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- Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:17 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Titles - Your Views
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16699
I'm right with Dave, and I'd go further: films are NEVER too long. If the filmmaker decides on a certain length of film then so be it - it's his film and the judges views on that are immaterial. Of course, PR departments may deem films too long for theatrical release (precluding a second audience si...
- Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:39 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Titles - Your Views
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16699
You 'think' it's a grey import, Mike? Shouldn't make any difference as I hear Sony UK are happy to do warranty work on any of their cams that find their way over here. But the low cost could be due to the fact that the FX1 has long since ceased production and the price consequentially took a nose-di...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:13 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Titles - Your Views
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16699
- Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:25 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Canon XM2 problem - any ideas?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6435
It does sound like a head wear problem to me, or possibly an alignment one. I wonder if the XM2 has has a lot of wear and tear, or if it's been dropped. This may have missaligned guide rollers but I think it would have been damage that the owner would have commeneted on in his post. Sounds like a jo...
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:12 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Time to call a halt to 4:3
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35074
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:55 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Time to call a halt to 4:3
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35074
You're right Billy - make your films to suit the client. Which is why all mine are 16:9 these days. The film you describe marked 'widescreen' was in fact made 4:3 but with 25% of it masked off to make it look 16:9. This is handy for club projectionists as one setting of the projector's aspect ratio ...
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:00 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: The Sunday Times votes for the Panasonic HDC-SD5
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7519
I'm thinking that people who spend £540 on a hi-def camcorder probably aren't too interested in editing anway, and are simply happy to plug it into their wall-mounted plasma / LCD and gasp in amazement at the picture quality. The other 'feature' that will have them snatching this camcorder out of th...
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:49 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: The Sunday Times votes for the Panasonic HDC-SD5
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7519
The Sunday Times votes for the Panasonic HDC-SD5
For £539 (Purelygadgets) you can buy the Sunday Times' best buy in HiDef camcorders, the palm-sized Panasonic HDC-SD5. This camera records full 1920 x 1080 hi-def video onto SD flash memory cards, so no tapes, HDDs, Mini DVD and whatnot. Sounds good, but the downsize is the AVCHD compression that's ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:59 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Time to call a halt to 4:3
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35074
Dave, what's with this, 'force our viewers to suffer the black bars' talk? With the lights down low to see the best CRT picture, my 4:3 Trinitron shows 16:9 just as if it was a 16:9 set, and no 'black bars' are visible simply because that part of the screen is unlit by electrons. Maybe you mean duri...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:39 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Time to call a halt to 4:3
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35074
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...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:13 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Time to call a halt to 4:3
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35074
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...
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:58 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: DVD storage/identification
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9841
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...
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:04 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: DVD storage/identification
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9841
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:43 am
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Time to call a halt to 4:3
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35074
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...
- Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:23 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Time to call a halt to 4:3
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35074
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...