IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

It certainly does help John, and many thanks for all your care and attention to detail. An associated question. If I do feed the powered sub (with its own satellites) then of course I don't want speakers connected to the Sony MD373 amp outputs. So is it safe to just disconnect the Sony's speakers an...

Thank you so much for your very comprehensive reply, John. Of course I'm disappointed to know that it's not simply a £5.99 eBay tin box I need, but it might help if I give you more details. I'm old fashioned enough to want to play my collection of CDs, MiniDiscs and cassettes, and I have a neat litt...

Hi Team,

I'm after some sort of converter box into which I can feed my amplifier's speaker cables, and have the box convert this down to line level to feed my sub woofer. Any units out there you know of?

I wish I'd kept the Movie Maker issues that carried my few articles in the 1980s. I think like Howard they got lost in house moves.

Thanks Howard

Other people are wishing they'd known about this meeting. Thing is Paul scripted, edited and produced his entire show beforehand, so presumably he has a link to it - the same link we all clicked on last night.

Paul Kittel is a man who knows his stuff. IAC Patron, Paul Kittel, held a free-for-all on Wednesday 3rd November over Zoom, and lots of us gathered to be hugely entertained by the behind-the-scenes stories that have accompanied his filmmaking career. He had spent many hours preparing his evening pri...

I just happend to channel-hop onto BBC 4 last night (Monday) where they were showing really wonderful home movies shot in WW2, some of which are really amazing quality. Most seem to be Std-8 but I suppose some are 16 mm, and some are colour. Lost Films of WWll they call it, but they're not lost any ...

Filming children! For goodness sake. I always revelled in the 'silent permission' granted me at weddings to film the children. It is images of them, and the old and frail, that will make my films so watchable, so valuable, so historical. But that's an aside. In the end, and one by one, all the schoo...

Very interesting thread we have here, Team, on a subject dear to my heart too. It could well be duplicated on the 'equipment and technical' forum pages (and in FVM) as well. I too love the extras on DVDs and BDs, and gasp at the amount of info a tiny spinning disc can hold. But as regards film compe...

The October 2021 SoCo News is out and about right now Tim.

The SoCo regional competition results were shown over Zoom a couple of nights ago, and I was pleased to see so many in the 'audience'. I suspect there were more than double the attendees of a similar live audience presentation, simply because Zoom is so easy to access and you can see the films on an...

“This film suffers from the same problem that all subtitled films in that they take the viewers’ eyes away from what is happening on screen.” The faster the cutting, the more this applies Howard. And a lot of (iPlayer) action thrillers made in Sweden, Belgium etc hardly let you draw breath from your...

Yesterday at 7pm I joined in the IAC's Zoom meeting for the CEMRIAC region, where we all had a good chat and saw the results of a 'film made in 2 days' competition. Then all the 37+ attendees used an online voting form and the 3-2-1 was announced. Good fun, lots of laughter, and imaginative films. S...

I'm with Howard (4 posts above) in that portrait mode filming of landscapes is just daft. This is me using polite language BTW. But it does seem to be law in the middle east, where war-torn landscapes are incessantly hose-piped in portrait mode, and ⅔ of my TV news picture is silly, useless, blurry ...