AV News 178 - November 2009
Members making AV now just bring a CD, DVD or USB memory stick to the
clubrooms for showing their AVs on our standard digital projection setup.
Importantly, we are now supporting both PC and Apple Mac AV productions.
The AV Group now meets the first Wednesday of each month excluding
January and holds a 'NO RULES' AV competition when a 5th Monday occurs
in any month. This means that 4 to 5 AV competitions are held per year. This
year we have had between 7 and 15 AV entries in each of our 5th Monday
competitions. The unique aspect of this competition is there is one rule 'that
there are no rules' and provided it can be shown on the club's computer
projector system it will be evaluated by those present on the night using the
'Clap-O-Meter' principal.
Bringing friends and relatives to clap louder and longer for your AV is all
part of the nights entertainment. We have had screen savers shown along
with 'no image' AVs on a range of software that defies what traditional AV
makers consider as acceptable. But it does give everybody a chance to
'show and tell' and is a great way of starting out with any inspiration. Many
AVs in the competition are incomplete and are just for reaction and talking
about. Very inspiring for those starting out in the Audio Visual craft.
Seeing and hearing, for the first time, your AV shown in a large room on a
big screen often shows up short comings and leads to revising parts of the
production, most notably audio quality and text sizing and transition effects.
ProShowGOLD software is currently the most popular AV production
software in our Club and also
extremely popular with other AV
makers in other Camera Clubs.
Recently we held a very successful
1-day introduction workshop for our
members starting out with Photodex's
ProShowGOLD AV software.
An outline of the course and its
content is still on our website
http://www.melbournephoto.org.au/
audio-visual-group/proshow-goldthe-basics-for-making-avs.html
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