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by ned c
Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:25 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Memberlist - New Members
Replies: 10
Views: 11038

Welcome Souterman, nice to meet someone who uses FCE, I have and use FCE 3.5 HD, easy to use with good results. Any tips and suggestions?

Ned C
by ned c
Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:10 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: The strangest place that you have filmed?
Replies: 24
Views: 22355

We were shocked to see in The Little Knight that the film maker was arrested in Malta for filming the US Embassy.

ned c
by ned c
Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:06 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: This year's AMPS Winners
Replies: 9
Views: 9899

Thanks Dave & Willy, any other wiiners who read the forum will be very welcome to send a short disc of comments. Most welcome. I am staying in Lavenham, we rent a cottage on the square opposite the Guildhall. E Anglia is where we lived for 16 years (our longest in one place) and remains my spiri...
by ned c
Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:53 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: This year's AMPS Winners
Replies: 9
Views: 9899

I am answering from East Anglia so am under an English sky. We advise all the winners individually by e-mail and then release the results for general circulation. We hope people will attend the Convention to collect their awards. The early release this year is because I am in England at present (as ...
by ned c
Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:51 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: This year's AMPS Winners
Replies: 9
Views: 9899

This year's AMPS Winners

Joint First The Pinnacle (Altrincham Video Society UK) Breendonk (Willy Van der Linden Belgium) Second Life's Little Gaps (Scott Hillhouse USA) Third When Talk Works! (Joyce Axelrod USA) Best Short Comedy It's Hot (Eddie Evans USA) Best Experimental The Wishing Well (Rod Maxwell USA) Best Documentar...
by ned c
Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:32 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Your next Camcorder?
Replies: 135
Views: 125173

Add my astonishment to Michael's not keeping the camera originals. I have all the stuff I have shot, all the Video8 and Hi8 was transfered to DV on the full size DV cassettes to keep the sheer amount of space under control. I quite often borrow stuff from past shoots and have given shots to other fi...
by ned c
Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:04 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Your Thoughts on Copyright?
Replies: 14
Views: 12777

The real surprise to me is how wedding videographers get away with using commercial music on their productions. I don't know about the UK but here in the USA this is widely practiced, the videopgraphers charge their clients so are making money. What happens in the UK?

ned c
by ned c
Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:42 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Your next Camcorder?
Replies: 135
Views: 125173

http://www.dvuser.co.uk/ There is a good review of the camera that Michael describes at this site. ( A very good site anyway) I agree that recording to cards with no moving parts is great but there are some questions that have to be resolved. The cards are a great deal more costly than tape so are u...
by ned c
Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:54 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: ND Filters
Replies: 14
Views: 12794

ND filters make no difference to the color balance of a picture. Filters come in various qualities, optical glass, coated optical glass, gelatin and resin. The best are said to be the coated optical glass, they are expensive. I use both coated optical glass and resin. On the IAC members forum there ...
by ned c
Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:20 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: The IAC`s 75th Film
Replies: 10
Views: 12859

Perhaps I am rather dim (no perhaps my family would say) but I don't get the relevance of the tiltle "The Noble Network". Someone explain please.

ned c
by ned c
Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:39 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Your Thoughts on Copyright?
Replies: 14
Views: 12777

Here in the USA we have no equivalent to the IAC music licence system. However, perhaps the US Copyright laws are different from those in the UK. In the law here there is a section that permits "Fair Use" to cover educational use of copyrighted material where the use may not impact the pot...
by ned c
Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:29 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: The IAC`s 75th Film
Replies: 10
Views: 12859

Given the relatively low cost of DVD volume production nowadays how about a copy sent out with F&V Maker? Has a short version (say 5 to 10 minutes) been considered for putting on YouTube and any of the movie related websites around the world? All non-commercial movie organisations need all the p...
by ned c
Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:41 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Your next Camcorder?
Replies: 135
Views: 125173

If you want detailed reviews and comparisons of camcorders go to www.camcorderinfo.com written for an American audience and sometimes the manufacturers use different names/identifications for PAL versions but this is the place for the in depth reviews.

ned c
by ned c
Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:28 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Why did you join the IAC?
Replies: 10
Views: 10337

I joined the IAC about 1970 (?) as I was a member of a UK cine club and wanted to know what was going on in the wider world of amateur film making. Although I have been a "dormant" member for many years, never attended a Convention, I did attend several of the great Wansfell courses in the...
by ned c
Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:19 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Your next Camcorder?
Replies: 135
Views: 125173

Although standard definition will be around for quite a while yet when it goes it goes! Remember Hi8 and SVHSC? They didn't last long into the DV age, so its some version of HDV although this has now split into three camps, HDV (Sony/Canon) HD (Panasonic) and now AVCHD (Sony, Canon and others!). I o...