Well, Peter Jackson made his first feature on a 16mm clockwork Bolex, so it's certainly doable. Just a bit of a pain.
Unfortunately it's very difficult to get a shallow depth of field with a camcorder. One option is to get a 35mm lens adapter and then use still camera...
I haven't used After Effects myself (I use eyeon Fusion for effects), but you should be able to do all those kind of things with some work.
I haven't used that particular camera, but two problems I would expect are: a) no crystal sync, so sound will get out of sync with picture. b) it'...
I think one of the 'Mummy' movies had a guy or a statue turning into sand that was blown away by the wind, maybe that's the effect that's wanted? I...
Boy, DV cameras have certainly come down in price in the last few years! It's useful to know there's still at least one cheap one that has a mike sock...
Technically, they're video tape formats rather than film formats :). Quality-wise, Beta SP and Mini-DV are the best two, and pretty similar. The on...
You do still have the option of recording sound to an external deck and syncing later, but then you'll need to find yourself a DAT, decent mini-disk o...
It is amazing, but mike inputs of any kind seem to have vanished from low- to mid-range camcorders in the last few years; you really seem to have to g...
I thought some of the imagery was interesting, if a little too dark :). Story-wise it seemed like a typical first short, so I'm sure you will improve ...
A lot of computers have Firewire built in these days, otherwise a Firewire PCI card should only cost a few bucks; a cable may cost more than the card ...
Sure, if there is a problem it will be due to mixing tapes, not due to putting another manufacturer's tape in your camcorder. So if you always use the...
From what I've heard, this hasn't been true since the 1990s; certainly I swapped tapes all the time in my TRV900 and never really had any problems.
There are various boards for specific areas in Europe (e.g. London, Wales), but I'm not sure of any which only, or primarily, have European posters.
Indeed: I had a copy of the original 'Star Wars' from laserdisk, only because Lucas wouldn't sell me a DVD... once they were released I bought a set. ...