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- Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:57 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Anyone good on lighting? Or documentaries/travelogues?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7297
Re: Anyone good on lighting? Or documentaries/travelogues?
Very kind of you to respond, Michael. I'll send a personal email.
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Anyone good on lighting? Or documentaries/travelogues?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7297
Anyone good on lighting? Or documentaries/travelogues?
I'm in the process of finalising the Staines Movie Makers 2012/13 calendar and I could do with a couple of guest speakers. Something that's never been covered in my few years at the club is lighting. Does anyone know of anyone who might be available to give a talk/demonstration on basic lighting set...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:00 pm
- Forum: Advice on Films
- Topic: Disability day venue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 43097
Re: Disability day venue
Fantastic opening shot (and plenty of the others were very good too). Glorious scenery (when it's not raining!) Dave's point about getting the participants in close up is a good one, but watching the real time footage, rather than the slo-mo, I image it would be much easier to keep the subject in fr...
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 10:50 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: IAC forums traffic
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15108
Re: IAC forums traffic
I'm inclined to agree with Fred. Forums work best when they are inhabited by those who want to play. Forcing the grown ups to play would have a similar effect to what used to happen when I was forced to play football at school - the whole team suffered. We have one or two grown ups here who are very...
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 10:40 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
- Replies: 17
- Views: 25524
Re: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
Thanks for the additional info Peter. If you want to burn a video DVD, you'll need it in MPEG2 format eventually (which will be repackaged by your DVD authoring software as VOB files), so converting to avi would be an unnecessary additional conversion. Unless you want to edit the result in any way o...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:45 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Future for clubs -
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17516
Re: Future for clubs -
Well said guys. Those clubs with 70 members are very lucky, I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but I'd just like to give credit where it's due - OVFM's 75+ members isn't lucky, it's a credit to the last 20 years of hard work by the committee and Reg Lancaster and Mike Turner's Chairmanship. Most...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:27 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
- Replies: 17
- Views: 25524
Re: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
I tried that, Tim, but didn't know how to open it on the computer, ie what programme to use. Sorry, Peter, I'm not sure I understand. Which file at this stage are you tying to open - the file on the USB stick or on the hard drive? In other words are you trying to do the copy (from USB stick to exte...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:24 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
- Replies: 17
- Views: 25524
Re: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
The other issue (I think) with FAT32, is that it can't handle file sizes over 2gb Actually it's 4GB, Chris (FAT16 is 2GB - although some sources quote differently). This 4GB limit would coincide nicely with the comment from Peter's friend that the PVR has a max file size of 4GB. So unless there are...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:41 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Future for clubs -
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17516
Re: Future for clubs -
Just need somewhere for the like-minded people to get together in the first place ... A club, maybe? That's rather what I thought I was joining when, as someone who'd just bought his first camcorder, I joined Staines in 2006. Wrong! I discovered I'd joined a social club where videos were just an ex...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:20 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
- Replies: 17
- Views: 25524
Re: Copying from Humax HD digital PVR
Peter, I suspect the message was that the file system is NTFS, not the file (though you may be correct and the message is the result of a poor translation). NTFS is a file system - effectively a way in which files are organised on a disk (or other device). It was introduced with Windows NT and has c...
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:19 am
- Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
- Topic: speaking to the camera
- Replies: 9
- Views: 27521
Re: speaking to the camera
I see it slightly differently (or possibly just use different words) to Willy. In my view: Someone who talks to the person just to the left/right of the camera = interviewee. Someone who talks directly to the camera = presenter. Many people are uncomfortable or find it difficult to talk to a camera....
- Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:27 am
- Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
- Topic: Very special event
- Replies: 28
- Views: 63853
Re: Very special event
I'm sure you'll find plenty of use for it, John. Wish i had one. I was rather disappointed in the video you linked to though. It demonstrated well how the wind noise was dramatically reduced, but didn't demonstrate at all how the sound one might want to capture is affected. It would have been so muc...
- Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:36 am
- Forum: Advice on Films
- Topic: The Magnificent Bronzes of St Pancras
- Replies: 14
- Views: 35417
Re: The Magnificent Bronzes of St Pancras
No I did not ask permission to film. I respect genuine security issues but do resents silly paranoid restrictions in public places! Is there a law against it? As an aside, technically St Pancras is not a public place (as is the case with many places we think of a s public - eg shopping centres). As...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:48 pm
- Forum: Advice on Films
- Topic: You Tube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 29492
Re: You Tube
it is notable how the assumption is that everything on the internet should be free! In fact, most significant things are (kind of) free, but that's because they're paid for by ADVERTS! Couldn't agree more, Chris. What surprises me is that whilst one might expect this attitude from the younger gener...
- Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:58 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Club Films on Youtube
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19469
Re: Club Films on Youtube
Instead, we've decided that if a member has a YouTube account, and their films are online, we will link to their YouTube copy from our Database, and if necessary, from our website too. That way we are happy to publicise any members' films, but they have the responsibilities, and the viewing numbers...