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For the movie The MAnson Family theres a documentary on how they made it and it shows the director taking an egg and hollowing it out and filling it with blood. he used this instead of a squib and just threw it as an actor. in the movie with the quick cutting it seemed to work well. Has anyone tried...

i have pinnacle studio 8 i was wondering how i could show some thing in reverse....let me know thanks

Right now i have pinacle 8 and it is drivning me insane

what is the best editing software out there and that causes the least amount of problems


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this will sound wierd but use deli meats for chunks to hang off...have like torn up chunks of thin sliced turkey and have fake blood over the torn part of the arm and the meat and it will look like torn muscle and stuff

you should get a strobe light

What should i use that could be inhaled/snorted??????????

Hey i was wondering if this could work. i want to make a scene where i break a guys fourarm, do you think if i took one of those fake rubber arms or even made one out of laytex and put one or two thin pieces of balsa wood in th middle of the arm when i slamed the arm on the edge of a table or someth...

im not really sure if this should be under special effects but.....i ws wondering if any of yous guys have had people in your movies use drugs in any scene...if you have what did you use for the drugs...i wanna know for any kinda drug also i wanna know how i can have a scene where a guy is shooting ...

If any of you have see John Woo's A Better Tomarow there is a scene where Chow Yun Fat is getting beauten and when he takes a hit to the face blood just rushes out of his nose how can i do this??????????

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where do yous guys find out or wher do you hear about the contest for like 90 second shorts or any kind of film contest????????

Maybe this would work better, i dont remember where i found it but... How to make a safe fireball explosion This method of making a pretty impressive looking fireball is unique because it does NOT use any explosives whatsoever. (The fireball is real however and you can get badly burnt from it). Howe...

ok i founbd it it is called ROLL

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do any of yous know how to do rolling credits in pinnacle8

HELLO In the movie Requium For A dream if any of you have seen it there are parts where that camera is looking at a person and it looks as if your looking at the actor through a bubble or even a peephole in a door, how can i do that effect, i have a digital camera....also there are scenes in the mov...

hey im gonna be doing a movie that is set inside of a small takeout resaurant and we are changing it to a small donut shop. It is set in the day but the only time we can shoot inside is at night...how could i make it look like its day from the inside????

i live in New York

pov is a point of view

Hey if anyone has seen Naturall Born Killers, the opening scene in the restaurant how did they do the bulllet pov and have it stop infront of the guys face. Also how did they have the knife pov with it spining. If anyone knows how they did it let me know

ok ill try a toy one and i'll try to ease up on the ??

Does anyone have any idea on how to build a realistic pumpaction shotgun....king of like the ak47 page but just for a shot gun?????????

why is paint not that good to use

unfortunatly i dont have photoshop

can you do muzzle flashes in pinnacle

about how much is photoshop premiere or final cut

well i want to be able to put in muzzle flashes

yo im looking for a good but cheap special effects software what would you suggest?