam & Tonya Engst of TidBITS |
| Adobe InDesign User Group Orlando – InDesign CS 3 Launch | ||
| Internet Macintosh User Group (Australia) – Adobe Creative Suite 3—Photoshop and Photoshop Extended with Brian Chau of Adobe Systems | ||
| Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group – Ripple Training’s Steve Martin goes deep inside Soundtrack Pro 2; Marco Solorio of Cinesoft will show off the brand new Media Batch and Shane Ross of Little Frog in High def will demonstrate how to get Organized in FCP. | ||
| Indianapolis Final Cut Pro User Group – Final Cut Pro Studio 2 | ||
| Manitoba New Media – "Turn On Your Flash Lite" | ||
| Des Moines Macintosh Users Group – Backing Up: strategies and programs | ||
| Midlands Macintosh Users Group (United Kingdom) – Lighting for Photography and Video | ||
| Lincoln Hills Macintosh Users Group – Computer maintenance, upgrades & recycling | ||
| Woodward Macintosh User Group – iMovieFest | ||
| Macintosh Users of Delaware – Q&A | ||
| Wednesday | 23-May | Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group – Stuart Bass, ACE, discusses the fine points of story editing; Get a close look at the new AJA IOHD with Gary Adcock; Jim Teirney of Digital Anarchy shows off the new PlasmaFX Filter Suite and ToonIt for Final Cut Pro. |
| Macintosh Users East (Canada) – iMovie and Address Book | ||
| Thursday | 24-May | Nebraska Acrobat User Group (Lincoln) – Acrobat 8 Professional Features |
| West Pasco Macintosh Users Group – Fonts in Mac OS X | ||
| Macintosh Ashville Computer Society – Party! | ||
| Waterloo Region Mac User Group (Canada) – Organize Your Recipes | ||
| Chattanooga Macintosh Users Group – TBA | ||
| Friday | 25-May | Citris Macintosh Users Group – Favorite Web Sites |
| Saturday | 26-May | Washington Apple Pi – Results from the First Washington Apple Pi Photo Contest |
| Hong Kong Final Cut Pro Users Group (China) – Final Cut Pro Studio 2 | ||
| Caracas Macintosh Users Group (Venezuela) – TBA | ||
| Sunday | 27-May | MacGroup-Detroit – Mac OS X Tips and Tricks |
| Kinki Macintosh Users Group (Japan) – Getting Entertainment from the Web | ||
| Double-Click – “Computer Networking Basics: Connecting Your Macs to the Max!†|