MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Hey i used security lights for lighting Alien Dawn, but it was too bright..

See this post for a picture of my set up..

Mushi

Good stuff.

Nice compression

Matt, shoot on progressive scan!!!
It gives the footage a film-like look & also saves time de-interlacing when rendering. When i see my JVC DVL-355 footage that hasn't got progressive i cry It looks like footage off You've been framed, and that's not a good thing folks!!!

Steve

"when u get one of those vcr tapes that is copyright protected all u have to do is get a pice of tape and put it over the square hole on the side that is showing when it is in the player. just look at some reg tapes to see where the tab is" I think you'll find thats just so you can record ...

LOL

Yeah & if you use midi, it depends on your software. I'll post a short clip later of a rough tune


Steve

Don't tell me, your friend is Daniel Johns of Silverchair

Only kidding!! I do like Silverchair though...

Anyways, i've been recording my own music for my productions & it's quite suprising what results you can get with a half decent keyboard.

Steve

When i wrote the tutorial i used 6, but i've since upgraded to 7. WEEEEE!!!

Steve

Here is my tutorial for making lightsabers in Photoshop....it does take a while, but it looks cooooooool !! ;D

Steve

You can make gunshot fx with Adobe Premiere (see tutorial on this very site!).

You need Adobe After Effects or Photoshop for your Lightsabers though...

Steve

You're welcome Grant!!

If anyone else would like the muzzle flashes i have, let me know & i'll mail them to ya.

Steve

Here's one i have...



Hope it helps

Steve

EDIT: Damn! picture wont show. You have email grant!!!!

[Edited on 13-2-2003 by Mushiman]

Hmmmm,

I think my CPU isn't fast enough, cause it's flat out & it was gonna take 4+ hours to encode a 13min film from DV footage ...compared to about 40mins in Windows Movie Maker

DAMN!!! sounded good too.

Steve

Thanks man, i'm gonna check it out!!!

Steve

You could just use the rain plugin that comes with the bundle....

Steve

Try www.gnomononline.com

I saw a banner that it was advertising streaming Maya tutorials...might help ya!!

Steve

Your welcome

Hi, What you need to do is, when you click File > export timeline > Adobe Mpeg encoder, you'll see two check boxes... Save to DVDit! media folder Launch DVDit! after export You should uncheck them. That should stop it from trying to burn to a DVD. The M2v file is an mpeg file but without sound attac...

I've done it!! After re-installing Lightwave again nothing changed, so i sat & thought of what i had on my system before i formatted the hard-drive. It was Pinnacle studio for my old DC10+ capture card. I installed that & hey presto it works, even though the footage was captured through a fi...

Hi, I've just had to wipe my harddrive & re-install everything. I've just re-installed Lightwave 7.5 & started to work on a simple scene. I click on the scene tab, then on the compositing tab & select load image from the background image dropdown menu. When in the file browser, i select ...

Or you can use Sonic foundry's Soft Encode

Thanks all, Yeah i'm on the TFN boards also. Thanks what i was thinking, i don't think it's practical to throw "blood" all over my house as the missus would kill me & then they would be real blood :o I just think my films need a little more when someone gets shot (often in my films) I ...

Premiere is not an effects program & the effects it does have are limited. The only way i could think of is of you could get some animations on bullet casings with a blue background & apply in the same way as the muzzle flash, but i don't think it will look very effective...i may be wrong th...

Hey, i'd like to see those clips Ornsack!

I was thinking of a cool way to have blood splats when people get shot, it's rather like the muzzle flash effect but with animated blood. The only problem is getting the splat of red (blood) i was thinking of using Lightwave....

Does anyone have any thoughts on this??

Steve