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Just wanted to add to this... cropping or letterboxing to 1280x574 would give you a 2.2:1 aspect ratio, this inst used anywhere as a standard most features would use a 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 aspect ratio for an artistic 'scope' look or TV would just leave it the way it is (16:9 = 1280x720). To get...

Great film overall, acting was great, story was interesting and felt like it had a lot of underlying depth. But yea the VFX for me were a bit unbalanced in quality, which made the shots that were lower quality than others stand out a fair bit. The fire I thought was ok and do agree it wasn't...

I tend to export an animation (100% quality) quicktime as my master. If i dont care too much about having a master and just want some sort of back up ill render out a jpeg quicktime. From here ill go to adobe media encoder (or as suggested you could do this in handbrake) and convert to a H.264...

Its great because you don't have to go blow stuff up and get your own elements. Your friend is sort of right in that a lot of AE explosions/bullet effects are a joke. But this is mainly because the people using the elements have no idea how to use them. I saw a short film recurrently that had...

Good topic, interesting to see the relationship between gaming and films progress. The lines can blur a fair bit these days when done right with a game. Best example of this recently that I have played is portal 2. Favourite game of all time - between Counter Strike, Company of Heroes and...

Slight correction here, the 'p' refers to progressive (way the camera captures the image). The alternative being interlace (1080i) Reaction to SD $3000 vs $800 HD is the SD one will most likely cost more for various reasons that are nothing to do with HD vs SD, such as interchangeable lenses...

Wow just wow... reading this the guy must have no soul to do this to a person. By all means if this goes tits up name and shame I wouldn't want to work with someone like that. If its any consolation, with this attitude towards working with others the guy wont get far, as the whole industry is...

I took a look and there are some quick fixes you could do to this to make it way better. The main problems are lighting and colour all which can be sorted pretty easy. 1. thing comes out of mouth no lighting change... would be dark and get brighter as it comes out of the mouth atm is the same...

I would say avoid doing landscapes and especially water as CG if you can, as its super easy to look rubbish, and very very hard to get it to look realistic. May also require a render farm if you want to see it high quality more than once a week its so computationally heavy. Do it the way these...

Yea nice one :) I liked all of them, but agree your 3rd is perhaps the best from a marketing point of view. Your one is very different from the other one so I still think you have a great chance.

Yea that was pretty sweet, for the time they did it in it was well made and very impressive. I felt it was lacking a decent narrative, but just taking it for what it is (get from A to B and kill everyone who moves in-between)... it was good and kept me watching.

Just need to define what smooth is? less motion blur? slower slow motion? progressive not interlace? Could be a all of them lol. There is a few ways to do slow motion the most common is filming faster and playing back at normal speeds depending on region. if you filmed at a faster speed and...

If you particularly want to to colour grading in after effects look into the Magic Bullet plug-ins. You can get the 3-way colour corrector 'Colourista' for free now! This video I found useful when trying to understand the very basics of colour correction/colour theory...

I think you are getting confused with setting the frame rate for final cut and the relevance of Interlace and Progressive... when you set a frame rate in final cut its NOT changing your footage to that frame rate. All you are doing when setting a fps in final cut, you are saying your footage was...

lol Phil in some ways I agree, makes me mad watching this. But to make everyone happy you have to use minimal force :no:

Yup water cannons would be a valid use of force and perhaps an ideal one at that as it could be used to push the people away from their targets. It may not be used now but I think after review it could be used in future if this happens again.

Yea its nuts, I personally think the police in this situation should use more force as they are causing a lot of damage. However I do understand why they don't, very much a dammed if you do dammed if you don't situation for the met. Waiting for the people burning cars, property etc to go away...

There are a lot of different ways you could go about doing this. Depending on if the camera is moving or static will determine complexity to a certain extent. A full process from start to finish would be something like this...

Hey, Has any one tried the open source beta of LightWorks (non linear editor)? Its been used to edit some pretty high profile stuff such as 'The kings Speech' and 'Shutter Island'. It looks very interesting as its FREE and still being developed with. From what I understand it will stay free and...

Action Essentials isnt a plugin they are just video files with an alpha that you import into AE and put on top of footage.