Echo Conference

• 47. Meet fellow Echo attendees from all over the world. (Keep your fingers crossed for cool accents.)
• 48. Krispy Kreme.
• 49. Search for places that echo at Echo.
• 50. Fashionable lanyards.
• 51. Final Cut Pro needs someone to show it who is boss!
• 52. See a live demo of ProPresenter 4.
• 53. It’s good to sweat for 45 straight hours. Right?
• 54. Ain’t no hug like a John Dyer hug.
• 55. Play a game of Slug Bug with your friends; substitute iPads for VW Bugs.
• 56. Meet podcast superstars Dale and Scott from The Collide Show.
• 57. Walk around to the exhibitor booths and get free stuff.
• 58. Inspiration!
• 59. Meet others who have iPhones and work with church media.
• 60. THREE After Effects User Groups.

Well, there you have it — 60 reasons to come to Echo! We hope to see you next week!

Are you an After Effects user? Do you like groups? If so, check out this from Trent Armstrong — an Igniter Media producer and the founder of the Dallas After Effects User Group:

If you have some extra time during the day July 28th-29th, I’ll be hosting three After Effects User Group meetings (one each day) as an extra-curricular event to coincide with Echo Conference.

The Echo Conference is a church media conference that will be hosted at Watermark Community Church.  There is a registration fee if you would like to attend the entire conference, however, the After Effects User Group meetings are free.

Red Giant Software is providing an obscene amount of stuff for us to give away!  All you need to do is get there!

SCHEDULE:

Wed. July 28th, 1:15PM - Basic After Effects => Anyone may attend this group, but it will be specifically geared toward those who have never opened After Effects or have played around but just aren’t sure how to move from blank project to rendered animation.

Thurs. July 29th, 8AM - Intermediate After Effects => This meeting will involve a use-case with green screen footage, a graphics package, and a few Red Giant effects to build an announcement video. If you are getting comfortable in After Effects and just want to see how someone else uses AE and solves production issues, this meeting is for you!

Fri. July 30th, 8AM - Advanced After Effects => After Effects is far more powerful than Keyframes and Effects.  In this meeting we’ll first look at Shape layers and some various uses.  Then we’ll get into Expressions in After Effects:

•  What’s the expression language?
•  How can you figure out what the parts of an expression are for?
•  Some helpful uses of expressions
•  Where can you learn more about expressions?

LOCATION:
ROOM 339
Watermark Community Church
7540 LBJ Freeway
Dallas, TX 75251

CONTACT:

If you have any questions, please call me, Trent Armstrong, at 214.810.2262 if you have any questions. You may also email me mannerscast@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @Trent_Armstrong.

Cheers,

Trent, Founder - Dallas After Effects User Group

OK, it’s time for more reasons to come to Echo!

• 31. Come hear a new talk from Donald Miller. Even we don’t know what he’s gonna say.
• 32. Find out what Dan Merchant wants the Lord to save us from.
• 33. Come see the premiere of several short films.
• 34. Do you like YouVersion? Come talk to the LifeChurchers about it.
• 35. Kem Meyer will show you how to have less clutter and less noise.
• 36. See if Carlos Whittaker will take video of you in his backseat… while he drives.
• 37. Learn everything you want to know about After Effects from Trent Armstrong.
• 38. Meet and hangout with the whole Echo/RT Creative Group team. We can’t wait.
• 39. This will be the biggest Echo ever!!!!!!!
• 40. Get new ideas for using media and technology at your church.
• 41. Learn about 316 Networks — share your story around the world.
• 42. Ask Todd Wagner tough theological questions… he loves it!
• 43. Get a copy of COLLIDE Magazine … I’m sure we’ll have them lying around.
• 44. Meet David Womack, an Igniter Media creative.
• 45. Hang out with peeps from Fellowship Church, OakHills Church, 121 Community Church …
• 46. … Oak Leaf Church, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Christ Church Plano, Bel Air Presby and more!

If you haven’t registered for Echo yet, now’s the time!

As promised, I’m back with more reasons to come to Echo. Here we go:

• 16. Get the pre-order rate on Echo 2010 DVD.
• 17. See how many people forget their Echo Info Booklet the second day.
• 18. Sit by the fireplace in Watermark’s new Town Center. (It won’t be lit, we promise.)
• 19. Speaking of the new Town Center, see what happened to 1,000 cattle. #leathercouches
• 20. Check out Barton Damer’s shoes. They’re always awesome.
• 21. See if Tony Steward truly is passionate about missional strategies or if he’s just pretending. (He’s not pretending.)
• 22. Have a deep conversation with Gary Molander of Floodgate Productions.
• 23. Have Donald Miller sign his latest book. Or a book by another author if you want to make it awkward.
• 24. Ask Blaine Hogan to re-enact one of his scenes from Prison Break.
• 25. Remind Michael Buckingham that papyrus is more than an ugly font.
• 26. Purchase several Echo shirts and include them in your weekly rotation.
• 27. You know we will have good food.
• 28. Stay at the lovely Westin — they aren’t hosting a kiddie beauty pageant this year. We hope.
• 29. See the amazing things Clover is doing with websites and learn what Greenhouse 2.0 is.
• 30. Come see why local Best Buys ran out of HDTV plasmas.

OK, we’ll be back with more reasons next week. In the meantime, register if you haven’t already!

We’re in our final push leading up to Echo, so we want to do our best to persuade any of you who are still on the fence about joining us in Dallas in a couple weeks. We assembled a big ol’ list of reasons to come to Echo, and here’s the first installment:

• 1. See Carlos Whittaker’s tattoos up close.
• 2. Ladies, Donald Miller is a handsome fella.
• 3. Jon Acuff has publicly challenged the aforementioned Donald Miller to a pop-and-lock contest
• 4. Echo is an incredible opportunity to see what others are doing with media in their churches.
• 5. The weather in Dallas at the end of July is downright balmy.
• 6. Get an up close and personal tour of the new Watermark facility.
• 7. Two words: Free stuff.
• 8. Camron Ware and Stephen Proctor might try to project something on you.
• 9. Watermark Coffee brews locally (and fresh) roasted beans from Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters.
• 10. Experience what it is like when there are more people tweeting than talking.
• 11. So everything you tweet can include #echo10.
• 12. Try to destroy AT&T’s 3G Network in Dallas with your bevy of Apple gadgets.
• 13. Ice. Cream. Truck.
• 14. Actually meet all of the people that you think you know.
• 15. Hear messages tailored for artists and creatives delivered by artists and creatives.

Stay tuned for more reasons to come to Echo, and feel free to add your own reasons as well. See you soon!