Australia leads the Vegas Push!

farss wrote on 11/6/2006, 12:28 PM
Don't know if anyone else has the Sony promo email but if you do you'll notice that Soundhouse and the Powerhouse Museum down here in Sydney are doing courses on how to make videos, and they're doing it with VMS and Vegas!

http://www.shvl.org/main.php?s=articles&artid=280

Note that this is hands on training, from a landmark public institution.
Way more effective than a lot of floorspace at NAB or IBC.

Bob.

Comments

DJPadre wrote on 11/6/2006, 5:03 PM
Agreed.
Powerhouse musuem has at least 5 school excursions each day, and this kind of exposure is incredible for educational penetration.
From here, we shoudl see more PC based NLE's hitting the schools as most schools now have a 50/50 PC vs Mac ratio.

This is how apple started with schools, so who knows if this will be the beginig of the end to the Mac dominance in schools...

Nothing against Apple, but the current saturation of teh educational market, has led to many misleading and mis-informed arguments (on the educators part) pertiaining to the cappabilites of a PC
Exposure and education is the key in getting THIS application out in the open. what people dont understand they fear, and as cheesy as that cliche may sound, too many people see Vegas as being an " all in one but master of none"

Now there is an opportunity to change all that. and even despite my own efforts on the educational rounds, these "teachers" still have the notion that FCP and Apple rule the roost throughout the industry, not even consideirng the notion of Avid, let alone any other application such as Vegas.

Im not sure if newMagic had anything to do with this placement, but whoever is responsible has gotten onto a good thing

Its about time SOMETHING was done...
rs170a wrote on 11/6/2006, 6:37 PM
If I'm not mistaken, the instructor for this course is the same Mike Jones who is a forum host on the DMN Vegas forum.

Mike
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/6/2006, 6:54 PM
Same Mike Jones. He's an author, presenter, and full-time instructor of Sony Vegas, among other applications. Terrific guy as well as being creative beyond belief.
rs170a wrote on 11/6/2006, 7:12 PM
Thanks Spot. I thought it was him. He's a great forum host. And he has a very interesting web site. I found a few links there to some software I'd never heard of but plan to check out.

Mike
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/6/2006, 8:12 PM
Mike and I are presenting at Tropfest in Sydney next week if you'd like to join us. :-)
farss wrote on 11/6/2006, 9:29 PM
Where and when?
I can't find anything on the Tropfest site.
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/6/2006, 10:57 PM
It's sponsored by New Magic and Sony, or perhaps just Sony. I was a little surprised by the announcement that I was going to be there, because I was planning on spending the entire Sat at Picton. This will be the first time I've ever had more than a day's free time in NSW, so hoping to get some good camera time in.
Wanna come?
farss wrote on 11/6/2006, 11:16 PM
I'll try to make it, I've got a shoot on Friday night and all day Monday so the weekend is going to be a tad hectic swapping cameras etc but I'll try to fit it in.
Eric_CVMC wrote on 11/7/2006, 1:03 AM
I live in Canberra and have been using Vegas for 3 years and would be interested intalking to other Australian users. Very interested in what the PowerHouse is doing.

farss wrote on 11/7/2006, 2:21 AM
Maybe it's time for us down under to get a bit better organised?
tazio wrote on 11/7/2006, 4:01 AM
Weren't we going to call it SVUG? Sydney Vegas Users Group. Certain poetic ring don't you think.
riredale wrote on 11/7/2006, 8:20 AM
BTW, article on Drudge today said that Australia is going through its worst drought in 1,000 years. First thought is to wish "Good on Ya" (I think that's what you guys say). Second thought is to wonder where you get your water. Are there snow-capped peaks that provide snowmelt in the summer?
farss wrote on 11/7/2006, 12:43 PM
No snow capped peaks apart from the Snowy Mountains that feed the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme (one of the engineering wonders of the world).
All the capital cities rely on local dams for water storage and I think all capital cities are reaching or have reached critically low water levels. Once past the moutains, out west the situation is even more desperate. There's not enough water in our major river systems to feed the irrigation systems so the farmers are doing it very tough.
Of course Australia used to be mostly rainforest before the first humans arrived 50,000 years ago, by the time Europeans arrived it was mostly desert. Climate change didn't begin with the Industral Revolution.
rmack350 wrote on 11/7/2006, 1:17 PM
No, it sure didn't. The Venetians wiped out their forests and lost their naval power. There were greek colonies that wiped themselves out in similar ways, I think.

The only difference is the rate of worldwide change. If I was a stock broker and saw the trend on a graph I'd dump the stock as fast as I could.

Rob Mack
alfredsvideo wrote on 11/7/2006, 1:53 PM
Hey Spot! There's a little place called Perth in Australia. People often miss us. We're at Latitude:, 31° 58', South. Longitude:, 115° 49', East. ( I looked it up on the Net).
We're a very sophisticated mob over here and would love to see you. We know it's a long way from anywhere, but we've got beautiful weather, gorgeous girls and the beer's not bad either. We often find time to do the odd bit of video, so how about gracing us with your presence. We always get left out. Hope you enjoy your visit OVER THERE. Cheers. Alf.
Serena wrote on 11/7/2006, 2:24 PM
Continental drift also has something to do with Australia's transition from forests to desert, and of course general world climate changes. The last ice-age finished 15000 years ago. People are misinterpretting the 1000 year drought statement. We don't have records going back 1000 years. It is a statistical statement based on the bell-curve of rainfall records (generally, rainfall vs number of occurrences), and this year the lack of rain puts us out in the "foothills" of the curve; out beyond the probability of once in 100 years, out to a probability of once in 1000 years. Of course, it could be our worst drought for 1000 years, or even 5000 years, but we have only statistics to go by.
ushere wrote on 11/7/2006, 7:30 PM
svug !?

how about bvug (blandford).

and as for leading the way - i don't want to blow my own trumpet - but i was teaching vegas 3 and 4 to my students when they were hot off the press......

now i just love watching the paint peel.

love

leslie
New Magic Australia wrote on 11/7/2006, 8:58 PM
Hello All,

Just a clarification on the Sony event... it is called "Rough-Cut" and it is the primer to Tropfest www.tropfest.com Tropfest is in Feb (I know its confusing)

Rough-Cut registrations have closed and its not open to the public, Sorry guys and girls..

So your best bet to meet up with fellow Oz Vegas users is at the SoundHouse and/or VASST events (all happening at once it seems)

Kind Regards
Darrell