MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

This Monday I am lucky enough to finish off my film by using the school's Canon GL2 and XL2(or XL H1, not sure which one we have).

i have never before used these, any tips on getting the best out of them? Will be filming inside.

www.detonationfilms.com

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This is going to be shown at school, so no blood or gore. Some smoke is all I will add to it.

In my film, a person standing still(relatively) is to be cut in half by a lightsaber. I have After Effects. Exactly how would I go about shooting this sequence?

I edit DV, and occasionally Hi8. Whenever I try to playback video (Premiere Pro 2) playback is stuttery, and jerks back and forth for ages as it buffers enough to play back smoothly.

Just tell them what you're doing. They'll be impressed that a young person in the community is taking the initiative and doing something constructive. Send an email and let us know where they stand.

one 1X PCI-E slot available.

Here's some info, helpful only if you're in or around london http://www.met.police.uk/filmunit/street.htm vehicles are 67 pounds a day or about $150. let me know where you live so i can dig up some info if this doesn't help you. At least email or call the local department to get some info as well.

OK, here's the specs:

Dell Dimension E310

Pentium 4 HT 3.06 GHz, bus speed 533 MHz

1 GB RAM, memory channel mode: Dual Interleaved, DDR2 SDRAM

Integrated graphics: Intel graphics media accelerator 900

windows xp media center edition SP2

talk to the play director. get people at school who can act to help you. they will gain experience and so will you by working with them. maybe the student loses control because the bullies pull a stunt on him in front of the school (at an assembly or pep rally?) I think it is possible to get some po...

My computer is great in everything but graphics. I've got a great processor and a gig of RAM, but integrated graphics. And this really slows down when editing. Would it be worth the money to get a PCI-Express graphics card? The downside is that the only PCI-E slot that my computer has is 1X.

Thanks, rhys

The first 1 is pro 2.0 for sure, while the 2nd one could be pro 2.0 or 1.5 If they are both the same, the color is different b/c its an option you can have (a white-ish interface to a dark grey, and anything in between) 2.0 is good(its what I use) and the main difference between it and 1.5 is that 2...

The only choice I have for exporting animations as video is .avi

otherwise, i would definitely export as an alpha channel

It would be my guess that they used After Effects to get this effect. In After Effects 6.5 Pro, the program comes with a bundle of effects called CC Effects, aka Cycore Effects. One of Cycore's plugins, Lightrays, can achieve this effect.

If you only have imovie and photoshop, you'll want to try and export your saber footage as a series of pictures, like a filmstrip. You will need to go frame by frame with the effect. With Photoshop, import the frame. Then, create a new layer. On the blank layer, use the polygonal lasso tool to make ...

This likely isn't the real deal. Send the seller a message first and ask. Plus, payment doesn't include online thru a credit card, only check. I wouldn't go through with this one.

For those in the US, the camera which is 300 pounds is $587.88 in US currency.

just thought i'd throw that out there

thanks for the tips. i was able to figure out how to solve this issue. i made the sky a pure blue, and created a flat ground the same pure blue as the sky. you are unable to see the difference between ground and sky, and a shadow is apparent. thanks for your help how i normally did 3D bluescreen: no...

for explosions you can go to http://www.detonationfilms.com they have some good free explosion footage there you can download. if you have a luma/screen key you can use most of the explosions, because they're filmed with a black background. you'll need a chroma plugin to use the footage filmed agins...

you can find some explosions here
viewtopic.php?t=10002&highlight=3d+explosion

I use Bryce 6 for my 3D animation. To use it in my videos, I put a blue background behind the 3D subject, and use Keylight in After Effects 6.5 Pro. How can I put a 3D object in my video, and also give it a shadow. Like, for example, if I import a video of a spaceship made in Bryce, how can I put a ...

well, i spent 3 days tweaking the 3D, making it as good as i can.



how's that?

an improvement from the 3D in the preview?

Thanks.

I intend to replace the scene with 3D with this scene.
would that improve the preview?