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If you’re in and around Boston this Friday then you may want to make some time for the First Ever, First Annual Boston SuperMeet. As is the case with all SuperMeets there’s a great lineup for the even and lots of prizes for the world famous raffle.

A few of standouts IMHO: Mitch Jacobson will be discussing mulitcamera madness and discussing his new multicam book (which I had the pleasure of contributing to if only a bit), Avid will be  back onstage at a SuperMeet with a discussion with Erin Gallagher, editor on Discovery’s “Build It Bigger” show and, of course, you can’t have an event like this today without discussing DSLRs and DP Rodney Charters will be doing just that as well as talking about his impressive body of work.

As for the raffle: An AJA KiPro, two DaVinci Resolve for Mac licenses, an nVidia Quadro FX 4800 graphic card for Mac, hard drives, lighting and camera gear, software plug ins and the full spectrum of software from Avid, Apple and Adobe.

The doors to the event open at 4:30, Friday June 25 at the Back Bay Events Center, John Hancock Hall. Tickets are usually $10 in advance but you can get a ticket for free with our Discount Code. Here’s how:

1. Go to: http://supermeetbos10.eventbrite.com/

2. Click on the ENTER DISCOUNT CODE link.

3. Enter discount code: editblogvip

4. Fill out registration with legitimate email and address for EACH name.

Enjoy the Boston SuperMeet this coming Friday, it looks like another good show.

The 2010 NAB convention begins in less than a week. In exactly one week (from the time this was posted) many of us will be attending the 9th annual Las Vegas SuperMeet. It will be held at the Rio Hotel again this year and from the looks of the world famous raffle that’s going to be reason to enough to attend with over $78,000 in prizes. Giveaways will include a Canon 7D (of course!), an AJA Kona 3 and AJA Breakout box (maybe separate, maybe together), an Apple iPad (of course again), nVidia Quadro FX 4800 forMac graphics card, two Blackmagic Design DeckLink Studio cards and software galore including a Final Cut Studio, Adobe CS4 Production Premium, Maxon Cinema 4D Broadcast edition and a copy of Avid Media Composer. It’s crazy to think about Avid and Adobe products at the FCP User Group SuperMeet but this is a big year for the 3 Big A’s at the SuperMeet. According to organizer Mike Horton this will be the first time that representatives from all three big A’s will appear together on the same stage on the same night.

As of right now it looks like we might see Adobe’s Jason Levine highlighting the new capabilities of Adobe Production Premium CS5, Avid’s Angus Mackay introducing editor and filmmaker Misha Tenenbaum who will explore his use of the AMA plugin architecture with Sony XDCam HD and Canon 7D cameras for his new show, “Handicapped John” and Apple’s FCP Sr. Product Manager Steve Bayes returning to the SuperMeet stage to talk about new partner support for ProRes and Stereo 3D. That’s going to make for an interesting SuperMeet. Plus there’s a number of other presenters that will be onstage next week as well.

Grab your tickets at this link before they are all gone. And if you want to show off your content get there early for a new event called the Open Screen Theatre sponsored by Arri.From the SuperMeet website:

GET SEEN and interact with other Filmmakers via “Open Screen Theatre,” sponsored by ARRI.

Filmmakers and digital content creators wanting to get seen will have a a 10 minute chance to do so in an informal, collaborative setting. We want all Digital filmmakers to screen your content and interact. Just show up and sign up, get up and show off. It’s first come, first serve in our “Open Screen Theatre.”

Bring your content on a DVD or a QT movie on a flash drive. Sign-ups begin at 3:45PM.

Definitely click over and look at that list of raffle prizes. There’s some really good stuff in there. See you in a week!

You got less than a week to get tickets for the next FCP User Group SuperMeet. This one is February 5 in San Francisco. It will be at the Robertson Auditorium with doors opening at 3:30 pm for the “Digital Showcase” and the show beginning at 7:00. Just looking at the event’s website it looks like there’s a great list of raffle prizes … as always. This one includes a Canon 5D Mark II, AJA Ki Pro, Adobe CS4 (!), Avid Media Composer 4 (!!) and several BlackMagic cards among a lot of other great goodies. Prizes aren’t the only thing on the schedule and this agenda looks to be a strong one:

* Smoke on Mac OSX – Alexandre Domingue
* “Destroy Me” – Jordan Livingston (music vid)
* AJA KiPro – Jon Thorn
* Best Workflow for Canon File-Based Cameras – Joe Bogacz
* Motion 4 Does 3D – Mark Spencer
* The Idea behind IDEO’s Living Climate Change – Matt Silverman
* The New Speed Tools in FCP 7 – Kevin Monahan
* Hand Held Hollywood – Taz Goldstein
* And MORE

Both the Smoke demo and the Canon workflow should be of interest to many. I would say to click here and sign up for some free workshops but most are sold out. As of this writing 2 aren’t so click here anyway and try to get them or to see what you might be missing. Grab your tickets before they are all gone.