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Hey, very well done!

Wow, really cool!

Hey guys, I've been using linux as my main OS (Ubuntu 8.10 and Linux Mint) for the last few month and I find it to be quite good. However, for editing videos I'm still dual booting into Windows because I payed good money for my Adobe Production Bundle which doesn't work on linux (at least not...

Well, I don't think it helps you in any way if we tell you you need the biggest and baddest camcorder, a 5000$-mic and a lightning kit as expensive as a car. In my opinion you can make good movies with very little budget. Just get a camcorder, a sub 1000$ miniDV is just fine, a decent mic (sound...

Well, I'm only 17, too. I stared filmmaking when I was like 12 and did some stuff with my friends, nothing really big. When I was 15 I got together with a director who was at the time 20 I think. And we hired pretty professional actors. They later told us that they were feeling a bit like in a...

Well, I'm still young and probably don't know much about the industry as it is right now, but most of the guys I work with are going digital. I also don't see any reason for doing it old school any more. I mean, it's nothing but expensive, takes ages and editing in Final Cut is way easier than...

Well, I haven't made too many movies where I actually filmed in public places, but when I did I asked the owners/managers first and they (surprisingly) did never mind a film crew with big lights and everything. Maybe I was just lucky, but every time I asked gently, they said yes and let me film...

Go ahead and listen to this episode of Directors Notes. It's about the documentary Flowers Don’t Grow Here by Shira Pinson and in the interview she talks about how they made the film. Really informative and I think there're some good tips for making documentaries in general!

Wow. Great series. Your actors are really good and the situations feel perfectly real. Technically it was done very well, too. Hope to see more soon!

One of the best tricks I learned so far for making dv look more like film is using a 1/25 shutter instead of a 1/50 which most consumer camcorders use. Also filming progressiv instead of interlaced seems to help a lot for giving it a more film-like feel. I don't think there's nothing that...

Just make sure you have a fast and big hdd. It should be sata, especially if you plan on doig some VFX-stuff in HD-res.

However, some people have gotten Adobe Photoshop CS2 working in Linux with a program called Wine. There's even a commercial app for running Windows Apps on Linux, but I forgot it's name. However, editing Videos with Linux can be a huge pain as some codecs ect. are not supported. But if you don't...

You can also use VLC to rip DVDs. Lifehacker has a great acticle on this: http://lifehacker.com/software/dvds/rip-dvds-with-vlc-230349.php

For normal SD (meaning stanard definition), a regular PC for around 300-400$ is everything you need. They mostly come with 2 gigs of ram, a dual core CPU and at least a 500GB hdd. As Zensteve said, Windows movie maker is a good program to start with, however as you become more advanced you...

@doomedvideos: You could try Adobe Premiere Elements if you don't want to pay the whole 800$ or so for the full version. If you like the program and come to the point where you actually need the extra features of PPro, you can upgrade and won't have to relearn everything as both programs kinda...