MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Ya once you know how to use Vegas it is SO much better then premiere. Ive tried a demo of vegas and at first i didn't like it but after i found what i needed i dont even want to go back to working with premiere.

I think any movie in general would be boring if they did not have good sound effects and/or music.

Ya ive always wanted to make a scary movie. I think they are better when they involve mystery behind it because you are always trying to figure out whats going to happen or the reason for why something happens. You really have to plan them out and you can't have crappy actors.

hey guys I got a few ideas for making my next movie when i was watching What Lies Beneath last night. For some reason I really picked up on the things that freak you out in a movie. The sound effects really make you jump and the scarry scenes always develop slowly until something suddenly happens to...

oh dude that was really annoying when i was a rookie at premiere i could never figure out how to use transitions. all you do i drag you transistion to the timeline between your two clips that are posistioned on video 1a and video 1b. you can also use the opacity red bar thingy on the video 2 or up. ...

ya thanks for all the advice guys it helped out. i finished my project yesterday but it wasn't all that great. i decided to have my actor just jump in the air and act like they got hit by a land mine and then i overlaped an explosion with chroma keying. it would have looked great but i couldn't get ...

i used the vegas 4.0 demo. premiere is a great program and so is vegas if videomaker says so. videomaker really knows what they're doing so if they say its good then it must be. it really bugs me how whenever people think of good editing programs premiere is always the first. they don't even know ab...

really? what is it that you like better about vegas? maybe the demo ive tried is the older version

i keep hearing about how great vegas is and ive tried out a demo and it doesn't even compare with premiere. vegas is to basic in my opinion.
i dont see how anyone could recommend vegas if they've used premiere

ya good idea i was thinking of mixing powder (that will just make a huge ball of smoke, not necessarilly a mushroom cloud) and a bomb buried in the dirt so dirt will fly in the air. will that look real enough? then i think ill put my actor in front of my bluscreen and then put it in the shot of the ...

hey i got a question what's better
Adobe Premiere
or
Sony Vegas
????????????????????
i use premiere

K guys i got to start filming a school project like... TOMORROW its gotta be done FAST. i just finished the script. all of the shooting will be easy, well all except the part when my actor steps on a landmine. ive got a remote detonater and some bombs and powder to make the effects. the only problem...

dang dude where'd u get a blue screen of fabric for 5 bucks? the cheapest fabric screen that i could find was like 50 to 80 bucks. i just went with plastic screens i found at a party store. they work amazingly well and only cost me like $3 to fill an entire wall about 12ft by 6. i think fabric would...

I have DVD burning software that really sucks. It is called Sonic. The thing i don't like about it is that it converts all my movies to some mpeg format that is really low quality. Ive got a lot of memory that is being bogged down on my comp and i need to burn and delete a lot of my video. but, i do...

hey ive actually tried the same thing with one of my movies it didn't work extremely well, but enough to get the point across. All you need is a fog machine which are only $30. you can get them at party stores or in regular stores around halloween time. just have your friend breathe in some fog and ...

ummmm what program do you use?
i use premiere and there is a video effect called horizontal flip
so if you use premiere then there ya go. but if not then you'll have to look for the filter(it probably has the same name)

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i have tried that once ive never used it for a movie. i found a cool effect in premiere. forgot what its called but it gives your figure a glassy out line. it looks cool. how do u do it with after affects? i have the 4.1 version

Thats cool. i would never buy cameras there though. they dont have very great cameras. you cant buy stuff there unless your sure you wont take it back cuz you have to pay to take it back. ive never bought a computer from best buy i think ultimate electronics is the best for cameras, if u dont know w...

Ya I agree one of the worst things you can do for your movies is to base them on fx. if you dont have a good storyline then dont shoot it. i just like messing around with my blu screen to see what kind of fx i can come up with. and if they ever fit my story line then ill use my idea for a movie. but...

I hate manga animation its really choppy and boring to watch. 3D animation is a ton more interesting. but thats just me

Wow your dad does clay animation for a living? thats so cool. Claymation is getting way outdated and oldfashioned because of CGI. its really hard to find a job because there are very few studios that work with it. you can practically count the number of studios that do claymation on one hand

I went and bought a few different bluescreens and a green screen like a month ago. I set it up in my basement and made my own studio. and ever since then ive been using it like crazy. but ive ran out of ideas does anyone have any ideas of cool fx to do with blu screen and how to do them? (i.e. flyin...

Hey thanx guys im glad 2 hear that i should just stick with mono mics. i went and bought a Sony mic ($30) a few months ago and i got mad when i found out it was mono. but im still wondering, why do you suggest mono over stereo? this is a link to the kind of mic i have... http://www.sonystyle.com/is-...

ya that explains why you dont think your movie to be all that great. Just a few extra tips though... -make your animation short and avoid complicated stuff that will make you frustrated. if you want your film to turn out then have fun with it. leave all the other stuff to professional clay animators...