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Ummm I wouldn't buy the kit to get the ignitors, since the ignitors are a one use item You can buy the ignitors seaprate from the engines for a couple of bucks for like 6 - 10...

I'm glad D-T-T has such confidence in the local constabulary - Fortunately I don't.. having had local PD officer pull a gun on me, while I was working on an alarm system, in an alarm company uniform, ten feet from an alarm company truck, in a factory parking at 4:30 PM while several hundred people w...

With or without ear protection DO NOT FIRE A BLANK GUN AT ANYONE!!! Blanks have some type of 'plug' at the end of the cartridge and can expel that plug with extreme velocity, causing serious injury. Blank firing guns are NOT toy guns, and should be treated witht he same respect as any firearm.

In the display properties you should show two monitors, configure it there..... XP supports dual monitors and will see the TV as a second monitor...

Just an off the wall idea, shoot the keyhole, zoom in on it, eventually stop short, overlay this over your room video, key out the keyhole, then use Premiere's tranform to continue to zoom 'thru' the keyhole similar to this effect only in reverse http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_star...

You need to lean a few things from books... such as jump-cuts and why to avoid them, that way you know when to use the occasional jump for effect, how long is the minimum time it takes an average human to absorb a scene, in the news biz we figure a minimum of 10 seconds, 12-15 is better if it is a c...

Even tho I currently shoot DV on a JVC, go with the panny, Panasonic has generally better optics, I have seceral Panny Super-VHS cams that produce excellent results despite their age.

If you are shoting DV then get a firewire PCMCIA card for the card bus slot of the laptop.....

The processor speed refers only to the number of clock ticks the processor generates in a given second, not really the processing speed of the chip. One of these days the manufaturers will use a real standard like MIPS ( millions of instructions per second) An instruction will consume multiple clock...

Other than color saturation, and losing some digital relics in extremely low light situations, the diff between a 3-CCD and a good single ccd are not all that great. The single, if shot right, will give almost imperceptible differences in most cases. The three CCD will make it easier to produce qual...

The Wrigley Video site has some great tutorials for premiere, even some 'old hands' can pick up some gems of ideas...

Here's a Tutorial on how to do this in Adobe Premiere...
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutori ... orpass.htm

Check for more details about both rigs. A couple of things to look for 1) Not just manual focus, but also manual white balance and manula iris(exposure) 2) Some manual shutter settings... (1/60 in the US will allow you to film monitors/TVs without the annoying line running thru it on video) 3) Batte...

The low end dazzle cards might not have quite the quality you are looking for, particularly the USB versions. I've used the dazzle 80, and it tends to drop a lot of frames and will only cap at 32x240 at 29.7fps. Dazzle has a higher thruput device that uses Firewire but runs about $199.00.

Well like so many questions here, the easiest way is to go to google and search on something like "star wars costume" which returns a ton of pages like http://www.jedi-academy.com/lightsabermain.html and http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/swampthing/97/ and http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/b...

Right click the clip -> video options -> field options or you can always try help -> search -> deinterlace.....

Originally posted by Epsilon Make sure your capture settings for premiere are correct. Sounds to me like that is the problem. There is a manual for a reason! Actually, Raptor just explained it out. Oh wait... I remember now, make sure you have the latest update for your capture driver! That was a m...

Premiere will capture analog very well. Just make sure you adjust the capture settings to use the appropriate input. Also do not select a DV as the project type, select Video for windows. The input selection settings are nder project -> project settings ->capture. It will do a much better job of cap...

Ummmm we've done something similar in a gag we edited for a friend, turn the camera sideways, shoot the background, then shoot the actor on blue screen and lay it over, we did the opposite here to get the effect where Stacy walks in from the top of the frame... the whole concept won't make much sens...

Work through some of the tutorials at the blender site, it will start to make sense....

Originally posted by Adam Yes afraid so all the programs you have will need to be 64bit versions too work properly. At the moment 64 bit processors are being mainly used for servers and alike. Not quite right, the AMD 64 maintains backward compatibility with the x86 32 bit instruction set. Itanium ...

Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000 does a lot more than just fill in the names, and smart guess what the next element will be it also does script analysis, scene analysis and will even read the script back to you. Also allows you to hilite dialoge for just one character. Lots of little goodies you don't ...

Another idea would be to export the frame as an image, then import the image and stretch that clip, might be more stable than having Premiere hold on the frame..

Try deinterlacing the clip before outputting to tape, the TV will be scanning as interlaced, the monitor is probably showing it as noninterlaced... of course may not do a bloddy thing either but worth a try..

If you have the musket, just use the blackpowder charge. The smoke cloud from a musket is much bigger than a muzzle flash... just make blank paper cartridges with a charge recomended for the weapon..