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    Be safe today everyone. Storms are on the loose all over the Midwest.

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    So we find out that the Florida lady who was complaining about loosing her health insurance because of the ACA was full of it. She didn't even have a true health insurance plan in the first place. A plan that pays a maximum of $50 is not health insurance, it's at best a discount card. Then she goes on to complain that she'll now have to pat $500 a month for insurance, even though with the subsidy, she'd only pay about $150 a month for a real insurance plan. I'm beginning to think some people...

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    Spring has sprung in Ohio. Missing Florida a little less each day :-)

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    Had a great day at work today. Really enjoy the people I work with! Going to be a fun summer for sure!!!

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    So I think I have figured out this whole gun debate. The republicans don't want to pass universal background checks for this reason: They want to ensure that SOME States don't have any background check requirements so that people can go to these States and buy guns, bring them back to the States that DO have gun regulations - and then use that as an excuse why gun control doesn't work. Well, HE had a gun and it was illegal. What they don't want to come out is that many of these guns where bou...

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    Going to be finally. Night all. Piece out and all that good stuff.

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    Well, that was some crappy weather all of a sudden. Sunny one minute, next minute its pelting hail at an alarmingly fast rate with high winds. Then it abruptly stops. That was probably the largest amount of hail I have seen since that major storm came through Columbus a year or so ago.

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    So, I'm thinking of putting in a pre-order for a Black Magic Pocket Cam. Native M4/3 but can use Super16 size lenses and should accept 1" C mounts as well. Does anyone have any information on this lens? I know its not a Zeiss, but its a relatively cheap zoom that will cover the BMP camera, with manual focus and iris for under $800. I was looking at this particular zoom: NMV-6x16 from Navitar. Link is here: http://www.navitar.com/product/navitar-machine-vision-1-format.aspx at bottom. Specs: Back Focal Length: 19.14 EFL (mm): 16-100 Field Angle 1 (HxV): Wide 43° 6' x 33° 4' / Tele 73° x 5° 5' Filter Diameter: Ø58 P=0.75 Focus Control : Manual Focusing range from front of lens (m): 1.1 - inf. Format: 1" F Stop: 1.9-Close Iris Control: Manual Mount : C Object Area at M.O.D. (HxV) 1: Wide 81.2 x 60.9 / Tele 13.6 x 10.2
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    Car is on the fritz again. Low oil pressure and knocking. Thinking its the oil pump needs replaced. I'll NEVER buy another American vehicle again. Bottom line.

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    Got my Work ID and costume yesterday. My train conductor outfits looks like I stepped from the 1800's into the present, but I suppose it'll work :-). Now onto more training ALL day tomorrow. Fun Fun!

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    An epic as a still camera? Maybe if it didn't have a lens. An epic is basically not usable unless its decked out somewhat. I think even the Indian's are smart enough to recognize an epic from a still camera. They do have Bollywood, after all. However - this is assuming its illegal to film in India on a visitors visa. Frankly, unless your making money there, working for someone, etc I don't see how taking a movie camera in and recording some stuff could be illegal, as long as the Camera itself is not in violation of anything. A lot of this could depend on rather "money" is changing hands or your conducting "business" in the country. This is tricky as it strattles a legal line. In one sense, its certainly not illegal for a tourist to bring a video camera I wouldn't think. Look at it like this: Will the filming require a permit? Would it require a permit if shot in a typical American city? If so - it may be considered transacting business. But this is just my opinion, and in no way legal advice.
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    This is something you should really be asking the Indian or US Embassy about. If you just like to read and understand legal terms, I'm sure what you can and cant do a tourist visa is available to the public. However, much trouble can arise if he is violating visa laws - up to and including jail. I'd seriously consider legal counsel or US/Indian Embassy help.
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    Here in Ohio, we have a pretty nice film credit program. I am going on memory of details, so bare with me here. I credit is refundable, and amounts to 35% of all in-state production expenses. The caveat though - you must spend at least $500,000 in the State. Well, there is the problem. $500,000 is more than most Indie films can shoot with. Hollywood films could afford it, but would choose to save more money by going to a State (or Country) with even better tax incentives. With this, I highly doubt that the credit is used very often and it certainly does not "increase employment" very much in our State, of that I'm pretty well certain. My opinion on the whole tax credit thing is this: They are great, if your production is big enough the meet the minimums. However, if your production IS big enough, should we REALLY be refunding money? Seems to me like Hollywood can afford it.
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    Just saw the headline. The HUff Post is reporting that Ebert, 70, has passed away. Sad news all around! He will be sorely missed by all those who loved reading his movie reviews. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-dead_n_3016769.html?utm_hp_ref=celebrity&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
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    Interview with Kings Island on Thursday :-)

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    I will chime in on this a little more. The usefulness of interns to any company is indisputable. While I have never really "interned" anywhere per-see, I did manage several during my time serving as Artistic Director at the Bloomington Repertory Theatre for a couple of years. In the world of semi-pro community theatre, our interns played a huge role in our operations. I cannot speak for how this plays out in a movie studio or post-house setting - but for us the use of interns was valuable, as we where operating with little budget. For our interns, it was a valuable step. Our creative dept. Interns worked directly with the design team to on the different areas, gaining valuable experience in their area of interest that they otherwise would not have had. In many ways, this is how most creative internships function. You do it more as an apprenticeship to gain experience in an area. Like I said before, I can't speak to how this translates to the film world. I also cannot speak to how great it works in a large, multinational corporation like most movie studios. In our setting, we where small enough that if any intern wanted to network with us, they knew where we where. If I had to offer advice to any artistic-industry interns it would be take an internship at a smaller company over a large one. You might think that the large company will offer you more opportunity. This may be true in some sense, but your ability to actually meet everyone (and especially anyone with any real power) is limited.
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    Happy Easter!

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    If republicans in congress are so set on lowering the nations debt, why don't they start by agreeing to lower their salaries? I notice it's everything else that needs to be axed. Not once has it come up to cut down on their own spending. Frankly, this applies to the democrats as well. Neither side wants to give up their own fat paycheck, yet they want to cut everyone else's.

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    I love the way everyone bashes on Obama for taking executive actions without congress, yet they commend George Bush for "re-writing" the Geneva convention so that we could legally torture detainees at Guantanamo. Instead of following proper channels, he "asserted his right" to make up a "third class of people, not subject to the Geneva convention", for the sole purpose of torture for intelligence. We let this pass, yet we condemn Obama when he makes an "executive order" to bypass congress on...

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    That is true. Many people enjoy editing on an Avid, which I hate terribly from the little I have used them. Each environment is suitable for someone. For me, I found LWKS to be a bit off-putting, this is probably more to do with my using the other programs for a long time. I have come to get use to the way they work and then being introduced into a new environment is difficult to become accustomed too. I'm actually going to go back and download the stable release and check it out once more. I'm, curious to see what was changed from the Beta (circa Jan 2013).
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    I did a bit of editing The Wonderful World of OZ on the beta. Thought I'd give it a go to see how the environment compared to my Premiere Pro CS6. To be honest, I don't like it. It offers nothing more than any other editing software (in fact, much much less). It's nice that it's free though. For a free product, it sure beats Windows Moviemaker. BUT, for a professional solution I find it really limited in what it can do. It might be great if your shooting film and just offline editing to an edl to cut later - but if your plan is to go any kind of digital workflow your much better off sticking to CS6/Vegas.
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    "Film" is a generic term. It can mean what ever you want it mean. It could be the stuff you use to take your family pictures with in the 60's or the stuff that runs through movie projectors to present an image on screen (although, I hear they are phasing our film projectors now). I much prefer to use of the term "Movie" to represent a feature length presentation rather than "Film". Heck, quite a few "films" have never even seen a frame of actual film...
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    Hi Stephen. Glad to be back. Now that I am dedicated much more of my time to the world of Film, I felt it would be best to become involved in the forums again. Amazing the things you miss when you don't participate in something for a few years. Hope all is well :-)
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    http://www.filmemporium.com/e&o.html They even give you a sample rate, which I take it is based on a direct to DVD release (could be wrong though). Also, for Equipment Insurance (if your renting), I'd suggest: https://www.buymyinsurancenow.com/home/insure-my-rentals/. I worked with them before and also with Lensrentals.com, which accepts their insurance coverage for equipment. I'm not endorsing any of the above 3 companies, but two I have experience with and one seems like a pretty good deal too me.
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    Well, for starters you say you want to "Produce your own film" and then further in you say "ike many other directors, I basically don't care for all the paperwork". Sorry, but these two lines do not belong in the same topic. If you don't want to worry about the paperwork, then please hire or work with an interested producer who will help you on these things. If you skimp on the paperwork and you have a hit on your hands, all sorts of lawsuits can arise. My advice is find a Producer. They will worry about the paperwork for you.
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