MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

To clarify

XM1 = GL1
XM2 = GL2
XL1 = XL1
XL1S = XL1S

Sorry, haven't got any horror stories since I switched from the dark side about 5 years ago

(couldn't resist saying that!)

Nothing official has been announced by Canon, but the educated guess at the moment is August 2004 for an XL2 debut.

There is a ton of speculation here.

The XM2 gets a higher raiting than the XM1 prob because it's easier to use and smaller and lighter for the same quality. The XM1 gives you more manual control with functions such as being able to play with the appature and you can connect proper movie and TV lenses to it. As a side note, in the UK ...

Not sure what NLE you're using but if it supports Photoshop transparency that would be a better way of doing it (just have the background transparent, rather than key it out).

I would love to shoot 35mm, but I'd have to con a lot of money out of someone for the film stock and post production, which would have to include a transfer to digital so I could edit that way. I would also try and hire a professional Director of Photography, so it wasn't a complete waste of time

Not much detail on the page about this camera, but I'll say this: My first MiniDV was a little 3CCD Panasonic that looked a bit like this one funnily enough. I bought it five years ago and I have knocked it around to hell and back. Aside from a little wobble on the LCD hinge it still works perfectly...

You have the benefit of knowing someone who owns one, so play around with his and see if you like it, that's probably the best way to tell if it is going to be any good, and you can always attach a cheap shotgun mike to the top to improve the sound (I'm assuming it has an accessory bracket). It's 1C...

Nuts! I'm a huge Charmed fan but I can't play WMV files. Any chance of a Quicktime file?

Some use Final Cut Pro because it's a lot cheaper than high-end Avid systems, and is capable of handling film (even coordinating recutting of negatives) and fancy new HD stuff too. Steven Soderbergh did a film with FCP recently (can't remember it's name unfortunately), the film Intolerable Cruelty w...

Me too

Or me! Final Cut Express should handle everything you want to do if you're a DV/firewire based film-maker like most people here. It has most of the major features of Final Cut Pro, but is DV only (FCP can handle pretty much any format), and doesn't do any of the realtime stuff FCP does (which you pr...

I have heard GL2 owners rave about their cameras. My XL1 (also Canon) has never let me down.

Great website here: GL2 Watchdog, sadly not updated that often but lots of GL2 info.

The E in EMac stands for EDUKASHUN :D It's great because schools can get them even cheaper still, which means DV editing for the masses! (When I was doing all this film stuff in college, we had a horrible massive arrangement of broken old CRT monitors, SVHS and Umatic decks, a big rusty controller, ...

Originally posted by death to traitors if a kid gets shot by a cop he deserved it! you dont have to worry about dieing when you are in the middle of a street with fake guns and cameras and and taping Hmm. I'm not sure what you're so p*ssed off about, but a lot of people in this thread have given go...

The UK Apple site should be http://www.apple.com/uk/ PLEASE everyone let's not turn this thread into another Mac vs PC debate (I had a premonition). I KNOW most of you use PCs, don't want to switch, have a lot invested in PC software etc. etc. But for anyone starting out it DV filmmaking who doesn't...

Originally posted by cjl467
i have shot with an xl1 and it looks sooo artificial, its way overrated, and it's not hand held.

Well you know what they say about bad workmen!

How is it not hand-held? It has two separate grips, which makes it twice as hand-held as regular cameras!

Door number 3!

Big-flippin-expensive 35mm film cameras with lifelike image reproduction and depth of field.

There are some articles here and other places on achieving the film look with DV, but you will never quite get as good as real 35mm. Ah well.

Yes, you guessed it.

This one is pretty interesting too.

If you do rent it, let me know what you think of the editing

Originally posted by U.S.Amateurfilmaker Exactly. You have to press control while you click in order to get the equivilent of a "right click" menu on a PC. Steve Jobs really makes me wonder sometimes. Well, that settles it, I'm converted. That's like that crazy BMW 7 series that makes you...

Sorry Tony, I haven't used one... one thing that sticks out to me is that the Elura 50 is a 3CCD camera and the Optura 20 is a 1CCD camera. The Elura has a separate CCD for Red, Green and Blue, which gives better colour depth in your picture. This may or not be important to you depending on the sort...

Which is why I pointed out that iMovie is free, whereas on a PC you would have to pay (probably more than the $25 for Quicktime Pro) for a decent editor.

Originally posted by foxwood ...and have never used imovie, almost got to but unforchetly Imovie can not import clips off the harddrive, so I couldn't use it to edit the angloge video that I had shot and captured, but my PC programs could......:D Actually iMovie can import quicktime files in the DV...

Originally posted by slimdog55 I know it doesn't come with a LCD screen. Who cares. Can't you connect a little external LCD screen via RCA ports? Thats what I would do. And what do you mean it shoots in Widescreen without the black bars? Is there a way you can put the black bars in? I mean it shoot...