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Right click on the title you have placed in the sequence. This will pop a selection menu. Now select the duration and type the time. Take a day or two to learn the NLE or else you will get stuck in every step. There are excellent free video tutorials available, just search in Google and you will...

Try it and you will be impressed. Artifacts generated by MP3 compression will be far worse than any such time remapping artifacts. Remember, film is an art and many of us shoot film with iPhone. In US, we lovingly call artifact seekers as "Measurebator"s. Fortunately most indie filmmakers are...

Camera and recorder with timebase is of course the ideal solution but unfortunately beyond budget for most indie filmmaker at this moment. However, this is really not a huge issue as it is simple to rerender the sound with new time length without changing the pitch. With latest innovation in DAW...

The audio recorder's on-board mics are best suited for journalists recording interviews. So moding PMD 661 on-board mics may not help too much in filmmaking projects. All filmmakers need three types of mics: a directional mic with with XLR for booming, a surround mic for ambient and wireless...

Never thought most of us here are that stupid :lol:

Knightly is absolutely on the dot. Dolly and Zoom are used for totally different purpose and create different effects. Making a dolly is extremely simple, it is nothing but a platform with wheels. A shopping cart, skate board, trike anything with wheels and with some imagination can be used. If...

Those are ancient issues of past. Canon 5D MKII firmware 2.0.3 onwards, it shoots in proper frame rates NTSC 1920×1080 : earlier 30 fps changed to actual 29.97 fps 1920×1080 : earlier 24 fps changed to actual 23.976 fps 640×480 : earlier 30 fps changed to actual 29.97 fps and in...

Do you mean you shot 5 hours of video or time lapse under scorching sun? If it is time lapse, then camera circuit gets periodic rest in between the shots, but video is a different ballgame. Can you please share us the details? It will be very helpful for any such future project.

Start with this tutorial, it might be useful for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWwCw2-LFE

Cheap lavs even from reputed name brands are bad. However, I am very impressed with professional wireless lavs from Sony, Shure and Sennheiser. Haven't used other brands but I believe their pro version will be good too. Booming wide shots are challenging, so for any multi angle wide and closeup...

Are you planning to use wireless lav or wired? If you use wired lavs, then please note that they use stereo shielded unbalanced wire, so running a long length may pick up sizable 60Hz hum. In that case you may need to check the ground connection etc. In nutshell more hassle. Try to get wireless...

How about filming someone pushing only the handle to the chest and then in post match move a photo of the knife blade to the handle? In that case you can even also show a slowmo of the action ;)

Dear harmonica44, believe me, you can do it! Sound engineering is not a rocket science, no matter what other may say, it is not difficult and you will definitely able to pull it off with flying colors. just remember the following tips. 1) Like Alcove Audio has previously advised, try to use...

Dear AudioPost Expert, booming sound for talent is not used to record perspective, in fact sound engineer tries to isolate the voice as much from the perspective else why even use a boom? The proper technique is to record dialog and ambient sound separately and mix in post. In film, we almost...

24 bit sampling resolution captures extreme fine grain details of the analog signal voltage so that the digitized signal very closely matches the original. 24 bit resolution also reduces the digitizing artifacts (noise) from the recorded sound. However, a 24 bit recorder will not offer any so...