MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Do you mean Pinnacle Studio or Pinnacle Edition? If it´s Studio, you may as well go with Premiere, as programs like Pinnacle Studio rarely change for the better when it gets an upgrade...

That's what I thought (I think), ... for example when going around the singer, they just put a mask around him to see the new person behind? Hmm, I guess they would have had the camera on a system so that it could be filmed again with the camera doing the exact same movement? Kinda confusing lol. :...

Hmm, looks like they had: - Video 1 of Keane singing / whatever the object passing the camera is, with a person in the background. The camera pans past Keane / whatever. - Video 2 of Keane / whatever with a different person in the first persons place, with the camera panning the same. Then they just...

This depends on your camera. Choose the DV - NSTC folder if your camera is an NSTC camera. Use the DV - PAL folder if your camera is a PAL camera. If your video was shot 'normally' in a TV 3:4 aspect ratio, choose Standard (32kHz and 48kHz is the audio quality; check your camera's manual to check th...

I've recently come across a free word processor that is made for writers...just change it to screenplay mode and the formatting is as easy as hell to do. Press tab to get the right name indentation, then press enter. The margins are all set up for the dialogue!

http://www.rsalsbury.co.uk/rd.htm

I've tried connecting from PC to my cam via firewire, then from the cam to the TV using standard analogue cables...didn't work out well, as my computer and TV are on oposite sides of the room! :P Also I think you can get small preview monitors made for computers that have FireWire input ports on the...

Yeah, ive seen some flash paper tricks. You can get flash paper envelopes too...this guy put a fiver in the envelope, and set light to it! And, well, cos its flash paper, the fiver returned unharmed

Uhm, anyone know why that link always takes me to PaysForSurveys.com?

Uhm, that link takes me to PaysForSurveys.com :S

That was grrreat! I've watched the Sky News part about 20 times now...
And what is he saying on the rioting thing? it sounds like "animals shat their faces!" maybe its cos its half 11pm and im a little tried.

You can buy actual underwater camera covers kinda cheap if you wanna be safe I'll have to find some links, i saw an article in a movie makers magazine

either a Vietnam movie (aint seen any good ones of them), or modern day

Woah, that was great! I see you revamped the sound effects And I think there were one or two more bits added

Great job! Can't wait for ADII!

I've heared of that from...uh...oh yeah, Bowling for Columbine. That was the book though, not the movie. Sounds interesting, ill have to look out for dat

Good ol' Notepad and IE (for checking work). I'm starting to use HTML-Kit that colour codes the code, and helps form more complex tags. I hate using WYSIWYG editors though, cos you open up the HTML to change something and you have to crawl through 20 lines of crud! MSWord is a good example of that

If you have some MIDI-editing software and a sound card that isn't updated by 10 years there should be a MIDI voice called 'Choir' (or something similar) Just play that on some notes of a minor key (if you have music lessons you should know about that, if not, ask your music teacher/someone who play...

You can get prank cigarettes that glow and spurt out 'smoke' (a black powder in it), but you can't inhale with them...or you could be getting yourself a trip to the hospital!

Ihave a MV550i, a very similar camera...and the low-light does suck, having red and green pixels all over your footage isnt helping anyone! Switching to 'Night' or 'Low Light' mode should fix this problem, though the exposure might cause the recording to be jerky. I'd still like to be able to film l...

OK, Premiere Pro captures any 16:9 footage on my cam in widescreen automagically, so that gets the job done nicely

you can get a Matrix Code font here. Hey, it's quicker than doing each character by hand! Just turn caps lock on and type like crazy!

Yet again I like the beach sequence in Saving Private Ryan

Please, can people stop making threads about pirated software! If you got it illegaly you dont deserve much help at all!

OK, im calm now.

Sort of, yeah :P I was gonna print out something on my deskjet, and I suddenly heared a loud grinding sound coming from the printer! I cancelled the print job, and had a look inside the printer. Nothing looked wrong, but two of the lights were flashing. I looked o nthe site for what it meant and it ...

Free Capture Software (that I know of):
- Zwei-Stein
- Windows Movie Maker (maybe!)*
- Apple iMovie (maybe?)*

*comes free with Windows 2000+/Mac OSX.


EDIT: Any of these will work with a FireWire device.

If your really concerned (like if you dont know what audience its going to be seen by) you may as well put some sort of warning at the beginning, like "Contains mild language, references to nudity."