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by TimStannard
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.
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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....
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...
by TimStannard
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...