quote:How do you fit the three acts in and develop a conflict and have the protagonist resolve it or not all in less than a half hour? Watch good T...
It measures the light: they're mostly used for film, as they're calibrated for film's response to light, but could be used for video. However, it's...
Normally you need a second hard disk to capture video safely. You could get an external firewire drive, but I'm not sure how well it will work if you'...
quote:The sound quality of Digital 8 isn't marvelous. Actually, I believe it's 48kHz 16-bit digital audio: better than VHS! quote:Is VHS quality...
I'm not so sure anymore: potentially you can shoot the entire thing green-screen, and suddenly most of your costs have vanished. I'm thinking of do...
Roger Corman managed a 35mm feature in two days, but he's a genius :). I'd aim for 4-5 pages a day if you want anything that looks half-decent and you...
The only downside of the camera on a big screen will be that it shoots interlaced video. I don't know whether projectors will handle that or whether y...
It's usually 6 pins to 4 pins to connect a camera: the other two pins supply power to external hard drives and the like. I don't think there is an 8 p...
S-VHS isn't a bad formt, and from what little I can find about that camera it appears to have a reasonable level of manual controls. If you can captur...
Ideally you'd have XLR connectors on your camera, so you'd feed the microphone into a mixer, then the mixer into the camera. If you're cheap you'd ski...
quote:I'm like 38 and just getting started. I'm not much younger, and hoping to get my first feature finished before I'm 40 :). Hey, it worked for ...
Unfortunately there's no 'perfect' answer if you're aiming for both PAL and NTSC countries. I'd go for shooting 25fps and converting to 30fps afterwar...
It's tricky at that age, unfortunately: Britain has all kinds of laws about using actors under 16 which makes it hard to do unless you're shooting the...
A 3CCD camera will give significantly better colors on your video. If it's just for a course at school, that probably won't matter, but if you're send...