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I bought a new external harddrive- WD Mybook 400gb but for some reason final cut pro or perhaps the 'mybook' is not able to log and capture. It seems to stall out and a message' allocating disk space appears.' My Maxtor harddrive still is able to log and capture though its full of logged...

how do you export your film onto an external hard drive for editing o the road?

Heres a couple of shorts I put on Youtube. One of them is super8 the other is DVX, obviously you'll know which is which. I like the super8 one, the DVX was kind of a mess around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnTdrRPRZU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLMoqYgcEU

I caught a really good moment when the camera was rolling before the take cept the shadows of the crew are in the shot. I thought of just croping the sides of the image where the shadows are moving most because it is a low lit scene anyways, but was wondering if there was any cooler ways to go...

yea, i spilled some soda on the top part of my camera, it could have leaked inside, i hope not. when i opened the display though I saw some got in there. So, I haven't turned it on yet and im gonna leave it under the fan for a while. should be okay right?

I know now that the rec search' button is the key to avoiding timecode breaks but I already have a tape full of them. When I try to log and capture I use the capture now' button in FCP. Yeah but it still has problems capturing and sometimes the audio is capured out of sync. Would it be best to...

apart from turning on the OIS, how would you reduce the jerkiness from shooting within a moving vehicle? some kind of brace?

schneider made a new filter for digital video called "digicon". Its supposed to give the picture a greater dynamic range. I was wondering whether it would be useful on the DVX

Im trying to get enough exposure on my characters faces without overexposing the outside too much. I've read about Gyoury wands but its over $2000 for a kit at b&H. Any suggestions would be appreciated

Has anyone used or seen footage from using the schneider digicon filter? "DigiCon characteristics : Raises black levels while lowering highlights. Combined with in camera gamma settings and/or post production, a higher dynamic range can be recorded. The result is more detail in highlight and...