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It’s amazing the quality of lenses these days at the price. A prosumer camera like the ones you’re taking about, the most expensive piece is the lens. Almost everything else is cheap plastic. They are really high quality for the resolution and price. Of course they pale in comparison to a...

Okay, let’s do the math. http://www.jvc.com/product.jsp?modelId=MODL027123&page=2 JVC GR-D93US 1.33MP = 1,330,000 pixels. 1/4" ccd http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=NavBar&A=getItemDetail&Q=&sku=276565&is=REG&si=spec#goto_itemInfo Panasonic PV-GS70 460,000 per ccd * 3 ccd =...

Oh, yeah, on vertical scrolls, be careful of interlace flicker with small font sizes. Also, because of contrast bleed, if they’re white titles on a black background, either reduce the white so it is off white/grey or make sure the font has a transitional pixel around the edge so you don’t get...

Free: it depends, if it was a major motion picture with Renee Zellweger I’d be her fluffer for free. For indies, I might do some editing or After Effects work. I’m more concerned if the project really interests me. Even a little pay is always better than free. Location: Raleigh, NC...

Copyright is better than WGA (and it cost about the same), as arniepix said, and just as clive stated, the rights are all in the paperwork. Also, it’s a negotiation. From a producer’s point of view, you never know what you get by asking, so many will start by asking for the moon and work back...

I assume you’ve created the titles in a text layer already. You have to treat the titles as an object and manipulate the position with keyframes. For instance if you want to have a vertical scroll, at the starting point on the timeline, click on the name of the layer and press P to open the...

Does anyone have a tape catalog template for Excel or something?

It’s not an entire loss. First, that’s a good camera, and PAL has a higher resolution than NTSC. However, PAL records at slower frame rate then NTSC (based on the power system in Europe). The good news is that computers can play either format. Adobe Premiere will allow you to edit in either...

Yeah, exactly. Don’t forget though that zooming into a subject changes the relationship of how it looks compared to the background. For instance, if you have a subject standing in front of a building that’s far behind him/her with a wide-angle lens, and the camera is placed far from the...

“There may be many reasons to use higher quality lenses, but increasing/decreasing DOF is not on of them” While technically there are only two things that affect DOF (focal length and aperture), cheap lenses like those found on almost every pro-sumer camcorder have poor optics compared to more...

arniepix, I am so glad you said what you said, but I’m still surprised that no one has mentioned how unrealistic the 1:1 ratio is. It also defeats the entire point of shooting on film. Why not just do a play? Besides you’re not going to get 1:1. Since you’re using 35, you’d have to have a...

good article. I especially like this quote, "Bigger numbers mean there is less light reaching the sensor (f/11, f/16, f/22) and smaller numbers mean there is less light reaching the sensor (f/5.6, f/4, f/2)." While this has some interesting ideas, the article prompted me to look through my ACC...

Hey hey. Just got a light meter, and I was wondering, does anyone know the effective iso of a Canon XL1 (not XL1s)?

Would you be interested in producing a segment for our video magazine? We need interesting interviews and entertainment segments like cooking, workout routines, music videos, etc. Just run ideas past me first and I’ll tell you if it’ll work. It has to loosely fall into the category of...

I just bought a kit so it’s a little late to ask for opinions, but has anyone used the wamcards (http://www.warmcards.com)? They look like the effect is similar to a Tiffen 812 filter or a FL-D.

this same question was asked just four hours before. see http://indietalk.com:/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1619

Filters are cool. I’m getting all mine as screw-on type with a couple of stack caps so I don’t have to carry around all those damn plastic round boxes the filters come in or a separate filter box. My camera has a single density ND filter built in (it looks like a .3 or a .6 but it doesn’t say...

Just ask and honestly answer their questions. That's how I get all my locations for free.

Be careful about classical music because while the composition may be public domain, the actual performance and master recording may be covered under copyright. For instance, if the New York Symphony records a Bach piece in 2000, the recording of that performance won’t fall into the public...