It's unlikely that camping lanterns are going to be bright enough. You may instead want to invest in some of those bright, battery-powered spotlights ...
the reason the file is so large now (although 1.5 gigs seems a bit excessive for three minutes; what codecs are you using?) is because you're performi...
All in all a darn decent setup, although you may want to double the RAM (I'm editing on a MacBook with almost exactly the same specs, and let me tell ...
From Wikipedia: "primary effect is believed to be the stimulation of secretion as well as inhibition of re-uptake of large amounts of serotonin as ...
I've done a lot of looping (some of it highly unsuccessful) and I have come up with the following system which seems to work fairly well: - Use the...
I'm not a pro, but... when my co-writer and I finished our most recent script we registered with the WGA immediately and included the registration ...
If you're getting an external hard drive, be sure to get one that supports FireWire rather than (or in addition to) USB 2.0, especially if you'll be c...
Is it possible that there was a news-gathering camera from the 1940's/50's that recorded an optical track directly to the negative, or did I dream tha...
One good solution, if you can afford it, is to buy a sound effects library (essentially a bunch of CD's with sound effects on them, referenced in a ca...
I agree wholeheartedly with Music Supervisor. I certainly understand what it's like to work on a film with no music budget, so your goal in this case ...
Do you have local theater/performance groups? Schools? Friends? These are but a few of the resources you can tap to locate talent. ----------------...
If you're talking about union actors, check www.sagindie.com for current rates (low-budget is now $200/day deferred, I believe). ----------------- ...
LAB uses (I think) one luminance channel (L) and two chrominance channels (A,B), but it has a different dynamic range than YUV. It's used mostly (agai...
You'll want to use some simple garbage mattes to isolate the individual elements (if the person passes in front of other instances of himself, you'll ...
Those are the two major ones: additive and subtractive. There are some other schemes used mostly for still graphics work (LAB and HSV come to mind), b...