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MVPCUG Meeting Minutes MVPCUG General Meeting Minutes, Meeting of Tuesday, May 7, 2002. The MVPCUG general meeting was held in the cafeteria of Whitesboro High School. President Joe Madeira called the meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. Business Meeting 50-50 Raffle - New York State has denied our request for a 50-50 raffle. Klez E-Mail Virus - Joe warned of this new virus. A fix for it is available from norton. Officer's E-mails - There have been some e-mail changes for MVPCUG officers that were published in the Newsletter. Joe's e-mail address is changed to joem9@adelphia.net. A new Internet Service Provider is being sought for the club's website due to rising prices at BizOnline.com (a.k.a. Borg). Volunteers are needed to assist with the Programs Committee and the Newsletter. Minutes of Last Meeting - The April, 2002 minutes were approved. Treasurer's Report - The April Treasurer's report shows total inflows of $504.66 and total outflows of $293.78 for a net gain of $210.88. Income was from 19 renewals ($380.00), earned interest ($14.66) and advertisers ($110.00). Expenses were newsletter printing ($275.00) and extra newsletter postage ($18.75). The final April balance was $6,250.44. A motion was made, seconded and approved to receive the treasurer's report and put it on file with the minutes. Quicken SIG (Bo Wozniak) - Bo reported that the next Quicken SIG will feature use of the checkbook features and the following session will focus on Quicken for business. Club meetings will not be held in July and August. Whitesboro High School is not available for the September meeting so plans have been made to have the meeting in the basement of St. John's church in Whitesboro. It was noted that there is no handicap access to St. John's meeting facility. Website - Lisa Britt announced that she plans on adding general interest links to our website. It was acknowledged that the newly formatted website is looking very good. At 6:27 p.m. Joe introduced David Whittle from MGI (now Roxio) who presented several of their imaging products to us. VideoWave 5 is a video editor that can accept input
from VCR and digital and analog camcorders and create customized outputs.
VideoWave5 gives the user the ability to: System requirements for VideoWave5 are a 500 MHz Pentium or better with a minimum of 64 MHz memory. PhotoVista Virtual Tour enables the user to create panoramic views viewable inside a regular browser. Inputs are still pictures taken in a panorama. The software allows the stills to be ordered numerically and then "stitched" together. Hot spots can be added to zoom in on points of interest where another panorama can be viewed. PhotoSuite 4 Platinum Edition is a photo editor that allows the user to modify photos (add and remove objects), add effects, remove redeye, touch up and stitch photos together both horizontally and vertically, blending exposure differences. This software has a library of templates to start with. Dave presented several interesting video and photo examples to us and provided copies of the MGI products for sale at the following prices which reflect $5.00 off normal club prices with the exception of VideoWave5 which is a $10.00 additional discount:
The presentation concluded at 7:40 at which time we had our door prize drawing.
Marsha Thayer, secretary |
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