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Originally posted by U.S.Amateurfilmaker The RIAA is a load of cr**. You're telling me that when I put music in a wedding video that I make for somecody, I have to buy some bajillion dollar license from the record company? What the hell?!!! :o Then how do other video agencies do it without running ...

Originally posted by BrownCowStudios As long as you're not selling it or making a profit, it's perfectly alright to uise copywritten music. Just as a precaution, I would mention them in the credits. I always do anyway... As an additional thought on this, selling or making aprofit has nothing to do ...

Originally posted by U.S.Amateurfilmaker By music industry standars, probably no, but if you have the CD, its your song, so why not use it for your own purposes? Everything should be fine unless you go to sell it (which you already said you won't). No, it's not OK to use it legally without a synchr...

And make sure your actor knows where to hit the board, you will need some studs to support the boards at the seams at least, after you tape and compound the seams, and apply paint it might be a bit difficult to see where to hit it, so good marks are important. Not a good idea to run studs every 16 i...

Originally posted by Eim3r
does anyone know how much it hurts to be slammed through dry wall?

Score the back, and use 3/8 inch drywall, and the fall to the floor will hurt muchmore....

[Edited on 22-9-2003 by Raptor]

Originally posted by TommyPollock I don't mean to be rude or anything, but as I already said: I am using an ANALOGUE camera, and the RCA plugs do not go into my sound card. I need an RCA to Minijack connector. Anyway, I have bought the device. I really hope its good, and if its not, well, I was sil...

Originally posted by CamClub The parallel port option is probably the worst one you could take because the data transfer rate is about the slowest you can get - very old technology! USB is way better than parallel. Firewire is better than USB. PCI is the best, because whatever you run off it, reall...

Originally posted by CamClub You can get 12V portable halogen flood-lamps that run off a car battery, it's easy to set up an array of these. They normally go for sale here from car auto-parts stores for about £10 each. You can then mount the array onto a tripod - Ideal for filming outdoors where...

We have generally used an old tripod ( or you can just go buy Lower end pods) as a light stand. As far as heads, make a trip to your local home improvement center and check out the halogen 12V garden light bulbs. You will need to also find a couple of bases for the lamp style you choose. If vented p...

Originally posted by safadez I have about 20 hours of video currently in Giga Pocket format (a specialized form of mpg). The project I'm working on is archiving a TV series that hasn't been released on DVD (about 8 episodes per disc). I'd like to have them in chronologic order, which means I have t...

Originally posted by 2nd_Recon The problem with the picture two posts up is the barrel is way too wide. Real sniper rounds are barely larger than regular rifle rounds. They focus more on aerodynamics and punture wounds than mutilation. In short, for Gun Illiterates, Sniper = Tiny hole all the way t...

Originally posted by CamClub Yeah, but one thing for it - You didn't get all the viruses that MS outlook gets because it used it's own front-end mail software, although that sucked because you couldn't import address lists! Man this new broadband connection is great! Get Pegasus Mail for you rPOP3/...

Originally posted by CamClub It helps to defregment the drive say once a fortnight, depending on how much useage your PC gets. Leave it defragmenting overnight, say on a Sunday, so you don't have to worry about it. One thing to watch for - You should close as many programs running int he background...

Originally posted by bokasen Hey Guys, I recently bought Panasonic DV Cam NV-DS65 and was transferring video to my notebook using Win XP Movie Maker and via USB port and notice the quality of transferred video is very POOR. As suggested in the forum, I have to use Firewire port--however, my noteboo...

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Originally posted by BrownCowStudios But wait, this is for a movie. So what would the round be? I figured there had to be something that makes it combust. But what to use for a round... err... yeah. Sorry for all the questions, I just like to have the knowledge! :) Take a tip from re-enactors, a pa...

Originally posted by Lorenzo_amateur_prods huh? im sure kerosine is unsed in aircraft? Nope, it's generically called kero by the fuelies, but aviation fuel for a propellor aircraft is high octane gas, jets use JP# depending on the type of engine, much LIKE kerosene but cracked at a higher temperatu...

Originally posted by ju88a Camclub if you use raid I'm afriad it will only give you 120gig not 240gig. It works by copying the same data to each drive making it easier to recover software if one drive goes down. REaid level 1 will mirror the drives, and yes 2 120 GB drives will be 120GB with an exa...

Originally posted by bangoker Hey, remember I said I'm getting Microsoft's Blue mouse (optic/inalambric), well, i've just saw LOGITECHS one, an it looks a bit simpler, but is also inalambric ad optic, and costs a lot less. I know microsoft has a good reputiation in this kind of devices, but so does...

Originally posted by foxwood
Who uses this great under rated program?

I've just started playing with it. Looks like a nice program for cutting and seems to render pretty quickly, and appears to have decent quality MPeg rendering. But I've only spent 20 or 30 minutes with it so far.

Originally posted by BrownCowStudios Whatever you do, make sure you light the greenscreen evenly (obviously). On top of that, make sure you light your actors with photofloods. If you can, go with HMI's, but since you can't afford a helicopter scene, then you definetely won't be able to afford an HM...

Originally posted by foxwood
I was looking at this program and I want ya'll opintion on it. It looks rather cool to me, and I played with the demo and its rather neat.

How about a link fotr it?

Originally posted by foxwood You say we spend a fourtun, how much does Final Cut cost? Way to damn much. "Final Cut Pro 4.0 $999.00 Whether you work in film, HD, SD, or DV, Final Cut Pro 4 has the creative tools, professional features, and flexibility to meet the grueling demands of the post-p...

The best resolution we can capture analog at is 320x240, the fire wire cap gives us 720 x 480 with zero dropped frames... Three port firewire card from TCWO in Orlando FL is $21.00, cables are $4.00 Just as an update, I updated the Radeon drivers yesterday and now get full 720x480 analog caps... hu...

Originally posted by Necromantia OK, what i would like to do is set up my camcorder so it will record whats on my computer screen, i have tried just pointing it at the screen then shooting, but you get all those lines etc, so what i would like to do is plug it into the computer (somehow) and let it...