IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

I imagine that Santa has already embarked on his long route from toy-land. A last minute wish would have been for an Apple-Mac computer with a full array of its dedicated software. I think I believe in Santa more than I do Bill Gates now. My 'Pee Cee' as they are aptly called out here, is just not p...

There is a book Willy, well worth a read. It is not a book of scripts or shorts stories, but an insight on how to fire the imagination. I found it while poking around in my local library in Warwickshire quite a few years ago. It was a little black book with gold lettering! What was the title? I can’...

I was surprised to see that provisionally, Korea is to host UNICA again in a couple of years. I have nothing against that part of the world, it does give and the possibility of a journey of a lifetime, if it was missed the first time around. There must be very good reasons. But why not Royaume Unis ...

Thanks for the info so far - I am wondering whether all this is worth it! I now have a couple of clips from my still camera in Premier. I started by setting the camera to NTSC @ 30fps, shooting some pics and importing them into Premier. The clips are 1280x720 and the project is set as HD. I am unabl...

Thanks Dave and Mike for your replies. I am however just still a bit mystified. To answer Dave's points first regarding video format here in France. As far as I am aware, all the analogue TV's here, while being for SECAM terrestrial signals, they can cope with PAL inputs for the likes of me when I c...

Another quick question about Premier? Although the answer may not be related to that. I will continue. I have a Panasonic Lumex still camera, which was bought just for that purpose. It is used for taking still pictures by the score. It has a video feature but states that the frame rate is 30fps. As ...

Thanks for the posts about the problem I highlighted about creating a line progressing over a map. I have now made it work. I drew my map in Illustrator, and then made a copy of it. On the copy, I drew the line along the route. Next, I brought them into Premier, and sat the two clips on the same tim...

Any computer experts out there? These wretched machines should work in the background, be more efficient than pencil and paper and let us do our work without hassle or hindrance. But do they? The system arrives at a point where you find it necessary to re-install it completely for a fresh start – fr...

Willy’s back! Hoorah! A strange sort of week this has been. Last Sunday, we were in the UK, Market Harborough in fact at the CEMRAIC autumn festival. The clubs in the region were sporting enough to invite Dave and Jan Watterson to judge their array of films. The films were reflected upon directly af...

Glad to see you back! How’s BT? With the lack of the usual posts recently, I have tended not to log into the forum much in the past weeks. It seems sometimes for me a good contact with the ‘real world’. You are doing the sort of filming I think, that I endeavoured to do when I was in the UK. Good lu...

[I see that Mike has already replied you your question. I drafted mine last night, but had not posted it]. The simple answer is that you would be in breach of copyright. The video clip belongs to an other person. I don’t think anyone will dispute this. The work may have been outsourced by the Polic...

BIAFF – A half outsider’s view. It was good to come over for the last event despite my unfortunate experience and feel part of that ‘international set’. My impressions of the last BIAFF have not really changed. It should continue to be about seeing interesting films and having the opportunity of mee...

A MAC OR A PC? I am tempted to air this topic as I am coming up to facing the thought of having to change my computer. Now is it time to invest in an Apple or not? There are many pros and cons, the main one the cost of the outlay. Then there is the question of replacing software. I am not completely...

An interesting thread! No many takers thus far, everyone must be sunning themselves on their private beach somewhere. So here’s my few centimes worth for starters. I can’t remember actually asking questions as such when I first attempted my first documentary in super8. I just pitched in and did it. ...

Thanks folks for your comments. I note that no-one has not leapt forward offering to carry my tripod to the upper reaches of the Amazon. [The only Amazon I likely to encounter, however, has the prefix www!] I think that everyone is of a like mind, judges or no judges; it is just a necessary humbug a...