Hi everyone
Yes it is a good thread - thanks Duffgnr and good luck with all your plans for a production company. I fully agree with your comments on planning, rather than jumping in and trying to cut and splice a couple of hours of tape into a few minutes of film. I found an interesting site - www.video-animation.com - which echos your comments and has a tutorial on an outline pre-production approach to making a movie. A lot of its common sense, but it doesn't hurt to to be reminded. The page is: http://www.video-animation.com/video_05.shtml.
You asked about equipment. I have a Panasonic NV-GS 10. It's not bad for my first camcorder and it has a zoom mic built in and a separate remote mic which you can operate some of the controls from. But you cannot adjust volume and I'm keen to improve the quality of the sound. Any comments on compatible quality mics would be welcome. At the moment I'm experimenting with a cheap stand-alone mic hooked into my laptop close to the subject, then cutting the sound in Nero Soundtraxs and mixing into VS8. But its not easy to sync because VS8 only has a monitor mixer rather than a wavegraph.
Regards everyone & good Easter to all.
Gra
genre of film?
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duffgnr
hello ruggy 1
your right, this is a videostudio 8 board, well spotted!!
i would assume that if you yourself are into filming and use vs8 then surely you have at least some interest in films or you wouldnt have chosen to read a topic titled 'genre of film'!!!
your comment only serves to single you out as someone who has nothing of interest to say!
duffgnr
your right, this is a videostudio 8 board, well spotted!!
i would assume that if you yourself are into filming and use vs8 then surely you have at least some interest in films or you wouldnt have chosen to read a topic titled 'genre of film'!!!
your comment only serves to single you out as someone who has nothing of interest to say!
duffgnr
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duffgnr
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duffgnr
to everyone else,
my mate has a sony tr22v and i think its pretty damn good, apart from the touchscreen contols which are a bit fiddly. the picture and sound quality are superb. overall iam impressed with sony cameras and will go for the pd150 as soon as i have the dosh.
i have pulled out of the production company mentioned eairler due to the director i lost it with was to be involved.
my mate has a sony tr22v and i think its pretty damn good, apart from the touchscreen contols which are a bit fiddly. the picture and sound quality are superb. overall iam impressed with sony cameras and will go for the pd150 as soon as i have the dosh.
i have pulled out of the production company mentioned eairler due to the director i lost it with was to be involved.
On the Original Topic of this thread (what we are making movies for):
I find myself recording the few minutes I can spend with my 98 year old father, who doesn't live near me or his granddaughters. My vague memories of my own grandparents make me very regretful. I don't want my own children to feel this way.
When my dad is gone, I'll put all the minutes together with dated titles and other information -- thank you, Stewart Turner, for the excellent idea of including a collection of stills on the DVD disk! -- so that even great-grandchildren will have an idea of their ancestor.
It's not immortality but it's better than mortality.
Keith
I find myself recording the few minutes I can spend with my 98 year old father, who doesn't live near me or his granddaughters. My vague memories of my own grandparents make me very regretful. I don't want my own children to feel this way.
When my dad is gone, I'll put all the minutes together with dated titles and other information -- thank you, Stewart Turner, for the excellent idea of including a collection of stills on the DVD disk! -- so that even great-grandchildren will have an idea of their ancestor.
It's not immortality but it's better than mortality.
Keith
spot on duffgnr to your reply to ruggy 1 
I have a Sony TRV 120, Digital8. Have been using it for years. It takes excellent quality footage (not low light though, grainy), the Hi8 tapes are less expensive than miniDVs, it also acts as a through put, being able to convert an analog signal to digital and has a firewire digital out. It also has a nice small remote.
I started with VS6 and sometime last year upgraded to VS8. I'm one of the fortunate soles who has yet to have a problem. The only thing I get once in a blue moon is a few dropped frames and that's cause of my PC and not the prog. When it happens I just delete and recapture. No big thing.
Gotta say, since I started using VS, I never shoot in any kind of sequence. I do spend a good deal of time editing. I don't mind it though. I do it when the house is a sleep and also get the rendering done at that time too. Just lock down the PC and let it do its thing while a sleep.
Regards,
Erock
I have a Sony TRV 120, Digital8. Have been using it for years. It takes excellent quality footage (not low light though, grainy), the Hi8 tapes are less expensive than miniDVs, it also acts as a through put, being able to convert an analog signal to digital and has a firewire digital out. It also has a nice small remote.
I started with VS6 and sometime last year upgraded to VS8. I'm one of the fortunate soles who has yet to have a problem. The only thing I get once in a blue moon is a few dropped frames and that's cause of my PC and not the prog. When it happens I just delete and recapture. No big thing.
Gotta say, since I started using VS, I never shoot in any kind of sequence. I do spend a good deal of time editing. I don't mind it though. I do it when the house is a sleep and also get the rendering done at that time too. Just lock down the PC and let it do its thing while a sleep.
Regards,
Erock
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duffgnr
hi kebrinton,
its really cool that its possible to record stuff like what you described!
my girlfriend's parents have loads of old 16mm film of their parents and of my girlfriend and her sisters when they were young! ive never seen it as yet but they are talking about getting thier projector reconditioned so they can put on a show. will be a very emotional occasion!!!
its really cool that its possible to record stuff like what you described!
my girlfriend's parents have loads of old 16mm film of their parents and of my girlfriend and her sisters when they were young! ive never seen it as yet but they are talking about getting thier projector reconditioned so they can put on a show. will be a very emotional occasion!!!
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duffgnr
now then erock1,
my jvc gr dv500 isnt that good in dim light either!
also ive had no problems with vs8!! works a treat!
ive spent loads of time messing about with it, especially as im a big fan of having multiple resized images on screen, after some thinking and staring at the screen i sussed it!!!
learned a lot by trial and error and had fun into the bargain!!
my jvc gr dv500 isnt that good in dim light either!
also ive had no problems with vs8!! works a treat!
ive spent loads of time messing about with it, especially as im a big fan of having multiple resized images on screen, after some thinking and staring at the screen i sussed it!!!
learned a lot by trial and error and had fun into the bargain!!