Recent content by Samuel M. Hain

Finding funding for productions isn't an easy task by a long shot. Often takes some grovelling and even some all-out self-humiliation, but persistence often pays off. I've done some smaller stuff in the past as well, but I don't want to be one these "make a movie with friends in the weekend"...

Hey guys! Great news; My film is now complete! Rendered, compressed and burned! If you'd like to view the details, let me know. I'm not sure I can or should post a link to the official website in this particular thread. All in all, it took roughly 5 hours to render, and another 6 hours to...

Hey guys, Here's what's going down today, in about 30 mins; I've got my DoP (dude doing the rendering) coming over with his laptop (yep, the one used for all previous crap renders), but after spekaing to an editor here and figuring out that the way he was rendering prior, was completely...

Doug, I just spoke with my editor, who (is not rendering this, again, my DoP is), and she assured me that my DoP is NOT rendering a .mov file first. The film runs for 96 minutes, has massive amounts of color correction. Now, gradually, and after reading more and more about these technical...

Hi Doug, It's funny, the very last thing you mention is the exporting to a Quicktime .mov file and then loading that file into Compressor, then burning. I'm n ot sure (yet) if he's rendering in a Quicktime format first, I've been told by some other editors that he most likely is not doing...

Hi Guys, Well, the verdict is in; I grabbed some DVD-Rs, had the guy over to burn the film and within 15 minutes I was watching the film. Everything looked great and sounded great right up until about half way in. a Single, tiny "lag+skip" in one of my steadicam shots. (The entire scene is...

Hi Knightly, sorry...I hadn't seen this reply. Actually it's not a pulldown issue. The rest of the film is fine, both video and audio are synched and running fine. Each time there's a render and burn however, the skipping or jumping frames are not the same ones as the previous render. I'll try...

aha! You and me both good sir! I'm one of those people who believe, "if you want something done right, do it yourself!" Ok, so it takes its toll on us both mentally and physically, but at least the job gets done, and done well. :) Don't houseflies live for 48 hours? There's a scary thought...

Hi Guys, Gotta give a HUGE thanks for those responses. (I asked the same questions in a local forum and basically got laughed at and told to go to "film school). Right, so here's what I've got; The medium being used to burn the DVD is Fujifilm DVD+R, and from what you've both mentioned, this...

DVD Studio Pro is the program within Final Cut 6 yes? (sorry, as mentioned, I'm not the tech-minded one here). If so, he is indeed using that program to render n' burn, as far as I know. I was also inclined to assume he was burning it too fast as well. I'll have to check with him on those...

Hi there oakstreetphotovieo, Much thanks for the info. What I can tell you at this point is; Yes, the original video and audio play fine. As for compression, I'm honestly not sure. What I'll do is give him a call shortly and get all this info and post it back here for you to see. I can also...

Hi guys, I've been dropping braincells left and right trying to figure out what could be causing this problem, maybe someone reading this has a solution or a suggestion; In a nutshell, once we've compiled and burned our DVD, we end up with a "skipping/jumping" frame here and there. Noticeable...

Photo Manipulation Hey folks, I released the trailer for my feature length indie horror a few weeks ago but I figured I'd plug it here as well. We do have an official website, and of course a Youtube account. I'd love ot hear your feedback on this. Title - Photo Manipulation (released in...

I shot my first feature film this year. Shooting ended on schedule, August 3rd at 7am. Ok, so it was about 2 hours over schedule, sue me. ;) Now, I'd never shot a film in my life, and here I was shooting a feature length that I'd also written (several years earlier). Before I began the...

Yes, a friend just mentioned that same concept to me on msn. I want to try a number of things actually, classic style "silent era" with storyboards, adding audio from a boom-mic direct into an audio processor (this prolly sounds unrealistic to you guys), and editing in post via the hand...