Prize list so far!
Scroll down to see the full details of over $50,000 in prizes at the MMB.
From Zaxwerks two
copies of 3D Invigorator Pro for After Effects will leave with two lucky
winners. These prizes courtesy of a great friend and supporter of the
MMB - Zax Dow. See Zax in person at the MMB.
From the Motion10 conference: 5 free passes to Motion10 conference (October 17-18 in Albuquerque, NM). This conference is very unique as it is focused on creativity and design inspiration. This prize is courtesy of Elaine Montoya, a great friend and member of the MediaMotion community. Total value: $1000
From Coremelt: Coremelt Complete V2 plus Lock-N-Load ($499)
CoreMelt Complete includes ALL 8 CoreMelt products; ImageFlow Fx™ V2,
PolyChrome Transitions™ V2 TRX, PolyChrome Transitions™ V2 Delta V,
Pigment, Gadget, Luminous and Shatter, in total providing you with over
200 GPU accelerated plugins to kick start and floor your workflow.
Lock and Load X: The Worlds Fastest Instant Hit Stabilization System for FCP.
Lock and Load can take your hand held shaky cam footage and make it usable footage.
http://www.coremelt.com
From Singular Software: Pluraleyes $149
PluralEyes is an exciting new product for video editors that
automatically synchronizes audio and video clips, without the need for
timecode, clappers or any special preparation. Makes multicamera,
dual-system audio and multi-take projects a snap.
http://www.singularsoftware.com/
From our friend Ross Shain and the fine folks at Imagineer Systems, a couple of great prizes:
1 license of mokey - removal station ($3295.00 US)
Product page: http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mokey/
1 license of mocha v2 - track and roto station ($1095.00 US) (note this
is the brand new version of Full-Blown Mocha (not Mocha AE)
Product Page: http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mocha/
From our friends John Dickinson and Tim Clapham of Motionworks:
The Making it Look Great 6 + 7 Bundle ($159.00 US)
http://www.motionworks.com.au/2010/02/milg-6-7-value-bundle/
The Making It Look Great Cinema 4D Bundle includes Making It Look Great
6: Design and Production Techniques for Cinema 4D and After Effects,
and Making It Look Great 7: MoGraph Unleashed. Both loaded with hours
of Cinema 4D, MoGraph and After Effects techniques.
Imagine Products is supporting the 13th Annual IMUG MediaMotion Ball.
They will be giving away: Two licenses of ShotPut Pro v3.0 valued at
$99 each, and Two licenses of ProxyMill v3.0 valued at $299 each.
Details at http://www.imagineproducts.com/
ShotPutPro™ At a Glance
ShotPut Pro™ is the industry’s de-facto standard offloading application
for professionals. It’s simple user interface and robust copy
speeds make it indispensable for today’s tapeless HD workflows. Whether
you’re copying just one card or five at a time, to one or more portable
hard disks at a time, with ShotPut Pro you can ‘Offload with
Confidence’. Minimize your data wrangling time; maximize your creative
time.
ProxyMill™ At a Glance
ProxyMill™ is a simple-to-use tool that saves time. Directly convert
any HD media, such as Canon 5D/7D, Panasonic P2 or AVCHD, Sony XDCam,
etc. into sharable movie files in one step. Just select the media
type to watch for, or Drag and Drop HD volumes into the queue.
Selectable compression settings and codecs allow output of multiple
formatted clips at the same time, such as edit quality QuickTime files
and lower resolution proxies with burned in Timecode and your company
logo for the web or sharing with clients.
With all the new software, particularly Adobe CS5,
about to be released, who of us, from beginner to expert couldn't use a
little training? How about a lot? Every attendee of the MMB 2010 (up to the first 400 attendees through the door) will receive a very special prize courtesy of Brian Maffitt and all of our friends at Total Training:
Everyone gets a 2-month subscription to Total Training's All-Access Online Training!
Each one of these prizes is worth $50. Collectively, this giveaway is worth up to $20 grand!
Let's do the math: MediaMotion Ball ticket: $25 bucks. As soon as you
walk in the door, you win a $50 prize. You've already doubled your
investment, and your name is still in the mega-prize-drum for our
famous prize drawing!
Total Training,
Inc. is a pioneer in innovative DVD based and online video training for
leading creative print, web design, web development, digital video,
audio music technology and office productivity software programs. Total
Training's online video tutorials are also featured on Adobe.com and at
Microsoft.com. These alliances allow Total Training to bring insider
secrets to creative designers, web developers, photographers and
videographers alike.
GridIron Software are sponsoring the MediaMotion Ball with some great prizes
Two lucking winners will win a copy of Flow ($299) and two more will win a "soon to be announced" new product.
Flow is the world's first Visual Workflow Manager, built from the
ground up to keep creative professionals streamlined and informed. Flow
gives you a total understanding of your project, visually and
intuitively. In one simple interface, you'll see all your project
files, how they're related to each other, and where they're located -
on a local drive, on a network volume, even on a DVD you burned a few
months ago.
The other prize is a secret, for now. A "soon to be announced" new product.
You can learn more at http://www.gridironsoftware.com
Thanks to GridIron Software for being such great supporters of our user events.
Toolfarm is supporting this event but has also put together a great bundle of their training products for a lucky MMB winner:
The Toolfarm Expert Series is designed for busy professionals who need
to learn quickly and painlessly. This essential training will give you
comfort and confidence with your plugins or software so you can dive
right into your next project.
Training packages from the Toolfarm Expert Series featuring the following titles:
Keylight Training by Angie Mistretta
After Effects Camera Training with Rob Birnholz
After Effects Expressions Bundle 1 with Harry J Frank
After Effects Expressions Bundle 2 with Harry J Frank
Trapcode Form Training with Harry J Frank
Trapcode 3S training with Angie Mistretta
Red Giant Primatte Keyer training with Angie Mistretta
The link to the store page with the training is here.
Many thanks to our friends at Toolfarm for this great prize bundle and for their support.
| From our good friend Jim Tierney at Digital Anarchy: Two copies of Beauty Box. Value of $199/ea. Beauty Box is the next generation in skin retouching plugins for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere. By using advanced techniques like Face Detection, this skin retouching plugin will automatically identify skin tones while preserving detail in important facial features, like eyes, teeth, eyelashes, and hair. We make the process of retouching video easier than ever. Say goodbye to manual masks or retouching frame-by-frame. http://digitalanarchy.com/ |
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From our good friend Lloyd Alvarez of AEscripts.com
Four licenses of each of these fine scripts:
Immigration http://aescripts.com/immigration
Expression Toolbox http://aescripts.com/expression-toolbox and the
BadTV plugin http://aescripts.com/bad-tv/
From our friend Dave Basulto of http://filmschoolondemand.com/
3 lucky winners will receive this 10-week online course on the process of making and selling your first film. ($197 ea)
It is our goal to provide filmmakers with an education in the
filmmaking process and business side. Our classes are taught by
industry veterans with years of experience in production, development,
distributions and marketing. Save the money you would spend on
traditional film school and use that towards you first film!
We are very excited to welcome Pond5 as a sponsor for MediaMotion Ball 2010!
The fine folks from Pond5
will be on hand and are bringing some great prizes with them. How about
five $200 certificates for free footage, music tracks and sound
effects? Awesome!
Pond5.com,
the world’s stock media marketplace, features hundreds of thousands of
royalty-free stock video clips, music tracks, and sound effects for all
production needs. Prices start at just $5 per clip or track ($2
for sound effects). All media can be searched, previewed,
purchased and
downloaded immediately. Check out the fastest user interface,
real customer service, the best prices, and a free video clip
plus 25 free sfx’s every week! Producers: upload and sell your
pro content. You set the price and earn 50% of each sale.
We are absolutely delighted to announce Blackmagic Design is returning again as a Gold sponsor of this venerable user event.
Simon Hollingworth (who many of you know), Dan May, Terry Frechette and
the BlackMagic Design team will be at the MMB. Not only do we have
their support but they are also giving away some pretty cool prizes.
We have two brand new Decklink Studios valued at $695 each to give away. Already a breakthrough price for a great product, two MMB attendees get it for free!
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Talk about a versatile video I/O card. DeckLink Studio includes highest quality 10 bit SDI video combined with enhanced analog connections to support a massive range of video equipment. DeckLink Studio includes fully independent connections for SDI, HDMI, analog component, S-Video and composite video. Both the SDI and analog component connections auto switch between SD and HD, plus there's an extra SD SDI output via a built in hardware down converter for when you're working in HD. |
When
you're working in NTSC and PAL, you can use the SD-SDI output as a key
output! Also included are a massive number of audio connections, with 4
channels of balanced analog audio, 8 channels of SDI audio plus 2
channels of AES/EBU digital with sample rate converters. For a
broadcast strength solution, DeckLink Studio also has RS-422 deck
control and blackburst and tri-sync reference input.
We're very happy to welcome Adobe to our wonderful group of sponsors for the MMB.
Adobe have announced that the details of CS5 will be announced
the same day as the MediaMotion Ball! Monday, April 12th. They've got a
special site set up that is counting down, but also has a
lot of 'sneak peek' materials hinting at all the goodness that lies
ahead.
http://cs5launch.adobe.com/
We can now tell you that a lucky
winner at the MediaMotion Ball will receive Adobe CS5 Production
Premium! This prize is worth (a lot)! The prize winner will receive it when CS5 ships.
Many thanks to Adobe for their generous support of the MMB.
For the 13th straight year, Maxon is supporting the MediaMotion Ball.
Thanks to Paul Babb, Josiah Hultgren, Mathias Omotola and the whole
gang at Maxon for their generous support over these 13 incredible
years. Just an aside on that...here is a company that really believes
in investing in the user community...and that is not just by supporting
the MMB and other key user events but by really responding to what
users have requested, particularly AE users, and made their product
better for it. Thanks Maxon.
Two lucky attendees of the MediaMotion Ball will win a copy of Cinema 4D Broadcast Edition!
The total value of these prizes is $2990! The Broadcast Edition has
what you need to impress – from explosive 3D graphics with dynamic
camera moves to graceful animations that are easy on the eye or slick
presentations with glossy finishes, the CINEMA 4D Broadcast Edition can
do this and so much more! The Broadcast Edition is equally suitable for
classic broadcast elements like lower thirds and openers as well as
info graphics and title sequences.
The Broadcast Edition puts a potent combination of tools at your
disposal for creating dynamic broadcast graphics, including MoGraph 2,
a new high-end library packed with 3D models, cameras, lighting setups,
video clips and much more.
Supported Compositing Software: Adobe After Effects (3D), Apple Motion
(3D), Apple Final Cut Pro (2D), Apple Shake (2D), Autodesk Combustion
(3D), eyeon Fusion (2D).
Find out more at http://www.maxon.net
Red Giant are at the MMB and are giving a bunch of great software to 3 lucky attendees!
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Magic Bullet Suite 2009 - value: $799 (please note we've added
Mojo to it this year). You can find all info regarding MBS, here http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-suite/ Magic Bullet Mojo - value: $99 http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/mojo/ Holomatrix - value $99 http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/holomatrix/ |
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You can learn more at http://www.redgiantsoftware.com
Thanks to Red Giant Software for being such great supporters of our user events.
Robert Sharp and the talented folks at Digieffects have not one, not two, but THREE great prizes to give away at the MMB.
The 3 lucky winners will each receive a DigiEffects Megasuite.
What's in a Megasuite you say?
Well, pretty much every plugin Digieffects
makes. Included (each one of these is a plugin set): • Aged Film •
Aurorix • Berserk • Buena Depth Cue • Camera Mapper • Damage • Delirium
• Simulate: Camera • Simulate: Illuma • Falloff Lighting • Atmosphere.
But wait, there's more!
These prizes also include Freeform AE, which brings the value of each
prize to $1100 bucks! The total value of these prizes is $3300!
Artbeats is sponsoring the MediaMotion Ball this year and are offering a huge prize bundle!
Artbeats, your
source for royalty-free stock footage from over 80 different brands is
happy to provide a footage prize package to one lucky winner at
MediaMotion Ball. The prize includes three HD footage collections
chosen from the Artbeats library, as well as a $1,599 credit toward
footage of the winner's choice. This prize package is valued at over
$4,500!
This is the single largest prize Artbeats has ever given away at any of our events.
Check out their site at http://www.artbeats.com
Thanks to Phil Bates, Julie Hill, Laura Hollifield and the rest
of the Artbeats gang for supporting the all-volunteer IMUG.
From AJA. One lucky attendee will win an AJA KONA LHi Capture card with a retail value of $1495.00
The AJA KONA LHi
bridges the gap between legacy analog devices and the latest 3G SDI and
HDMI v1.3a enabled products. KONA LHi offers a full host of
no-compromise features: 10 or 8-bit
uncompressed video, 3G/HD/SD SDI I/O including support for 1080p50/60,
analog composite/S-Video/SD-HD component video I/O, 2-channel
AES/8-channel SDI embedded audio I/O, 2-channel balanced audio I/O, and
broadcastquality hardware-based up/down/cross-conversion for flexible
SD and HD post production. Also, HDMI v1.3a capability at 30 bits per
pixel allows full support of the latest 10-bit monitors.
We are very excited to welcome back RE:Vision Effects as a sponsor for MediaMotion Ball 2010!
The fine folks from RE:Vision Effects will be at the MMB to mix it up, answer your questions and perhaps share a few laughs!
From Pierre Jasmin, Pete Litwinowicz, Lori Freitag and the RE:Vision Effects team:
RE:Vision Effects
provides superior plugin technologies for retiming, motion blur,
warping and morphing, deinterlacing, denoising and other sophisticated
filtering needed to enhance your favorite application. Our products
support many applications including: Adobe After Effects and Premiere,
Apple Final Cut Pro and Shake, Autodesk Combustion, Toxik, Softimage,
Smoke and Flame, Eyeon Fusion and Vision, Quantel generationQ,
Avid Systems, The Foundry Nuke and others. Come visit us before
the ball, NAB booth: SL4130 (near Adobe).
MMB Prize bundle - "Effections"
Effections is RE:Vision Effects
specially priced bundle of all their tools. We will draw one copy for
the host and OS of your choice (e.g. Final Cut PRO, After
Effects...).
Effections pricing vary per host, from $895 to $1395 depending on the
feature that can be supported. For example, Effections Plus for AE is
$1195.95
Genarts returns as an MMB sponsor and will be giving away one full licence of Sapphire for After Effects retail value $1699.00
"GenArts Sapphire:
This workhorse is the perfect storm of creative control and efficiency
- no wonder it’s the industry software of choice. With over 200
state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects, Sapphire is
the ultimate tool for creating breakthrough artistry at breakneck
speeds."
MediaSilo
is a web-based content management, collaboration, and deployment tool
for video. You can easily upload video, invite users to review and
comment, send out approval, tag footage, store and denote metadata, and
much more, all in one easy-to-use online platform. MediaSilo
has powerful archival, search, collaboration, and publishing tools. You
can even use the API to create custom presentation and review
solutions, as well as sync MediaSilo with your Final Cut Server. If you’re curious and want to learn more check out MediaSilo at http://www.mediasilo.com. One lucky winner will receive 6 months free of the Hollywood package, a value of $676.80.
| Class on Demand
is the definitive authority in training materials covering the creative
and media industry. Choose from our wide selection of award-winning
tutorials conducted by industry experts. Packed full of tips and
techniques, our hands-on approach will provide you with everything you
need to know to be successful. Class on Demand
will have 2 prizes to give away: Complete Training for Apple Color
($149.95) and Complete Training for Final Cut Pro 7 ( $149.95) for two
lucky attendees. Learn more and investgate their full catalog at http://www.classondemand.net |
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From our friend Martin Baker at Digital Heaven:
Martin's got some new stuff cooking and we can't really talk about it
yet. But we're happy to report that we'll have 4 pieces of software
from Digital Heaven to give away to a lucky MMB attendee. Digital Heaven
are purveyors of genuinely useful Final Cut Pro plugins and software
designed to make your editing and effects work easier, more efficient,
and better. Check out their site: http://digitalheaven.co.uk/
From our friend Harry Frank of GrayMachine.com: Video Rock ($84.99)
“Video Rock” is an awesome new DVD library of pre-rendered QuickTime elements and still images set in a vintage style.
The DVD or download includes 12 After Effects templates, but the
elements are useful for motion designers and editors alike. Use it with
any QuickTime compatible application like Final Cut, Premiere, Avid
Media Composer and more. It’s also PERFECT for particle systems like
Trapcode Particular.
Hotels are crazy cheap this year! (example: rooms that were $195 in
previous years are now at $79) Similar huge hotel price drops across
the board. Even the flights seem cheaper. Make your travel plans and be
in Vegas on Monday April 12th, 6:30pm at the Sahara!
Remember, you can't win if you are not there! Plus, who would ever want
to miss out on the great food, camaraderie, and shoulder-rubbing with
the most influential... and certainly the most fun members of this
crazy digital production business!
