IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

But have you noticed Stu that a lot of the digital channels are putting out films in very wide 2.35:1. This of course letterboxes them quite noticeably on 16:9 sets, and lights but a few of the central scan lines acrooss the middle of my 4:3 set. Of course films on DVD have been this way for some ti...

The good thing is that as amateurs and tinkerers we've been able to take a file our camera and projector gates as I showed in Positive Image a few years ago. Super 16 came about this way, and there have been systems whereby cameras are used at 45 degres to the vertical to use more of the 16 mm films...

The ZoomH2 is a lovely recorder Ned, as is the Edirol competitor. But the beauty of the MiniDisc is the amazing affordability of the things. Admittedly you have to buy the machines secondhand now, but the discs themselves (less than a pound each) are available everywhere and record in mono at the hi...

It's for this very reason that I use the standard width CD 'jewel' case for my DVDs, Ned. This way there's room enough on the spine for identification. To save shelf space (as you want to do as well) I use the jewel cases that store two discs.

tom.

I didn't pose any questions Film Thurso, but maybe others did in this thread. I like your line that says, ''All formats from 4:3 to 3:1 are meant to be screened the same hieght as the idea is only to expand the horizontal view''. That's the way, widescreen, not narrowscreen. You say, ''Our super 8 r...

I'm slightly confused Film Thurso because (although you don't say so) it sounds as if you're shooting film, not video. If so then attaching a 1.5:1 anamorphic to the 4:3 film frame gives you a 16:8 image (2:1) as against our 16:9 (1.78:1) video image. That's fine - your films can still be shown on w...

TVs are geared up for 14:9 Dave? It's but one option in my 16:9 TV's menu, that's all. It's there as a half-way-house compromise, where 4:3 material can be zoomed so that more screen is used albeit with the loss of top and bottom of the image and reduced picture resolution. The best TV in my house i...

Tom, you should have re set the projector when you had finished. Had I been the projectionist Michael, you could be sure I'd have done this. But then again, only if Dave and Jan's film had made it plain that their film was shot in the 1925 aspect ratio. In fact 4:3 projection filled the NW Region's...

I'll go along with the missmatched frequencies theory, Dave.

As to your film, it was as if we three had planned it all up front. Your talk of cheap mics up close, Minidisc recorders and so on near had me yelling from the darkness, ''See? I told you so!"

tom.

It's time to call a halt to 4:3 I feel. Certainly ok to have pillarboxed footage inside the 16:9 screen, but all these squashed, stretched, pulled, distorted and 'smart' image formats are a right pain. Surely there can't be many camcorders out there that can't do a 'letterbox' shoot these days. For ...

You're quite right Mike, Premiere v 6.5 has been dead and burried a long time. The fact that lots of people still use it is about as relevant as people still using their old VX1000s or driving their Sierras.

tom.

Can't really agree that using a tripod 'makes the shots boring', Ian. The filmmaker and the editor make the shots boring, all the tripod does is keep the camera steady. Post op image stabilisation is coming along in leaps and bounds, but as always it's better to get it stable when you shoot if at al...

Actually Bunny we both got it wrong. I meant the HV-20 (under £700), and you can see it here:

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/?/photo ... .html#hv20

Sorry for confusing you.

tom.

Every man has his price Willy, they just weren't offering you enough. Selling one of your films doesn't make you a professional or commercial filmmaker in my book - that condition exists when you earn your living making (and of course selling) your films. In the same way Ridley Scott or Tom Hardwick...

Professionalism being classed as a dirty word may have been due to its association with money, profits, shareholders and Equity to those amateurs years back. These days I have to show professionalism in my approach to my photographic clients, but my amateur upbringing ensures that I go the extra mil...