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by tom hardwick
Sat Jan 08, 2022 8:16 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Dropping speaker levels to line levels
Replies: 7
Views: 19286

Re: Dropping speaker levels to line levels

It certainly does help John, and many thanks for all your care and attention to detail. An associated question. If I do feed the powered sub (with its own satellites) then of course I don't want speakers connected to the Sony MD373 amp outputs. So is it safe to just disconnect the Sony's speakers an...
by tom hardwick
Sat Jan 08, 2022 12:40 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Dropping speaker levels to line levels
Replies: 7
Views: 19286

Re: Dropping speaker levels to line levels

Thank you so much for your very comprehensive reply, John. Of course I'm disappointed to know that it's not simply a £5.99 eBay tin box I need, but it might help if I give you more details. I'm old fashioned enough to want to play my collection of CDs, MiniDiscs and cassettes, and I have a neat litt...
by tom hardwick
Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:11 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Dropping speaker levels to line levels
Replies: 7
Views: 19286

Dropping speaker levels to line levels

Hi Team,

I'm after some sort of converter box into which I can feed my amplifier's speaker cables, and have the box convert this down to line level to feed my sub woofer. Any units out there you know of?
by tom hardwick
Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:09 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Film & Video Maker Magazine - Back Issues
Replies: 7
Views: 19669

Re: Film & Video Maker Magazine - Back Issues

I wish I'd kept the Movie Maker issues that carried my few articles in the 1980s. I think like Howard they got lost in house moves.
by tom hardwick
Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:01 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Paul Kittel's Zoom evening
Replies: 8
Views: 19784

Re: Paul Kittel's Zoom evening

Thanks Howard
by tom hardwick
Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:59 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Paul Kittel's Zoom evening
Replies: 8
Views: 19784

Re: Paul Kittel's Zoom evening

Other people are wishing they'd known about this meeting. Thing is Paul scripted, edited and produced his entire show beforehand, so presumably he has a link to it - the same link we all clicked on last night.
by tom hardwick
Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:50 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Paul Kittel's Zoom evening
Replies: 8
Views: 19784

Paul Kittel's Zoom evening

Paul Kittel is a man who knows his stuff. IAC Patron, Paul Kittel, held a free-for-all on Wednesday 3rd November over Zoom, and lots of us gathered to be hugely entertained by the behind-the-scenes stories that have accompanied his filmmaking career. He had spent many hours preparing his evening pri...
by tom hardwick
Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:41 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Lost Films of WWII
Replies: 1
Views: 11080

Lost Films of WWII

I just happend to channel-hop onto BBC 4 last night (Monday) where they were showing really wonderful home movies shot in WW2, some of which are really amazing quality. Most seem to be Std-8 but I suppose some are 16 mm, and some are colour. Lost Films of WWll they call it, but they're not lost any ...
by tom hardwick
Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:21 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Kids appearing in your films
Replies: 5
Views: 16270

Kids appearing in your films

Filming children! For goodness sake. I always revelled in the 'silent permission' granted me at weddings to film the children. It is images of them, and the old and frail, that will make my films so watchable, so valuable, so historical. But that's an aside. In the end, and one by one, all the schoo...
by tom hardwick
Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:12 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: DVD and Blu-ray discs
Replies: 19
Views: 42040

Re: DVD and Blu-ray discs

Very interesting thread we have here, Team, on a subject dear to my heart too. It could well be duplicated on the 'equipment and technical' forum pages (and in FVM) as well. I too love the extras on DVDs and BDs, and gasp at the amount of info a tiny spinning disc can hold. But as regards film compe...
by tom hardwick
Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:40 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: CEMRIAC on Zoom
Replies: 10
Views: 29992

Re: CEMRIAC on Zoom

The October 2021 SoCo News is out and about right now Tim.
by tom hardwick
Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:28 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: CEMRIAC on Zoom
Replies: 10
Views: 29992

Re: CEMRIAC on Zoom

The SoCo regional competition results were shown over Zoom a couple of nights ago, and I was pleased to see so many in the 'audience'. I suspect there were more than double the attendees of a similar live audience presentation, simply because Zoom is so easy to access and you can see the films on an...
by tom hardwick
Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:26 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: UK FILM REVIEWS
Replies: 24
Views: 63837

Re: UK FILM REVIEWS

“This film suffers from the same problem that all subtitled films in that they take the viewers’ eyes away from what is happening on screen.” The faster the cutting, the more this applies Howard. And a lot of (iPlayer) action thrillers made in Sweden, Belgium etc hardly let you draw breath from your...
by tom hardwick
Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:43 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: CEMRIAC on Zoom
Replies: 10
Views: 29992

CEMRIAC on Zoom

Yesterday at 7pm I joined in the IAC's Zoom meeting for the CEMRIAC region, where we all had a good chat and saw the results of a 'film made in 2 days' competition. Then all the 37+ attendees used an online voting form and the 3-2-1 was announced. Good fun, lots of laughter, and imaginative films. S...
by tom hardwick
Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:06 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: Jameela
Replies: 48
Views: 144732

Re: Jameela

I'm with Howard (4 posts above) in that portrait mode filming of landscapes is just daft. This is me using polite language BTW. But it does seem to be law in the middle east, where war-torn landscapes are incessantly hose-piped in portrait mode, and ⅔ of my TV news picture is silly, useless, blurry ...