MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

DEDFX wrote:They are sortta slow for moving upward so I'd just suggest aerial still shots.

A shot can be shot slow, stabilised, then frame-blended to speed it up too.

Care to explain it a bit?

Maya has more tweakable particle systems which are widely used in the movie industry. I personally found Max easier to get to grips with, personally, but in doing my degree and listening to a lot of lectures from people within the industry it does seem that a large majority of movie effects companie...

I think the older versions of Premiere only ever rendered fully when exporting - at least in my experience. What version is it you're using?

Epsilon wrote:Why, do you like looking at fat, naked men?

Yes. Yes I do.

I can think of a bunch of things I personally would use this for - you could of course get some killer establishing shots, starting above building tops then descending quickly onto your actors.

Next to nearest nudist camp?

Post a screenshot of it.

Which particle effect? An artifact like that is usually the sign of a piece of trial software. Particular by Trapcode, for instance, puts a giant red cross across the output if the version is unregistered.

You'd certainly need to inform the airport IN ADVANCE of travel that you intend to bring an airsoft or imitation weapon onboard. Expect trouble if you don't.

Quite often with stuff like this, less is more. It could have been about a third of the length and still got everything across. I'm not sure if it's an all out "comedy", it's quite surreal at places - light-hearted, but not really laugh-out-loud amusing.

It records a progressive scan instead of an interlace one, which is good, as film is recorded progressively. It also gives it a more cine-like gamma curve. If you're making movies, I'd personally use this feature.

Epsilon wrote:What a strange movie.

MasterMike, you love to get the last word in. Don't you?

I like my opinion heard, yes.

cr**, just did it again.

Let me tell you, going frame by frame for one lightsaber is enough to make the average person go crazy. But when you add in 3 blades, and have to put in masks (after Effects) when the blade goes behind someone...I hate it. Heh, just wait till you have to do this for 20 people . Lightsabers are a wa...

Great idea, obviously.

A combination of coating the blades with a reflective material that would show up as bright white on film, and rotoscoping by painting dyes directly onto the film. Painstaking stuff.

Even if you have a lower end camcorder, you can still manually set the exposure. If it's set low enough, you won't tap into unnecessarily raising the Gain, and therefore making it grainy. However, it will require some extra lighting. Cheap industrial work lamps are great for that purpose, but you c...

After some messing about I finally managed to download those pictures. Those were both done by quite simply filming in darkness and having some foreground light. Great if you've got the light. Even better if you're recording on film. But, for me personally, it doesn't look natural. Unless the lights...

Ryan-W is widely considered, by many fanfilm makers, to have got it just about right. As far as explanation goes, there's not much to say except that every shot is different, and that in this case the glow works particularly well because it mimics the way light works in real life - the inverse squar...

Dispite what your eye may actually pick up in darkness, in real life... ask yourself what is more desirable as a viewer? There is far more than simply making an image dark and tinted... For example, look at this scenes and ask yourself how they might have been done: http://images.allmoviephoto.com/...

The bottom one looks blurrier, which makes the knife look less scary. It's not blurrier at all, but the knife has got part of a black solid layer over it which does dull it slightly. I might rotoscope the highlights on the knife back in, but it's a short shot at the end of a dream sequence so that ...

uhh... Lemme think, this was a while ago... I think I'm using additive over multiply. This is rotoscoping, not video editing, so I'm using the GImp, not After Effects. You do realise that AE is a rotoscoping/compositing package, not an editing package? If the GIMP has such a transfer mode, I'd use ...

Yeah, muzzles from most real guns with regular ammo looks pathetic, Hollywood-esque muzzles for the win

Looks good. What sort of transfer mode are you using on the muzzle flash itself? It looks like it could do with being a little more additive.

The other mistake people make heaps is where to cut in and out, in heaps of amateur stuff on youtube and google video you see shots that begin with people standing still beofre beginning to run, which doesn't work if the shot previos cut away while they were running...it's little things that make f...

Any particular manner you want it recording in? I have a pretty good Senheisser mic, and might be able to sort something out for you when sober.

Shake is industry-standard. Many feature films use Shake as their main compositor - Lord of the Rings for the most part, King Kong, Harry Potter, Shaun of the Dead and Pirates of the Caribbean, etc, etc. I've never been able to use it due to lack of access to Macs, however, my university has it and ...