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Next Club Meeting(s):
[Christmas Break]
Tuesday, January 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 
 
Goward House [external link]
2495 Arbutus Road
Victoria, BC 
Club Christmas Luncheon 
Saturday December 5, 2009
Crystal Jade Restaurant
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Victoria Video Club Members
Thank you again goes out to Mila, for kindly organizing the club's Christmas luncheon at the Crystal Jade Restaurant. on Saturday December 5th. Thirteen members were able to make it for the buffet-style lunch. Conversation ranged from Christmas plans to camcorder details, and a good time was had by all. 
"Video Made on a Mac...
Wednesday December 2, 2009 
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August 2009 Peachpit Press
Editing on the Mac is like entering battle with all the latest weaponry. You feel assured of victory: "Sir, that movie will get edited, Sir!" So, there you are with some amazing software tools, and even some great training on each tool.  But just like in battle, some things tend to break down---like the communication between groups of soldiers, er, I mean tools.  Enter "Video Made on a Mac: Production and Post Production Using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite" by Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman. They don't take you to boot camp...'cause you already know the basics, instead you jump to marine training, as they show you how to link your high level weapons (er, software tools) together to improve your movie making. 

And Peachpit is so confident that you'll want the whole book (and 5 hours of training videos, plus project files) that they are making available a number of excerpts of the material from this publication (courtesy of a number of web sites...like this one) for people to view for themselves.  And when you do buy, make sure to check out their user group discount of 35% off the price.
 
We are hosting these excerpts (and some videos) on our site...so click here to start reading.... "Attention, forward march...!"
"Gin & Tonic" Wins SCCA's
Best Club Video of 2009
Wednesday November 25, 2009 
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The club received another honour—this time the club's production of "Gin and Tonic" was the receipient of the Class "D" - The Garlick Trophy in the 2009 Society of Canadian Cine Amateurs' (SCCA) Annual Contest. The Garlick Tropy is awarded to the best SCCA Club film/video of the year.

Congratulation to Director, Crew and Cast: Michael Veronneau, Margaret Chamberlain, David Fuller, Gord Wicks, Alice Thomas, Philip Pryce-Jones and Annie Spracklen.  For the background on this club production, that was originally printed in the SCCA's Panorma newsletter, click the link below:

Read Gin & Tonic article...

Additional awards in this contest were:

  • Class "A": 3rd Runner Up: Margaret Chamberlain for "From Rails to Sails"
  • Best Dialog in a Video: Victoria Video Club for "Gin & Tonic"
  • Class "F" Winner: David Fuller for "Bug Off"
  • Class "B" 1st Runner Up: Mila Werbik for "What a Wonderful World"

Well done everyone...!

The SCCA was established in 1968, and is a non-profit organization that promotes the arts and sciences of amateur movie production. For more information on the SCCA visit http://s-c-c-a.ca/

Awards for Club Members
Tuesday November 24, 2009 
From Rails to Sails
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by Margaret Chamberlain

Club member's Margaret Chamberlain and David Fuller were delighted to hear that entries that they had submitted to AMMA had received awards.  Margaret had submitted "From Rails to Sails" and David had submitted "Dave's Dawgs."

Both videos took honours in the North American Movie Maker Awards'  (NAMMA) "The Ten Best 2009," a contest that selected the ten best movies from all the submissions made for the annual contest. Movies are not ranked, but rather they are considered equal, among the"Ten Best." 

Dave wrote an entertaining article, which was originally published by AMMA, about "The Making of Dave's Dawgs."  You can read a copy of that article by clicking the link below:

click here to read Dave's article.

Dave's Dawgs
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by David Fuller

In addition, Margaret's movie received a certificate of merit in The American International Film and Video Festival (AIFVF) 2009 contest. The contest celebrated it's 80th Anniversary this year. To read more about these contests and the organization that sponsored them, please visit the American Motion Picture Society website.

And congratulations to both David and Margaret on their winning entries..!

Music and Sound Effects 
Friday November 6, 2009
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Folks, for a range of royalty-free music, sound effects and soundtracks why not check out the Partners in Rhyme website. There is a fair amount of free sound effects and video files to discover too.
 
 Stock Music and Sound Effects Download the music and sound effects you need for your multimedia project today at Partners In Rhyme.
SCCA's Panorama
The Society of Canadian Cine Amateurs (SCCA) is a non-profit organization that promotes the arts and science of amateur movie production. Our club is a member of the SCCA, and contributes information about club activities and articles to the SCCA's publication called Panorama
 
Take a moment to visit the SCCA website to see what is new, and enjoy this great newsletter.

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Regardless of whether you are shooting family activities, making a mini-documentary, or creating a music video for a school band, you can learn to make them better with us. Don't tranquilize your friends and family! Drop into one of our monthly club meetings to find out more...

The Victoria Video Club is an amateur video production club, based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The club currently has about 24 members.
 
Our club is open to anyone interested in amateur video production. If you have been looking for a way to improve your video shooting and editing, or just want to see what other people are producing, then drop in to a club meeting, check out our extensive book and instructional library, and discuss making movies with like-minded enthusiasts.
 
We are fortunate to have members who use a range of editing platforms and software solutions---so no matter what type of camera you are using or computer for editing you are likely to find someone using the same or similar equipment---including:
  • Macrosystems: Casablanca series of video editing systems
  • Macintosh: Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro Express, and iMovie HD;
  • PC-based: Adobe Premier Pro & Premier Elements, Pinnacle Studio and Magix Movie Edit Pro;
  • Sony, Canon, Panasonic and JVC camcorders---including the new high definition cameras.

The club's activities include social occasions (dinners and get togethers around town), but our core goal is to improve our video productions through skill improvement. Shooting technique, editing tools and resources, scriptwriting, working with actors (be they your grandchildren or other enthusiastic volunteers) are all topics that come up in our conversations.
 
The club meetings include screening of videos produced by club members and also by members of other clubs that participate in an exchange program. Often we return the exchanged videos with summaries of our praise and suggestions for improvements. Constructive criticism is key.

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Great site for Digital Video & Audio books
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http://ug.oreilly.com

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