IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

The whole point about the Letus is that it's designed to be used with video cameras with fixed lenses, Billy. There are losses of course (light and added grain), but the gains in pictorial quality make for very interesting pictures. I liked reading your 'techy piece' and hope you get it in FVM. By n...

Have you all had a look at the IOV's 'Focus' mag? It's good. They get a ton of adverts and as such they get lots of kit to test. I've written for them in the past and as with FVM it's zero payment. So I've often wondered if we couldn't join forces with them in some way - having the 'IAC PAGES' in th...

I too use the Samson H2 recorder. It has quite amazingly good audio recording capabilities for the price (about £140) but doesn't hold accurate sync with my camcorders - unlike my Minidisc.

You say, 'the Editor who has been lumbered single-handed with the job', yet Garth was offered the job, knew the constraints and requirements and is paid a salary. He probably sweats a bit when articles are thin on the ground. As all the other contributors supply their articles freely, it's mighty ha...

While we're talking about amateur films and their titles, might I make a plea for restraint? A size restraint, that is. I've just judged the North West Region's annual film competition, and one of the things that struck me is the size and colour of the title fonts that are very often used. When thes...

[quote="fraught"]I'm going to put together a seperate article together on how the FX were done.[/quote] Good man. Make it appeal to a younger audience and you're out to woo us all. Don't forget to include lots of illustrations and pictures. It's what a lot of FVM articles cry out for, but ...

Ray and Fraught - you say: The articles in the magazine are often terrible. Where are the articles on how to create SFX using Adobe After Effects, or FX Home, etc? FVM relies on voluntary contributions. People have to give up time, spend money and tap the keys. They have to take pictures, Photoshop ...

There's an example on this page: http://www.fortvir.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1031&g2_page=6 showing what my colour correction was able to do for the wedding speeches when a filmmaker had chip-block failure with his Sony PD170. If you click on the individual pictures they'll enlarge. tom.

I always colour correct with the Canopus Storm2 software. It has a white and black balance filter - meaning that you can click your mouse cursor on anything in that frame that you consider should be white and the entire clip is so corrected. If that's too blue-white for your liking (for instance) yo...

If the red footage is transferred to the timeline then digital colour correction can get to work. I've been simply staggered at what can be retrieved from apparently hopeless film.

tom.

I do get a lot of questions thrown at me Mike, and they do get aired in Positive Image every now and then. My only difficulty is knowing at what level to pitch the Q & A. I'm often surprised by how basic some of the questions are and think 'I can't put that in FVM'. And I'd be very willing to te...

I've stopped including masked-down portions in my 16:9 films now. I used to like having 2:1 sections in my movies for dramatic effect, but I've seen too many domestic TVs try and 'correct' the 'problem' to continue with it. A lot of TVs in their 'smart' mode will always try and remove the black bars...

Worth checking to make sure the film has actually been exposed and you're not sending an unexposed film off for processing, as it'll be dear. Look at the film strip in the gate area - does it show a cutout where the perforations should be? But if it has been exposed then being Kodachrome it'll be fi...

[quote] Mike's piece on Mercalli - or at least half of it - is there. Half of Tom's piece is there. Dave. [/quote] I think that's a situation we shouldn't be having Dave. I've had a word with Garth about it as there were 4 or maybe 5 articles that are 'continued next issue'. This wouldn't be so bad ...

I remember filming Kate Bush on Top of the Pops by having the Canon 1014E set up (Kodachrome 40) in front of the Sony Trinitron. It must have been 1977.

tom.