Good question on the rating system however, only the MPAA can give out or assign a rating. If you have a distributor they will take care of this for y...
Not sure what your budget is but I have used both Azden and Sennheiser products with no complaints. The Azden stuff works really well and is fairly in...
Ah! Only the best Hitchcock camera move/effect ever. Start with the camera away from the subject but zoom in, then as you dolly in toward the subject,...
Ah, the age-old 4:2:0/4:1:1 versus 4:2:2 discussion. I'll make this as short and non-geek-speak as possible. First off, this whole 4: whatever busines...
Great question, HD vs. SD, PAL vs. NTSC, good stuff. HD is not in your budget so we will talk more SD (DV/DVCAM) format. The big difference between...
I wish I had an easy answer for you, like choose the ?ADD BLUE SKY? option under ?TOOLS? in Adobe Premiere. With luck you can use a matte, otherwise p...
Using headphones is the easiest way I know to check levels. Adjusting them in another thing. Since the camera you are using does not have balanced (XL...
A Betamax (assuming Beta 1) camera will give you results similar to that of a VHS or VHS-C camera. Betamax has more colorspace bandwidth (sharper, mor...
Nighttime or low-light shooting can present some interesting challenges. With the prosummer DV cameras I personally always try for the day-for-night a...
Pre-production is simply planning, planning, and more planning. It is also the most important step in the filmmaking process. This is the time when th...