OWC Partners with Hollywood Editors for Macworld Final Cut Pro User
Group SuperMeet
Top digital film storage provider and leading Hollywood film editors
talk at Final Cut Pro Event
SAN FRANCISCO (December 28, 2006) – Other World Computing (OWC), the
industry’s premier source for digital film external storage hard
drive solutions, today announced that it will participate along with
a panel of top Hollywood film editors in the Sixth Annual Final Cut
Pro User Group Network SuperMeet on January 10th from 7:00 to 10:00
PM as a part of the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
The Final Cut Pro event takes place at the Mezzanine Club, 444 Jessie
Street, in downtown San Francisco within walking distance of the
Moscone Center primary Macworld Conference & Expo headquarters and is
open to the public (ages 21 and over with valid ID); tickets are $10
per person and include two raffle tickets for prizes totally over
$37,000.
For tickets and additional information visit:
(http://www.lafcpug.org/macworld_07.html).
The favored digital storage provider to filmmakers and editors, Other
World Computing provides external hard drive storage solutions to
most of the major film studios in the industry. The OWC Mercury
Elite-AL Pro storage solution line is the exclusive choice of the
upcoming Sci-Fi Noir feature film “Yesterday Was A Lie” featuring
Chase Masterson (Leeta, ‘Star Trek Deep Space Nine’) and Peter Mayhew
(Chewbacca, ‘Star Wars’), the 2007 documentary “StreetWise,” the new
PBS television series “Building Green,” and the debut album of
“American Idol” star David Radford.
Among the speakers at the Final Cut Pro User Group Network SuperMeet,
Other World Computing digital products expert Chris Haeffner will
host a discussion on digital storage considerations for digital
filmmakers. Sean Collen, currently serving as Associate Editor to
legendary editor Walter Murch on Francis Coppola’s new feature “Youth
Without Youth,” will present on his current use of Final Cut Pro for
that film. Angus Wall, editor of the upcoming “Zodiac” by director
David Fincher and starring Jake Gyllenhaal (‘Brokeback Mountain,’
‘Donnie Darko’), Robert Downey Jr. (‘Chaplin,’ ‘Kiss Kiss Bang
Bang’), Mark Ruffalo (‘Just Like Heaven,’ ’13 Going on 30′), and
Anthony Edwards (‘Top Gun,’ ‘ER’), will speak on all-tapeless
workflow in a combined presentation with visual effects technical
consultant Andreas Wacker (‘The Weatherman,’ ‘The Ring’).
An award-winning leader in FireWire, USB, and eSATA external storage
solutions, in 2006 Other World Computing became the first
manufacturer to introduce a Quad Interface external hard drive that
combines FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA connection
options in one high-capacity storage solution – the OWC Mercury
Elite-AL Pro Quad Interface. Also in 2006, the OWC Mercury Elite line
became the first on the market to provide single drive storage up to
750GB; and RAID configurations up to 1.5TB.
Raffle prizes for the open-to-the-public Final Cut Pro event include
a high performance, professional OWC Mercury Elite-AL digital storage
solution courtesy of Other World Computing; a 7-day free rental of a
RED Digital Cinema Camera courtesy of Silverado Systems; a Kona LH or
LHe capture card courtesy of AJA; two new Intensity HD HDMI capture
cards courtesy of Blackmagic Design; a DV Creators light kit courtesy
of Lowel; a MXO HD converter courtesy of Matrox; and a FireStore DTE
Recorder courtesy of Focus Enhancements. Additional prizes will be
announced at the event.
For tickets and additional information visit:
(http://www.lafcpug.org/macworld_07.html).