MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

I'm locking this thread as it is getting way off topic.

Good idea, I'll have a think and sort out a sticky. I'll do it as guidelines rather than rules.

That was much better. One thing to adjust ... the initial bright light isn't centred at the same point that the missile disppears behind the building which looks a bit odd.

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Backup stuff to removeable media as well. It is the only way to be sure.

I would not do this. It is far to dangerous. It would only take seconds for you to seriously maim yourself for life. Even ice cold water will turn to steam in an instant. The water you think is going to keep you cool could easily vapourise, taking your skin with it. The trouble with burning people, ...

... and use 'lower field first'

rhys, I think you are doing something wrong with your jpg compression.

If I take your picture and resize 120x120 : 0 quality gives 1.29Kb and 100 quality gives 14.2Kb. 70 quality gives 5.6Kb.

That is in Adobe Photoshop.

(moved this topic to General Film Making Stuff)

There are some great prop making ideas over at Haunters Hangout

I like the 'Figure Armature' tutorial in the 'Dummies' section.

Watch the classic scene from 'The Terminator' for the ultimate in removing your own eye with an Xacto knife technique!

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning Check out this film. Its is 1 hour 43 minutes and a 550Mb download ... but has got some space battles that make you foam at the mouth. http://www-fi3.starwreck.com/download.php Possibly some of the best space special effects I have seen outside of the cinema ... http://...

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For anyone that is interested :

His email address is richardcrycheck@yahoo.com and he lives in Ireland.

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I'm downloading it now. Will post back when I have seen it ...

Looking good! Roll on Easter ...

MillerEternal, when you export using the Adobe Media Exporter enable the deinterlace filter in the pre-processing tasks. This will get rid of the lines. I have found in Premiere Pro that although it lets you save presets for wmv settings it always forgets the pre-processing filter settings! So you h...

They record in miniDV format. When the data is transferred to a PC this DV data is usually written to disk into a suitable file 'container'. This is usually avi on a PC (or mov on a Mac I think). Avi isn't a format as such. It is a container for whatever format you want to stick inside it. Avi is a ...

Personally I liked the DVD menu clip. It's the sort of menu you would see on the DVD for 'Silent Hill' (see trailer on Apple.com).

Guys, be careful with the personal insults. It's been quite civilised on here for a bit so don't spoil it

On Wednesday I got up at 5:30. Flew to Scotland and watched the launching of HMS Daring, the first Type 45 Destroyer destined for the Royal Navy. Here is a 1 minute clip showing the ship launch. The brass band playing "Rule Britannia" was sort of drowned out by the crowd :) http://www.matt...

Try enabling DMA if it is not already enabled. not sure how to do it but try google.

Just watched the clip. I liked it. How did you do the grenade explosions?

I have added a small collection of photos from the premiere of Hollow Point.

http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/index.php? ... _album.php

At the weekend I watched two films sent to me on DVD by the Orkney Movie Group (Forum member DarkElastic). These films followed on from their first production called "Communication Breakdown". Both films are approximately 15 minutes long and were presented in DVD format with covers. "...

Have you tried ...

File > Export > Frame > Settings > Keyframe & Rendering

and then click the box that says "Deinterlace Video Footage"

Click Ok > Click Save

This tutorial aims to show you how to use AutoGK to create compact XVID versions of your low-budget movies for a PDA with a 320x240 screen. It can easily be modified for other screen resolutions. In fact if you have any device that can play XVID then you can use this tutorial to create video files f...

Here is an image showing ISO paper sizes and how they relate to each other in size. I found it useful when I was scaling A4 pages to A0 when I printed film posters on a plotter.