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January 2003 MEETING

Speakers:

• Michael Phillips, Principal Product Designer, Avid
• Michael Poimboeuf, Consulting Engineer, Avid Technology/Digidesign

1. 6pm-7pm - No Host dinner at Fuddruckers, First floor, Digidesign's Building 2001 Pacific Plaza Daly City
2. 7pm-7:30pm - Soft Drinks and discussion in Digidesign Lobby, 2nd floor in Digidesign's Building 2001 Pacific Plaza Daly City (No Host coffee and juice from Starbucks and Jamba Juice downstairs before coming up the elevators
3. 7:30pm-9pm - 24p Presentation from Avid 4th floor in Digidesign's Building
4. 9pm on, movies at Century Theatres in Pacific Plaza.

We have reserved a "no-host" dinner space for us at Fuddruckers, which had its grand opening on the first floor of the Digidesign building this week. They've set aside seating for 30 and have expansion room for hundreds. They feature the best burgers I've tasted: http://www.fuddruckers.com/menu.html

After the meeting, some might want to attend a movie next door at the new Pacific Plaza Century Theatres.

Program:

Michael Phillips, the Principal Product Designer for Avid Technology, Inc., is responsible for the design of Avid's Media Composer, Film Composer, and Symphony product lines, which offer digital online and offline editing and finishing. He also designs infrastructure and solutions to enable programming to be published to multiple digital channels such as interactive television, broadband, and DVD.

Phillips has won both an Academy Award and an Oscar for his Avid designs. His film industry background includes work as a cameraman, sound recorder, and film editor. He consults with independent producers and directors for feature films using digital technologies for the entire production process. Phillips co-authored the book Digital Filmmaking, The Changing Art Form of Making Movies [www.focalpress.com] and is currently writing 24p, Handbook for Film and HD.

Michael Poimboeuf is an analog and digital hardware designer who has been doing audio, video, and computer work since the mid eighties. He was the lead audio architect and a senior manager of the SGI High Definition Video program. Prior to that he was with the Grass Valley Group and was the founder of Personics in Menlo Park. Michael is a Consulting Engineer at Digidesign, a part of AVID Technology and currently serves as a manager for the San Francisco Section of the SMPTE.
 
 

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Location:

                Digidesign is next door to Century Theaters, Daly City BART as well as Starbucks and Jamba juice.