MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Check out the link below for trailers etc, from the almost completed "Dead by Donbrae". Well worth checking out!

http://www.donbrae.co.uk

There's plans for steadicam arms/vests that crop up on eBay quite often, usually from the USA. $10 per set of plans seems to be the rough price though I've no idea if they're any good.

Anyone seen Jim Muro's "Street Trash"? There's some great, inventive steadicam work in it, as well as enough gore/politically incorrect dialogue to keep the most discerning film lover happy, and all shot for about £1.50 - a budget most of us are probably familiar with!

I'm sorry to say, but maybe you've lost sight of the fact that the members query was on dropped frames. Therefore, I simply advised them that on a lesser specified PC than their own, we achieved flawless capturing with Pinnacle, something we couldn't get Premiere to do - I never said they had to edi...

For our first film, we used Pinnacle Studio DV (now Studio 8) to capture and edit Digital 8 on a 733Mhz Celeron, 256Mb, 10Gb with generic cheap'n cheerful firewire card. The film was 38mins long and had to be done in smaller blocks due to limited disk space. We never once had a dropped frame or any ...

We've been making our films on Sony Digital 8 cameras for about 3 years now and found it a good alternative to the low/mid-range priced MiniDV cameras around. The major bonus this format had for us, was that it allowed analogue footage we were shooting on our secondary fx/stunt/crash Hi-8 and 8mm ca...