Maximising The Creative Pipeline
for new opportunities and increased profit

No question - there is a growing demand for high quality finished content. From existing clients and, importantly, from new clients in emerging growth markets like digital marketing, social media games, IPTV, mobile gaming, 3D stereoscopic, digital signage and more.

For your business to remain profitable, it's critical to implement a creative pipeline that maximises output and creativity. You need to meet client needs while confidently identifying and addressing emerging markets.

When coupled with a crowded competitive space, increased client demands and tighter deadlines, business owners and artists must find solutions that minimise complexity and provide optimum efficiency.

This not-to-be-missed event looks at the key business challenges and opportunities and the tools needed to address them.

Who Should Attend?

Owners, managers and studio managers from advertising and digital agencies, post-production facilities, broadcast facilities, online agencies, mobile content production companies or anyone who needs to understand how to exploit new and existing markets using epitomised pipelines. Editors, compositors, effects artists, broadcast designers and creative professionals who would like to learn how to maximise their productivity and creative potential.

What You'll Learn

When coupled with client expectations for high-quality creative content and faster delivery times, anyone trying to build a successful business in post faces a fundamental challenge: finding an efficient solution that mitigates complexity and delivers outstanding creative results. This event will illustrate that solution.

We'll identify emerging market opportunities for finished content and the types of content that are required.

We'll also demonstrate how to :

• Reduce Complexity - Efficiency is key to building a profitable and productive business
• Own the Creative - Confidently take on the most challenging creative projects by offering services built on a solution that doesn't fall down when faced with complexity, throughput or time challenges
• Deliver Better Results- Free the creative process while eliminating complexity to deliver high-quality, outstanding content that can win new clients and keep existing clients coming back

We'll demonstrate a unified pipeline for creating and manipulating

• 3D animation and 3D visual effects
• advanced special effects
• colour correction
• stereoscopic material
• graphic design
• layered and composite content

to deliver high quality finished content for

• broadcast TV
• film
• games
• web
• IPTV and mobile devices
• print

and to realise the maximum creative and business potential.

Where and When

Sydney

Tuesday 6th September 2011
10am-12 noon. Check-in: 9:30am.

Digistor Customer Centre
5-7 Cleg Street, Artarmon NSW 2064

How to Get There
By Train: Alight at St Leo nards station and proceed by foot down Herbert Street. Turn right on Cleg Street. Approximately 10 minute walk. A free Artarmon Loop shuttle bus, leaves from St Leo nards station under the Forum pedestrian overpass on the hospital side of Herbert Street. Alight the bus opposite SBS in Frederick Street.
By Taxi/Car: Take the Reserve Road exit from the Gore Hill Freeway travelling North or after exiting the Lane Cove Tunnel travelling South.
Parking: There is very limited street parking available. There are occasionally spaces in Punch Street and Francis Street (generally before 8:30am), but it is best to seek alternative transport.

Melbourne

Friday 9th September 2011
10am-12 noon. Check-in: 9:30am.

Cinema 2 (Level 2)
VCA School of Film and Television
(Building 861)
Grant Street, Southbank 3006

How to Get There:
By Tram: A quick tram trip or 10 minute brisk walk from Flinders Street Station down St Kilda Road.
Parking: 2 and 3 hour meter parking in Grant Street (3 hour parking Sturt Street side of FTV Building).

Cost

There is no charge for attendance, but places are limited and registration is essential.

For further information, call Digistor on 02 9431 6000.

Genarts Sapphire Attendee Discounts

Attend this event to be eligible for discounts on the new  Genarts Sapphire V6 plug-ins for Autodesk Universal (20% off new license and 25% off upgrade) and Smoke for Mac OS X (10% off new license). Contact Digistor for details. Conditions apply.

Presenters

Rob O'Neill , VFX and Editing Specialist
Autodesk Australia
With over 30 years experience in the industry using flatbeds, linear suites, Avid and the last 17 using Autodesk Flame and Smoke systems, Rob has seen the evolution of Editing and Finishing develop into a fine art.

Kevin Schooler, Media & Entertainment Solutions Specialist, Autodesk Australia
Kevin has been in the visual effects industry since 1998 specialising animation for film, games, live events and broadcast. He has worked for Walt Disney Imagineering, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Cal State Fullerton among others and has been with Autodesk for 5 years, presenting in over a dozen nations.

Dean Nurscher, Media & Entertainment Sales Manager ANZ, Autodesk Australia

Dean has worked in the ANZ Media & Entertainment industry since the early 90s when non-linear editing was still in its infancy. He's been an evangelist for professional and high-end finishing solutions for customers in the film, television and games industries. For the past 6 years Dean has represented Autodesk's Media & Entertainment products in Australia and New Zealand, giving him a unique insight into customers' opportunities and challenges in the rapidly converging media and entertainment markets.

Paul Hellyer, Manager, Media & Entertainment ANZ, Autodesk Australia

Paul has worked in the Media and Entertainment industry for over 10 years with IBM and Autodesk.
Over the years he has worked extensively with customers large and small across games, film, TV, visualisation and multimedia both internationally and in ANZ.
He has witnessed the industry undergo continual transformation and is fascinated by new emerging business models and the convergence and influence of media and entertainment technology across industries.

Autodesk Product Pipeline

3ds Max and Maya Entertainment Creation Suites
Smoke for Mac OS X
Flame Premium

Digistor Solutions

Digistor integrates Autodesk products into coherent post-production pipelines to deliver optimum results. Whether working with Avid, Adobe or Apple software, we can provide workflow analysis and solutions proposals utilising the latest hardware, software and techniques to meet and exceed your requirements. We specialise in broadcast and post-production solutions as well as storage, backup, archive and digital asset management (DAM). No matter what your requirements, talk to Digistor.