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One Model Place had a comment and/or rating system. The trouble is that I don't think anybody posts negative comments, at least partly because the models/actors have a place where they can comment about producers and the producers cannot see what is being said. I think many producers are...

I'm going to say "no", you cannot achieve the same look of 24p @ 1/48 second shutter shot on the camera from something like 60i with 1/60 second shutter. It may be possible, with some sophisticated software, that you can enhance motion blur and reconstruct 24 frames from 60 fields, but it...

p.s. I'll read just about any book, because there is always something there for me to learn. It worries me, however, when the author is covering one of those narrow areas where I have some authoritative knowledge and they get it wrong. I'm a specialist, so there are many many things I don't...

I'm not a good coordinator, so I generally shoot for other people, except when I'm practicing technique or testing equipment. :( I'm working with a producer now on a movie we're hoping to shoot in October; too late for SLIFF. Furthermore, I'll just be that guy in the small print under...

You are correct, Wideshot, in that many of the low budget films (including XXX) are targeting niche audiences. I also think they oversaturate their own markets ... i.e. they are idiots. Rather than turning out what would be a block buster in their corner of the market, they turn out 300 pieces...

Thanks, Wideshot. I'm not confused about the real meaning of "depth of focus", but I was beginning to wonder if it had a 2nd meaning. I'm very happy with "focal distance". I'll be sure to use that term, as I think it is clear and concise. I am losing faith in these authors, though. I wonder...

In a more general sense, the best piece of business advice I ever got (in my opinion) was "You are not in business to make money, you are in business to provide a product or service to your customer. If you focus on providing the best possible product or service, you will make money as a...

If I may speak for Clive; the problem with your question about what is acceptable, legal, etc. is that there are really no clear rules. Art is protected (in the U.S.) as free speech, so if a movie qualifies as art, it can have nudity and some very explicit sexual encounters and it will not be...

Ok, I come from a technical / physics / lens theory background and depth of focus has always had the definition contained in this Wiki entry, to me. The term is useful to people designing cameras, image sensors, lenses, etc., but not to shooters; the way I understand/use it. So here is the...

If you hate iMovie, Final Cut Express is now $200. It's a good deal, if you need more than iMovie offers, but take a good look at iMovie first ... it's more powerful than you might suspect, at first.

Distributors have relationships with large retail outlets. They can definitely get a DVD in more places than I can. The amount the distributor keeps is all part of your distribution deal. In some cases I've heard of, the distributor might pay for the production of the movie. I'm sure they...

Jet, if you're still around, I'd like to add that I won't use any "agency" that doesn't screen applicants and remove the ones who show up late (or not at all) for gigs. The trouble with One Model Place was that new actors signed up all the time and most of them were testing the waters or trying...

It's even better when the movie has it all; a good story, hot women (they don't have to be naked to be an attraction), and some feel-good violence (I'm not much for senseless violence but I was happy to see Biff take a beating in Back to the Future). I admit, I watched "Charlies Angels III...

You're right Vince, of course, but that comment was mostly meant mostly for you. For years I preached that MPEG compression was for final delivery, but now we are using it for acquisition. It truly is a desperate measure that should be avoided when you can afford it. Doug

I reread your posts, Jet. Assuming you are being honest now, you did not technically mislead anyone in your original posts as you did ask "would you pay for this service", rather than "should I pay for this service". However, we all operate under the assumption that you are asking because you...

Ok, from the beginning ... Right click on your finished sequence in the browser window (upper left) in FCE and select "Export" from the popup menu. Pick "Quicktime" from the top of the sub-options under Export. If you have enough disk space, select "make movie self contained", for settings...

How many hours does it store on the hard drive? The consumer camcorders with internal hard drives that I am familiar with use AVCHD compression. They will store about 1.1 hours per 10GB of disk space shooting in high quality mode. The AVCHD compression is an H.264 (MPEG4) compression...

"Lipstick on a Pig", as the expression goes. I was once talking to a guy about marketing a video and his advice to me was to create several identities and go on forums, posting good reviews of my movie and bad reviews of my competition's movies. He said I should have one "real" identity that...

If you are exporting from Final Cut Express, you would want Quicktime Export. Under settings, I think there is an option for DVD. Otherwise, just use full quality. I'm a little confused about what you're running into ... are you dropping your Final Cut project file into iDVD?

iDVD should have a "Save as disk image..." option on the file menu. If you create a disk image of your DVD, you can play it in DVD player to see if you like it. When you speak of "export", that sounds like Final Cut Express, not iDVD. From iDVD, you should just be selecting "Burn DVD" from...