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- Tue May 04, 2010 11:00 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: USB EXTERAL HARD DRIVE !!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8069
USB EXTERAL HARD DRIVE !!!
Help anyone? I have a external hard drive with all my files on, including two almost finished, current video projects. It is a Dane-Electric 'So Ready' 500 gig. It is probably a couple of years old. Having swapped it between computers to access files, it will now not read the drive. The case histor...
- Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:33 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Judges critiques - a criticism!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 44653
Re: Judges critiques - a criticism!
YET ANOTHER BIAFF Making a one thousand, five hundred miles round trip to Britain and scheduling into it a visit to Bedford for BIAFF, accentuates the question of whether it was really worth it? “Well, its your problem living in South-East France!” My response is "It is headlined as an Internat...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:34 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: 2010 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION RESULTS
- Replies: 40
- Views: 31958
Re: 2010 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION RESULTS
There appears to be a hush! of silence on the forum in recently. Where is the wild excitement of anticipation of coming to BIAFF? The awaited envelopes have plopped through the letter boxes. No elation or dismay of the results? Dave has been burning the midnight oil getting the results and now the t...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:41 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: PROBLEM WITH CAMERA PLAYBACK
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4837
PROBLEM WITH CAMERA PLAYBACK
Visual disturbance with playback from camcorder. Can anyone In the technical department give me some ideas? I have experienced some picture disturbance in the view finder while playing back my camcorder last night. My camera is a Panasonic DV30E 3CCD. It has just over 200 hours on the clock. The cam...
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:12 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Magix movie editor
- Replies: 69
- Views: 62316
Re: Magix movie editor
Careful! You may end up with a full time job. If you can ask a question of how far back can versions go to run on Window 7. I have version 10 which is usefull for quick projects and especially for burning a quick DVD with a menu. (Version 10 will not install). Now that I am poor and inpoverished ret...
- Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:51 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Don't make a film about a clubmate's wife !
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8853
Re: Don't make a film about a clubmate's wife !
My feeling to Willy's dilemma about deciding to making his film, is only a conclusion which I think I might arrive at myself. You are a more accredited film maker than myself, and apart from meeting you once at BIAFF once, I can only draw from the postings you have made on this forum between ourselv...
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:06 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: HD editing - Simple things to know?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14015
HD editing - Simple things to know?
For those who may be aquinted with me, I have changed my user name. Why? Well, I have a new computer which by living in France has a AZWERTY keyboard. Therefore, my usual sign on has changed from 'PaddyW' to 'Pqtrick' because for those who may not know, some of the letters are in a different positio...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:53 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: How do you print MiniDV cassette labels?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6931
Re: How do you print MiniDV cassette labels?
When I am organised, which is not always, I have made a template in 'Illustrator' marked with a face and the folds. In the template, I have a place holder for an image and then text places. It is than printed on photo paper, trimmed and neatly folded. The ones for the actual cassette are fixed with ...
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:44 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: How would you judge experimental films ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11215
Re: How would you judge experimental films ?
QUOTE P.S. Some months ago people complained about the small font used in these forums, so I began using the large font for my messages. As no one else does so, can I assume you all have enlarged your screens, bought better spectacles or have adapted to this size? In my innocence, I thought it was t...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:18 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: COPYING ONES OWN DVDS'S
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15372
Re: COPYING ONES OWN DVDS'S
Thanks folks for your comments regarding this problem of re-burning this DVD. Not for a moment doubting anyone comments, I telephoned yesterday a member who I know well, at my club in Nuneaton. [This is with the benefit of an almost 'free' ASDL telephone line]. He uses MAGIX for editing and I was ke...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:39 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: THE SAME OLD SONG!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8051
THE SAME OLD SONG!
Music and its copyright is a well worn thread on this forum. However, I will mention the subject again, in as much as its was highlighted at a club meeting which I attended here in France last night. One film which was shown, had a music track which the author said he could not use it any further [i...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:37 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: COPYING ONES OWN DVDS'S
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15372
COPYING ONES OWN DVDS'S
Technical question about copying ones own authored DVD's. I have burnt a -R DVD using the MAGIX video software having previously edited the project in that programme. The DVD has a menu with a graphic background, the menu is created from chapter points in the video as normal. The completed original ...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:04 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: HOW DO YOU START A CLUB?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5977
Re: HOW DO YOU START A CLUB?
Yes Ned, I think that is an excellent idea. Before I left the UK I was working with a drama group. But it is not the sort of thing you get off the ground in five minutes. It takes individuals not a 'club' to do it. In my case, I worked with this group over a period of time. You can't just say 'Hey I...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:08 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Canon 7D
- Replies: 38
- Views: 36025
Re: Canon 7D
Yes Fraught, it does indeed look a great piece of kit. As a still camera it must excel. However, to use the final video output may pose some problems. If there is any comparison technically which I highlighted in previous post marked 'Frame-rates'. You will undoubtedly get, as I did with my Panasoni...
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:29 am
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: CH - CH -CH - CHANGES
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11136
Re: CH - CH -CH - CHANGES CHA-CHA-CHA
Well done you chaps! It must have been an innovative way of digesting the turkey. Now that we have the site divided into useful topics, I hope it may be a way forward in livening up the forum. It is incredible to think that we are involved in one of the most creative activities, yet it seems to inhi...