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I like using the levels, it's under Effects. So you can drag an effect from the Effects Pallet under Video Effects and, I think, Adjustments. It has slider adjustments that will deepen the darks and mute the lights. You could also adjust the Saturation, should have a slider for that under the...

ZenSteve, Easy answer. First, in looking at our resources we realized, hey, we have a dummy (from an old murder mystery.) That's gotta count for something. Second, we'd never undertaken anything like this, never filmed anything, didn't know any "real" actors. And I'm pretty good with Photoshop...

I must confess that I fast forwarded through some of it - I love he dancing, music was funny, I think you could cut it in half and have somthing stronger.

I did time in the Army, we're the soldiers as far as the Marines are concerned. I learned that Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot but I read that in a book. I also learned that it's simple to set up a PayPal payment to sell just about anything. I learned that taking a week off to be with your...

My 14 year old daughter showed me this, too. I'm showing my age but it REALLY creeps me out when she calls Hayden Chrisitanson "hot." Plus his acting teacher was a two-by-four.

Rending just plain takes time - faster systems will render more quickly but for anything with any real sophistication, it just takes time. I've rendered a two minute clip that took 8 hours and I read that a SINGLE FRAME for Lord of the Rings took 4 hours render even with all the firepower they...

I have the same problem. People have come to expect camera motion to add to visual appeal. A cheap trick is so do a very slow zoom on the cu over the shoulder shots, it draws in the audience but doesn't require any equipment. Each cut has a bit of movement and can heighten the impact of what's...

I think both methods are valid. You can learn from film school and you can learn by making your own movie. The ultimate determiner, imho, is a combination of drive and talent. And as a million successful people have said a million times, it's more about the drive than the talent. Focus and...

Anone know anything like that happening in the Southeast, particularly DC/Virginia/NC area? Sounds like fun. And deadlines are a great motivator.

God bless google: "A Frenchman name Bouin came up with the original tune, which appeared in 1761. The poem "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" was published in 1806, in a book called "Rhymes for the Nursery". It was called "The Star" and written by Jane Taylor, a British children's poet, with her...

The Prelinger Archives are a brilliant resource. We made a fake documentary and used clips throughout to give it validity. It's searchable, well-indexed and extensive. And for server info, I'll plug www.doteasy.com. I don't work for them, don't get a kickback or anything, they are just the...

Great tutorial, thanks. I'll play around with this for sure. And as for Sin City, it's so visually interesting you don't even need Jessica Alba. But having her don't hurt.

Ditto the flash stuff. I seem to say this about every trailer, but I think it was too long. I like the premise, some of the shots were great, the nightime-orange sky shot is very cinematic. The quality of the production looks very good.

Congrats on the premiere success - we had a similar response. The trailer hooked me but I do agree with other folks that it might be too long. The story comes across, builds suspense, I think you could clips some of the middle and stick with the most dramatic, or funnier bits. The pie bit could...

I liked the fast cuts, visually kept my interest. The guy at the end sweeping seemed to be "acting", that's the best way I can put it. It's the closing image and weakend the overall impact for me.

Jaws, by some kid named Spielberger or something. And Splash, sort of.

Here's our first crack at a trailer. Condensing an hour movie into a minute is much more difficult than I expected. I'd LOVE some feedback as I am far to saturated to have any objectivity. I can see why people hire specialists to make trailers. It's a 4.9 mb wmv file, that seemed to be the best...

This is just an echo. It's astonishingly easy, no over head and PayPal doesn't take out much of a bite. You have to pay for a disk, packaging and printing if you want to look classy, with shipping I can churn them out at a cost of about $1.80 per disk, roughly. Actually selling, attracting a...

Cutting a trailer is radically different than cutting a movie. I thought it would be a snap but it was so much harder to establish a rythym and I like the trailer a lot less than the film. Though I'm getting kind of tired of it, I've seen WAY too much footage to be objective. In Adobe Encore...

"Huggy Bear and SDT's? If you can get David Soul to sing the theme song, you've got gold.