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MarkG
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RE: Underwater filming?

If you're in a big city you can probably find underwater housings to rent, and that will save you a lot of money. You might even find a professional w...

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RE: Boom audio monitoring

Get a mixer and long XLR cables. The mixer will usually have a headphone socket you can use to listen, though that will only tell you the volume of th...

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RE: Boom audio monitoring

The main thing I would suggest is getting headphones that fully cover your ears and hence block out the exterior sound. It's a pain when you're record...

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RE: Panasonic HVX-200

I believe all semi-pro '24p' cameras shoot 25p in Europe... it's the only sane way to fit progressive images into a 25fps data stream.

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RE: Urgent: Help- Director has no power

quote:Yet Arthur C Clarke was thrilled with him after 2001. That's an unusual situation, as I believe Clarke finished the book after they'd shot th...

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RE: shooting 1 shot for a long period of time

The DV cameras record a few seconds at a time, so you'd need to cut each of the clips down to a single frame to get the speedup correct.

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RE: Lighting help!

Not sure about Premiere, I'm afraid. You could probably do it by overlaying an image that has a white center and black circle around the edges, with a...

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RE: Lighting help!

Yeah, you can tell from the shadows that the shots are lit by multiple lights, so they must be faking the 'light on camera' effect in post... brighten...

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RE: Question about aspect ratio

You can scale it, but you will lose picture quality in the process.

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RE: shooting 1 shot for a long period of time

It's called a film camera :). With a DV camera and a computer you could potentially program it to capture a few frames every few seconds. I think s...

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RE: Screenplay Needed

One problem we've discussed before is that there's not much of a market for movies that are 30-60 minutes long. Admittedly there's not much of a marke...

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RE: Panasonic HVX-200

The Sony V1 and Canon XHA1 both do 1080p/24, at least in the US versions. Here's an XHA1 vs HVX200 review with comparison pictures, but note that i...

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RE: Panasonic HVX-200

The HVX200 CCDs are 960x540, and it has a lower resolution than any of the competitive HDV cameras. You don't even have a 4:2:2 signal in 1080p to rec...

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RE: Screenplay Needed

I suspect it's more that you're expecting another writer to do most of the hard work and then write the script yourself. Once you have a decent synops...

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RE: ?ask? anybody know how to make this effect??

It's the 'Hitchcock shot': pull back and zoom in at the same time. If you get it right the actor doesn't change but the background does.

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