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What digital camera should I shoot my black and white feature on?

I have all these short films that I no longer have the original files for, just the burned DVD for playback. As far as archiving goes.. did I screw up? I want to jump into making a feature but I have this CRAZY fear that it will all be for nothing and years down the line only a degraded copy...

Is it still possible to shoot a feature on black and white film?

I am shooting a movie this june and am wondering how I can acheive the look of december? The story takes place in a smaller, mountain-type of town. I am mostly concerned with the lighting being too bright or too harsh, as when I think of winter in the mountains I see softer lighting, maybe...

I have a story that takes place in a single-story elderly lady's house (and mostly the living room). In the final scene we learn that the main character is insane and that in fact he has been in a dingy apartment the entire time. His mind has been hallucinating that the dingy apartment was a...

I just shot a project on P2 cards on the Panasonic HVX200 and now when I'm trying to download my files into Final Cut 6.0 via Log and Transfer it goes idle. I can play the clip in the viewer, but it won't download, the wheel turns for a second and an orange exclamation mark pops up. I've tried...

I'm trying to find a prop for a checkbook, but oddly enough, no prop stores in the LA area that I've tried seem to have one. In my short film, the character flips through the checkbook looking for something, so you actually see all of the checks, register, deposit slips, etc. I don't want to...

Recording a dialogue, indoors in a house, between two characters having a direct conversation with one another. Small sound budget but want it to sound good. What equipment should I use? Want to connect it to my Panasonic HVX 200 wich I am shooting with.. lavs.. boom? Advice appreciated!

I'm about to shoot a short that entirely takes place in a home office during the day/ dusk. The idea of the film is to show no faces, just hands doing work at the desk and an occasional shot of shoes/ high heels of the character who is at the desk. Except for a couple rare tracking shots into...

So, for reasons pertaining to the difficulties of pre-production and budget restraints, I have a much easier time getting a 35mm lens adapter for a standard def Canon XL-2 than a Hi-Def Panasonic HVX200. This is for a short, 5 minute film, which I will be submitting to film festivals, but which...

Hi, I just finished my first short film shot on HD and I'm trying to figure out the best way to output it in an HD format. Being that I'm festivaling it, I would like to find something I could affordably make several copies of (my budgets not big, in the hundreds of dollars range). I looked...

So I just finished editing my first short film and when I finally burned it to DVD, many of the audio tracks were muffled. I was told this was because some of my audio tracks were mono and that to fix this I needed to copy every mono track and paste it with the 'pan' dragged over to the other...

I need to create a flash from a gunfire. Is there an effect like this already in Final Cut Pro 6 or any way to create it? If not, any good place to download this type of optical effect?

I just finished editing a 10 minute short film and wanted to output the highest quality uncompressed file to save as a back-up for my archive. I tried doing an 'animation' in quicktime movie format, and the resulting file was 30 gb and wouldn't play back without skipping. Is this normal? Is...

Hi, I wanted to record sound FX separately from my camera and wanted to know the cheapest, most effective way to do so. I mostly want to capture sounds in my apartment and neighborhood, ie. dogs barking, water faucet, coffee maker, etc. I have a radio shack voice recording mic that I connected...

I'm directing my first short film and I'm curious as to where I should have the actors look during shot-countershot dialogues. Do they look at the camera? Right above it? Into the distance? The conversation in particular is between two people sitting in the front seat of a car, though they...

I'm filming a scene where a cameraman is shot and falls to the ground with his camera. We see this only through the lens of the camera he is holding (think the end of Blair Witch project), so we, the audience, are made to feel that we fall with him. How can I film this realistically, really...

Low budget short film, and I'm wondering how I can shoot a conversation between two people in the front seats who talk as the car moves. I would like to have one set up seemingly in between them that captures the conversation in your traditional shot-countershot way, plus another set up...

Are there any mounts, like the P+L mount, that allow you to put 35mm film lenses on the Sony FX1 HD? I want to shoot with prime lenses and get around having to use the video lenses that come with the camera. Going for a 'film look'.

I'm shooting a short for viewing primarily on YouTube and short film festivals. I want it to have a 'film look', as they say, so which frame rate would be the best to shoot in in terms of quality and convenience for distribution?