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Firstly, sorry for assuming you were new to screen writing... you were asking the kind of question a newbie asks and I wanted to make sure you didn't blow your shot of pitching your concept to the majors. However: two things... 1) Forget about shooting scripts... they're nothing to do with the...

OK... so, what's obvious from your questions is that you're fairly new to the industry. So, I'm going to read between the lines and answer the questions I think you're asking. So, as has already been stated "Spec" means Speculative... all that means is you're not being paid to write it, but you...

Sound field look very, very interesting... thanks a lot for that. I'm going to do a lot of reading about them and the audio workflow. One of the reasons binaural appealed to me, was because binaural mics are pretty cheap... in fact you can simulate it with two cheap plate mics and an acoustic...

Thanks for explaining your process... I've been looking at the possibilities of mapping the binaural stereo pair into a 5.1 speaker environment and am looking at some VST devices that may allow me to map spacial nature of binaural into a standard cinema space. If I make any progress, I'll add...

The trick with any budget vs effect issue is to think laterally. Basically figure out what effect you're trying to have on the audience... then look at your resources... and then find a really cool and unique way of solving the problem. The problem I've always had with werewolf costumes is...

I'd be interested in how you map the binuaural for film in post production... the limitation has always been the difficulty in recreating the recorded sound from speakers. I'd really appreciate knowing how you approach the whole workflow.

No problem Doug, my pleasure. We all win when we share what we know, everybody discovers something different when they play with software... as my current obsession is developing work flows for my weird CGI experiment and Motion was new to me, I was spending a lot of time noodling around with...

You probably only need some additional pluggins for FCP. I'd start by looking at Natress Their stuff has a good reputation

Thanks Doug, that's exactly the information I needed. The 16 and 32 bit float options in Motion are found in the project setting presets. When you start a new project it defaults to which ever preset you set up... but you have the option of selecting a different preset from the list. One of the...

Doug, this is ALL VERY, VERY useful. Technically I struggling a little bit. Can you recommend some good basic reading on the relationships between alpha, colour modes and bits? I'm not completely clueless about this... but it's an area I really need to understand so I can make good work-flows...

Thanks for the technical info Doug, much appreciated. I thought Motion was a 16 bit environment, and therefore less prone to loss... I must spend more time reading manuals.

Did you get Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Studio or Final Cut Studio 2? If you got Final Cut Studio, then you've already got a copy of Motion. If you've got Final Cut Studio 2 you've got both "Motion" and "Color" Motion is a superb package which comes with lot of high quality effects built in...

The difficulty for anyone designing a virtual studio is Reason already did a fantastic job of creating a studio engineer's mixing desk, including patchbays. Now, where Reason falls down as an application, is it presupposes that those people who need to manipulate sound professionally come from...

Oh, happy, happy, joy joy. :D OK. Can I start from the assumption that we're talking about a mixing room designed specifically for mixing film audio? If so, what I'd like to see is for the interface to visually represent the three dimensional illusion created by the movie and then allow me to...

I agree, Motion is a wonderful tool

There are hundred of thousands of screenwriters out there with no way of getting their scripts made. It seems to me that eight guys with the determination, skills and equipment to make a movie and one script writer with an already completed script would be a match made in heaven. You might...

For video production there are two key factors with firewire drives: reliability and the speed they spin at. Basically, you want a brand that spins fast and that is ultra reliable. I'd be interested to see which brands other people recommend, because a new firewire drive is on my shopping list...

When I used to train actors I would start my first class with a new intake with the following question: "Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be famous?" There isn't a wrong or right answer to the question, but it is important to understand what your motivation is. For many of the...

Just one thing: It's easy to get actors, but unless you're able to shoot everything in one day there are a couple of things you ought to know about working with people who are volunteering their time. When you ask people to work for free you have to do two things: 1) Make them feel that the...

Thanks for the reminder about shutter speeds... I do that automatically and didn't even consider mentioning it. The other thing I didn't mention was about going into the camera's menus and changing the set-up to remove automatic sharpening. Most video cameras throw an small amount of sharpening...