The XL2 is probably the best bet for a reasonably priced DV camera these days, since it's a true 16:9 camera rather than 4:3 like the PD170: however f...
An alternative is to write scripts that don't require acting :). David Mamet's book on directing talks a lot about making movies by telling the story ...
Well, Robert Rodriguez made 'El Mariachi' with a non-sync 16mm camera and a cassette recorder, so it can be done: but it helps a lot if you're shootin...
Well, I don't know of any specific to your age group, but I've never seen a non-specific film festival which refused entries because you were too youn...
Personally I wouldn't refer to other movies at all in a movie of my own: not because of legal issues, but because of the number of short movies I've s...
How much money do you have? I use Avid Xpress Pro, but there are much cheaper programs around that do just as well with less bells and whistles (Avid'...
I'm not sure about other countries, but I believe that here in the UK it's fine provided it's not being used in a way that's integral to the story. Fo...
quote:If they don?t give you written permission to have their product seen in your movie then you cannot use their product. In that case there are ...
Note that you won't get sync sound with super-8 unless you have an expensive camera. Cheap cameras are loud and the speed varies so the sound will lik...
I think that's the one a friend bought to use as a cheap DV deck for his PC. I haven't really seen any footage other than live on the LCD, but the pic...
I'm not sure about cameras, but you might want to look for an old version of Premiere: sometimes I've seen them for sale cheap, for example when peopl...
Often you can just fake it up in a program like Photoshop or Gimp: I forget how I did it the last time, but I think I did something like copy the logo...
With 240GB, why not just capture the whole tape in one go and split it into seperate shots on the PC? Personally, though, I use my camcorder as an ...
Hmm, I'm sitting here watching ReelDVD create a DVD image file right now, and I find it kind of clunky and buggy. While I've never used the Adobe prog...
"I've never edited on film" I have, and trust me, you don't want to :). The whole idea of sticking bits of plastic together with tape or glue just ...