MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

I remember the good ol times of FX bashing....back in the day...

I even remember seeing vamp on the now extinct k lite boards...haha

I said I fixed the problem up above, but whatever... The problem is fixed...I just have my c drive sort of dangling, so I hope it gets enough ventilation since its away from the fan...but its been a few weeks, and everything works fine, so I think it will be fine in the long run. my advice to people...

ok, I tryed re-arranging the master/slave with the burner and hard drive almost everyway, moving the jumpers in all possible way....nothing, the comp wouldn't reconize them...so I took the burner completely off, and set the harddrive as the master with nothing else on that channel....works like a ch...

DMA is enabled.... Its most likely the master/slave problem.....I seem to have trouble with the comp reconizing both devices when I have it hooked up any way different than this, so if worse comes to worse, I'll take the burner out completely until the projects done. post my results in a little while

ok, I'll give it a try....The worst part is though, my cable isn't long enough to do that, so I guess Im gonna have to just let my hard drive dangle in the empty cd rom bay.

because A: It takes like a halfhour to send over a file about 3gb, B: most importantly, premiere can't access the video fast enough for some reason, so its all jittery even on playback when on my video drive. then basically freezes, while it desparatly tries to get all the data... its screwed up, an...

Hopefully someone can help with this, because my film is due on Friday, and I can't get this to work.. I have my main C drive on IDE channel one then on my IDE channel 2 I have a dvd burner with an 80gb storage drive as teh slave.. I did this so I can transfer files between the two drives faster tha...

looks pretty good..

maybe have the lightning shorter....because in reality, it wouldn't be that long...maybe only a few frames at most....


wow, its been a long time since I posted here,.

you could wait seven months and use the real stuff.

What you need is spirit gum. Go to any costume store and they should have it. I use it and works good for sticking latex. Don't forget to the remover also. It's only a couple bucks for each. I've used it to stick latex wounds on faces and with proper make-up, liquid latex, and fake blood, you can ma...

just use a real one. Hold it in your mouth and blow out. Also, if you hold it in your mouth, then begin to swallow, you can blow it out your nose without ever bringing it into your lungs. Even if you do inhale it, theres no health risks. Breathing in one cig is not gonna give you cancer. I know peop...

How do you fade in and fade out music or a clip in adobe premiere or change the volume of music i have playing during a clip? For Premiere 6.5 or lower to fade video>place clip on track 2 or higher, expand the clip with the little triangle button on the side of the time line. Then just adjust the l...

And what's DC++?

DC++ is a filesharing application. http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

On this page there's a tutorial on "Budget Time" which has some of the best results I've seen but is very in depth and requires a lot of work and patience. This was used in the Matrix Fan film "A Glitch in the Matrix". That doesn't seem to difficult, sure you have to plan it out...

You can gets lots of stock footage clips off of DC++, not quite sure on the leagality of them all.

I've heard good things about Chromanator, but I use After Effects 5.5 and it has a lot more power and features. You can do all of that in AE. And it's somewhat easy. Chromanator might be more simpler(and cheaper), but AE is better. As for only covering 3/4, it looks to me they drew a mask around the...

they look great. What app did you do them in? Someone needs to write a thorough tutorial on this for all the apps. Seems thats this effect is easier in Blender and Lightwave, when it seems near impossible in 3d studio.

I don't know about the camera shake. In my opinion, people shouldn't know the camera is there, If the camera shakes, than it's showing the camera was in the scene, and makes it less believeable.

if it's shot on a greenscreen it doesn't matter, because you can easily resize it later.

ChibiVader wrote:were you using this tutorial?

yup, thats the one.

The explosion needs to be placed in the scene more realistically, it looks like you just placed it on top of the footage than distorted the building. Make the explosion seen from side of the builing too, it'll look better, and lots more debris, and the explosion is too bright. Sorry if I sound so ne...

actually I cheated at the whole thing. I started out doing it like you did, I created the characters in photoshop, and went through AE following a tutorial online I found. Except it came out horrible, and by that time had put so much time in to it, I said screw it. So, the other day, I downloaded th...

I tryed recreating the Matrix Code effect and using it for a logo. It came alright, theres something I would change, tell me what you think.

[url]http://hickskaters_films.tripod.com/code.mpg[/url]

I'm trying to do the same thing. I've done a few odd jobs for people, like friends and teachers, but I really need to get the word out. Besides, me and my friend/partner need money to fund are filmmaking, and for other stuff, like college and cars, so what better way. Anyone have any ideas how we ca...

Same here, I'm mostly a video guy, but I occasionaly will use it.
Vamp, I go to NCCINEMA too, and did a few of there effects, all in photoshop. Let me tell you, all those effects can be done in AE, and a lot quicker, and they will look better, trust me.