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No no, I've been here for it all. I pretty much always assume the best, plus in the midst of the 3000 questions every now and then hopefully there's one that I can answer that'll help him and anyone else. If you think about it, the whole post mortem thing (while off) shows at least a bit of...

I didn't see anyone else pointing this out... Can't do the split input thing with an H4n without a separate mixer in the chain. The H4n's input gain controls both channels, you can't set them individually.

I want to slap my forehead, but maybe I'm just miscommunicating. 1. You have to have rights to use music in your film. 2. You won't be able to afford rights to stuff from a major release, even if the composer has died. 3. You can afford an independent composer. 3b. By "independent...

You have it way to aggressive, adjust the settings of the stabilizer and you'll be good. Of course that's what's shaking the camera, what I mean is the look of the shake at high speed. Because of physics: inertia, gravity and the weight of the camera all thrown in double speed video of 40mph...

It wouldn't shake like that because gravity and mass remains the same even though your car is going faster. I'm not understanding your "flatten like a pancake" description? Try adjusting the settings, using more or less stabilization, different types of stabilization etc. A little shake is...

Try using warp stabilizer on it too, it'll help a lot. Also, a lot of your problem is the setting. It's quite obviously a neighborhood, our brain knows that driving 80mph is unlikely. In another setting (like a country road) it'll feel better. You'll also want to avoid other things our brains...

Yup. And sorry, I should have said "pay for rights" not "royalties." Many indie composers are willing to grant you all the online and festival rights for whatever you pay them (even if they're doing it pro-bono). That let's you show it everywhere you'd need to, then if you're good enough and...

The only cameras that do markedly better in higher ISOs are the 5D MkIII, 1DX and 1 DC, C300 and C500. 5-40 times the cost of a T3i. Lighting your scene will still produce a way better result, but if your heart is set on running a higher ISO then there's your best bet! EDIT: I left off some of...

For free without written consent? Nope! Assuming that rights to the composition magically disappeared upon death and weren't passed on (they are), you still have to pay royalties for publishing and whoever performed it. There are dozens of composers practically begging for material to work...

Pelican and thermodyne are the go-to names in hard caes. They offer many versions with wheels. You probably won't find a case cut custom for your specific needs, but they come with foam you can pluck out to fit whatever you want. Personally, I have my fixtures, bulbs and cables in a...

From YEARS of experience I can tell you the Manfrotto fluid heads are the best bang-for-buck intro option. For a DSLR a small head is fine, you're not swinging around 30 pounds. That said, if you're as strapped for cash as you say you are and you're as green as you say you are and you're just...

Skill and technique are often more important than the gear. If his setup was indeed pricey and RODE then it was probably a good mic. What camera are you using? Does it have XLR inputs?

Best wishes man! I hear you, it's a different animal than when I joined a few years back, but not in a totally bad way. I post less than I used to, but life get's busy! There are narrative projects I'm longing to finish, some completely shot and others just on paper but other's video has to...

If the lease worked out to be LESS expensive than buying I'd be happy to lease and swap out every year. The car was probably a bad metaphor though, because unlike software automobile hardware isn't making groundbreaking or game changing improvements every 6-12 months. Pretty easily. CS6 Master...

18mm is pretty wide. Granted there's wider, but if you can only start with a kit lens you'll be ok.

I can see that. I've made pretty good use out of the last several major updates though: mercury, warp stabilizer and camera tracking in AE. Mercury was huge since CS5 in premiere too. Even in photoshop, I've used repousse (sp?) in a few big projects when I got it. I needed an encore update a...

You can run it on two computers simultaneously. I can vouch for that. I'm loving it so far, I really can't say enough good things about the business model. Like others in the thread have said, any software purchased is outdated in a few months anyway. It's the same reason I advise 90% of...

I'm surprised that I'm apparently in the minority here of people that are HAPPY about this? As someone who upgraded every version or two, this is a MASSIVE discount. It's basically the entire master collection for the price of the educational version of Production Premium and yearly upgrade...

Learn from this experience as a director. When you hire professionals, take their advice for the best way to capture a scene. Hire people smarter than you are in their areas and trust them.

You can, in video village. Running behind a camera you can't for sure but that's the point of having the monitor set up elsewhere. I don't doubt what you're saying is true, but just for grins I checked TDK credits IMDB and there are quite a few "B" camera credits (operator, focus puller...