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by tom hardwick
Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:16 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Age
Replies: 65
Views: 55572

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 ...
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:33 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Super 8 Kodak K40
Replies: 13
Views: 12976

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.
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:29 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Super 8 Kodak K40
Replies: 13
Views: 12976

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...
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:59 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Super 8 Kodak K40
Replies: 13
Views: 12976

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.
by tom hardwick
Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:00 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: IDEAS FOR FVM - and similar magazines.
Replies: 6
Views: 7376

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...
by tom hardwick
Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:35 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: 3:1 Ratio On Video
Replies: 6
Views: 7421

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...
by tom hardwick
Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:31 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Super 8 Kodak K40
Replies: 13
Views: 12976

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...
by tom hardwick
Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:25 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: NO FVM ... ???
Replies: 15
Views: 13189

[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 ...
by tom hardwick
Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:18 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Did Anyone Try To Film Programmes From The Television?
Replies: 7
Views: 8772

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.
by tom hardwick
Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:15 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: HDV Hand held
Replies: 16
Views: 15901

Just to say that the aspect ratio has no bearing on how steady your footage looks on screen Ned. Just thought I'd clear that one up.
by tom hardwick
Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:53 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: HDV 16 x 9 format
Replies: 13
Views: 12170

You're obviously not a writer, Ian.
by tom hardwick
Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:21 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: HDV 16 x 9 format
Replies: 13
Views: 12170

The current writers' strike probably has some leaning towards the correction of just such a situation Ned. Of course they both need each other and in my view it's a 50:50 split. But up to now - as you say - the writer's credit at the end has been far smaller than it should have been.
by tom hardwick
Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:49 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: HDV 16 x 9 format
Replies: 13
Views: 12170

I think renting a camcorder makes sense only if you keep renting the same make and model. A camera takes many hours to learn and more hours to practice and even more hours to master. Renting by the day or weekend is not the way in my view.
by tom hardwick
Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:13 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: DVD storage/identification
Replies: 10
Views: 9830

Sounds like it may be worth your while going on a handwriting course for a couple of hours, Dave. :D I have a wonderful set of Staedtler Lumocolor permanent 0.4 mm S marker pens. Eight colours, they write on anything - glass, CDs, labels, you name it. Strange that a paragraph in my latest Positive I...
by tom hardwick
Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:14 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Ian and YouTube!
Replies: 42
Views: 39667

You can also download the free Windows Media Encoder and this will let you compress your film as much or as little as you like. The trouble is (I find) that YouTube recompresses whatever you send them, reducing the quality still further.

tom.