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Hey all, Trying to export a 21 minute video from FCP that would keep it less than 1 gig yet still be somewhat decent. Obviously all the options for direct export to QT resulted in enormous file sizes, and I did try the H.264 @ 300 kbps preset in Compressor but the result was a really small...

I'm gonna be taking some production courses the next couple semesters and might be doing some editing work, which means its also time to upgrade from my 5 year old Dell notebook with its so-hot-it-could-be-a-foreman-grill power supply. :D The quandry I'm stuck with is PC or Mac. I'd ideally...

Been a LOOONG time since I've stopped in here. Late 2004 maybe? Wish I could say I've done something or learned things to contribute but I'm really still on the undergrad liberal arts road. I see the site has positively EXPLODED. Kim: I'm still getting the mag and it's really cool. Great...

I know I am. I got downright addicted to this show last season and it's one of those projects that just pumps you up and makes want to do this for a living even more. Excellent writing. Excellent acting. Beautiful imagery.

So since I really dont know...what would the specs be on a typical all-star workstation?

Sometimes someone just beats you to it....and your idea is snatched up. Case in point: www.heartofanempire.com I spent a couple nights laying awake thinking of doing a project almost identical to this one. Oh well...I guess this is a way to retrain the creativity. :) But props to that crew...

Yah, so this is a pretty straight forward quetion. Does anyone know if UCLA has a policy about keeping student films in their own archive under their own copyright? I'm looking into it but that would be a real negative mark IMO.

Stylistic Importance of Blade Runner to the Film Noir Genre and Genres of the Future By Dan Giese The 1982 science fiction production Blade Runner by director Ridley Scott used the premise of “man vs. man’s creation” to effectively create a movie many have classified as “future noir”. First...

Is the creator of that one here ever? That was awesome. I was laughing here in front of my computer pretty much the whole time. To Duncan Skiles of Waverly Films, well done.

All of a sudden I stopped getting the orange icons on the forums/threads that have new posts in them. I don't know why but I really liked that feature becuase it made it easy to see what new has been posted. Anybody know how to fix this? thanks.

Writer/Director Patrick Read Johnson (writer of Dragonheart) is filming a movie entitled 5-25-77 in the area because this is where he grew up and the movie is about his coming of age on the day Star Wars opened in 1977, hence the title. This project sounds insanely cool and especially since I...

I'll probably get a book that answers this question soon, but being the total layman that I am this is one thing I notice on alot of camera pictures. What does a matte box do?

I have an idea and most the script for a short, and really the location was the first thing to come about in the whole thing. We were at the location and knew we had ot shoot SOMETHING there because it just seemed so right. Anyway, point is that the location is being handed over and demolished...

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I just got this box from FedEx and, having no clue what I ordered, opened it up to discover a complete set of Total Training DVD's for the Adobe Video Collection....Premiere, Encore, After Effects, Audition, all of it. My name was chosen as a winner at the Adobe Video Tour I attended last...

I'm thinking about a chase sequence in which i want to cut from outside shots to inside shots of the driver and whatnot. First, who do I call to inform that I wish to perform some brief reckless driving on public streets, especially since what I am doing is a private film and obviously not by a...

While I was throwing around all the cinematography concepts in my head, I asked myself the question..."How does the naked eye compare to a camera?" Because essentially the eye is a camera, isn't it? Believe it or not, due to extenuating circumstances, the only art class I took in High School...

To elaborate on my previoius post in the not-so-fitting cinematography forum, heres a couple bits from that book I mentioned: Credit goes to Karin Kelly and Tom Edgar for the above clips from the book Film School: Confidential 1997, Berkley Publishing group. Anyway, my point being, we've all...

Ok so lets see if i understand this part correctly. I get what pixel aspect ratio is and I get what frame aspect ratio is, but since math was never my strongpoint, I get a little dizzied over how and what happens when you try and mix different ratios. If you shoot something anamorphically in...

Ok so I just got adobe premiere. I was used to working with dummy software like that crap program Pinnacle makes, Studio DV. Now I have premiere, which could potentially rock, but I think its too complex for me to even start tinkering with like I do w/ most software. Are there any workshops...