Dylan Munro

I have recently upgrade to Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. Prior to this I was using 1.5.1 for HDV editing and ended up having to use Cineform to capture and output as Premiere really wasn't handling it. Version 2.0 however has native HDV support and even on a 2.8GHz P4 I find that capturing, editing and outputing HDV is an easy and painless process. I have now edited a few projects both short and feature length using PP 2 and the workflow is great. You can still capture and edit the project in SD and then recapture (I think the term is conform) in HD using all the same transitions and edit points. I've done this for one short project where I had to edit it entirely on a laptop during an 18 hour flight. I was then able to load the Premiere file into a machine with plenty of grunt at my destination, recaptured just the footage needed and I had the finished HD project ready within hours of arriving. Hope this helps.

Thank you for your reply, and yes I would tend to agree. The original cut, which I did as per the script came to 10 and a half minutes and did allow the story to develop a lot more in some areas, the interview scene especially. There were points where I would have liked to leave pauses for effect. Unfortunately, the Tropfest competition we entered it into required that the film run for no longer than 7 minutes and there was a lot of cutting to do. Thanks again for taking the time to download our film and watch it. I appreciate the feedback.

Hi, I am quite new to film making and have just finished assisting a friend with a short film he wrote for a competition. I filmed and edited the project for him, and being my first effort, I wanted to get some feedback. The camera used was a Sony HVR-Z1P and I edited it using Adobe Premiere 1.5.1 I currently have a copy of the film on my computer at home along with some still frames which people are more than welcome to view and offer feedback on. The MPEG file doesn't give a true indication of the finished product in terms of contrast and colour, but the still shots do. http://202.92.86.22/filthyhabits I look forward to any constructive criticism, except for the acting, I had no control over that. Dylan.

I just watched the teaser on the Apple Website and they used the greenscreen shot right at the end.

I think it was in Cruel Intentions that there was an indoor pool scene, but there were no external windows to speak of.

Hi, I am quite new to film making and have just finished assisting a friend with a short film he wrote for a competition. I filmed and edited the project for him, and being my first effort, I wanted to get some feedback. The camera used was a Sony HVR-Z1P and I edited it using Adobe Premiere 1.5.1 I currently have a copy of the film on my computer at home along with some still frames which people are more than welcome to view and offer feedback on. The MPEG file doesn't give a true indication of the finished product in terms of contrast and colour, but the still shots do. http://202.92.86.22/filthyhabits I look forward to any constructive criticism, except for the acting, I had no control over that. Dylan.

I have encoded to Windows Media HD file after editing on a windows PC with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 I output the HD AVI file from Premiere then using the free Microsoft Windows Media Encoder which you can download from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia I converted it to a WMHD file. I guess you could do it using Final Cut. The codec I used was the Cineform HD one.

If you go to the www.cinealta.com site and go to "Workshops" and get yourself a login. You can then go into the Gamma Download Service section and there are some downloadable gamma settings along with a detailed description of it's application and some JPEG samples.

I have found that by default the "Shutter" option in manual mode is not selected. As a result it will automatically adjust the shutter speed which obviously causes slight variations in the exposure, mainly in outdoor shooting. I keep the shutter set to 50 for the majority of the time and this no longer occurs.

I am interested to know the answer.

I can't see where to preview the clip?