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'Bad Taste'. I didn't even notice for years that there are no shell cases :).

Don't have any gun shots handy, unfortunately, it's a while since I've had to do any. But basically it's similar to what you've done with less convincing lighting and extra 3D animation on top... until I got Fusion I didn't really have any software that could do more sophisticated lighting...

How new? They've been demonstrating their cheap (OK, tens of thousands of dollars but much less than the competition) 4k pixel/12-bit camera, I'm not aware of anything newer than that: http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/7075.html Either way, it's a very interesting camera, even if you do...

The site software screwed up the link because it has spaces: I'm not a moderator in this forum or I'd fix it. Thanks for the video, it's pretty interesting: similar to the way we do shots with fake guns, only you've go into more detail on the lighting effects (and we normally add CG shell cases...

Aside from being big and robust, which is the kind of connector you want when you're working on a movie set, XLR uses balanced audio, where the same signal is sent on two cables with opposite polarities. This dramatically reduces noise from electrical interference and allows you to have very...

Neither are particularly safe: you should really have someone who knows what they're doing on set if you're using blanks. I don't know about Seattle, but in the UK the law requires blank-firing replicas vent the blast out the top of the gun for safety reasons and that means they look crap on...

Looks interesting, though the CMOS chips will probably hit the low-light performance. The progressive scan could be handy, and variable frame-rates, though I presume the latter only works when recording to hard disk.

I used a Steadicam JR for years with my old Hi8 camera (sony V600 I think) and it was great. I never got it to work properly with my TRV900 though: I think it was designed for long, heavy cameras and the more compact and relatively light modern cameras just don't stabilise well. Don't use it...

Sony Z1 with Senheisser 416 mike, Avid Xpress Pro HD, Sonic ReelDVD (which is horrid, but came free with the Avid software). As with one of the other posters up above I also have a TRV900, though the mikes died a couple of years ago and the Firewire connection is intermittent: at certain cable...

Are you sure it's not a problem with the drive? You might want to run scandisk (or whatever it's called these days) to ensure there isn't some disk corruption. I think in theory you can also copy the audio and video files to another disk, delete the database file and have Avid recreate it on...

Never seen that... have you tried reinstalling the software?

Yeah, but it is often noticeably soft when you look at still HD frames. I think a lot depends on whether there's a significant amount of green in the shot, if there isn't then you won't get anywhere near the full resolution. That's rarely been a problem for me, particularly as you can use...

Wish I knew :). My guess is Sony want to push more professional users onto XDCAM, and the improved dropout resistance of DVCAM recording speed would go against that. I've never had an HDV dropout in a few dozen tapes, but they can knock out a whole half second of footage.

I can't comment on FCP specifically, but you can change the exposure on a shot by playing with the color correction tools in any decent editing program, so that shouldn't be too hard. Most should also give you the ability to eliminate all but a narrow range of colors from a scene, so I'd try...

The upside of the A1 is that it's HD, the downside is that it's reportedly not very good in low light. In some respects the stills in good light actually look better than my Z1, probably because it has a single full-resolution CCD rather than three CCDs at a somewhat lower resultion. The BBC...

You shoot the lines with one person talking, then turn the camera around and shoot it with the other person talking. Then you cut between the shots in your editing program.

The risk of editing your own movies is that you get too caught up in it and want to keep your favorite shots no matter whether or not they fit. I do it, but I'm pretty ruthless in editing no matter who shot it... and I've taken to cutting together my storyboard pictures into a video before...

It's probably complicated by the fact that no money is involved: if the director had paid for the script then they'd have the right to give it to someone else to rewrite, but unless they own the script they're on somewhat dubious grounds. As Lazlo said, you should at least talk to the other...

I haven't really noticed that, even with gain pushed up. The only major problem I've had with HDV is that it removes fine detail from large areas of solid colors (e.g. white walls), so if you then push the grading you get artifacts. Also, with the Z1 faces look a little soft for my taste, but...

Weird. I haven't used Premiere since 6.0, but back then if you exported DV footage to a DV file it would just copy the data without recompressing. However, it's not unusual to see degradation of text because DV uses a JPEG-like codec to compress the video so it will lose some detail in the...