M D Productions presents: 'Violet'

Thanks Román,

First off a big congratulations on getting married recently and an even bigger congratulations on your plans of becoming a father. Of all the things that give my pleasure in life, it is my children that I place at the top of the list, without them I wouldn't be anywhere near the person that I am. My wife and I waited almost 8 years before starting our family, I wasn't certain that I was prepared to become a parent, but from the moment I started interacting with my kids, I was hooked. Its the greatest gig on the planet!
 
khmuse said:
Its the greatest gig on the planet!
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Wow. That is great! Sure makes me wonder if my wife and I have made the right choice NOT to have kids. We love them but there are so many factors to consider.

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Roman, congrats on your recent wedding! Awesome!

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Kevin, thank you for your kind words in your previous post. It was a wonderful Directorial debut for me. I loved it.

Having you on board as DP was one of the best decisions Mark and I ever made! We were never concerned about that decision. And you taught us SO MUCH about filmmaking!

And finally, I am delighted that you are putting up more clips from Violet. That is a great idea!!!
 
I, too, have to express my appreciation of what a lovely person your daughter is, Kevin. What a delight it was to have her on our set and what an even greater delight to see such a wonderful bond between father and daughter. I didn't think I was going to have kids when everything fell into place and I became a father at 42. My boy David turns 12 next week and, without question, he is the best part of my life. For more than a year he's been claiming he knows he wants to be a writer and I do want to bring him on set this year so he can meet my film-making buddies and have some early role models in an industry often lacking in them. I showed him som of your daughter's footage and he claims he "knows for sure she is going to be a star."

Oh, and he also told me, "Dad, if they make another terminator-like movie then Tim should go out for the part because I KNOW he would get it." So, his casting talent may be questionable.
 
Thanks Román,

First off a big congratulations on getting married recently and an even bigger congratulations on your plans of becoming a father. Of all the things that give my pleasure in life, it is my children that I place at the top of the list, without them I wouldn't be anywhere near the person that I am. My wife and I waited almost 8 years before starting our family, I wasn't certain that I was prepared to become a parent, but from the moment I started interacting with my kids, I was hooked. Its the greatest gig on the planet!
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Kevin, you are the man!
Thank you for your kind words. They are appreciated. Before the wedding I told my fiance (then) that we will wait at least 5 years... its being just a few months and just started to talk about kids... because I've been blessed to interact with people like you who show me there is more than fear and responsibilities when it comes to parenting.

Ted, Keving, Mark,
You guys are really cool on this forum... I keep reading so many great things about you guys and your project... I am ecstatic waiting for the downloading time to get here. This is my best birthday present :)
 
RomanJaquez said:
Kevin, you are the man!
Thank you for your kind words. They are appreciated. Before the wedding I told my fiance (then) that we will wait at least 5 years... its being just a few months and just started to talk about kids... because I've been blessed to interact with people like you who show me there is more than fear and responsibilities when it comes to parenting.

Ted, Keving, Mark,
You guys are really cool on this forum... I keep reading so many great things about you guys and your project... I am ecstatic waiting for the downloading time to get here. This is my best birthday present :)
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Oh, is it your birthday? Wow! Happy Birthday, Roman!

Thank you for your comments. It is so nice to hear.

I have to say that having the opportunity to meet and work with these guys has been one of the greatest things to happen to me in a long time. They are such great people. And what a great expereince for me.
 
Roman,

My congrats and best wishes too. Thank you so much for your kind words and especially your being ecstatic for the rapidly approaching permiere of TTN. Whether or not our 6 minutes could ever live up to the hype and expectations of people is really irrelevant and insignificant. The truth is that being able to make a film with Ted, Blaine, Kevin, Tim, Herman, Bullis, Kyle, Alex, Brandon, David, Tom and our talented cast has far exceeded and eclipsed my fondest wishes and highest hopes. We have already won the important competition - the challenge of making a film with a dear friend and coming out with an even closer friendship and a whole cadre of new friends. In that sense, I suspect that many other teams here have also won the important competition too.
 
9:38 a.m. and Mr. Hyten continues to make strange gurgling noises and rapid movements in his sleep. I think he thinks he is chasing a ball or possibly running from enraged critics who screened his zombie flick.

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Look at that.... even after some 36 hours of non-stop editing and lord knows how many hours of boozing, his hair is still perfect!
 
Hey Mark,

You did get a standard talent release form signed before posting this image of Tim? He might later argue that you plied him with liquor to get him to sign, but somehow, I suspect that it would be very hard for him to convince anyone that he wasn't a willing participant in last night's drinking extravaganza.

Thanks so much for your kind words about Courtney. I am very proud of her and my oldest daughter Chelsea, both are the greatest things in my life.

I would love to be able to meet your son at some point. I think bringing him to set would be an excellent introduction to this crazy business.
 
RomanJaquez said:
Kevin, you are the man!
Thank you for your kind words. They are appreciated. Before the wedding I told my fiance (then) that we will wait at least 5 years... its being just a few months and just started to talk about kids... because I've been blessed to interact with people like you who show me there is more than fear and responsibilities when it comes to parenting.

Ted, Keving, Mark,
You guys are really cool on this forum... I keep reading so many great things about you guys and your project... I am ecstatic waiting for the downloading time to get here. This is my best birthday present :)
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A big Happy Birthday Roman! :beer:

Kevin
 
Tim signed a number of releases last night. Let's just say that we have saved the court system from a number of potentially embarassing and time consuming legal actions.
 
OK, as I had mentioned in a previous post, based upon Ted's excellent point that our trailer doesn't really highlight the talent that we have working on Violet, I am including a pair of link's to one of the scenes in its entirety.

I have prepared both a .mov and a .wmv version:

http://www.museelectronics.com/production/scene_11.mov

http://www.museelectronics.com/production/scene_11.wmv

Besides feedback on this scene, I would be interested to learn other's impression of the qualitative difference between both versions on different playback platforms. I seem to never be able to get the density where I want it with Quick Time compression.
 
Great! downloading.....

So, I've downloaded and watched both.

For me, the .mov file plays beautifully. The .wmv stutters. I don't know if that is just my mac or the file.

I will offer comment on the actual scene later. I HAVE to pry myself away from my computer and get my house cleaned! I PROMISED my wife that I was done hanging out on dvxuser for awhile. (yeah... I know, I know!)

I'll be back!
 
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I have the same problem that Ted reports, Kevin. It would be interesting to see if it is a function of frame size, since the .wmv is also a much larger picture.
 
Blaine said:
I have the same problem that Ted reports, Kevin. It would be interesting to see if it is a function of frame size, since the .wmv is also a much larger picture.
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I am trying to get an accurate understanding of the issue. I suspect that there are a few factors in play here. One thing that is common is that both you and Ted are on MAC notebooks, not desktop systems. Another is as you have pointed out that the .wmv is a larger image and this combined with the fact that .wmv isn't a natively supported format on MACs may be a bit too much for smooth playback on your two machines. On any of my PC desktops both play great other than the noticeable difference in the gamma of the two formats. It is this gamma difference that is of the most interest to me as I often have to make density corrections splitting my target between these two different platforms. I use my calibrated production monitor as a target and set to a point between the two that gives me results that are at least acceptable on both platforms.

I hope to get to a point that I can obtain predictable and highly repeatable results.
 
It is the opposite for me. I think the wmv is much better.

I'm on the pc side, and I have noticed that the h264's that I have rendered seem to be a bit washed out, less saturated than the original picture, as well as similarly compressed wmv's.

Your wmv, was not only larger, but smooth, and more saturated.
Your h264 looked similar to what I described above. It played and looked fine. Just less saturated.

Jason
 
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