MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Sign up to 3dbuzz.com, then do the first VTM and get a basic knowledge of the user interface first. Dont go straight into modelling tutorials when you dont even know how to rotate an object. Once you do the 1st VTM do the other 3 and then start going to those other websites and trying out the modell...

Alot of the software you have on the list do alot of the same things, some better than others but I think you should stick with After Effects before getting into shake or combustion.

AS DEDFX you would need a camera with variable frame rates to achieve smooth slowmotion. The only camera out there at the moment below $10,000 that can do this is the Panasonic HVX200. It reaches 60 fps and would give you a much better slow motion than a regular camera slowed down below 25%. But if ...

Pros 3ccd and Interchangeable Lenses Real widescreen 24p and many more that I can't think of right now Cons I believe even though it is kinda newish it already is starting to get kind of old, with all the new HD and HDV cameras coming out this year. Maybe you should wait a bit longer and save for th...

I liked it! A few things that could be worked on are the fight parts...a few times the speed of the fights looked a bit slow, maybe you could have a look at this DVD on some tips...http://www.kbproducts.com/ I liked the blood splatter alot, but shouldnt the blood have gone on the other side of the w...

How come you aren't using firewire if you have a pd150?

Sony PD170
Audio Technica 4073a shotgun mic
Miller DS5 Tripod
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
Adobe After Effects 6.5

Yep..PM me with details...will you send to Australia?

Yeah definately look for tutorials on the internet or buy some training DVD's. It would be very hard for someone here to explain how to do it because it is quite a complicated process from rigging your model to eventually animatiing it. A few sites for tutorials and DVD's would be 3d-palace.com, 3db...

That was the first time we had ever done a dolly shot in any of our scenes, so I'm glad it turned out good. In case any of you are interested on how we did it...all we did was put 6 pieces of wood down on the ground, then we got 3 skateboards (mine and friends) and rolled them along the pieces of wo...

First of all I liked the opening music, it went well and opened it nicely. I liked the acting, editing and the camera work was well done. I thought that parts of the film the music was nice but other parts the music was too loud and the voices are a bit hard to hear. There is one part where he is si...

ct_bullet we actually filmed a little bit more for this test explaining what he was steeling, but seeing as it only was a test I just left it how it was. This scene also relates a bit to the one I posted here a week ago, the guy in the clip needed money, he waited til his friend left the house and s...

Hello again, Yep you guessed it, another little test scene. Seeing as it's hoilidays over here we have alot of spare time... so most of the time we are just filming these little tests for practice. Once we have a good enough idea we will do a short. Putfile link - http://media.putfile.com/scene Rapi...

Thanks alot everyone.

I think I might elaborate on this scene and make it into a short film after all.

buck_suck I like you images alot...pm me what settings you use for your PD170, or any tips, that would be appreciated.

Actually I didn't colour correct but usually I probably would have. I use a Sony PD170 and only now have I really got a grip on how to use all the camera's maunal functions, so that comment means alot...thanks.

That was very good. The cuts between the close ups and wide angles matched perfectly. The acting was great, too. I noticed there was no background noise, are you using a microphone? The microphone that we used was a shotgun mic that I just recently bought off ebay, the model is the Audio Technica 4...

Hello, Here is a test we did, just filming a scene from a movie that doesnt and won't exist, just a bit of practice. The clip is around 40 seconds and the file is around 4 mb. I uploaded it to both Rapidshare and Putfile..so choose whatever one works for you. http://rapidshare.de/files/8079044/scene...

Hello, Here is a movie that we thought up, filmed and edited all today in the span of a few hours. It was more just for a bit of practice rather than anything serious hence the fact there is pretty much no story. So please download and comment on the filming and editing rather than the story. (To us...

Im looking into buying the DV Rig Pro but I have a few questions to anyone who has used one or owns one. I have a SonyPD170 and just say a few years down the track I sell it and buy a HVX200, will it be compatible with the DV Rig Pro, I would assume so. Also does anybody have a link to footage shot ...

Any excuse for a new camera...well only if you can afford it.

The effects you are trying to achieve are only going to look good if use higher end programs other than Premiere. Premiere is for editing and even if you could do it in there, the results wouldn't be decent. There may be some free programs out there that can give ok results which im sure someone els...

Yeah I tried the Camera on two seperate pc's, both didn't work.

Im taking the camera tomorrow to be repaired, thanks again for the help, finally I will be able to capture and edit video again.

Also is there anything I can do to stop this from happening again?

I don't think that effect can be done in Premiere Pro but if you have Adobe After Effects it can be done easily.

Thanks alot for the reply. Do you no what would be involved when getting the camera fixed, can it be fixed?

So that would mean anything I connected to the computer via firewire would have been destroyed, maybe thats why my external hard drive stopped working to.

The other day I bought a new firewire card and installed it properly, XP recognised it and everything worked well until I plugged the camera in and nothing happened, so it wasn't the firewire card. So then I came to the conclusion that it was the camera so I tried it with my friends camera and my ol...