MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

There's also this little site with 300+ links for you.

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Quite amusing isn't. I mean, just think. The very first MOTION picture was an array of still cameras set along a race horse track, connected to trip wires, so each camera took a photo in turn as a horse ran past. Lore has it that the rig was set up to settle a bet about whether or not a horse ever h...

Here's my bluescreen and how it was built.
For lighting, I used two flouresant (sp?) shop lights (2 tubes each) just for the screen.
(you can kinda see one in the last picture of the screen)
Then, the foreground subjects were lit separately using halogen work lights.
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Funny thing about clients...there are actually a limits to the funding they have.

Still, this is gonna be a lot of fun.

More to follow....

OK. My client has loved everything we did for the previous shoot, and now wants to go ahead with a new shoot JUST TO TRY THIS EFFECT!!!!! We're scheduled for Sunday May 18th. (Just a few days after the Matrix II is released here!) I've got 5 confirmed cameras, including 2 DVCPRO format cameras for t...

I've heard that After Effects w/Production bundle does a good job with compositing.
I use Media Studio Pro and have been very happy with the results.
Loads of examples and some tutorials on my movie's site: HiddenPhantom.com

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Mmmm. There was a topic around here somewhere ...
Oh, yeah. Car Camera Mounts I think.

Some ideas for you here.

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I'm actually scheduled to attempt this effect for a paying client this month. (The video is to be for a martial arts organization. Everyone attending the shoot is to bring a video camera and tripod so we should have a pretty good pile of cameras rolling.) If we manage to schedule the shoot and round...

WinMorph is a free program for morphing.
There's also this tutorial for making a morphing effect in AE.

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If you have access to an air compressor or two, you could run hoses under the sand and just open a valve when you want sand to start kicking up.

These may help.

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You may be able to find a "pre-deployed" airbag/steering wheel assembly at a local automotive junk yard.
The wheel cover will already be open.
All that's left is to rig a way to make it appear closed and then blast it open with some compressed air.

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The best way to do this is to actually build a quick wall, but not to standard building code. In real buildings, there are supports behind the painted drywall you see. Usually spaced every 16 inches or so. Without these, the drywall is still very ridged, but will break fairly easily. Drywall sheets ...

Just came across this military surplus internet store.
Not sure if they ship to UK or not, but this page has some pretty cool looking dummy ammo and grenades
http://www.imsplus.com/ims35.html

It looks like this guy built the same dolly and it cost him about $60 total.
Build a camera Dolly by Don Mansfield
Should work great.
PVC "track" (pipe) usually sells for about $1 for an 8ft length in my area.

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There are several ways to do this, but most involve a combination of painting and compositing. One of the easiest ways would be to take a frame from your movie clip of the "clean" wall into a photo editor like Photoshop. Us photo shop to paint in ALL of the bullet impact holes. (You can us...

OK. I'm just posting this, because it's easy to say and up to you to actually pull it off ;) Supplies: Camera [C] Mirror \ Sparkeler >S< Setup: >S< | | \------ [C] Film the sparkeler this way to get a zero-G, coming right at the camera, effect without risking debris on the lens or mechanics. Make su...

Personally, I use Media Studio Pro for editing and effects, but that's primarily becuase it's much less expensive than getting Prememier & AE together. The Premiere and AE combo is really the way to go. You can find TONS of resources for these throughout the net and they are extremely capable pr...

Rotoscoping a traditional laser is not too bad really. You only need to see the shot for a frame or two, then it usually goes out of frame or hits it's target.
Not nearly as tedious as rotoscoping a lightsaber fight

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If you're planning on having people in jeans, definitely go with the green. Blue has been working great for me, but I had good control over the costumes and made sure there was never any blue. You can see the screen I'm using and how it was built in this tutorial . The party shop near me just had a ...

No. And I generally don't use any of their media products either. I've been using Quicktime Pro almost exclusively for a while now. Sometimes DIVx. I really just couldn't believe ... Well, don't want to keep sounding like some kind of info-mercial. You just gotta try it yourself and see the results....

OK, I've been a big fan of DIVx and On2's VP3, but now... Yesterday, I installed Microsoft's new Media 9 encoder and WOW, this thing is just amazing. I really can't believe that it's free. It's 2-pass VBR encoder compressed the few video files I tried down to less than 1% of their original size and ...

Here's a link to instructions on making yoru own, very safe, Home Made Squibs . Also, in the behind-the-scenes videos on my new Die Hard DVD, the bloobers real actually showed how they filmed one of the bullet-to-the-head shots. The bad guy gets shot right in the forehead. It looks like they had a b...

Just updated the AMP with a load of new audio related links.
There are three sound related sections:

Audio Software (7 links / 2 FREE)
Sound Libraries (10 Links)
Audio Tutorials (3 Links)

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Right...
Until your spouse (or parent) discovers that the stain is not washable

(Then just make sure the camera is rolling. You may get some genuine blood splatter video )

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