David Edward Keen

Gregg---that is absolutely tremendous. Thanks a lot for the reference.

thanks guys it's a teensy tiny production. there's no need to communicate the ideas to another, so I'll probably write it out in prose, then go to a storyboard, which i was thinking of having a friend rough thru with still shots since i draw like pooka. Then shot list. It's more for the organization and discipline so I'm not sitting there thinking 'maybe let's try this' on the set. That's not gonna work

Not sure if there's a place in this forum for this but lemee know if not then where's a good forum: When writing my screenplay for the short, non-dialogue directions of camera are recorded on paper how? All the things, many there are, that are shown, the montage sequences etc....is the shotlist where you would start recording the ideas? Or would you write it into a script as you might with stage directions? There are lots of these events in my short, and I'm learning how best to go about it. I could just take a shotlist template and just start writing there, revising as i go but is that how people generally do it? Anyone start out writing it in prose style? cheers!

excellent, tnx fellas i got it figured out. also got super organized with everything even more than before, so blessing in disguise

thanks for responding no updates made. how do i back up my drive? are you referring to the seagate backup?

Hey folks, Hello from Hell. I open FCPX. My project has mostly missing files. OK, i've been thru this before, had this heart attack before, and i learned to RELINK FILES. it took 30 seconds that time and all was fine. This time, I went to relink files and no relink. Just the 'thinking' icon going round and round. So i go to cancel the relink...maybe if I highlight small numbers of clips to relink instead of all of them at once...but pressing cancel leads to that rotating rainbow wheel of death, and the FCPX app is unresponsive, have to force quit. Repeat, select a small number of clips (both video .movs and original music from itunes) same thing happens. Force quit, try again, select ONE CLIP, same result. so as of now, my video project, and my soul are gone somewhere. Any ideas highly appreciated! Going forward I have to get my hands around this issue and learn whats happening or not happening with this stuff so I can stop being afraid that any given editing session will be the last one! iMac Sierra FCPX Seagate Backup 2 TB HD (all clips are on here)

indeed, thanks all!

ah yes i think i found some examples on youtube...ok well i'm more a rookie in film making and with all the things i'm trying to put together, i think it's cool to be happy with my T3i for now...concentrate on training and learning other aspects. But at some point the type of camera will become more relevant at a higher level. Thanks for the info though it's very helpful!

How to avoid this situation, other than avoiding the camera? How to avoid the situation in which would arise the line-skipping in a shot? Or is it random and unpredictable?

ok cool...i learned omething even just reading this, including what i dont yet understand about just what this line-skipping thing is. I'll look it up. It's all i got now, but im buying a computer, a PC, and I wanna set it up for a Black Magic camera ---or something better than the T3i...in time. Any place i can find out more about just what are those darker realms of the T3i as applies to this issue? thanks!

I'm curious, can someone tell me something more about this resolution versus 4k etc? If I made a short using my Rebel T3i, and entered it into a festival, and it won, how would it look up on that large cinema screen? thanks!

Tnx everyone.

Thanx for the tip Macks, I'll look into that

Macks, Haha definately wouldnt call u an audiophile for that. Im a professional musician so i definately dig. It's a matter of budget...im making videos non-professionally but they are striving for quality..i have an AKG P420 condenser mic for singing and vioiin recording, perhaps that would help at least for ADR.

Macks, got it, thanks. I use a little Zoom H1. Using a NTG2 boom mic for sound....is that gonna be sufficient?

Macks, Could you explain more your comment "Motherboards were not designed to record or play back sound at a specialized level." I would be recording sound onto my digital recorder and then bringing it onto the computer into Premier Pro. Thanks for the input!

Thanks guys. Tyler, you said Now, I use Mac's because frankly, I absolutely despise windows and I need to work with all of the proper codec's since I do post work as a professional. Can you explain this? What issue is there with Windowa and codecs?

I'm listing here the computer components...I'm about to spend a lot of money and my friend who's very smart and computer savvy is still not a video/film guy, he's into high-end gaming, so I wanna check these details with you guys before buying. I was figuring I'd be sending files online, for online viewing...even for entering a festival. Would I need a blu ray disk player?...i'm not a pro, but I'm making an investment for the best machine, smoothest processing i can get for the money. Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7700K Processor (4x 4.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache) Liquid Cooling: DEEPCOOL Captain 120EX 120mm Liquid CPU Cooling System - Black Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX Z270H Gaming -- 3x PCIe x16, 2x USB 3.1, 4x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 [intel Optane Ready] Memory: 32 GB [16 GB x2] DDR4-2800 Memory Module ADATA XPG Z1 Power Supply: 480GB Toshiba OCZ TL100 SSD + 4TB 7200RPM Hard Drive Video Card: GeForce GTX 1080 - 8GB (GDDR5X) (VR-Ready) single card SSD + Hard Drive (Dual Drives): 480GB Toshiba OCZ TL100 SSD + 4TB 7200RPM Hard Drive xtrnl sound cards: need? Media Card Reader: 12-In-1 Internal Media Card Reader/WriterBlack network card: Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) Thanks!!!

Hey wizards, happy March. I'm not sure if there is a relevant place on this site for questions about acquiring SSDs and which mechanical drives etc when buying a new computer... I know lots of people here must know about this. I'll be bringing in footage from a Canon T3i, 1080p...for now, but I'll move up to 4k raw footage, probably from a Black Magic camera in the next year. Any opinions on amount of RAM and using one or two SSDs, type of mechanical HD etc? Are you happy with what you use now? I'm going PC to run Premiere Pro and run everything nice and smoothly even when I up to RAW at some point. Lemee know if there's a better place to post this, either in cinematography.com or another site! Thanks!

Yep, returning the crap, saving up & buying the dana dolly. Lesson learned. Jeez Louise

Seems good for my uses now & later I'll get a Dana

I'm just using a DSLR, as a beginner. I want some dolly shots of two men sitting very low, and also for a walk and talk at about 6 ft elevation. I'm talking about a Rebel T3i, which weighs about an attogram, and a small rig for the follow focus and small monitor. Seems it might be silly to get a Dana Dolly for this? But I also don't want to buy a crap toy-like product. This Proaim little system here SEEMS ok. Any opinions? https://www.proaim.com/proaim-swift-dolly-system-with-12ft-straight-track.html (Shipping is obsene compared to the price) Eventually I'll move up to different camera(s) but I should think there's plenty of work I can do where I am now without worrying about fancy cameras or 4k... Is this utter crap and a waste of whatever they charge?

Thanks for the info!

? ive been digging lotsa paintings too thanks!

Ah ok...thanks that clears up my misconceptions!