Recent content by CraigL

The most important thing you can do to help them is give them something "actionable" to go on. Never tell them to be "more" or "less" or anything that makes them stop and look at themselves to see if they're doing what they're supposed to do. As soon as they start watching themselves, they...

Not sure if anyone has seen this yet, but I found it an interesting listen. Mostly TV related, but as he says in his talk, the distinctions between these labels ("TV", "Film", etc) are blurring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc CraigL

Although I admire the man for managing to get the sorts of budgets he gets and would love to learn all I could about how he does it (although I think he mostly used a German tax-loophole that's since been closed), I think EVERY movie Uwe Boll has made should be on this list... CraigL

You can achieve a fairly decent look by simply white balancing on an orange card instead of white card (like a manilla envelope). This is essentially what that video was suggesting. Although moonlight isn't blue per se, we have all come to expect moonlight to be blue in movies, so it works...

I loved my K-1000, virtually loved it to death except you could barely kill that camera with a sledge hammer. I upgraded to a K10d later and loved that one also. It kicks the crap out of my T2i for build quality, that's for damn sure, but it was more expensive. But in the DSLR world, with so...

I've "not worked with more than a DSLR", but I've worked very hard to learn everything I can about the whole process. My feelings are once you hit the 2K mark, two things get way, way more important; Dynamic Range and bit-depth of colour. Going higher than 2K can allow for some extra cropping...

K, I wasn't sure if the whole "35mm is the standard" applied to lenses designed for chemical film cameras. I thought it might have just been something introduced as applied to 35mm SLR lenses as DSLRs started introducing a plethora of different sized sensors. I guess it was actually a pretty...

Not sure if anyone noticed, but turns out KickStarter forced him to remove them as offered rewards as it got into too many grey areas with respect to investing. He still pulled it off though, but I'm not sure how people will feel thinking they'd bought rights and then having them yanked like...

Really? I tried all three, and found the Vegas Movie Studio the only one I could actually done what I wanted to get done. Elements also just about cost me my eyeballs. The Pinnacle was pretty easy to use also, but I found the add-ons for VMS (and wrote some of my own) what swayed me. There...

In Canada, R is the equivalent of the US NC-17 - no persons under the age of 18 allowed, period. There is an 18A requiring adult accompaniment if under 18, same with 14A if under 14. Some provinces (not Ontario) I think have an A rating for "adult" content, and is equivalent to R, just for...

Actually, IndieGoGo have the option. You can choose to take what you got and pay a higher premium for it (Flexible Funding). Or you can configure a Fixed Funding campaign like KickStarter and only get it if you meet your goal and pay a lower premium. And I agree 100%, I'm very wary of the...

Can't be that good. He now claims he _may_ have smoked it, but he was too drunk to remember, so I guess it's just "meh". http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/11/05/everyone-knows-torontos-mayor-is-a-drunken-lout-but-the-real-scandal-is-that-he-smoked-crack-once/ Sigh.

Here's a question, when they say a S16 lens is 17mm focal length, is that the same FoV as a 35mm camera 17mm lens would be? CraigL

If you choose that resolution though, be careful your rendering system doesn't think you're trying to do HDV and change the PAR from 1:1 to 1.333:1, bringing it back to 16x9... CraigL

I thought that was debunked... validly or not. CraigL