ProTrack 2008 is happening in Anaheim CA on October 31 and November 1, 2008. In addition to this being the 40th Anniversary of the association, Halloween Festivities and other traditional MCA-I Party SIG events, the 39th Annual Media Festival and the 2nd Annual Golf Outing.
You really don't want to miss these great presenters. They know their stuff. Here's a bit of information on just a few!
Bruce Nazarian
What doesn't this guy do?!
Author, trainer, instructor Bruce Nazarian, President/CEO Digital Media Consulting Group, Inc. – Las Vegas, NV seems to have done it all! This amazing talent is aptly named "The Digital Guy" because he's one of the most well-known DVD trainers and instructors in the world presenting at DVD tradeshows all around the globe. He has coordinated technical session tracks for DVDA, NAB Post Production Workshop, Digital Media DC, and Macworld Expo and now MCA-I ProTrack this fall!
Bruce is also an accomplished musician with success on pop and R&B charts as lead vocalist for both Brownsville Station and The 8th Day and more! Hear Bruce's guitar licks from a guest spot on British radio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMC2yn6myc
Jan Ozer Back by popular demand!
Jan is a consultant, on-line community guru and author of Publishing Digital Video and PC Magazine Guide to Digital Video. Ozer will bring real-world examples and checklists for encoding into Flash® and Windows Media® formats.
In 1994, Jan started writing on digital video related topics for CD-ROM Professional (now EventDV by way of EMedia) and PC Magazine, and started teaching seminars in digital video production for North Carolina's Institute of Academic Technology. In 1995, Jan published his first book, Video Compression for Multimedia with Academic Press, followed by Publishing Digital Video in 1997 for the same publisher.
Since then, Jan has taught video production seminars in the U.S. and abroad, both on a private consulting basis and for various academic institutions, most recently the University of Wisconsin. Jan continues to write for PC Magazine and EventDV, and has written ten books on video production, most recently DV101, A Hands-On Guide for Business, Government and Educators. In reviewing the book, respected digital media author Charlie White called DV 101 a "well written tome" that's a "must buy for video neophytes." Jan also wrote The PC Magazine Guide to Digital Video for John Wiley. On Amazon,com, all of Jan's books average a rating of five stars. For more see: http://doceo.com/about.html
Phillip Hodgetts He's a contributing editor for Creative Cow.
Philip's experience in digital video goes back to the pioneering days on the Amiga and has continued on into both the Mac and Windows platforms. Philip is the creator of the popular Digital Production BUZZ podcast, the ProApps HUB, and the Intelligent Assistance training resources.
Marcelo Lewin
Marcelo Lewin is the The Digital Media Dude!
He started The Digital Media Dude in late 2006 as a blog, mainly, to write about new media. Then he created his first podcast, The Digital Media Dude Daily Tip now known as Digital Media Quick Tips which got picked up by iTunes in the Top 25. By late 2007, The Digital Media Dude officially became a network of shows and in early 2008 it was renamed to Pixel Heads Network.
With over 15 years of experience in the digital media industry, including gigs with NBC, Walt Disney Imagineering, Toyota and having a couple of "dot com" companies under his belt, he has plenty of knowledge to share. He currently hosts 4 shows, blogs about and makes presentations about new media all over, produces shows for other companies and is the "Chief Pixel Head" at Pixel Heads Network.
Ron Lindeboom Ron is multi-talented on both sides of the brain!
Ron's background ranges from sales and marketing to corporate finance management and consulting. He has consulted with some of the biggest names in the high tech arena. He is also an artist and designer with a real appreciation for the Net and other new media technologies.
Ron is an animator/compositor and editor whose background includes working with Media 100, Scitex Sphere, Avid Xpress Elite, Adobe After Effects and Premiere. Along with web tools he also uses many other tools and plug-ins. He has been featured in numerous articles in magazines such as MacWEEK, The Net, Videography and SatVision, among others. He has been a guest on high tech-related TV shows like "Window on Wall Street" and "CyberVision."
He and his wife, Kathlyn, worked on each of the first two volumes of Artbeats "ReelFire" and "ReelExplosions" stock footage series -- which have since been used in major movies like Spawn, Star Trek "Insurrection", Starship Troopers and many others. Anyone watching The Learning Channel, History Channel or many other cable networks sees these effects daily.
Barry Hampe Author, film maker, scriptwriter Barry Hampe is a enthusiastic writer with numerous books, documentary films, magazine articles and scripts for video under his belt. Some of his books are standard texts in university documentary filmmaking courses.
He has a long list of creative writing experience for businesses, associations, nonprofits and government. Learn more: www.barryhampe.com/contact.html
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