Personally I've been amazed at how inept some of the professional directors I've met are: I've no idea how they got their jobs, but they only keep the...
There's not really that much difference, it's basically just that everything is merged into one track and transitions use extra frames before or after...
I think the real problem is that most of us either use monitors that other people have calibrated, or color correct on our computers and hope it looks...
Don't know about Final Cut Express, but yes, usually it's easy to mix different sound tracks together. Most editing programs allow you to use multiple...
Firewire disks seem to work fine for DV editing: I don't know about Premiere, but I edited a DV short on Avid using a Firewire drive a while back and ...
VX2000 is SD DV, FX1 is HDV... I'd use the FX1 as it's as good as or better than the VX2000 in almost all respects.
I think 1.0 requires a fairly fast Intel CPU, and won't run on older AMD chips. I don't know much more than that since I've never used it.
There was a 'movie poster font' thread here a while back, I don't remember what they finally came up with on the subject.
quote:The newest version of premiere is 2.0. I have 6.0, so there 🙂 ! Wasn't 7.0 the alternate title for Premiere Pro 1.0, or am I getting conf...
Yeah, a friend ended up shooting a scene in his first feature with car headlights because it was all they had available: it wasn't great, but at least...
Usually the manufacturer will sell you a car charger for batteries, but they tend to want hundreds of dollars for something that would normally cost t...
quote:I don?t imagine making a scifi movie with no budget But yes, you're right about clothes: it's a pain when you're working on a low budget, a...
I can't be 100% sure as I've never used one, but the messages I've read about it online say that it does. Edit: actually, maybe it's only the V1......
The FX1 has a fake 24p mode that looks pretty crappy. If 24p is what you really want, then the FX7 is a better bet.
Could be anywhere from 1x to 100x, depending on how you shoot it. I normally expect about a 10x ratio for a low-budget shoot on DV, maybe 5-6x on film...