Recent content by pootify

We have a student showcase coming up, and some of the films are 23.98 (shot on HVX200) and some are 29.97 (shot on XL1, etc). Would it be possible to play all of these movies off the same DVCPRO HD tape somehow? Thanks in advance!

I hooked up a HVX200 to my Macbook (non-pro, which are great for editing 720p footage once you get 2gb of RAM btw) and fired up the ol' Log & Capture, figuring I could get a pretty decent field monitor out of these thing. To my chagrin, I found out that the capture window can't be enlarged, and...

Hey all, I just got a Macbook (non-pro) and after a little bit of editing, I found I couldn't do basic filters on DVCPROHD footage (color corection, flipping) without fully rendering everything. Do realtime effects on DVCPROHD footage require an independent graphics card, or are my 1.83ghz CPU /...

Has anyone dealt much with multiplying a single person in the same shot? I know it's a fairly simple compositing trick, but I just wanted to hear the experiences of other people and get some tips if they were handy. Is there any simple subtractive-compositive type way to have a clone walk behind...

Hey y'all, I had a 16mm short that could only be telecined back to Betacam SP for cost reasons. So now I have it in a 60i uncompressed format, what's the best way to get it back to a 24p DVD without losing too much quality? Thanks in advance.

I have: -A Final Cut v5 System -A Panasonic D5 deck for one weekend -A 94 minute D5 tape of HD-telecined film that I would like to have on my hard drive (preferably H264) Anybody have experience with importing D5 tape onto a Mac? Specifically I'd like to know what else I'd need, and what codec...

Three and a half minutes, made for FEA 309: Beginning Cinematography. Divx: http://www.csulb.edu/~ctran2/LoveNinja.avi Quicktime: http://www.csulb.edu/~ctran2/LoveNinja.mov Thanks for watching! Comments appreciated. Shot on 100A, edited and colored in Vegas, with some Magic Bullet at the end.

Through a series of strange circumstances, I got put up as the sound guy for a live taping of a comedy show being filmed in a club. I know a moderate bit about sound, but I've never recorded anything like this before, so if any of you guys could help out I'd very much appreciate it. The current...

Right now I'm running an AthlonXP 2000+ with a gig of PC2100 and an ATI 9600xt. As it is, I'm wondering if I had a ~500 budget, what would I get to help out my rendering times and preview performance. I was debating whether or not getting one of the new Athlon X2's (~380 with a mobo), and also...

If I had both types of footage (shot a wedding with a DVX and a PD150), could I just drop it all on a 24P timeline and have Vegas render it out? I undersand that some users here have had good luck smoothly rendering from 60i to 24p (not slow motion, just regular speed footage) and I would...

I was talking to a DP at a party recently and the topic of 24P vs 24PA came up (I'm a party animal, I know, I know). He told me that the reason he shoots on 24P setting is because 24PA loses a stop because of how it records. Is this true?

How much of a quality difference am I going to see if I go for a Hoya or a Tiffen instead of a B+W? I'm just curious because a deal for a Hoya UV and a Tiffen ND 0.6 and 0.9, all for $40, is available to me.

I recently visited a rather prominent studio in LA, which had the most amazing mixing room I'd ever seen -- imagine a movie theater, but the front row is replaced with a 200 channel hardware mixer stretching from wall to wall. Anyway, they were talking about how they were pushing the studio to...

Just wondering if anyone from this area (students in particular) and wanted to meet up, work on something, as I just bought my DVX!

I would like to buy the DVXBook and 5000mAh Battery as a package, and also some lens filters (esp a UV) if anyone's selling. I'm in in SoCal.