Recent content by Drewcifer3000

For some reason, I've recently had some problems with uploading to YouTube. Every video I upload has a huge black boarder around the video (see http://youtube.com/watch?v=BBleMK_nkkw). I've been encoding from Premiere 1.5 using MPEG4, 30fps, variable bitrate, variable audio codecs. Does...

So, I am one of many upstart video guys trying to achieve that allusive "film look." I for one am less concerned with frame rates, gamma curves, and all that jazz, the effect I've been trying to emulate is the look of film grain. Sure those other things have alot to do with the look, but I've...

I know there's alot of shallow depth of focus threads in this forum, but hopefully this is a slightly new question. I just got Barry's book/dvd and it was a great help. My only question about dof concerns zoom versus position of the camera. Barry says that a high zoom and getting as close to...

Before I bought my very own DVX100b, I had the opportunity to borrow somebody's XL1 for a project. The case this guy had was really cool. It was basically a big metal box with a strong cardboard cut out of sorts in side, which you strapped the camera to, sitting right side up. I'm not really...

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make something look like a crappy video from the 80's? I'm not sure how to proceed in making something look like that I guess because I'm not sure exactly what qualities make an old 80's video look like an old 80's video, or how to make them...

I just got my new DVX and I'm still kinda shakey on all the different buttons and stuff. Basically, I've accidently shot things in a bunch of different formats, namely some in 24p and some in 60i. Eventually these shots need to go into the same project, so what can I do? I realize it won't...