Stu Maschwitz, Wes Plate to Address Inaugural Meeting

Heads up San Francisco: There's a new Creative Pro User Group coming to town. The Bay Area Creative Pro User Group, or BACPUG (suggested pronunciations include "Bay See PUG" or "Bass-e-pug"—perhaps even "Back-pug"?), was founded recently by filmmaker Kanen Flowers, creator of Scruffy.tv and That Post Show. The first meeting will be held this Wednesday, June 5, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 601 Townsend St.

Promising "All community. No Bulls—," the BACPUG plans to make meetings social but also informative. The first meeting will include presentations by director Stu Maschwitz, the creator of Red Giant's Magic Bullet line (including the recent BulletProof), and Wes Plate, the founder of Automatic Duck and product manager of Adobe Prelude. Maschwitz will talk about Slugline and Fountain, a plain-text markup language for screenwriting that he has extolled on his influential blog, ProLost. But don't expect a battle royale. In a recent post, Maschwitz claimed there "are no plans for a Prelude-vs.-BulletProof showdown of Anchorman proportions, but be safe—bring your trident." Clint Torres, the creator of the Slugline app, will join Maschwitz on stage.

Kevin Monahan of SFCutters, the Bay Area's first Final Cut Pro editors group, will be on hand Wednesday to get things rolling. Tickets are available from the group's event page.

For more information: bacpug.org