The Wednesday, November 10th meeting is sponsored by Unique Photo of Fairfield, NJ, and will be dedicated entirely to shooting video with Canon DSLRs.  We have some of the best in the business in attendance to answer every question you may have regarding the topic. We would like to welcome Jon Connor and Cristina Valdivieso from Canonfilmmakers.com and professionals from the NYC DSLR Meetup group to our meeting.  John Hyland, John Miller Videography, Roman France,  Zack Mctee, Tarik Sykes and our very own Dave Hall, Dan Bitcon and Anthony Quintano. We will go over everything regarding DSLR shooting from the basics of what type of lenses to start with, to discussing how to edit the DSLR footage in post.

Bring your quesitons to ask, your toys to share and your business cards to network! We look forward to meeting any new attendees that live in the tri-state area.

The meeting is $25 for new attendees ($35 for returning guests). That fee includes a full dinner Buffet, desert and coffee so come hungry. Please RSVP that your attending via our facebook event page or in our comment section below. Networking begins after 6:00pm at Bella Casa Caterers, 2 Acme Street, Belleville, NJ 07109. The phone number for Bella Casa is 973-450-0602.

If you have any questions that you would like us to focus on regarding DSLR’s please share them here as well.

Because Unique Photo is sponsoring the meeting, bring your cash or credit cards as they will have tons of merchandise for sale that night!!

Show and Tell

Now’s your chance to show off that latest video related thing you just got over the summer. Dan Strickler will show us his new Sony AVCHD camcorder, the NX5U.

He reports, “I’ve taken it out on 4 jobs so far and I’m very pleased with the results. I think it’s a real winner and has the potential of being very popular with event videographers. It’s a good, solid camera at a modest price.” He’ll give us a tour of the camera and demo some footage on an HD projector. Then Dave Hall will show his Kessler CineSlider, Sachtler FSB 4 carbon fiber tripod and Rode Stereo Videomic (which includes the dead kitten.)

and Anthony Quintano will be showing off the Jag35 Shoulder rig.

Eric Model, Tony Cucci, Julie Conroy and John Karczmit will also be sharing. But we still have time in the schedule for a few more cool, video-related gadgets. So if you recently purchased something that has changed your life as a videographer – okay, maybe it’s not a life-changer, but something you think we ought to know about,don’t keep it a secret, share! Please e-mail Dan Strickler and he’ll fit you in the schedule. If you are intending on coming to the meeting please RSVP either by commenting on this post or RSVP to the event page on facebook

Video Contest!

Anything But a Wedding Video

The September 15th contest will feature any video that is not wedding related; a corporate job, a PR piece, a dance concert, anything that does not include a bride and groom!

Please email Dan Strickler to let us know you plan to enter so we can better schedule the evening.

Because the category is so broad, you will not be comparing the videos to each other but rather judging each on a scale of 1 to 10 on the basis of their artistic and technical merits.

Awards: Gold, Silver, and Bronze will be presented to the top three entries. Winners will be announced at the completion of the NJVA meeting. Awards will be presented at the NJVA holiday party in December.

Important things to know:

* Entrant must be a member in good standing of NJVA for at least one month prior to the competition in order to enter.
* Entries can be up to 5 minutes in length or any 5 minute excerpt of a longer piece.
* It must be taken from a paying job.
* It must be on a DVD.
* One entry per member per competition.
* All entries must be received by 7:30pm on the night of the competition.
* All entries must be given to the competition chairperson at the NJVA front desk.

Our first speaker Ned Soltz, shooter, editor, writer and reviewer, brought in some cool gadgets to demonstrate for us.

Dave Hall and Dan Bitcon made a very detailed and informative presentation on HD production from the different cameras to post production workflow.  All video shown was from a Blu-ray disc onto an HD plasma screen (courtesy of Eric Model) an and HD projector (courtesy of Dan Strickler)

Members, Did you miss anything?  Watch the meeting again!  Click on “About Us” then “February meeting Video”

July 2009 we had a joint meeting with WEVA (Wedding Event Video Association and the NJVA with an expo of our sponsors products. check out the slideshow below