YOung Film'mers
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- komodofrog
Any suggestion on software, and how to start making short films, preparation handy skills to obtain, etc.
I got a SONY Digital 8 camera.
- brandelec0
G5 + Final Cut Pro
- nLHb0
adobe premier
- nLHb0
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- brandelec0
*makes fart noise and points thumb down
- komodofrog0
I was looking at some old tapes, of a birthday party, and slowed it down with wm movie maker, its fucking CREEPY, I even got the chills.
Anywho, I was wondering, how I can avoid the blurryness when editing scenes of motions.
- brandelec0
also visit this site regularly
http://www.designinmotion.com
- randoman0
Best thing to do would be to download demo's of After Effects, FCP, and Premiere.
They all basically work the same but each has it's strenghts. I personally like After Effects and Premiere.
Editing is straight forward once you learn the basics you should be able to put your footage together rather quickly. As a rule of thumb, capture and edit your video in the highest possible quality... you can downgrade by exporting in various codecs as you uses require (web,tv,dvd,etc.)
If your question was more geared towards what goes into making a short film (talent direction, screenplay writing, consistancy of camera angle, etc.) then seach around online, you should find lots of helpful things.
- randoman0
It depends on the quality of your video...
TimeStretching, frame blending, and unsharpen mask will all give you different results, but it really adds up to the quality of the video your working with.
- brandelec0
and do get this
- komodofrog0
Well, I just remembered what I wanted to ask.
I wanted to know if there is a source of slang terms in the ''movie making'' area, I'm quite too stupid to read the camera's manual through, also
the good movies today have all them great cinematographic angles, well I've had various ideas, but how could I capture the movement of a cigarret falling to the floor in slow motion and hear it go through the air and hiting the floor.
- Mimio0
Don't shoot DV in that BS 24p cinema mode either. That can cause blurring when you're editing.
- scarabin0
you add the sound yourself
- komodofrog0
Is this tape thing 8mm camera even good for them sharp ass short films, or am I still gonna get that amateur filming shiznat like with home made porno, and what is DV please and I didn't know I could change the framerate of the camera either
- randoman0
Since you don't have a camera that shoots at an obscene fps to make some nice slowmotion in editing, get creative...
Depending on how important the shot it and how much time you want to spend making it look nice, and real - or achieve your desired effect...
you could produce a small rig that holds the cig in front of the cam, and then drop the two in a smooth motion using the tripod, cut to it hitting the ground after a normal drop...
More advanced, chroma key it into a scene and use after effects to "drop it".
Or simply shoot it falling, add timestretch in post, but expect to see something pretty blurry and video-like.
- komodofrog0
D Zoom?
16:9Wide on or off?
REC MODE SP or LP?
AUDIO MODE 12BIT or 16BIT
COMMANDER?What are some of the settings I should use when filming.
- komodofrog0
What would be a good buy for a onehanded(small) camera with obscene fps? Hee Hee.
- randoman0
It depends on what you want your movie to looks like.. 16:9 is the aspect ratio of the screen (think letterbox) SP is better recording quality than LP but you get less space to film with on the tape. Audio 16bit is higher qual than 12 bit. D Zoom means digital zoom... which you should probably not use.
DV is Digital Video which is better to use and easier to capture than hi-8 or older tape cams.
lo-end DV cams can be had for a couple hundred bucks these days - if your going ot make any investment I suggest getting a DV cam.
- scarabin0
why don't you just rtfm
- randoman0
look around on ebay... generally your video will be 24 or 30fps. Shooting in higher fps will let you have more space to play with slowmotion, and highspeed action shots will tend to blur less.