I highly recommend checking out http://www.productiontrax.com/ to help you with music and sound effects!

Goodluck!

Boyd Gaffney
Spiritrax.com

http://www.digitaljuice.com/ It's got lots of videos that explain how things in filmmaking work, all the way from cameras to CGi effects.

http://detonationfilms.com/ they've got lots of free stock footage and some good tutorials too.

if you have After effects this would be one of the best free video tutorial site for it: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

These are some that I thought were very helpful.

"Imperfection equals Realism"

I think the better approach would be to know first what you want to do/which effect you are after and then start looking for solutions and help.....

what would be the best program for FX, CGI, greenscreen work, etc.? I'm looking into Adobe Premier...what's your opinion(s)?

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Okay, I'm in love with the Dimensionfilms link above but wondering about the practical details of importing 30p SFX into a 24p timeline in Final Cut Pro. Anyone know how or if this will be a problem? I can't be the first to want to do this after all.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

No this will not be a problem I haven't used Final Cut pro, but i have used less proffional software and they convert the frame rate by themself correctly, so Im sure in Final Cut it won't be a problem.

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?br?Okay, I'm in love with the Dimensionfilms link above but wondering about the practical details of importing 30p SFX into a 24p timeline in Final Cut Pro. Anyone know how or if this will be a problem? I can't be the first to want to do this after all.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

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No, you're not the first person to want that. Let me just say that trying to get 30p video to a 24p final product is messy. There is a reason people will pay significantly more for cameras that will do 24p. I wouldn't recommend going to 24p in post.

For an effects program, I have to go with after effects. Your editor doesn't really matter, because it can kick out to avid, fcp, whatever.

I've got the whole movie in 24p already. I filmed in 24p, but the SFX are in 30p, that's the issue.

If it won't import than properly I can always drop them out frame by frame and add them in again and then screw with the speed in Final Cut Pro but I'm hoping it'll just accept them at 24p if they are dropped into a 24p timeline.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

I don't have a lot of experience working with 24p in Final Cut, but I would assume that the process of integrating 30p and 24p footage would have become substantially easier in FCP 6, which was built with the intention of mixing frame rates and resolutions in a single timeline. I also hear tell of a process known as "inverse telecine" (not sure if anyone still calls it that), which I believe is usually used to remove pulldown from 24p or telecined film footage for editing natively in a 24p timeline, although I would assume that a piece of software like After Effects or something in the Final Cut suite would be able to accomplish a similar task translating 30p to 24p.

Of course, the other option is that since these are just non-sync fx shots, you could just reduce the clip speed to 80% in your timeline (making sure that frame blending is turned off), meaning that each frame from the 30p footage would directly correspond to a frame in your 24p timeline.

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