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by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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 ...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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 ...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...
by Pqtrick
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...