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If you are shooting for a student film or a basic film that you'll use to hone your directorial skills. you can shoot on just about anything. Heck use a flip phone camera, use a 7D, use a ALEXA, use anything.. Realistically, shooting a mini series is laudable, but not very smart. Shoot a few 5...

as offered in this thread... Cast, Crew, Lighting, and locations will make way way more of a difference than RED or DSLR when it comes to production value and quality of look. cheers geo

you are most welcome. i used to run the very large Citigroup data operations and programming projects... learned more than I ever wanted to know about this crap, before I quite and started a production and post company... :) cheers geo definitely play with the INTERNAL...

Cmd+Option+shift TOOLS gets you some data via the INTERNAL TOOLS option in the TOOLS window. These are normally not available. its not going to help you in this issue, but there are ways to utilize the data created to troubleshoot session problems. FCP 7 uses a binary file in which it...

Set up the locked camera. Shoot with the highest possible frame rate. Shoot background plate for a 60 seconds. ( just to be safe ) Set up a small green screen big enough to mask the cube placement. Shoot the cube being placed it the appropriate spot. Set up a larger green screen or blue...

you could also just use photoshop to create a series of PNG files with the same type of images varying a number of layers to make an image sequence similar to the demos talked about. cheers geo

Sound like your project database is corrupted. I would, if possible, run media management and create a new duplicated project before other problems develop. cheers geo

Hilton Media Management in NYC is seeking interns for the FALL and WINTER. If you cannot follow directions, and/or you are not a self started and motivated individual ...stop here. If you are read on. Experience requirement: You must currently be in or have graduated from a Film / audio...

Sit with him and work it out before moving one step more forward. Remember, he never asked you to spend money. That was your idea. Don't expect any help and don't be annoyed or pissed off about it either. It was your decision to spend your money. Stick to the deal. Period. Or smile, thank...

two things: 1.... Friend or not... put it ALL in writing. Contracts keep friends... friends. 2. If you wrote the screenplay... Did you sign a deal memo, writers contract, or Option Deal for your work? If not you actually have your "Bud" over the proverbial barrel. It's still your...

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no matter what monitor you use, if you're shooting digital.... make sure it's calibrated if you are going to assess color, gamma, contrast, etc..... cheers geo

Also note... people are shooting these music videos more and more without time code/sync lock on the audio playback device. If you are using a CD player, MP3 player, IPOD, IPAD, DJ gear, or other non-sync audio playback you may have a simple drift problem. Some of this stuff has lousy...

ummm... yeah... not. get it right when you shoot and leave post for making your film better, not for rescuing a lazy crew in production. cheers geo Georgia Hilton MPE MPSE CAS Film Doctors http://www.filmdoctors.com HMM Production Company http://www.hmmproductions.com HMM...

You need a new DP.... No matter how detailed or lose your storyboards.... if the actors go off position... follow them! At least you'll get something usable. Or cut immediately and fix the problem... but a DP just locking the camera and ignoring the action???? :weird: cheers geo...

I shoot Motorcycles... I have a Triumph Rocket III 2300 CC road bike. 3 cylinders - very stable and smooth... and very big. We mount a steady cam arm on the Left or Right on the rear rack. The rider handles the bike and the passenger can sit forward or backward and since the steady cam is...

Shoot the background footage first. Make sure the image is properly in focus, and the lighting is what you want ( day time, morning, night, raining, sunny,etc) You can always defocus and muck with color, etc in post. The best thing to do is to shoot with multiple cameras from a moving vehicle...