IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

My first reaction is to accept the fact that regrettably the whole thing is a right off. You mention about trying to transfer the tape into another cassette. Some years ago, I had a valued S-VHS tape. When it was played, the video picture disappeared at the same point. I was foolhardy enough to try ...

Not a film making query, but there must be some good soldiers out there who can answer this query. Bluetooth connection to a computer from a mobile phone to upload images etc. Is this as simple as buying a sort of USB Bluetooth ‘memory stick’ for fewer than ten euros, connecting it to the computer, ...

Is there a five star award for tripod carrying? Arriving back from a sojourn in Italy, my left shoulder and feet are very sore. Often, and more often, there are those remarks about the use or none use of tripods when filming. Struggling and carrying one around in the sweltering heat from 9am until s...

I just happen to have in my cupboard gathering years of dust, a Eumig 824 projector. I am not an expert in these bits of kit at all but perhaps there is some common ground between these two models. On this model, there are two, five pin, audio input/outputs; these are on the side of the projector. T...

It is refreshing to see a statement like this from the UK’s Metropolitan Police and their interpretation of the rights of those filming in public place. For those who are sane, it suggests just common sense. If anyone was a terrorist, or the like, they would not exactly have a flashing beacon on the...

In April, Willy fired our imagination by his craving for ‘Oh to be in England’ by painting a picture of hosts of golden daffodils and the like. This bought nostalgic memories flooding back for us ex-pats and for Willy, that English country scene. Just this weekend, I saw field upon field of golden b...

A good few years ago, I remember seeing the fantasy film SOUTH PACIFIC in widescreen TODD-AO at a large cinema in Birmingham. Whilst my hometown boasted its own large cinema, it did compare or indeed have the facility to project films in 70mm. Since then I have always enjoyed the big picture experie...

BIAFF 2009. Did I see the rainbow? Well no, not really but then I did become very ill and had to bow out on Sunday. I saw as many of the films as permissible on the Saturday mainly in the lower category screenings. If I can use the simple expression ‘ enjoy’ or ‘ like’ , I can attribute this descri...

Willy, don’t make me homesick! Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now!! It is actua...

My former club in the UK, Nuneaton Moviemakers has a series of ‘showreels’ which they exchange with other clubs.
It should not be too difficult for you to track down the Chairman or Secretary!

[The website is http://www.nuneatonmoviemakers.com and there is a contacts page there. - Ed]

Everyone appears to be upbeat about their BIAFF results this year. Monsieur le facteur plopped my result into la boite a lettre this morning. Surprised to say, that my documentary has gained trios étoiles and will be screened on the Saturday. Would I have liked gold? Well yes, but when you have got ...

Trying to be green and cleaner! Looked at the options to get to BIAFF in Chesterfield, what’s the best way? Well PAR AVION of course! Seriously looked at the TGV from Lyon to Lille, then onwards to London St Pancras, that bits OK and the fare is reasonable. Then St Pancras to Chesterfield is direct ...

Belated thanks for the comments. I have tried several ways to resolve this, my main concern was that it maybe a fault raising its head with my camera. I captured the same eighteen minute clip into ‘ Magix’ and there were no dropped frames. Why, you may ask, have I a long continuous clip but that’s a...

Dropped Frames. Does anyone know the cause of ‘dropped frames’ in Premier CS3? In a ten-minute continuous capture, slowly, 18 dropped frames were counted with a MINIdv tape. There are some signs of picture disturbance in the recording. My camera is relatively new, so I hope it is not an early sign o...

Taking up Billy's challenge, I'll pitch in from this far flung corner of Sarko's France. I am originally from Nuneaton - who has heard of Nuneaton? Birthplace of Ken Loach, George Eliot and Larry Grayson - what an act to follow! - I now live in Villeurbanne which is part of the Lyon conurbation in F...