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    Working on an idea for a faux ad for an imaginary product

    I'm not too concerned about someone stealing my idea; I'd love to see where someone else might take it, but I hesitate to put it out in public right away. Suffice it to say I have an idea for a commercial that wouldn't require a lot of actors or special sets, but could be a lot of fun to produce...
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    Moza Air 3-Axis Gimbal

    Has anyone used the Moza Air 3-Axis Motorized Gimbal Stabilizer? B&H has a sale on it and it looks like a pretty capable gimbal. One of the things I like is that it can also be used as a motorized pan-tilt that can be controlled from an app. I'm going to use it with my Lumix G85, which is a...
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    Revisiting this forum after a hiatus

    Hello, again. I used to hang out here, then I decided to focus on other things for a while. I worked with an indie producer/director on one of his projects, and that was an experience, to say the least. I've been working my way back into some professional gigs, lately, but my goal is to produce...
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    WiFi Wilmington Film Convention

    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...
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    for those of you looking for prop guns

    Someone sent this to me. It's a great, educational video. :lol: Office Nerf War Ok, this is just lunacy, and the "cinematography" may not be the greatest, but it's not bad for an office movie. I do feel bad for Harold. Doug
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    depth of focus

    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...
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    filmspecific.com

    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...
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    VKey2f FxPlug vector keyer plug-in (chroma keyer)

    I suppose this is redundant, given how much I've been talking about it, lately. My Quicktime vector keyer (Mac OS X) has gone through a complete rewrite for it's first true release as an FxPlug plug-in. The new plug-in is called VKey2f, because it does all of it's internal processing in high...
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    shooting in a mirror

    Ok, I know it's pretty hard to get a subject in the foreground and also the subject's reflection in the mirror without getting the camera in the shot, so I'm prepared to shoot two separate shots and insert one shot into the "mirror" from the first shot. Furthermore, I am shooting a horror movie...
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    Toshiba is backing down in high def DVD format war

    The news of the day is that, although there has been no official word from them, Toshiba is about to abandon HD-DVD and concede to Blu-Ray. The scales had been tipping in favor of Blu-Ray for some time, with studios, retailers, and even rental houses declaring support for Blu-Ray. Toshiba's...
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    Film Festival, DVD projection

    Ok, don't everyone laugh at me if this is common ... I don't get out much ... I was at a film festival last night where they used a projector to play standard definition DVDs on the big screen ... (I'm an avid kayaker and the festival was hosted by the Neuse River Foundation which I try to...
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    AJ-HDX900, new camcorder from Panasonic

    I just heard about this on the Creative Cow ... this one is on the expensive side, but it has just about everything I've been asking for ... See AJ-HDX900 2/3" CCDs, interchangeable lenses, 3 ND filters, a wide range of recording formats, etc., etc. If the "red" camera doesn't come through...
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    Samson's new H4 "Handy Recorder" (Zoom)

    I was just listening to Mark Wilder from Samson Technologies (www.samsontech.com) talk about Samson's new H4 "Handy Recorder" (Zoom) for $299 on Inside Mac. It has XLR connections, it's totally portable, and it records to XD memory cards. I suggest you check out the web page for details...
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    series "Chad Vader" series

    Has anyone else been following the "Chad Vader" series by Aaron in Madison WI ? I was hooked from the first episode, and the most recent one (episode 4) could be one of the best. I'm not generally one to laugh out loud, but the situations are so ludicrous I can't keep a straight face. You can...
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    watch some editing fun ...

    This forum has been feeling a little down, lately. I decided to do a fun, 30 second edit to cheer myself up. I'm not sure if it will motivate anyone else to edit video, but I find this stuff really fun to edit. I used H.264 compression on this video, so if you don't have Quicktime 7 and a...
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    Chroma-key software for Mac ($59.99) [Vector Keyer]

    Quicktime plug-in that works great for keying DV (4:1:1), or most other digital video. Easy to use. Free downloadable demo available. Mac/Intel version available (by request only until 7/15/2006). I wrote this plug-in. I created it because the best keyer I found for DV was the keyer in...
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