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    Help please

    You might be able to look for a VX1000 or GL1 on ebay for around $1000. You might get luck and find a VX2000 or GL2 or DVC30 for that price, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Of course, what camera you buy really depends on what you want do to with it. What kind of shots do you want to do? What...
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    Free production office software for PC?

    Open Office has database, spreadsheet, word processing, etc. Is that the kind of thing your looking for? It's not an all-in-one program, but it designed a lot like Microsoft Office (it is compatible with Office file formats). Other than that, Celtx is some great screenwriting software that...
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    external mic mounted on camera

    You might want to consider a set of mics. Consider getting a shotgun for outside/directional shots (Take a look at the Rode NTG-2 for a decent budget shotgun). For the interviews, what about a wireless lav setup? You said that you will be filming at most 3 people at a time? You could get 3...
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    Screenplay 4 Documentary-What 2 Do?

    I've done some documentary stuff myself (Actually, I haven't cut the footage together yet, but that's because I've been trying to work on some other stuff before the end of the summer). Of course, mine was a bit different than you describe. I was following the progress of a group of software...
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    HELP!!!!

    Are you looking for a good article to learn about cinematography, or are you looking for something to turn in as a homework assignment? If it's the former, I would say books and google are your friend. Pick a certain aspect of cinematography you want to learn more about and google it. The...
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    Conducting a Protoype Analysis for Uni. Can you spare a min?

    I think it looks really good. I like the simplistic layout you have. One thing I noticed is that there is a Main Menu option on the Gladiator page, but not on the Saving Private Ryan page. Was this intentional or just by accident still playing with the layout? Other than that, will you have...
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    S.O.W

    Ah. I missed when you said TV show earlier. Those are even harder to do character driven! I can't wait to read your begining!
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    Short scripts: Video Nasty,Weapon of Choice, Tattoo.

    Are you looking for feedback on them? If you are, I'd be happy to read them and let you know my comments. Feel free to send me a PM with them attached or links to them.
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    S.O.W

    That makes sense. I just wanted to make sure you understand that I wasn't trying to make you change the hardware store. That's a good location for the story. I was just trying to suggest one possibility in case the hardware store was part of your writers block. I have a few more suggestions...
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    Encoding DVD to AVI in High Quality

    I must appologize, as I read over your post a little too quickly. That codec does keep a value for every pixel (not the original value, but one that can retrieve the original when decoded, if I understand correctly). I still say that this is not a good format to edit with. Lets look at your...
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    Encoding DVD to AVI in High Quality

    Okay, so what you are saying is not true lossless. You say that it only records the 'new' pixels, and when playing back, keeps all other pixels the same. Great, but it's technically lossless because you don't have all the pixels for every frame. Lossless means exactly that; you have all the...
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    Encoding DVD to AVI in High Quality

    Forgive me for being ignorant, but if you are compressing, how is it lossless? You say it's compressed, but all the data is still there? I guess I'm just confused how that can be true (maybe it's marketing gimmic, because as far as I know, when you compress, you take something out to save...
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    Ghost Effect

    Here is what I would suggest you try to do: Film him dying/dead. Have him lie still for the duration that the dead body/spirit will be on screen together. Then, once he's been 'dead' long enough, simply have him get up and walk away (or whatever you planned the spirit to do). In post, then...
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    help

    Do you mind if I ask why you want his email? If it is to send him a script, or a video that you made as I suspect, then you might want to think it over a little more. I'll bet he gets hundreds of these daily. He probably doesn't look at most of them, if any at all, because it would just take...
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    S.O.W

    I've got a couple questions. First, does the hardware store play a significant part in the rest of the story (Like, does a specific event, that might only happen at a hardware store take place)? Or is it more just the place he works and meets John. If it's the latter, maybe we could just...
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    Please help

    So you want behind the scenes kind of stuff? If that's what your interested, and want to check that stuff out about certain movies, then look into renting the DVD's of those movies. Most DVD's these days have 'special features' that have stuff like that.
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    Looking for a partner.

    I'm the right age and a bit wacky, but not in London. I think that Director15, Pusser, and I would all be willing to help though, if you wanted to post your ideas in this thread or PM's. What it sounds like, is you just want to toss around thoughts to get ideas started?
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    Should I use digital or film

    I would tend to think that digital would generally be cheaper, but it depends on the camera and other things. Film can be pretty expensive as far as processing it and such, but can have more advantages over digital, such as a better depth of field, and depending on the camera you get, you may...
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    Removing a Shadow

    One thought would be if the camera isn't moving, could you film it twice with the person and then without the person, then cut the without part into where the shadow is? Sort of the idea of where they film a person twice on two sides of the frame and then put them together to be a clone/twin of...
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    Shotlist & Script Lining Software

    Take a look at Celtx. It's a freeware program that can do things like Script lining/formatting, storyboarding, scheduling (I'm guessing this is what you mean by shotlist?), and other stuff like actor descriptions, character descriptions, and all sorts of stuff like that. Just do a google...
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