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- Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:57 am
- Forum: Sound Effects
- Topic: copyright question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3301
copyright question
Is it legal to use parts of a speech of say a former US president in a movie? Since it's a public speech, I guess it should be legal, right? Like eg. this speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, including his famous conclusion about the military/industrial complex: ftp://webstorage2.mcpa.virginia.edu/librar...
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:31 am
- Forum: Video Editing
- Topic: Dr Green 2.0 released
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4309
Dr Green 2.0 released
Some days ago I released the latest version of Dr Green, the freeware compositing software that can do some sort of spill suppression. So if your software offers only real bad greenscreening, it may be useful. For me this was a great programming experience since I have just implemented my very first...
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:17 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Temple 3D Animation test
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15339
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:56 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: How can I improve these muzzle flashes?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4251
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:54 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: masking help
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7504
- Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:39 am
- Forum: Video Editing
- Topic: slow motion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6613
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:39 am
- Forum: Video Editing
- Topic: slow motion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6613
Some days ago I used to release a little tool that I use myself that is capable of doing some things many Editors cannot do. It allows to split the interlaced fileds into 2 progressive frames (well pseudo-progressive) and to add crossfaded tweenframes. It's a simple commandline driven exe. Neverthel...
- Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:03 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Need your Help!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5541
Wait a minute, maybe I drop this whole Scene. So stop working on this if you already started. The reason why is: the support for this idea, in this forum as well as in my neigbourhood and in my Actors relationships and enviroments is so very weak that I may have to drop the whole thing. Problably I ...
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Need your Help!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5541
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:12 am
- Forum: Stunts, Physical Effects & Props
- Topic: Flickering Lights
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3969
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:03 am
- Forum: Stunts, Physical Effects & Props
- Topic: Post your Armory!
- Replies: 201
- Views: 537198
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:41 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: I have a greenscreen question
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5622
Yes, scaling down will give you a better matte line. Of course, you cannot scale everything down. Especially not when your garage is small. Scaling may also mess up interlacing. Deinterlacing will blur the picture, but since you scale it down, this doesn't matter that much. The best solution that I ...
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:13 am
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Need your Help!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5541
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:10 am
- Forum: Soundtracks
- Topic: composer looking for some work
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5205
well there's a lot of royalty free movie soundtrack. eg. from www.sounddogs.com . some of it is even recorded with the london symphony orchestra. It's very good music. the only con is: other movies will maybe use it too.
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:37 am
- Forum: Stunts, Physical Effects & Props
- Topic: Flickering Lights
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3969
There's this starter thingy in fluorescent neon ceil lamps. You know this little barrel-shaped part with two metal contacts on top. simply let the electricity (220 Volts) go trough it, it will create randomly flickering lights. You can combine multiple lamps (each one with its own starter) to get a ...
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:25 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: dragon thing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1508
RE: dragon thing
bird_bird....dragon_.VSP - what video format is that? My machine cannot handle it. I'd suggest to use .WMF, .MOV or .AVI with a common codec.
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:15 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: I have a greenscreen question
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5622
Hi. In fact your question about analog and digital cameras is a very important question! If you have a good analog camera, use that one for greenscreening! This is the reason why: MiniDV Cameras will store their movies in the formats 4:2:0 (PAL) or 4:1:1(NTSC). This means, for a block of 4 pixels th...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:49 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Looking for the BEST muzzle flash
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2791
my opinion is - don't worry too much about muzzle flashes, in most movies they are totally exaggerated. Like Stargate SG1 with a muzzle flash like a flamethrower for a 9mm gun. I mean how silly is that. Ok, when the scene plays at night then you need to add a little flash. When it's daytime, then do...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Need your Help!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5541
Thanks a lot. Basicly the movie is in swiss language. There will be a version with english subtitles. Maybe we gonna synchronize it with english text. Nevertheless I hope to get some help of you guys, since this is an international moviemaker forum and it won't make you a lot of work. I really need ...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:07 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Need your Help!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5541
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:00 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: LCD -vs- CRT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5584
I think you need to test your video on a range of display devices, including a common cheap and small TV to make sure it's still looking ok. There are some things yu should put on your checklist: -CRT Screens tend to overblend titles with strong contrast, While white titles on a black background are...
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:32 pm
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: working title DNA - wip...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3177
RE: working title DNA - wip...
I need some help, please read here:
http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8301
http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8301
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:23 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Need your Help!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5541
Need your Help!
EDITED: It is very likely that this Community Project is no longer active, due to the reasons explained in one of my posts below (scroll to bottom). The inital Idea was: ------------------ Hi. I am currently working on a short action movie project, working title DNA ( http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/fo...
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:59 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: LCD -vs- CRT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5584
I don't know if it was said: Make sure the refresh rate is 16.65 milliseconds or lower! If it is higher, it won't be able to display NTSC correctly. Recently there are very fast LCD displays, with 4 or less ms. Also, if you buy a resolution that is higher or the same as HDV (1440), you'll be able to...
- Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:06 am
- Forum: Stunts, Physical Effects & Props
- Topic: is the spas12 good looking in real life?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11574