Hart House Film Board

Ruba Nadda (Cairo Time) in Person on Jan 21st!

Ruba Nadda in person, Thursday 21st January, 7pm. Hart House
Director of Cairo Time
Winner of Best Canadian Feature at 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Named one of Canada’s Top Ten Films of 2009 by Cinematheque Ontario

Ruba will be conducting a Q&A and showing some of her short films.

Cairo Time is screening at Cinematheque Ontario on Tuesday 19th January at 7pm. There is limited availability. http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/filmdetail.aspx?filmId=1772&GrpId=0

Flyer (PDF, recommend Foxit Reader faster than Adobe): Ruba Nadda at Hart House

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Mac Pro Switchover Complete

The Mac Pros have been switched up. Station 1 is the old Station 3 Mac Pro. Station 2 is now a new Mac Pro (all the files from the old Station 2 have been transferred onto the new Station 2). Station 3 is now the old station 1 G5.

No accounts have been transferred. You must request a new account for a station by emailing equipment@hhfilmboard.com with your full name, what password you would like (something not super important like banking password) and which comptuer you would like the account on.

Please note: Until further notice only Station 1 is connected to the DV Deck. This should be resolved in the next week or two.

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Thanksgiving Closing

The University (and thus, the Film Board) will be closed on Monday October 12^th for Thanksgiving.

Monday’s office hours will shift to Tuesday October 13^th

Equipment Returns will be Tuesday from 1-1:30pm and 5–5:30pm.

Equipment Pick up will be Tuesday from 6-7pm.

Equipment that is picked up on Tuesday will be returned on Friday October 16^th, at 1-1:30, and 5-5:30pm.

Friday’s pickup remains the same.

Normal hours resume Monday, October 19^th.

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Certifications for Advanced Equipment

Certification Tutorials will be held periodically throughout the fall. These tutorials are MANDATORY for new members who wish to use the advanced video, audio, and lighting equipment.

Upcoming Tutorial Dates:

Friday, September 25^th 3-5pm

Friday, October 9^th 3-5pm

More dates will be announced in the near future.

Members who cannot attend the above dates can book private tutorials at the cost of $20 per tutorial. Speak to the curators several weeks in advance.

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Membership Renewel and new Editing Stations!

Membership renewal reminder…

A note on editing accounts: Since the new school year starting in September marks the renewal point for Film Board memberships, members must renew their memberships if they wish to keep using the editing suites. Members who have editing folders but do not renew their memberships will lose their accounts.

New Mac Pro editing towers…

Bid adieu to our old Mac Pros…

Our editing suites will be upgraded over the next several weeks. We have purchasesd two new Mac Pro G5s along with the latest version of Final Cut Studio 2. The G5s will faster be than our current computers and will be upgraded to handle HD editing. Final Cut Studio contains Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Colour, Compressor 3, and DVD Studio Pro 4. This will be the biggest upgrade since the old G5s were purchased nearly 5 years ago. We will also say goodbye to the Film Board’s very first non-linear editing suite–the Mac G3. AKA The Blue Computer. One of the old G5s will be taking its place and continuing to function as an edit suite running FCP 4.5.

*Final Cut Pro and upgrading: This is important, so read on! *Final Cut Pro will open projects files from older versions, but once you open an older file and upgrade it to the new version, you cannot go back to the old version again. This is important to keep in mind if you are editing your projects on other computers that run older FCP versions (for instance, the old G5 that will become Station #3 and run FCP 4.5.)

We have new light meters!

Two brand new Sekonic L-398 Studio Delux III light meters have been purchased. They are available for booking.

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