MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

if your gonna go from a man looking, to the object hes looking at, i would say a fade is unnessesary - just use a straight cut! 90% of all the fancy transistions are never actually used in professioanl productions unless they convey a specific meaning. If you watch any news reel or film, they will u...

so its out of divx and wmv. but i dont see either as an option in premiere!! There is the premiere MPEG exporter, then in the movie exporet dialogue, the file type drop down list has DV AVI, AVI, Quicktime, animated gif, filmstrip, flc, and some picture sequences (bmp, tiff ...). Does this mean I ne...

Hey guys. I am making my first film, called 'Enter The Eunoch' It is a comedy-martial-arts-spoof! The filming is going very slowly because the actors, well some of them are very unreliable and just dont turn up :( also continuity will become an issue as the we started in spring and the next scenes w...

insert .... have you seen his latest lightsaber battle clip - ryan vs dorkman??? its awesome!!! check it out... anyway - what you call 'simple stuff' - at the end of the day you must know how long it would have taken him to make that clip - keying in all the saber blades and everhting else - that ta...

Originally posted by insert_coin
you mean like this??
http://members.iinet.net.au/~corkill/aa ... p/ball.WMV

did u do that yourself insert? its amazing!! what software did you use...is it easy to learn...and how much does it cost?

thanks

Originally posted by Epsilon Good for you. If it works it works. I still like my bicycle wheel idea better. It can handle faster speeds and rougher terrain. :) You could probably build this out of junk lying around at home. doesnt look like it would work; there are only two stabilising points and t...

yeah just use wood or something. In my lightsaber clips ( http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~cs00aad/downloads/SaberFight.mpg ) i just use bokkens (wooden martial arts swords) wihich have no lightsaber handles - but they still look good! can some one answer my question about carnage and ryan please...(see abo...

is carnage7p the same person as ryan weiber?

cool - if so i didnt know they were 1 and the same!!

anyway - well done ryan - your site and effects movies blew me away - the ryan vs dorkman is one of the best lightsaber fights ive ever seen (including the official movies!)

goldwave is free. search on google.

Ive always found http://www.dabs.com/uk to be very good.

I got my firewire PCI card there for just £9.99!! its the cheapest i have seen one anywhere. it has three ports and never drops frames!

i downloaded blender.

I thought I was just inept at learning 3D and impatient.

im glad you guys confirmed what I was thinking - its an awful piece of software!!!

well - al credit to the programmers - its probably powerful, but its a b**ch to learn.

i gave up!!

camclub, where did you get your raid setup so cheap? And since I have never actually used a RAID array, does it appear in windows as one drive? if this is the case, if one drive gets corrupted or is unuseable, the data on the other drive will be useless as it is only half the required data? are you ...

see the other thread in this topic only a few days old.

wont it just be interlaced again when put on a tape?!

TV's can only display interlaced signals due to bandwidth limitations. (alternate lines shown in quick succession halves the required signal bandwidth)

youre not using transparency properly. In all transparency there is a foreground and a background. your background will probably be the barrell, and foreground the explosion - so barrell goes on video track 1, and explosion goes higher than 1, e.g. track 2. the most simple way to experiment with tra...

thanks to you guys giving me ideas, I found the easiest solution to my problem. When using the Video Options -> frame hold option, there is a check-box at the bottom of the dialogue that says 'deinterlace'. this will hold the frame at the specified point, and deinterlace it so it doesnt flicker!! I ...

Just take import the explsion clip into your bin (right click, _> import file...) Then drag it onto a video track above your footage! e.g. if you barrel is on Video1, drag the explosion onto Video2, then drag its out-point to make it last the required length, alternatively, right click on the explos...

once youve edited the frame, import it into your bin (right click - > import file.) then drag it to where you want it on the timeline. To get it exactly where it was use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the timeline one frame at a time, when at the right place choose timeline menu and 'razor ...

When I try to move the timeline or do other certain things, I get this error:

after effects error: OpenGL 3D: failed to set lights - monitor color depth must be 32.
(5044 :: 0)

my color depth is 32 bit!
I have trial version of AE 6 pro.

any ideas?

i just had a quick look through and used a trial version of after effects for the first time ever! i appreciate all the tutorials - thanks. but theres one thing im not clear on: i get how to move the shape between keyframes, but what if you need to change the width or shape of it, for example from a...

it looks much better with the muzzle flashes you added

thanks for the advice.

I am actually studying a module at Uni on multimedia and we have just done aboput interlaced fields on tv - D'OH!!

how do you deinterlace in premiere, and do I have to do it every time I export?

thanks

film it from lots of different angles so you can cut them together quite fast - this gives a sense of action and distracts from the detail of what heppened - so you can get away with less. you can add the muzzle flashes in afterwards and have the actor act like hes being hit (wide shot), then in the...

Originally posted by 2nd_Recon
Retroscoping the blade will make sure it is always where you want it to be, it just takes damn ages to do

that's 'rotoscoping' !

Originally posted by Raptor 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.. I beleive this is the best solution!! thankyou Raptor, simple but effective! I will try that and let you know...