Aren't you supposed to backlight rain to make it show up on camera? I seem to remember that from some DVD commentaries I've listened to.
If I create a new project in 5.7 it gives me a 720p/50 option; I think that existed in 5.5?
Not sure, but I was watching a Fusion demo video a few days ago which was adding digital rain that looked pretty real; in one of the 'Final Destinatio...
Believable rain is hard to do. One option could be to use a cheap and crappy rain system to drop some water on the ground and actors (and use a hose t...
As I understand it the 'Evil Dead' system had the camera attached to the middle of a short plank of wood, and the camera person held the ends of the p...
Camera noise tends to be in a fairly narrow frequency band, so you may just be able to remove it from the audio afterwards. I know 'Cool Edit' (an ...
True, there's a lot to be said for buying an external hard drive for each project so you can store the footage on there for future re-use, or take it ...
You'll definitely want a second hard disk; the HVX footage is 100Mbps if I remember correctly, which really wants a disk of its own for best performan...
Easiest is to record to the camera, though then you have to keep running cables around between the camera and the mike; a pain if you're moving the ca...
Depends on the format. If you're editing DV, then you might as well get a 500+GB drive so you can load all your video onto the disk and not need to wo...
I'm not convinced about movies being sold as downloads, particularly HD. Firstly they're huge: I believe a typical HD DVD movie is around 30GB, and...
True; if you can get away with only shooting a handful of exterior shots then convincing someone to let you shoot them should be much easier than actu...
Yeah, you can either output an HD video file that a computer can play (e.g. MPEG-2, WMV HD or MPEG-4) and burn that to a DVD-ROM which won't be playab...
No, unfortunately; DV cameras won't play back HDV footage, unless that feature has been specifically added to some models. You'd need to buy a cheap H...
It used to be a good idea, but now that you can buy a DV camcorder for $250 it really doesn't much matter; if you don't want to use your camcorder the...