Prizes for this years MMB will be announced as we get closer to April.
These are the prizes we gave away in 2018 ...
Puget Systems is joining the MMB as a Silver Sponsor this year and will be there to answer your PC transition questions.
From Cycore we ten copies of Path & Sphere tools (thanks Nils!)
From Pallet Gear - 1 'Expert Kit' prize
Palette’s magnetically connected sliders, dials and buttons offer photographers, videographers, and other creatives a faster, more intuitive and precise editing experience. Simply connect Palette via USB and customize both module layout and functionality to match your workflow in Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, and beyond. Value $299.99
Zaxwerks -
From Jim at Digital Anarchy -
divergent media are once again giving us prizes for the MMB. This year two bundles, each with copies of Editready & Scopebox a value of $119.99 each.
EditReady allows you to
- Rewrap or transcode media into edit-optimized masters and proxies
- Designed to ensure you get the best quality output for your source media without confusing settings
- Resize, rotate, retime, and apply color changing LUTs
- View and edit metadata
- Burn-in timecode, metadata, custom text and images
And Scopebox gives all the Monitoring you need. You get all of your "old favorites" - waveform and vectorscope - plus some new ways of visualizing your signal like the RGB histogram or Channel Plot. You can mix and match scopes, save layouts, and be confident that you're seeing every pixel and every frame of your signal.
A great prize from Wipster:
Wipster is a video collaboration and publishing platform that enables companies to create and deliver better video, faster.
With Wipster, marketing and creative content teams can efficiently collaborate on video revisions, store them in a shared multimedia asset library, publish videos across a variety of tools and easily understand the results—all in one platform.
Prize:
Wipster Business account valued at $1,188
- 250GB Storage
- Creative review and collaboration
- Unlimited team members
- Unlimited reviewers
- Unlimited projects
- Publishing
From aescripts + aeplugins we have not one but 5 copies of Superluminal Stardust and 5 copies of Paint & Stickbeing given away at the MMB. Two amazingly useful Ater Effects tools. Want to know more - click the images below.
Known for fantastic customer service, Toolfarm.com is the one stop shop on the internet to get everything for your visual media production needs: motion graphics tools, 3D software, plug-ins, audio software, training and more.
Maxon has been a generous sponsor of the MediaMotion Ball since its inception. To celebrate 21-years of unwavering sponsorship, Maxon is doing something special again this year. I'm very pleased to announce that Maxon is returning as the MediaMotion Ball "Raise A Glass" sponsor! Paul Babb of Maxon, well known for his passion for 3D motion graphics, this year will again share his passion for wine by providing a couple of great wines all of the attendees can enjoy with their sumptuous dinner.
In addition, Maxon will be supplying a great prize:
A copy of Cinema 4D Broadcast R19.
MSRP $1,695.00
Cinema 4D Broadcast has everything you need to create dynamic broadcast graphics quickly and easily. If you are a motion graphics artist looking to add 3D to your existing suite of tools, then this is the ideal choice for you.
Value of this prize: $1,695.00
Thanks to Paul Babb and everyone on the Maxon team for their continued, generous support of the MediaMotion Ball. Without support from generous sponsors like Maxon, this long-running user event would simply not be possible.
G-Technology is sponsoring the 21st MediaMotion Ball as a GOLD sponsor this year and we are delighted to have their support!
From small portable and rugged drives to large, multi-bay RAID and NAS solutions, G-Technology – a Western Digital Corporation brand – is the powerful, premium storage solutions company focused on meeting the demanding requirements of the media and entertainment industry.
G-Technology is offering TWO great prizes to lucky MMB attendees!
http://www.g-technology.com/pro…/g-drive-mobile-ssd-r-series
Capacity: 1TB
MSRP: $350 each
AJA Video Systems is returning as a Gold sponsor of the 2018 Media Motion Ball. AJA has been supporting the MediaMotion Ball community for many years and great people like Christina Oliver, Bryce Button, Steve Holyhead and more from AJA will be at the MMB and eager to engage with you.
AJA is also providing a fantastic prize!
Io 4K
Io 4K from AJA offers powerful and portable capture and output hardware offering a full set of professional video and audio connectivity with support for the latest 4K and UltraHD devices, compatible with a wide range of creative software on macOS and Windows for editing, color correction, VFX, streaming and more. The power of Thunderbolt 2 enables Io 4K to handle a wide range of formats from SD to HD, UltraHD and full 4K over both 3G-SDI and HDMI I/O, plus HDR10 and HLG support over HDMI out for emerging HDR workflows.
Red Giant is returning as a Gold Sponsor of the 2018 MediaMotion Ball and you can see some of the Red Giant team at the MMB to ask any questions you may have.
They are offering some great prizes to lucky attendees of the MMB!
2 licenses of Trapcode Suite $999 value each
https://www.redgiant.com/products/trapcode-suite/
2 licenses of Red Giant Universe Annual Subscription $99 value each
https://www.redgiant.com/universe/
(2) Motion Design Bundle: Element 3D V2 + BackLight + Pro Shaders 2 + Motion Design 2 - $349.95
(2) Ultra Studio Bundle: Jetstrike + Flight Kit + Metropolitan + Element 3D V2 + Pro Shaders 2 + Motion Design 2 + BackLight + MotionPulse Blackbox + Shockwave Pack - $699.50
Imagine Products are celebrating 10 years of ShotPut Pro. ShotPut Pro is the industry de-facto standard offloading application for professionals. The simple user interface and robust copy speeds make it indispensable for todays file based workflows. Other products from Imagine Products include HD-VU, PrimeTranscoder, PreRollPost and more.
1 copy of ShotPut Pro will be won at the MMB.
From our long time MMB supporter Flanders Scientific we have a gift certificate of $500 which can be put toward any purchase from FSI's amazing array of broadcast monitors. Simply the best monitors available.
Adobe are celebrating 25 years of After Effects this year and you can join in at the MediaMotion Ball. Expect to see a number of After Effects gurus at the MMB along with a contingent of the Adobe people that actually help make our favourite motion graphics software. And to add to our burgeoning pool of prizes, Adobe are giving away a years subscription to Creative Cloud.
The team from RE:Vision Effects will be at the MMB (as always) to answer your questions and show you the wide range of RE:Vision Effects plugins. And will be giving away one of their Effections bundles. This is EVERYTHING RE:Vision Effects make. From RE:Lens, DEFlicker, Twixtor, and Reelsmart Motion Blur. 13 of the most useful plugins available. Valued up to $1195.00 depending on your host application.
Wow! Not only are Blackmagic Design giving away copies of both Davinci Resolve Studio ($299.00) and Fusion 9 Studio ($299.00) but also a Blackmagic Design Ursa Mini Pro camera valued at $5995.00
Greyscalegorilla join our 2018 prize pool with a very cool Greyscalegorilla Complete Suite. That's everything Greyscalegorilla make in one package to one lucky winner. If you are a Cinema4D user this is an amazing prize valued at $987.00
You'll see some of the Greyscalegorilla team at the MMB and can ask them any questions about their products. Find them next to Maxon in the mingling & sponsor area when you arrive.
New MMB sponsor Soundstripe are giving away 5 annual Soundstripe memberships as prizes. Each valued at $135. See the Soundstripe team at the MediaMotion Ball to find out more about their new music service.
From Avid we have Media Composer and Protools licenses. Two great prizes for two lucky MMB attendees.
BorisFX are giving away 1 year licences to Boris Continuum, Sapphire, Mocha Pro and Mocha VR. Four great prizes at this years MMB. Valued in total at $1280.00
Last years prize list;
Here is the prize list for MediaMotion Ball 2017. We gave away over $50,000 worth of prizes at this years Ball. All possible with the generous support of the following companies.
From Jim at Digital Anarchy - two copies of the fantastic Beauty Box
Zaxwerks - 2 ProAnimators. $375 each The user can choose the standalone or the plug-in version.
We are giving away Continuum, Mocha Pro, Mocha VR and Sapphire from Boris FX.
Two $1999 certificates from Artbeats.
Editready and Scopebox from Divergent media.
A whole bunch of Iographers from Iographer.
Torus Media Labs have given us 5 licenses of canvas 360 pro to give away.
From aescripts & aeplugins we have copies of Plexus 3, Paint & Stick and Grid Guide.
From Cycore we ten copies of Path & Sphere tools (thanks Nils!)
Two premium memberships to Mixing light
Two 'edit essentials' from Rampant Design Tools.
Three Keyflow Pro licenses
Two Digieffects Digisuites
Media Composer from Avid
3 LinkedIN Lynda.com 1 year Premium Subscription certificates
Great News!
The IMUG MediaMotion Ball team would like to welcome new Gold sponsor Nvidia to the 20th anniversary MediaMotion Ball!
Today’s video production world demands more and more GPU power with every software revision. Here’s a chance to win one of the best GPUs available today!
A lucky winner at the MediaMotion Ball will receive a Quadro P5000! ($2099)
The NVIDIA Quadro P5000 workstation graphics card, powered by NVIDIA Pascal™ GPU technology, features 16 GB memory capacity and enables an expansive visual workspace with quad display outputs. Work with larger models, complex visual effects & simulations, larger rendering tasks, & more life-like VR experiences in your workflow today and be well prepared for the challenges of tomorrow.
Additionally, another winner will receive an Nvidia Shield TV! ($199)
THE WORLD'S MOST ADVANCED STREAMER
NVIDIA SHIELD is a streaming beast. The fastest, smoothest 4K HDR video. Infinite apps and entertainment. NVIDIA-powered gaming in the cloud or from your PC. The power to control every experience with your voice—soon even your home. It’s everything you want in one game-changing device that’s 3X faster than the closest competitor
We are very excited to have Pond5 back — now as a Gold sponsor of the 20th Annual MediaMotion Ball!
The fine folks from Pond5 will be on hand and are bringing some great prizes with them.
They will be awarding four (4) $250 certificates and one (1) $1000 Certificate to lucky winners at the MediaMotion Ball!
Pond5 is transforming the role of video in the creative process, enabling creative professionals to bring their vision to life without compromise. Through an intuitive tech platform, flexible plans, and affordable pricing, creators can access a vast and ever-growing library of more than 7 million royalty-free video clips, plus photos, music, sound effects, and other leading-edge media. From inspiration, to concept development, to finding the key sequence that brings it all together, belonging to the Pond5 community allows you to maximize your creative power. Pond5 is a venture-backed company backed by Accel Partners and Stripes Group with offices located in New York, Dublin, and Prague.
http://www.pond5.com
The All-volunteer IMUG Team would like to welcome new silver sponsor Fayteq!
Jürgen Reinlein and the team from Fayteq will be on hand and look forward to meeting everyone at the 20th annual MediaMotion Ball.
They are also providing some great prizes to give away!!!
- 1x fayIN Gold lifetime license $315
- 2x fayIN Gold 12month license $165
- 2x faIN Silver 12month license $90
https://www.fayteq.com/
fayIN Gold:
fayIN® Gold means unlimited matchmoving possibilities in Adobe® After Effects® CC. Easily integrate text, 2D elements or even 3D models with just a couple of clicks. Simply make your tracking data available for 3rd party software. Perfect for 3D artists and motion graphics designers.
fayIN Silver:
fayIN® Silver is fayteq’s matchmoving allrounder for video editors, preditors and 2D artists. The powerful plugin for Adobe® After Effects® CC enables an easy and fast integration of text, 2D models and videos. Perfect for HUDs, holo displays or perspective call-outs.
Flanders Scientific is returning as a bronze sponsor of the 20th annual MediaMotion Ball. Thanks again to everyone at Flanders for their support!
Flanders makes some of the finest color-critical monitors in the business. From LCD to OLED and backlight options, there are models serving a range of budget, post production or field production needs.
They are offering the following prizes:
2 of these: FSI $500 Gift certificate
$500 off any monitor purchase at ShopFSI.com
Plus a very nice CAM3 Camera Case $495
The FSI Solutions CAM case is designed to conveniently and safely carry your camera and accessories. This case features a durable cordura and ballistic nylon exterior wrapped around solid thermoformed impact resistant plastic. The exterior is fitted with a large zippered accessory pocket and secure tripod holster. Inside the case you will find soft padded foam, customizable velcro inserts, straps for securing your gear, and a removable padded zipper pouch for storing charts and small accessories.
http://www.fsisolutions.net/cam3.php
Returning to the 20th MediaMotion Ball as a bronze sponsor. Operating 8 digital media training facilities across the country and two internationally, FMC provides quality, consistent and accessible training for content creators looking to stay on the cutting edge of post-production technology. Beyond the branches, FMC, in partnership with NAB Show, produces the Post|Production World Conference happening this week in Las Vegas. New this year, FMC introduces PPW Online | June 1-3, 2017. Online training conference featuring 3 full days of unique sessions delivered by FMC’s team of world-renown certified instructors and industry gurus. WIN a FREE PPW ONLINE PASS at MediaMotion Ball, a $695 value from Future Media Concepts!
Much more information is available at http://www.ppw-online.com
Toolfarm is supporting this event as a bronze sponsor and is also offering prizes:
A $200 Certificate to Toolfarm.com to use towards any purchase,
plus they are giving a couple of copies of the new, updated “Green Screen Made Easy” book.
Many thanks to our friends at Toolfarm for these prizes and for their support of this entirely volunteer user event.
http://www.toolfarm.com
The Toolfarm team has also teamed up to blast updates to Social Media live from the event!
Red Giant are sponsoring the 20th MediaMotion Ball again this year as one of our Gold Sponsors. Red Giant make tools, films and training to enrich the community of filmmakers and motion designers.
Red Giant will also be giving away great software prizes at the 20th MediaMotion Ball.
TRAPCODE SUITE 13.1
The industry-standard package for motion graphics in After Effects.
Red Giant Trapcode Suite is a set of 11 tools for 3D motion graphics and visual effects.
MAGIC BULLET SUITE 13
Color correction, finishing and film looks for filmmakers
Magic Bullet Suite is a set of seven tools that bring intuitive, real time color correction, and beyond, right to your editorial timeline.
UNIVERSE 2
Over 60 GPU-accelerated effects and transitions for editors and motion graphics artists
G-Technology is returning as a silver sponsor of the 20th Anniversary MediaMotion Ball 2017!
From our friends at G-Tech:
At G-Technology® we design some of the highest-performing and most reliable leading-edge storage solutions for end-to-end creative workflows. In doing so, we empower creative professionals to capture their dreams, enhance their storytelling, and bring to life their moments of inspired creativity. Through every touch point of the creative process, we are there helping to keep things moving forward. From capture and ingest … transport and transfer … to editing and final production.
From small portable and rugged drives to large, multi-bay RAID and NAS solutions, G-Technology is the powerful, premium storage solutions company focused on meeting the demanding requirements of the media and entertainment industry. Amongst studios, professional videographers and photographers, post-production houses, prosumers, and content creators and curators, our high-end drives are designed for every stage of your creative workflow.
Representatives from G-Technology will be at the MMB and happy to meet and answer your questions about our storage solutions. We’re also bringing some great prizes!
G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt 8TB
http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-thunderbolt
MSRP: $599.95
G-RAID with Thunderbolt 16TB
http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid-thunderbolt-2
MSRP: $1,049.95
We’d like to welcome Telestream as a bronze sponsor of this landmark year at the MMB.
Andrew Haley from telestream will be on hand to meet with you and answer your questions. They are also offering up some great prizes!
Wirecast $995 MSRP, 1 license of Wirecast Pro, The leading live production streaming software
https://www.telestream.net/wirecast/overview.htm
ScreenFlow $99 MSRP, 2 licenses of ScreenFlow 6, Screen recording, screencasting and video editing software https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm
Maxon has been a generous sponsor of the MediaMotion Ball since its inception.
To celebrate 20 years of unwavering sponsorship, Paul Babb of Maxon, well known for his passion for 3D motion graphics, this year will again share his passion for wine by providing two great wines all of the attendees can enjoy with their sumptuous MMB dinner.
In addition, Maxon will be supplying 2 great prizes:
Cinema 4D Broadcast has everything you need to create dynamic broadcast graphics quickly and easily. If you are a motion graphics artist looking to add 3D to your existing suite of tools, then this is the ideal choice for you.
Value of this prize: $1,695.00
Additionally, especially for our 20th anniversary, Paul Babb is offering a bonus prize: A fantastic bottle of wine from his personal cellar.
Thanks to Paul Babb and everyone on the Maxon team for their continued, generous support of the MediaMotion Ball. Without support from generous sponsors like Maxon, this long-running user event would simply not be possible.
We’d like to welcome Mettle as a bronze sponsor of MediaMotion Ball 2017!
Mettle software products are born from real workflow/production conditions. Chris Bobotis is the Architect behind the mettle plug-ins, inspired by 20+ years working on motion design and 3D projects, primarily for advertising agencies. Partners Chris Bobotis and Nancy Eperjesy founded mettle in 1992.
Mettle are helping us give away 3 Mettle Mega Suites. These Suites retail for: $899.00 each
So three times $899.00 = $2,697.00 MSRP
The Mega Suite includes all of the SkyBox 360/VR Products for Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro.
SkyBox products are the industry leading solutions for Cinematic 360/VR Production.
The IMUG would like to welcome Gold sponsor AJA, who are returning this year in support of the 20th MediaMotion Ball!
AJA Video Systems has been a leading manufacturer of high-quality and cost-effective digital video interface, conversion and desktop solutions supporting the professional broadcast and post-production markets since 1993.
AJA is sending a great team of folks to the MMB who are eager to meet and greet you in our relaxed environment. In addition, AJA has provided some truly outstanding prizes that several lucky MMB attendees will win!
T-Tap ($295)
Thunderbolt™ powered SDI and HDMI output
https://www.aja.com/products/t-tap
U-Tap ($345)
USB 3.0 Powered SDI and HDMI Capture
https://www.aja.com/products/u-tap
Ki Pro Ultra ($3995)
4K/UltraHD and 2K/HD Recorder/Player with 4K 60p Support
https://www.aja.com/products/ki-pro-ultra
We are very happy to have Adobe as one of our Silver sponsors for the MediaMotion Ball!
Adobe is also providing a great prize to the prize pool!
ONE FREE YEAR of Adobe Creative Cloud!
Get the entire collection of Adobe creative tools for one year free. Edit your videos, mix sound, add motion graphics and even create promotional materials—all in house.
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
Imagine being able to have a full suite of the latest and greatest production software, just for coming to a great dinner where you can mingle with the best and brightest in the digital post and mograph community. Not to mention the great many additional prizes. I don't know about you, but I can't think of a single place I'd rather be from 5:30-9:30 on Monday April 24th!
Many thanks to Adobe for their generous support of the MMB.
Blackmagic Design is a Silver sponsor of this venerable user event. They are also providing some outstanding support in the form of fantastic prizes.
DaVinci Resolve Studio ($995)
DaVinci Resolve Studio combines professional non-linear video editing with the world’s most advanced color corrector, so now you can edit, color correct, finish and deliver all from one system! From creative editing and multi camera television production to high end finishing and color correction, only DaVinci Resolve Studio features the creative tools, compatibility, speed and legendary image quality you need to manage your entire workflow.
Fusion Studio ($995)
Fusion Studio is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators. Fusion Studio features an easy and powerful node based interface so you can construct complex effects simply by connecting various types of processing together. You get a massive range of features and effects included, so you can create exciting broadcast graphics, television commercials, dramatic title sequences and even major feature film visual effects!
Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K EF ($4,995)
The compact URSA Mini camera with EF lens mount, 4.6K Super 35 sensor and an incredible 15 stops of dynamic range, is lightweight and perfectly balanced for handheld use and comfortable enough for all day shooting. URSA Mini 4.6K EF features professional 12G-SDI connections, 5” fold out touchscreen monitor and side grip with camera control functions as well as dual CFast card recorders, built in stereo microphones and more.
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com
We’d like to welcome TeamPeople to the 20th annual MediaMotion Ball
Looking to pursue your passion?
When the mission and message matter, leading brands and corporations including international government agencies and broadcast networks, choose TeamPeople to build dynamic media teams for in-house studios, content creation, media management and AV support and delivery.TeamPeople recruiters and production managers are excited to attend the MediaMotion Ball to meet editors, designers and producers from all over the world. Let us put you to work on your next big project so you can #dowhatyoulove. www.teampeople.tv
TeamPeople is also providing a great prizes to lucky attendees of the MMB…
· iPad Mini in Space Gray
· GoPro
· Wireless Projection Keyboard
We are delighted to welcome Video Copilot as a Gold Sponsor of the MediaMotion Ball!
Andrew Kramer and the rest of the gang from Video Copilot will join in the festivities at the 20th Anniversary MMB.
Not only that, but they're providing some great prizes to give away!
These are essential tools and can greatly enhance any editor or motion designer’s toolkit! And you can win them! FREE!
(1) 3D Shader Bundle: Element 3D V2 + Pro Shaders 2 - $249.95
(1) 3D Light Bundle: Element 3D V2 + BackLight + Pro Shaders 2 - $299.95
(1) Motion Design Bundle: Element 3D V2 + BackLight + Pro Shaders 2 + Motion Design 2 - $349.95
(2) Ultra Studio Bundles: Jetstrike + Flight Kit + Metropolitan + Element 3D V2 + Pro Shaders 2 + Motion Design 2 + BackLight + MotionPulse Blackbox + Shockwave Pack - $699.50
https://www.videocopilot.net/bundles/
For more info check this link… https://www.videocopilot.net/products/
The MMB is an all-volunteer movement of end-users to foster relationship building in our industry amongst other users and face-to-face interactions with the makers of our tools. This leads to great progress for our communities and industry at large. Our event is absolutely first class and features a sit-down dinner, wine, dessert, etc. We accomplish this via our innovative subsidy model to reduce ticket costs for end users. Support from sponsors who understand the value of investing in community—like Video CoPilot—is essential to make this possible.
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