(1) Go to Wal*Mart and buy some electric lime paint. (2) Paint a wall. (3) Film with your actors far enough away from the wall that you can focus on...
I could be wrong but in most cases an editor starts with a shot list, and a list of which takes were good so they know to a pretty decent extent what ...
So a lot of quick cutting (which is the current style) will work better than longer cuts. Is that right? RJSchwarz San Diego, CA
Recorder and a shotgun mic combined with a clapper board to give a visual/audio snap that will help you sync it together in your favorite editing prog...
I jumped in and did a feature first. Cost a lot of money, I learned a lot of lessons the hard way, and the whole project nearly broke my will. I wi...
It has been a long time since I read that book but I think he was suggesting that the screenplay be as basic as a stage play. That is very limited cas...
I could be wrong but I think you need to plug another mic into the other XLR input if you want proper stereo (or use a mixer). Either that or perhaps ...
Final Cut dumps all the files in the scratch directory. The clips you create are tiny files that refer to the actual raw files. Move or delete the scr...
Well what format did you actually output. You listed file sizes which is not the same thing. Did you export as .mov or .wmp or flv? Did your program u...
youtube converts the format to flash to make it visible on PC's, Macs, Linux and Solaris machines. It's possible that something you are doing is PC on...
Move the sofa back from the wall and adjust your focus and camera angle so that it doesn't look a mile from the wall (and use some backlighting in the...
"OK, that is what I thought. So how is that even remotely possible for first time writers, or those who don't have big budgets?" The way this is po...
If you do it any other way, gamble and write the thing first you may find that you cannot use the material and you've wasted a lot of time. You can't ...
I imagine smoke done during production would complicate matters. If you do the smoke in post you should add it after all the other SFX and greenscreen...
I don't know your camera but I know of two possible issues, just guessing of course (1) You had to switch a dial on my camera to tell the camera to...