Unfortunately a lot of directors seem to think that the AD's job is to take the blame whenever the director screws up: this is why I would never be an...
I use Premiere and Avid on PCs, but if I was looking for a prebuilt system I'd go for a Mac with FCP... haven't used FCP myself, but the people I know...
Normally you have one camera and shoot the scene multiple times from different angles. However, for really complex action or scenes where you can't do...
DV always records fields at 50fps (PAL) or 60fps (NTSC). There's simply no way to get it to record at any faster rate for slow motion. About the be...
Uh, there _is_ an edit button on your own posts... As you can see, I can happily edit my posts as much as I want to.
One good thing about screenwriting is that grammar is less important and fancy language is generally detrimental: even if your English skills aren't t...
Yes, it's perfectly possible: many (possibly most?) good movies have been made from scripts by people with no formal training. Take a good idea, write...
Bad sound is the bane of most low-budget productions: personally I'd rather have the imagery shot on VHS and the sound recorded by someone who knows w...
You'll need to deinterlace the still if there's any significant motion in the shot.
I use Lightwave myself, but a lot of people like 3D Studio Max. I'm still waiting for my Lightwave 8 upgrade CD to arrive in the post so I don't know ...
No. It's 4:2:0 in PAL and 4:1:1 in NTSC. Still a pretty good picture though.
I'll be interested to see something edited together, the props and costumes like quite well done in the .avi file. Does need a big bang for when the g...
For simple 3D stuff in the past I've just exported it from the 3D program as .TGA files with a white or green background, then imported it to Premiere...
A lot of 3D programs will allow you to import video as a background, then you can superimpose your 3D model on top and output the finished video back ...
Good advice about the names: I often find when skimming through other people's scripts that I can't keep track of who is saying what because the chara...