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Hakim, I'm of the opinion that you will be stretched to buy all of your equipment for $5K. Any decent laptop is going to cost you $1500 give or take. You can edit with MovieMaker or iMovie (iMovie being my preference), but if you want to purchase editing software, Final Cut Express would add...

That line was pretty funny, 2 years and 3 months after the original inquiry. Has anyone noticed that this thread was started almost 2.5 years ago? I don't think David is still looking. At least, I hope not!

p.s. I just noticed that you made 4 posts on this forum today, all promoting your service. You might be overdoing it just a little. Protocol here is to post this sort of thing in the classifieds and to refrain from crossposting. Welcome to IndieTalk, anyway. Doug

You can start here, but this post probably belongs in the classifieds. ;) Doug

Thanks, WideShot. The cost of the event wasn't much to cry about. It was the lost time that really hurt, since I've been very, very busy the past couple of weeks. I'm not getting much time for sleep (which probably doesn't help my mood!), so what I'd really like is to have my 5 hours back...

I would post this under festival talk, but it isn't a festival, so here goes .... They suck! :( Ok, that's sort of vague. On a personal note, I've not felt more trodden upon in recent memory. Here is the sequence of events; I bought tickets and received an invitation to the friday night...

Nick, you may not understand how the 35mm adaptor works. It actually projects the image from the 35mm lens onto a 35mm film plane, giving you the same DOF and other characteristics of a 35mm camera, then the camcorder's lens is focused on the 35mm film plane (from the back side) and actually...

70mm sounds interesting, but one of the advantages of the 35mm adaptor is that we can use those old 35mm primes we've got in the closet from our collection of 35mm SLRs. Lenses for 70mm film cameras are not as prevalent. I've been drooling over the Letus 35mm adaptor for some time. I've got...

Oh, great. Now you tell me.

And you can't go wrong with 1 or 2 C-stands. You can use those for reflectors, flags, lights and even microphones. These are also things you can rent, but if you're shooting a lot, they are invaluable on almost every shoot.

If you are delivering digitally, and only digitally, you'd be better off buying a $300 miniDV camcorder, because the transfer to the computer costs nothing, and you edit it on just about any computer with iMovie or MovieMaker. I have a little Canon ZR-800 that probably costs $250 new which I...

You ask a very good question. There are so many options in the lighting department and there are a myriad of considerations, from heat, power consumption, color balance, bulk, cost, etc., etc. I would suggest you do a lot of research. There are many budget lighting solutions that will leave...

I forgot to mention that was for 1000 DVDs. The price per DVD came to about $1.45 with shipping.

I'm the one who mentioned them. The last DVD I self distributed I had done by them. They did an excellent job. I had the DVDs screen printed in amaray cases with trap sheets, shrink wrapped and ready to deliver for about $1200 + shipping and handling (which was around $200 for 11 large boxes...

I don't blame you, Vince. I've done some experimenting with this, and the results are not that bad. I'm now thinking of buying a 35mm adapter. I'm afraid, though, that if I try it on my old camera, I might wish I'd just saved the money on the new camera. So far, all of the commercial work...

The last time I looked, 11x17 posters (tabloid size) were less than $1.50 each ??? Nationwide Disc where I have my DVDs made. They have full color, 11x17's listed for $289/250 posters; if that is what you need.

The tool/filter you will use most is "Color Corrector". Start there. You probably won't need anything else, unless you have very specific requirements. For a bright flash of light, I'd just slice the clip twice to create a slip that is 1-2 frames long, then use brightness/contrast under the...

It's too bad many of those photos weren't actually taken on Kodachrome film. They are just a collection of images from Flicker, and I can tell you for sure many of them were shot digitally. It's a bit fraudulent, if you ask me. I shot on Kodachrome for many years. I wouldn't trust scenic...

Inexperienced crew? OMG, don't even go there with me. I've done shots where I had to be in a shot, so I set the camera up and had someone else operate it. Often times, the shots would have come out better had I put the camera on a tripod, set it to autofocus and locked it down. However, this...

MD, is there a reason why you don't want to use, or don't have iMovie? iMovie comes free with OS X, so if it's not on your system, you should be able to install it from the install disks ... unless of course you choose not to use it. Doug