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- Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:11 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: North v South, change needed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 23773
Re: North v South, change needed
I'm all for open debate. We all know that. It has to be debate though. Is that what we've got here? And I just feel that near-anonymous criticism aired in a pubic place isn't the best way to do it. But it's easy to fix. New contributors are both very welcome and very much encouraged to post here. I ...
- Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:39 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: North v South, change needed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 23773
Re: North v South, change needed
Perhaps Newcastle ACA ought to think of passing this competition over to a forward thinking club or bring themselves in to the 21st century. I have never posted on any forum before but feel so strongly about this I had to speak my mind. As chairman of Newcastle ACA, I feel rather strongly about con...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:18 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: A comic travelogue ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8088
Re: A comic travelogue ?
So you're becoming a regular visitor to Tan Hill Willy, to complete your movie? It was extremely busy the day I ventured near it - maybe that's how I came off the route I was meant to be following. Some of our gang also filmed in the area as part of a vintage vehicle run - I haven't seen any of the ...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:51 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Canon 7D
- Replies: 38
- Views: 36087
Re: Canon 7D
Looks a pretty impressive project and a bunch of talented doods. The quality of their clip is about the best I've seen via the web.
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:40 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: A comic travelogue ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8088
Re: A comic travelogue ?
Hi Willy - Your tale had a piece of inspiration that if we don't get, then our films will suffer. Hope your film turns out with the humour working right through it. We were in Bainbridge last Sunday as that was were we caught up with the runners and riders doing The Beamish Run, in vintage cars and ...
- Mon May 31, 2010 8:21 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: MiniDV tapes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19988
Re: MiniDV tapes
Tom's reasoning sounds so true and I'm sure he's spot on. But my head still tells me to use new tapes for new movies, and not trust or reuse the old tapes. Maybe old habits die hard.
Having said that, I also record with a CF card when I film, and leave the tape for archive often without playing it.
Having said that, I also record with a CF card when I film, and leave the tape for archive often without playing it.
- Sat May 15, 2010 11:38 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: HDD Cache
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3556
Re: HDD Cache
I have wondered if a raid option is worth the bother, as most hard drives read and write far faster than necessary, unless of course you have more than one screen of movie being read at the same time. You could try checking out tips on this website http://ppbm4.com/ My results are there! It analyses...
- Sun May 09, 2010 10:45 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: USB EXTERAL HARD DRIVE !!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8079
Re: USB EXTERAL HARD DRIVE !!!
I would copy your data from it onto something else and error check the drive. I suspected the partition infomation, which can get corrupt, causing the drive to be permanently unreadable. You do know never to unplug it whilst in windows explorer, so its data isn't being read when the connection is in...
- Thu May 06, 2010 3:57 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: A site with freebies and tips
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4490
A site with freebies and tips
http://www.detonationfilms.com/
Enjoy some free explosions etc. You just need to understand how to key them into your movies, which is something the site has guides on too.
Enjoy some free explosions etc. You just need to understand how to key them into your movies, which is something the site has guides on too.
- Tue May 04, 2010 11:34 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: SONY HXR MC 50E
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9403
Re: SONY HXR MC 50E
I'll look out for our IAC mag's article. I'm using CS4 Production Premium with a i7 864 overclocked chip, with 8gb ram and a Win7 64bit OS, but with only a GTX260 graphics card, it won't be quite up to graphics hardware to be worthwhile in upgrading to CS5 just yet. CS4 is excellent with HDV though....
- Mon May 03, 2010 11:19 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: SONY HXR MC 50E
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9403
Re: SONY HXR MC 50E
Sony don't seem to be exactly lavishing us with hard information about this camcorder. Like is the microphone on the picture the only mic supplied - does it also have an internal job? Also I can only find about two pics of the cam and little hard info about it. What switches/buttons are there on it ...
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:22 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: My problem with the projection of my HDV (continued)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6210
Re: My problem with the projection of my HDV (continued)
I thought the BBC use DV in news reporting for drop-out avoidance reasons. But I edit in HDV, and that's how I'll stay for the time being - with Higher res, maybe AVCHD later down the road.
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:14 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: My problem with the projection of my HDV (continued)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6210
Re: My problem with the projection of my HDV (continued)
I don't accept that a calibrated monitor is needed to edit HDV. And however colour-accurate you think you've made your film, they will not look the same via two different projectors! I would say frame accurate lip-sync is far more troublesome than colour-accuracy, thanks to the processing in project...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:05 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: SONY HVR-Z5
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15454
Re: SONY HVR-Z5
I wouldn't want the stress that it's totally down to my work and my kit. I won't push my skillset too far, knowing that I do maybe 2 weddings a year. It doesn't need to pay the bills in my case, and I'd prefer another cameraman to give another range of shots. If it's £50 less money to pay a camerama...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:13 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: SONY HVR-Z5
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15454
Re: SONY HVR-Z5
Sony had a good sales site where you look through its features. It performs well in low light, you can limit the gain - I limited mine to 12db so evening stuff won't look too washed out. It accepts huge batteries that last many hours. The negative is that it uses mpeg2, not the most effecient compre...