Expo - Creative Cow West 2003

The FREE three day expo that runs throughout the entire event features many of the top companies in the industry. We are adding more companies all the time and so far, the list of companies that will be showing their latest and greatest during the expo includes.

Expo floor opens at 1pm on Tuesday. Come early and hear noted film compositor Steve Wright's show opening keynote speech which starts at 1:00 pm with a free giveaway of many great software and stock footage, etc., at 12:30pm...

SPONSORS: (full exhibitors list is found just below our sponsors)

SHOW ORGANIZER
Creative Cow is known as the media professionals support and training site. Creative Cow's success is the outcome of over seven years of building "pro focused" forums communities on the Net, with a focus on fair play, professionalism and a standard that gives the Cow it's trademark "High Signal, Low Noise" reputation. Creative Cow's leadership team is the standard against which all other forum sites are compared.

SHOW ORGANIZER
MeVMedia's team of event professionals have been developing trade shows, conferences and expos since the mid-1990's. They have produced shows with attendence in the 50,000+ range and have seen gross sales through their events that ranged into many millions of dollars. The MeVMedia team is concerned that their shows serve the needs of the visitor, the expo partners and the sponsors -- that's their measure for success.

PLATINUM SPONSOR
Adobe Systems is the maker of such highly used and innovative tools as After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, LiveMotion and GoLive -- tools that are the creative center of many studios around the globe. More creative professionals use Adobe products than any other manufacturer in the world.

PLATINUM SPONSOR
Pinnacle Systems industry-leading products span a wide range of tools from the very highest levels of broadcast installation services, to powerful desktop tools like the Pinnacle Liquid and CinéWave systems. From DV to HD, Pinnacle's products empower communicators to be their best and look their best.

GOLD SPONSOR
Promax Systems: Promax has long been one of the most respected names in digital video and is today one of the largest systems integrators in the world. From DV to HD, Promax has the tools, the experience and the support to insure that your system is right everytime.

GOLD SPONSOR
Media 100's 844/X delivers real-time image processing - along with internal precision to support the arrangement and editing of complex audio-visual content incorporating many layers - to broadcast designers, visual effects artists, and online editors. Strikingly versatile, 844/X delivers quality and speed, at an affordable price. Freeing you to create without waiting. Enabling change and experimentation.

GOLD SPONSOR
AJA Video Systems Inc. is a leading manufacturer of SDI and HDTV solutions. Products include miniature stand-alone converters, a complete line of rack mount cards and frames, and a new line of SDI and HDTV PCI cards for the professional broadcast and post-production markets.

GOLD SPONSOR
Discreet empowers moving media professionals to realize the visual experience, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Its range of award-winning systems and software is developed for digital media creation, management and deliveryÑacross all disciplines from visual effects and editing to animation, game development, web/interactive design, and design visualization. Discreet is based in Montreal, Quebec and is a division of Autodesk, Inc., the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. Product and corporate information is located on the Internet at www.discreet.com

GOLD SPONSOR
Class On Demand (classondemand.net) is a leader in the field of professional training products for major applications like Newtek Lightwave and Aura, Discreet 3ds max and Combustion, Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro and many other tools. Many of the top training leaders such as the Cow's own Tim Kolb and Jerry Hofmann -- along with leading experts like Lee Stranahan and other luminaries -- make Class On Demand training a value leader for professional training products.

GOLD SPONSOR
ULEAD products continue to bring creativity, power and value to digital media artists and editors. From powerful video editing tools to imaging, 3D to DVD authoring and encoding -- with the highly rated "DVD Workshop" which is drawing high marks from users -- Ulead tools empower the creative process.

WEBCASTING PARTNER
VitalStream provides services to customers wishing to broadcast audio and video content and other communications over the Internet. The Company's unique mix of services and technology enables customers to focus on their core business by outsourcing complex streaming and hosting functions to VitalStream.

MEDIA PARTNER
eMedia has long been the recognized leader in the field of professional DVD authoring and encoding. Now, with their recent expansion into audio and video design and compositing technologies, eMedia is "The Digital Studio Magazine" for serious content creators. If you aren't receiving eMedia each month, you can visit their site and register for a free subscription.

MEDIA SPONSOR
Filmmaker Magazine is a joint publication of the Independent Feature Project (IFP) in New York and the Independent Feature Project/West (IFP/West) in Los Angeles -- and has helped foster the growing independent film movement worldwide.

MEDIA SPONSOR
iHollywoodForum.com is the leading producer of roundtable discussions, networking events and business development opportunities for Hollywood executives and entrepreneurs involved in digital entertainment. Our closely followed monthly Forums consider topics such as online music, Internet entertainment, marketing and advertising on the Web, digital cinema, interactive television, games the post-dot-com world and much more.

MEDIA SPONSOR
Medialine magazine serves the information needs of optical disc replicators, magnetic tape duplicators and professional users of recorded and recordable media, as well as premastering and authoring industries -- focusing on DVD production (authoring, compression, replication, etc.); CD-R; copy protection of intellectual property; storage/archiving; facility operations; and packaging.

MEDIA SPONSOR
OSXFAQ.com is filled with the latest Mac OSX news, support and general information. Scott Sheppard, the editor-in-chief, is joined by a highly respected staff that includes such Mac luminaries as Bob LeVitus (editor) and many others that make OSXFAQ.com the place for OSX users.

MEDIA SPONSOR
Post Magazine's seasoned journalists are dedicated to serving the most intensely dynamic segment of the entertainment industry: post production. The Post masthead represents 25 years of experience covering this business. Post's editorial staff isn't satisfied just covering the growing excitement the post industry churns up each day they're also having a lot of fun.

MEDIA SPONSOR
Production HUB is the information network for film, video and digital media production. Developed as a tool for people to locate production products, services and professionals, ProductionHUB has grown to become the number one industry information resource.

MEDIA SPONSOR
Streaming Magazine is the only monthly publication exclusively covering the business issues relating to the streaming industry and the repercussions that streaming media technologies have for broadcasting and traditional business.

ASSOCIATION SPONSOR
Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group is the largest Final Cut Pro user group in the world. With a membership that regularly exceeds 500 or more at their chapter meetings, the group explores a broad range of topics from DV to high-end HD and film uses of Final Cut Pro. Group president, Michael Horton, is a part of the Cow's Final Cut team and is a frequent and honored part of Creative Cow.

ASSOCIATION SPONSOR
The Linux Movies Group is a trade association of noted artists, editors and other professionals from such noted companies as Disney, Dreamworks, Digital Domain, Rythym & Hues, ILM, Sony Imageworks and many, many more.

ASSOCIATION SPONSOR
The Motion Picture Editors Guild is the local professional editors union, IATSE Local 700, based in Los Angeles. The Guild has graciously joined with Creative Cow West 2003 to provide Tuesday night's free editing session "Skills Beyond Tools" -- a 90 minute editing showcase featuring noted Guild professionals currently working on major film projects.

ASSOCIATION SPONSOR
SCAMP 805 is the premiere film and media professionals resource for Santa Barbara's highly respected production community. With a large membership that is many hundreds in size and grows with each month, the organization serves as a means of strengthening local professionals while working to promote the work of local artists, producers and directors throughout many out-lying areas and events. Chaired by Wavefront Technologies (later Alias|Wavefront) founder Mark Sylvester, the group is home to users at all levels of experience, from audio/video to film.

PUBLIC RELATIONS
ANTARRA COMMUNICATIONS is the official public relations firm for both Creative Cow West 2003 and for CreativeCow.net itself. Headed by a great team of public relations professionals with years of experience in promoting the efforts of high tech, communications, industrial and event clients, Antarra Communications has proven to be a great addition to the Creative Cow team.

OFFICIAL WIRE SERVICE
PR NEWSWIRE is the official wire service for Creative Cow West 2003. PR Newswire provides comprehensive news targeting, distribution, and measurement services on behalf of some 40,000 organizations worldwide who seek to reach the news media, the investment community and the general public with their up to the minute, full-text news developments. Established in 1954, PR Newswire has offices in fourteen countries and routinely sends its customers' news to outlets in 135 countries in 27 languages.

EXHIBITORS:

Adobe Systems is the maker of such highly used and innovative tools as After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, LiveMotion and GoLive -- tools that are the creative center of many studios around the globe. More creative professionals use Adobe products than any other manufacturer in the world.

ADS Technologies is a world leader in USB and FireWire solutions. Since 1992, the company has introduced niche or high-end technologies to the consumer marketplace with quality devices sold at a reasonable cost including VGA-to-TV scan converters, video capture and TV Tuner cards, PYRO ProDVD, PYRO PlatinumSE PCI, USB Instant DVD, USB Instant DVD For Mac, USB Instant Video.

AJA Video Systems Inc. is a leading manufacturer of SDI and HDTV solutions. Products include miniature stand-alone converters, a complete line of rack mount cards and frames, and a new line of SDI and HDTV PCI cards for the professional broadcast and post-production markets.

Artbeats is the maker of the highly successful Artbeats Digital Film Library of royalty-free stock footage -- now available in HD as well. Used in many major motion pictures and broadcast television, the Artbeats Digital Film Library is known for quality, artistry and variety. Their new V-Line also brings a whole new library built around both quality and economy.

Blackmagic Design - Blackmagic DeckLink is the first uncompressed 10 bit video PCI card priced under US$1000 and is designed specifically for connecting to digital broadcast tape decks. Featuring SDI video & audio input and output, as well as a Sony™ compatible RS422 serial deck control port,

Boingo Wireless During the show, Boingo will provide free wireless services for show goers who want to bring their laptops. Boingo wireless Internet access is more than 100 times faster than dial-up, at a blazing 11 megabits per second, 100s times faster than a 56K dial-up or 3G connection. All you need is your laptop or Pocket PC and a "Wi-Fi" card.

Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated application technology delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the television, broadcast, post production, multi-media and web markets. Its powerful products offer editors and graphic artists a professional content creation solution with unlimited creative flexibility.

Class On Demand (classondemand.net) is a leader in the field of professional training products for major applications like Newtek Lightwave and Aura, Discreet 3ds max and Combustion, Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro and many other tools. Many of the top training leaders such as the Cow's own Tim Kolb and Jerry Hofmann -- along with leading experts like Lee Stranahan and other luminaries -- make Class On Demand training a value leader for professional training products.

Creative Cow is known as the media professionals support and training site. Creative Cow's success is the outcome of over seven years of building "pro focused" forums communities on the Net, with a focus on fair play, professionalism and a standard that gives the Cow it's trademark "High Signal, Low Noise" reputation. Creative Cow's leadership team is the standard against which all other forum sites are compared.

DigiEffects is the creator of the best-selling Aurorix, Berserk, Cinelook, Cinemotion, Cyclonist and Delerium plug-ins for After Effects. Their Photoshop series includes Euphoria, a collection of Digie's most popular effects brought to Photoshop users to explore. DigiEffects is one of the true pioneers and visionaries that empowered the plug-in community.

Digital Fountain provides the fastest, most predictable global data-delivery solutions. For Media & Entertainment companies, Digital Fountain’s Transporter Fountain is the fastest media delivery solution for moving large files across any network, securely and with absolutely no degradation in image quality. Digital Fountain’s products are based on the company’s patented Meta-Content™ technology which delivers data perfectly over any network, regardless of impairments like packet loss and delay.

Digital Anarchy produces a wide range of products that empower motion graphics artists and compositors. From a wide range of Adobe After Effects plug-ins -- including the aquatic powerhouse, Psunami™ -- to the 64bit Microcosm™ Quicktime Codec, Digital Anarchy is a leader in producing great tools at prices even artists can afford.

Discreet empowers moving media professionals to realize the visual experience, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Its range of award-winning systems and software is developed for digital media creation, management and deliveryÑacross all disciplines from visual effects and editing to animation, game development, web/interactive design, and design visualization. Discreet is based in Montreal, Quebec and is a division of Autodesk, Inc., the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. Product and corporate information is located on the Internet at www.discreet.com

Express Video Supply is your equipment, accessory and recording media supermart. With stores in Los Angeles and Philadelphia that are filled with a large inventory, fast turnaround and great service -- we can meet your demands for the tools and products you need when you need them.

FilmGIMP is a motion picture editing tool primarily used for painting and retouching of movie images. Its application in feature movie productions includes the movies Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and Stuart Little 2. Film Gimp is the most successful open source tool in feature motion picture work today. Film Gimp is based on GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program but is an independent project, separate from GIMP and GNU.

Final Draft screenplay software is the leading screenplay program and is used worldwide by professional film and TV writers to create such Oscar(r)-winning hits as American Beauty and The Usual Suspects. Final Draft is endorsed by industry talents such as Oliver Stone (JFK, Any Given Sunday), James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets, Jerry Maguire), Tom Hanks (That Thing You Do, Cast Away) and Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon).

HASH Animation:Master includes everything you need to create fabulous computer graphics; including complete sculpting features, powerful animation tools, superb rendering, and all this is compatible with the most popular computers, both Windows and Macintosh. Since A:M is geared toward character animation, it gives you the ability to build libraries of actions and characters that can be reused over and over. Its cross platform compatibility makes A:M an excellent choice for studios with multiple types of systems.

Incite produces great tools for media professionals, such as Incite Editor, for pros working in fast-paced, high-volume production models based on fiber-channel, SAN-controlled networking, etc. In addition, Incite Editor bridges the gap between the linear and non-linear world of editing, offering a sophisticated NLE application capable of operating as a hybrid editor, a tape to tape editor and also can interface with external hardware switchers and mixers. These are just some of the multi-faceted features defining the Incite spirit: a flexible, expandable set of NLE solutions designed to deliver the very best in today's cutting edge technology.

Intelligent Assistance is renowned as the creator of such powerful personal assistance help support systems as the DV Companion for Final Cut Pro, the Boris RED Companion, the After Effects Companion and many others which followed the success of the original Media 100 Companion back in 1997. Today, Intelligent Assistance is also adding two new products to their line -- one, that you can see before year's end and another which you will see introduced at the Creative Cow West 2003 conference and expo.

Linux Movies Group is a a free not-for-profit users group for those interested in Linux-based motion picture technology. Although primarily Linux, users of other operating systems including BSD, IRIX, Mac OS X, and Windows are welcome to visit. We are the place to ask questions about Linux motion picture technology and production.

Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, and web streaming applications. Matrox's award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, corporate communicators, and independent and event videographers worldwide. Learn more about the acclaimed Matrox RT.X100 and the new Incite Editor 3.0. Built from the ground up by editors, for editors, Incite Editor delivers fast and efficient NLE tools, an intuitive interface, and extensive realtime audio and video features.

Medea designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost disk storage systems optimized for digital content creation (audio & video editing, animation, etc.) and Internet streaming media applications. Our award winning products include the VideoRaid and AudioRaid disk arrays. MedŽa products are universally known in the industry as the price/performance leaders in RAID storage solutions.

Media 100's 844/X delivers real-time image processing - along with internal precision to support the arrangement and editing of complex audio-visual content incorporating many layers - to broadcast designers, visual effects artists, and online editors. Strikingly versatile, 844/X delivers quality and speed, at an affordable price. Freeing you to create without waiting. Enabling change and experimentation.

MeVMedia's team of event professionals have been developing trade shows, conferences and expos since the mid-1990's. They have produced shows with attendence in the 50,000+ range and have seen gross sales through their events that ranged into many millions of dollars. The MeVMedia team is concerned that their shows serve the needs of the visitor, the expo partners and the sponsors -- that's their measure for success.

Pinnacle Systems industry-leading products span a wide range of tools from the very highest levels of broadcast installation services, to powerful desktop tools like the Pinnacle Liquid and CinéWave systems. From DV to HD, Pinnacle's products empower communicators to be their best and look their best.

Profound Effects develops advanced special effects technology for film and television use. Founder Perry Kivolowitz received an Academy Award® in 1996 for his invention of Elastic Reality®. Co-founder, Paul Miller, authored the IRIX® version of Elastic Reality, Avid Marquee™ and was the architect of the AVX™ plug-in architecture. Profound Effects’ products include Move™, Useful Things™ and Swim™.

Promax Systems: Promax has long been one of the most respected names in digital video and is today one of the largest systems integrators in the world. From DV to HD, Promax has the tools, the experience and the support to insure that your system is right everytime.

Sonic Desktop: Makers of SmartSound and Sonicfire Pro and other great tools for media pros. Sonic Desktop tools make soundtrack creation easy. With an ever-growing audio library of choices to choose from, Sonic Desktop tools are empowering users with great music and sound effects.

Sonic Foundry products span a wide range of solutions from video editing and compositing to audio editing and sweetening. With such top-selling tools as Vegas Video, ACID, Sound Forge and more, Sonic Foundry is a leading provider of professional tools for content creators and storytellers.

Sonic (www.sonic.com) will feature its full line of professional DVD systems including Scenarist Studio™, the latest release of its most comprehensive authoring system designed for filmmakers and multimedia designers seeking advanced access to the DVD specification at an affordable price; Sonic DVD Producer, the DVD standard for creative professionals publishing on DVD; and ReelDVD, Sonic’s entry-level DVD authoring system that makes DVD publishing fast and easy for videographers, independent film makers and corporate video producers.

SpectSoft produces uncompressed standard and high-definition video tools for Linux. Their highend media production solutions include both SD and HD Linux systems based on the AJA 10-bit video engine.

Sundance Media Group provides production of new media training and consultation in a wide variety of new media products, services, and delivery methods, bridging the gap between traditional broadcast production and emerging technologies. The unique combination of training and consultation in addition to the development of award winning audio and video production, film scoring, mastering, and DVD/ VCD/ CD authoring makes Sundance Media Group the new media people. SMG is also the creator of the VASST (Video, Audio, Surround, Training) Tours.

Synthetic Aperture has been a drving force in the motion graphics field due to their popular plug-ins for After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut Pro and Photoshop. The popularity and functionality of EchoFire, Video Finesse and Color Finesse make Synthetic Aperture a leader in the field of professional visual design.

Technical Animations is the creator of highly regarded VHS/CD/DVD training tools for products such as Discreet Combustion, 3ds max, Character Studio and Reactor. Hosted by highly respected trainers, Technical Animations is the leader in Discreet training products.

Total Training is the foremost creator of training systems for use with Adobe tools such as After Effects, Premiere, LiveMotion, GoLive, Photoshop and Illustrator. Their "Total" series for these tools have long been the standard against which all other training tools are compared against. Recently, with tools like their new OSX and Zaxwerks series, the company has broadened its offerings into other supported tools as well.

Ulead products continue to bring creativity, power and value to digital media artists and editors. From powerful video editing tools to imaging, 3D to DVD authoring and encoding -- with the highly rated "DVD Workshop" which is drawing high marks from users -- Ulead tools empower the creative process.

Univenture manufactures innovative, customized products for a wide range of optical and disc packaging solutions. The company provides high-speed packaging; automated packaging machinery and disc packaging and storage products incorporating Univenture's patented Safety-sleeve construction. Univenture, Inc. has plants in Columbus, Ohio, Reno, Nevada, and Dublin, Ireland.

VitalStream provides services to customers wishing to broadcast audio and video content and other communications over the Internet. The Company's unique mix of services and technology enables customers to focus on their core business by outsourcing complex streaming and hosting functions to VitalStream.

Wondertouch is the creator of particle Illusion, the particle engine that makes organic and other effects easy and powerful. You've seen particle Illusion in action in many movies and television shows. Using OpenGL, you'll time most of your renders in frames per second instead of seconds (or minutes) per frame. See it in action at Cow West 2003!

Zaxwerks produces some of the most respected tools in the motion graphics industry. Their 3D Invigorator ships as a part of After Effects due to the power that the Invigorator brings to AE artists. The company also makes a stand-alone version for those who need the power and simplicty of use that is the hallmark of Zaxwerks 3D products.