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- Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:13 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Training Course Week
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7631
Well Fife is a separate kingdom traditionally ... The course sounds fascinating, Ian. Mind you I am a bit surprised they let you and that bloke get away with not co-operating. I would have thought a lot of the stress would have been on the discipline of working with other people ... even if that is...
- Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:26 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Ian and YouTube!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 39710
Full size AVI files are very, very large. Even 20 seconds of uncompressed 720x576 AVI will be huge. For simple uploads to YouTube there is a limit of 100Mb or 10 minutes. They recommend outputting your video from your video editor thus: Our recommended file format is MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid, or SVQ3 rathe...
- Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:01 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Royalty-free music
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11284
It isn't 'proper' music is it? Synthetic? Knowing Peter I am quite certain he did not mean that as a rude commment on either NVM or Fraught's work. [BTW Fraught can you give us old fogies a better hint as to how to find your music ... searching MySpace for Fraught brings up an American Christian Ro...
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:38 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: FXHome
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6737
- Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: 'Ow to get to 'Arrogate?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10053
It is a fair point, Patrick. Of course it also applies to British people going to festivals in other countries. And as you wryly note it can often be difficult for people from parts of the UK to come to events because of transport problems. In your position I would be checking the various flights fr...
- Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:12 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Whizz, bang, crash!!!!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9341
I'm in broad agreement with Ned ... but must point out that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is almost all told in 3 second chunks. Either there is a cut, the camera moves to a different position or a character steps out of close-up to reveal something else in the background. However it is done a new i...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:53 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Whizz, bang, crash!!!!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9341
I do know what you mean, Chrisbitz, but the worry is that our attention span gets shorter. That means we get impatient at anything more than the usual 10-15 minutes ... no matter how good it is. I think it is part of the reason Joss Whedon's Firefly series did not command huge tv audiences. The show...
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:18 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: GRAPHICS & DRAWINGS FOR VIDEO FILMS
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4162
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:37 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Fan Films
- Replies: 53
- Views: 47582
Last year's AMPS festival had a category for Best Fan Film ... I wonder if Ned has any comment. I would have a few worries about copyright issues. Some film companies may be happy with the phenomenon as a form of viral advertising but others may not. Many years ago when analog video editing first be...
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: HDV Hand held
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15917
Knowing that Ned has been making movies for many years and takes a keen critical approach to his own work I am slightly reluctant to suggest this, but ... Is it possible that because of the extra detail and clarity that you are examining the HD footage more closely than you used to do with SD? In ot...
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:06 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: HDV 16 x 9 format
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12197
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:51 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: AMPS winners DVDs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4901
That's great, Ned. For those who don't know ... one of the perks of winning an award in the AMPS festival is a year's membership so some people this side of the pond earned that status ... and some of us have also opted to join even though we are not winners and live far from the USA. AMPS membershi...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:57 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13757
Your Brain is like a library Dave. You mean faintly damp smelling, filled with out-of-date info and no new stock ?!?!? (Apologies to all desperately underfunded librarians everywhere - when I am king there will be budgets and staff again.) Actually I'll reveal my two secret weapons: www.howstuffwor...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:30 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: HDV 16 x 9 format
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12197
For the future, it may be wiser for Camcorder clubs to receive video entries in computer file format (mpeg4, mpeg2 or avi) and play these back through HDV projector using a more versatile computer which costs about the same. Interesting idea, Paul ... and you could well be right. Don't confuse the ...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:32 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13757
Ray said: The projector suggestions are interesting. What pixel count do they have? The last time I looked for a 1080i one it was over £3000. The Optima is 1024x768 pixels and is compatible with 720p as well as 1080i. Stingman said: There are also two types of projecting the image. DLP (Digital Ligh...