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Amazon is strictly on-line, and every retailer keeps part of the purchase price. Here's the deal with DVD reproduction. To have a high quality, long lasting DVD, you must have your DVD stamped from a glass master (generally called "replication", or "manufacturing"), which is different and...

Your microphone is probably mono, but that really doesn't matter. You can add an extension to your mic cable, but don't do any longer than you need to, because the cable will act like an antenna. The longer the cable, the more electrical noise (usually a 60 Hz hum) it will pick up. Keep the...

Congratulations, Spinner. That has to be a great feeling. Doug

Stores are definitely NOT supposed to make copies of the DVDs. That would be rather difficult for them, since they'd have to recreate all of the packaging, etc. ... not to mention the fact that it would be illegal! The distributor sets the wholesale price for the DVD, and the suggested retail...

I can add one more thing to Clive's detailed sound tutorial. By using the unidirectional microphone and holding it above the actor, pointed downward, you avoid pointing the mic towards other sources of sound/noise. Essentially, the microphone is pointed at the ground. It can also work to have...

First the easy answer; sound blankets can be anything, anywhere that dampen sound reflections. If the room has a hard floor, you may need to put some on the floor. You could hang them around the actor. They can be made of any sound absorbing material. Any soft material is better than a hard...

I think wood would be very heavy, unless it was a very short boom pole.

There are at least 2 features of a boom pole that are functionally important; 1) weight --- holding a microphone out on a heavy pole for a long time is torture; even a light pole can be painful after a period of time 2) you need some kind of shock mount to isolate the microphone from the pole...

Congratulations to you, your crew, and your talent. That's quite an accomplishment.

Your lighting did work for what you were doing. I also understand that your situation was pretty extreme. If you could shoot at dusk or early in the morning, so you could take advantage of some natural fill, that would be great. Otherwise, a low-key flood fill would do the same thing, but I...

I understand. What makes me sad is that we haven't moved past all of this, already. I've seen some progress in my lifetime, but most of it is superficial. :( I will be shooting a movie this fall for a black producer. If you have your festival again next year, maybe I can talk the producer...

If your formats are open ended then you'll need a Mac Pro with about 4GB of RAM for starters (any current model would be sufficient). Don't forget to budget for software. You'll probably want Final Cut Suite and Adobe After Effects or Shake. You don't have to buy everything. You can rent big...

I found this site on the downanddirtydv.com blog. The URL is http://filmspecific.com/ , it's a premium membership site, but it looks like it has lots of really solid distribution related information, including hard, cold numbers. Everyone loves to write articles with lots of general...

That looks like an interesting site. If enough content producers were willing to make content available for an unspecified amount of ad revenue (50/50 could be 50% of nothing), it could reach critical mass. Otherwise, it's hard to break the hegemony of YouTube. I would be interested in...

p.s. For balancing color between cameras, it might serve you well to record 10 seconds or so of a white card, or something white, with both cameras, in the same light and at about the same time. Later, you can use the color corrector to match the two images to each other. Then you'll have the...

Just be sure your XL-2 is configured to record audio at 48kHz (2 channels). Then select the correct Easy Setup and you should be fine. If you weren't using a second camera and mixing the footage, I'd tell you to use the 24p and shoot at 1/48 second shutter speed to pull in a little more light...

It looks like the lighting worked for what you were doing, although the lights were a little too hot when you got too close to them. The continuity was good, the blood looked pretty good, and the camera work was quite watchable. Now, lets get a little more of a story! Doug

Wideshot is right about leaving the extra audio tracks for syncing. You can use the waveforms to visually align them based on noticeable beats. You will need to click on your sequence (click on it in the browser window - the one in the upper left of your screen, generally), then select...

In FCE, if you want to select just the audio track for deletion, turn off the audio lock. I need a screenshot for this. It's one of the two gadgets that is in the upper right corner of the timeline window. It's the one to the left of the two. If you turn it off, you can select audio and...

I'm not sure how you edit in FCE, but if you drag clips into the canvas, so they get inserted or overwritten in the timeline, you can separate the audio targets in the time line by dragging them to the left. Once you've done that, you'll only get video. Otherwise, just put both video tracks in...