IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Full size AVI files are very, very large. Even 20 seconds of uncompressed 720x576 AVI will be huge. For simple uploads to YouTube there is a limit of 100Mb or 10 minutes. They recommend outputting your video from your video editor thus: Our recommended file format is MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid, or SVQ3 rathe...

It isn't 'proper' music is it? Synthetic? Knowing Peter I am quite certain he did not mean that as a rude commment on either NVM or Fraught's work. [BTW Fraught can you give us old fogies a better hint as to how to find your music ... searching MySpace for Fraught brings up an American Christian Ro...

Ummm £299 - er ... if you really need those effects I guess. And it is much cheaper than After Effects ...

Sorry I'm still not happy spending that much on an add-on but maybe I'm just mean.

Dave

It is a fair point, Patrick. Of course it also applies to British people going to festivals in other countries. And as you wryly note it can often be difficult for people from parts of the UK to come to events because of transport problems. In your position I would be checking the various flights fr...

I'm in broad agreement with Ned ... but must point out that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is almost all told in 3 second chunks. Either there is a cut, the camera moves to a different position or a character steps out of close-up to reveal something else in the background. However it is done a new i...

I do know what you mean, Chrisbitz, but the worry is that our attention span gets shorter. That means we get impatient at anything more than the usual 10-15 minutes ... no matter how good it is. I think it is part of the reason Joss Whedon's Firefly series did not command huge tv audiences. The show...

First: For PAL video the normal "Academy" sized picture is 720x576 video-pixels. I say "video-pixels" because they are oblong, unlike normal computer pixels which are square. So if you make your graphic 768x576 in a normal computer program and import it into your video editor it...

Last year's AMPS festival had a category for Best Fan Film ... I wonder if Ned has any comment. I would have a few worries about copyright issues. Some film companies may be happy with the phenomenon as a form of viral advertising but others may not. Many years ago when analog video editing first be...

Knowing that Ned has been making movies for many years and takes a keen critical approach to his own work I am slightly reluctant to suggest this, but ... Is it possible that because of the extra detail and clarity that you are examining the HD footage more closely than you used to do with SD? In ot...

Willy has - as is so often the case - hit the nail on the head. (And this from the man who hates using hammers and nails!) In film and tv terms the writer - or often writers - are responsible for the shape, design and structure of what happens not just for the words characters say. There are "w...

That's great, Ned. For those who don't know ... one of the perks of winning an award in the AMPS festival is a year's membership so some people this side of the pond earned that status ... and some of us have also opted to join even though we are not winners and live far from the USA. AMPS membershi...

Your Brain is like a library Dave. You mean faintly damp smelling, filled with out-of-date info and no new stock ?!?!? (Apologies to all desperately underfunded librarians everywhere - when I am king there will be budgets and staff again.) Actually I'll reveal my two secret weapons: www.howstuffwor...

For the future, it may be wiser for Camcorder clubs to receive video entries in computer file format (mpeg4, mpeg2 or avi) and play these back through HDV projector using a more versatile computer which costs about the same. Interesting idea, Paul ... and you could well be right. Don't confuse the ...

Ray said: The projector suggestions are interesting. What pixel count do they have? The last time I looked for a 1080i one it was over £3000. The Optima is 1024x768 pixels and is compatible with 720p as well as 1080i. Stingman said: There are also two types of projecting the image. DLP (Digital Ligh...

By chance I bought the current issue of Personal Computer World magazine today and found a feature on projectors. The one with the lightest weight in their test was 1.4 Kg That was the Optoma EP1691 list price £939. Their review was pretty positive. It gives out 2,500 lumens, gets a bit hot, is not ...