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No straps on the XL2 I use... http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z173/Ryan3078/xl2.jpg Should have used one though, it was a pity when we went on a trip to Erie, PA. It was firmly attached to the tripod, and someone carried it by the tripod - it fell off, but still works! Yeah Canon for sturdy equip...

So Ornsack was the one that got the Wii recalled because he broke his tv by using the controller too strenuously...

My own cheapo camera has a nice black strap with Panasonic written out in white letters with the font Arial Bold. :D The cameras that I prefer to use (namely the school's Canons and Sonys) do not have straps, thus adding to the excitement if you lose your grip for a second. I believe that we should ...

Looks good! It's a bit above what I use, and I am able to do the basics on mine (editing, effects, 3D animation). Looks like you're set to go!

kene555, like the AK :) Ah yes, thanks! :D I found the tutorial on here and decided it would make a nice weekend project. It was quite fun to do, and we added a magnet so that the magazine could detach and lock into place. Only problem, during heavy use and shaking, the mag would sometimes fall out...

As a good party host, I'm going out and buying a PC to serve my friends who don't like beer

Or aren't allowed to legally drink it

finding an old western tavern but that still means we need to find a bar that is welling to let us film in it, and I can't be f**ked wasting that much time. Simple greenscreen. At any rate, I believe it would be harder to film all these clones running around than creating or finding a location. But...

All I can add for you Mac users is this song...
http://www.freewebs.com/ryan3078/love.wma

Well, this was a great thread, with many good points and discussions! Cheers to good posts, everyone!

Next we'll see a thread like - ooh what colour is your camera strap !

BLACK!! :bonk:

I meant DV is $5 an hour by the price you stated. So I'd say it was perfect for a filmmaker on a budget! What I was trying to say is that this time last year I was filming with Hi8. So I could pay $3 for 2 hours of film, and now I have miniDV, and its $5 for one hour. So before I was paying $1.50 f...

P.S. You know you could get a free website like... neighborhoodstudios.co.nr ...

Yeah, but that only provides the domain name, not the site...I'd still have to use the one I have, it would just redirect to the original site...

In film stock terms, $5 an hour is fantastic

Yes...good thing I don't use film, then! Again, I am a filmmaker on a budget, not some director with a hundred grand to use on film.

Ha...I could connect, we have an extra DSL available, I believe. I just don't want to take the chance, no matter how minuscule it may be. I know you guys have your editing computer on the net and you've probably never had a problem, but when I used the family computer, someone was playing an online ...

For me, its waaay to expensive - $20 for 4, I think! Quite high for a filmmaker on a budget. As it is, I have used miniDV only since last November, and I have about 5 or 7...

...and this board is white letters on black backgrounds...hmm...this site is getting sued for my optical needs And I quote what has been mentioned here already regarding the color scheme... I don't know if you ever heard of this site, but the guy on there goes with the same black background and whi...

Yeah, I agree that it would be better to use one camera, but I only have use of all this great stuff for another week, then it has to go back to school. I did use some guys who know how to make a good shot, so I was able to pull off, say, an attack scene by doing it 2 times, which with 3 cameras mak...

Yeah, for this thread I just wanted to find out the best way to match the Canon to the others - the Canon has the option of shooting interlaced or progressive, while the others can only do interlaced. So I was both trying to learn if there would be any problems if some cameras where on progressive, ...

I believe you can still do it by phone...when I have to validate programs, I'll connect the DSL just for that, then take it out again.

But phone is the only way...how old fashioned!

What Pannie was that btw!?! lol Heh...it was the PV-GS39, which is a palmcorder that is now roughly 120 pounds. when you have a hard light like that bearing down Kene learn to use your neutral density and iris... That was just for a test regarding progressive versus interlaced scanning modes on the...

Well, apparently both the Sony and Panasonic shot in interlaced, so I just set the Canon to 60i, and no problems!

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I, too use computers with black keyboards at home. At school in the art room we have 30 Macs - all with white keyboards....No wait, all the boards are grey and filthy, because Mac's keyboards pick up all the junk from the art room. At any rate, as far as the best computer goes, its what YOU are happ...

Thanks for your imput on this. We will be reshooting the audio completely on this, following the script as Darzeth wrote it word for word. I just threw the date 1999 in there for the heck of it - so I will probably change the date, and the Guitar Hero reference will not be in the final edit. As for ...

Yeah, I really appreciate all your help on this one. I gave them the script and their general thoughts were "We've gotta memorize lines?!?" So I had them go off the basic premise of 1 kid making the other go out. However, they were not so great at ad libbing, so when we reshoot the dialogu...