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Thanks, Knightly. I'm still holding out hope that Gina will find a director. She wrote the screenplay, she is producing the movie, and she is playing the lead role. She has suggested that she could also direct, but I'd rather direct from behind the camera than have her directing when she is...

Rain, I trust Tony's link will lead you to where you want to be. There may also be some presets on this forum. I created my own settings, mostly just for accurate color reproduction, but also with saturation and sharpness to suite my taste. Doug

That was well done. Great camera work! The DVD looks great, too. I think you should charge more for it than $5.00. If you charged $7.99, you'd double your profit margin. Great work. Kudos to you and your team. Doug

Regarding adding more light, Will, I did my tests on live band performances where I was not in control of the light. There would definitely be no reason to consider shooting in low light otherwise. I have been disappointed in the video quality from the high school band concerts I tape for the...

I've used 1/30 second shutter with 30fps and it produces artifacts and loads of motion blur. Therefore, it's not much better than digital gain. I was comparing 1/60 second shutter speed which is standard for 60 fields/second to 1/48 second which is standard for 24fps. It's only a marginal...

It may be a little daunting for a first timer. I suggest you read the manual, then go on-line and look at presets people have created, then read the manual again. Take the time to get the camera's color settings, gamma, etc. setup exactly the way you want them. It will make a huge difference...

As long as you do a good job on the lighting, it should be fine, but I can't promise it will be saleable. Did you notice that there is a $200 rebate on that camera?

Silly, nobody said Macs were perfect. I'm going on hard, cold numbers, here. I use what gets the job done with a minimum of pain. I can use anything I want; I choose to use Macs, and I've never regretted that choice. The client had a tape backup, but before we could use it, we had to install...

I had a customer with an 8 drive raid array configured with redundancy and striping. They lost everything on it due to a Windows Server failure. Raid does not protect you when the O.S. decides to overwrite directory tables. Don't you ever wonder why there are so many recovery features in...

Try Myspace. All the rappers I know are very independent, but they're all struggling to get their work out there, so they'd probably be very receptive to you.

Clive, you make a good point about everyone having camcorders, etc. The professional photographers I know and work with are whining that their business is going to hell because everyone has a digital camera and people can't understand why they should pay a professional $2000 to shoot their...

Hardware problems can create instability in any machine. However, I'm not talking about whether or not there will be problems, I'm talking about how long it will take to be back up and running after a major hardware failure. If you've never experienced a hard drive crash, then you're just...

This is a really open ended question. Small companies carve out a business doing things that big companies don't want to bother with. There are as many answers to your question as there are small companies. The small companies I know of, including mine, will do things as diverse as wedding...

EvsFX08, you said you'd get a Mac, FCP and Motion. You'd have no problem running FCP and Motion on a 2.8Ghz quad core PowerMac with 4GB of RAM and the video card that comes standard. I would hardly call any Mac a "bare bones" system, since if you order a "bare bones" PC, it doesn't include an...

Some of your interiors have promise, but for my work, I would need to have models because when I put a live video clip in a CG environment, I need the live action to cast shadows on the model, and I need to be able to control camera movement. Doug

What country are you living in? A Mac Pro with 4 cores and 4GB or RAM + Final Cut Suite is only $3700. That would include Final Cut Pro, Motion, Sound Track Pro, Compressor, Color, and Cinema Tools. That's a far cry from $8,000. I've used MS Windows for editing, and now I use an Apple. You...

Peripheral/unrelated question: Are you saying that sound stages don't use steel in the concrete floor? That seems very odd, since concrete has very little strength without steel reinforcement.

I'd be happy to be wrong. Time will tell. For future reference, though, if you want to advertise your project, put it in the classifieds and nobody will say anything. Welcome to IndieTalk. I look forward to your contributions! Doug

Regarding character development, I suggest that you simply use google to research "character development" (put it in quotes), or ask a writer. I am not a writer. I don't write. I don't develop characters. I just know it's important. Sorry, it's not my field. :)

I'm afraid there is also a language and a cultural barrier in this case. Although I too feel you push too hard, to the point of being rude, I understand that we come from different cultures and English is not your native language. I try to see your intent, rather than your words. However, you...