Am I just getting old, or is it really possible that all this hardware is so cheap these days? Back in the day (and I won't eve go all the way back to...
One other option to smooth out handheld movement: get some weight to it. The main goal is to eliminate (or reduce as much as possible) the small movem...
Amusing. You'll have to cut it much closer to 1 minute, though. If the video were a few seconds over 1 minute, I'm sure they would let it slide. But t...
As a musician and filmmaking enthusiast, I can see where our Robbie is coming from. The new Windows 7 computer should be more than adequate for eve...
quote:Originally posted by certified instigator We end up back to it depends. Clearly we have shown that the someone who said animation is cheaper t...
My point is, I don't think that production cost is the primary reason why there aren't low-budget animations. As I said, nobody has heard of animator...
Let's not forget; the fame (and fortune) of a "live action" director simply never compares to the fame and fortune of an animation director. While Joh...
In other words, while there are thousands of low-budget movies, virtually none of them are animations, not because it is impossible to make a low-budg...
I think we don't see low-budget animation, even though I'm sure it is cheaper to produce animation than features (for reasons I stated above). So, ...
As technology marches on, we get solutions that make it easier and cheaper to make movies. For live action, it is now significantly less expensive to ...
I would like to add something regarding recommendations such as 'Film Scriptwriting: A Practical Manual'. I have seen quite a few younger aspiring fil...
And if you aren't much of a reader, there's a two-DVD set of the (approximately) same thing that was made into a 6-hour mini series on PBS. Then ag...
And to answer your MiniDV question; there is no difference between what is stored on MiniDV tape and what comes out of your FireWire output. The captu...
Looking at the list of films shot on DV (SD), I can't help but notice that pretty much ALL of them were made in the early 2000s (between 1998 and 2003...
This topic has been discussed several months ago, and some excellent and very valuable opinions have been given by the participants in it. Here's the ...