dr_gonzo

I'll have a new cut online in a week or so...thanks all for your feedback. There is no re-doing this film. I would love to have the cash for it, but if im sinking any money into a project it will be a new one. Im also correcting the images in the new version. the rough cut on youtube is straight from the negative I didnt put in any contrast or add any filters... And as far as people not believing a president could be that moronic I only think every bush speech backs up my point, and the fact that Nixon used to talk to the portrait of Lincoln when he got into his gin late at night.

Looks like its really nicely shot...but the SFX look a bit spotty and the story is likely saccharine.

toast works alright....i use roxio popcorn which is easily downloaded for free. if your on a mac you can also download mac the ripper and rip video ts files to burn commercial dvds!

Before you digitally manipulate your footage why not play it on a tv and shoot it off the screen first...

I do see your point. I think my big complaint is really how the film was marketed...I also dont understand how two films with pretty much the same subject matter were both released within several months of each other. It doesnt seem to make any business sense to me!

I AGREE WITH YOUR VIEWS AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWS LETTER. Amy's film is going on first so dont be late!

Luckily the ADR for this scene is just a guy screaming in despair. I hate to ADR it since his performance on set was so good, but Ill see what I can make work. Im also going to shoot a pickup shot with my shitty K3 camera and then record ADR on my mini DV camera. I figure it wont go out of sync since this is literally for a 2 or 3 second extreme close up pickup. I Just hope the 16 footage can mix decently with the S16.

What is Adobe Audition, Ive never heard of it?

that shot just looks like its greenscreened.

So I now have the standard FCP 8-bit uncompressed codec, but whenever I drag my files to the timeline I still need to render...whats goin on???

So I recently transferred all my S16 footage from digi beta to uncompressed quicktime files thanks to my friends editing suite at his job. The only problem is that I dont have the 8-bit uncompressed codec so I can edit. At this point every clip I put on the timeline needs to be rendered in order to view. Any help would be amazing. Thanks!

So I got my dailies back from the lab...I had footage xfered to digi beta and then dubbed to mini dv. I was gonna edit from the dv copies and then online...only to find that I didnt get a timecode burn in my mini dv copies! I wasnt able to watch the digi beta copies so I dunno if the timecode is burned in to those at least. So if the lab refuses to fix it and re-do everything and burn my timecode for free what other options do i have? Could I rent a digi beta deck and capture from my high res copies is FCP and then be able to forgoe having to online at the end?? Any help would be much appreciated!

I'm using their spirit to transfer to Digi Beta, and then dub copies to Mini DV. Hopefully Ill be able to use on of my editor contacts to get back in their to online my film for free.... My footage is B&W so I wont have much to tell you about their color timers:( Good luck with your shoot!

I'm going to be picking up my transferred footage at PWNY tomorrow, and then hopefully onlining within a few weeks...so Ill let you know what my experience is with their workflow.

That was a nice little film man...despite a few scratches to the negative the images look pretty nice. Keep it up!

the film looked great, and i especially loved the black and white "test" footage in the film...but ugh was the plot, dialogue awful! How could they screw up such an interesting event!

Thanks Kev, Ill look into the Arri 2c.... We've got the money for the feature pretty much in place...but this camera will primarily be used to earn extra cash on other peoples shoots to put towards the film budget and paying rent while we are in production.

This is the anonymous internet why would posting with my name make any difference. But for the record its Guy Incognito.

So my producing partner and I are looking into buying a 35mm camera.... The plan is to use it to shoot films while we freelance as DP's to help pay it off, and then use it for a feature that is in pre-production stages at this point to be shot in a year or two down the road. Is it possible to find a decent 35mm rig for 25 grand or less??? Obviously it would have to be a used camera....Also would it be money better spent to just grab a S16 camera?

Its a nice trailer, but waaaay too overlong and far too revealing. I feel that after seeing it I pretty much know the entire plot of the film and dont need to watch it. If you just hold back a bit from the audience you should have them eating out of your hand!

ive never have a problem while loading a daylight spool in broad daylight. Sure you flash the ends of the negative, but they can prove usefull at times. And once due to a rip in the changing bag I had to load and download all my 400' cans in my bathroom. Its not completely light safe with the door closed but there were no negative effects at all!

that is pretty sweet...I just completed a s16 short on an SR which pretty much bankrupter me. I think the spec commercial Ill be shooting in a couple of months will be on super 8. How much did that Nizo run you?

I went and bought my film stock at Kodak on 31st street in NYC a couple of weeks ago and Im positive that the 100ft roll was far cheaper than that. You can also scam them into thinking that you are a college student and get a 30% discount!!! Super 8 run and gun is easier...but easier does not always make a better film! With S16mm you have much more resolution, and much better lenses to shoot on. I love the look of Super 8...but it has its uses and limits. Plus recording live sound with super 8 is a bit of a pain compared to the quieter 16mm cameras.

Also, Super 8 has the cheapest per-roll price for beautiful Kodak Vision2 neg stocks. (Per-roll price directly impacts a format's accesibility for new filmmakers -- moreso than per-foot or per-minute prices.) this is also misleading considering the size of a super 8 cartridge. Last time I bought it was roughly 14 bucks for a 50 ft cartridge of vision two neg. To buy a 100ft roll of 16mm vision two its about 19 bucks. So your not really saving any cash by virtue of shooting super 8.

Firewire's get fried all the time it seems....it likely could have been your computer, but it just as easily could have been his. I'dmaybe pay half for the repairs....it cant cost that much anyway I would think.