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I am thinking of getting a Letus Extreme with an achromat optimizer for my EX1. Just can't figure out what lens (35 mm vs 50 mm - budget for one only) to get. Haven't found any info on this topic. The goal is to shoot shorts in controlled lighting - both indoor and outdoors. 50 mm seems...

How do you all organize your script? I feel like 120 pages become too many in a single file to comprehend (and print after each revision). Is there any way to keep (long) scenes in separate files and merge them when needed? Like creating hyperlinks. Does Final Draft have this useful...

With so much footage shot in cars, I hoped to find some discussion on a car camera mount. Didn't find any. I am looking for one for my Sony EX1 (about 8 pounds). Any suggestions? I am tempted to buy this one http://www.filmtools.com/gripper-bh-30-camera-mount-kit.html. Sells for under...

I normally edit 1080P footage (Sony EX1) and it works pretty OK. I downloaded a WMV file, converted it into MP4 using Prism video converter and successfully imported into FCP. It's a very small 7 minute 40 MB file. The problem is, FCP has slowed down so much that rendering a title takes 45...

With my data files all over, I am trying to put them all at one place using Media Manager (is there any other way?). Does it transfer the whole project or just the active sequence? I want to move everything related to all the sequences.

I am digitizing old family VHS Tapes. I am very temped to capture them in AVI form; however, just wondering if Mpeg compression will make in visible quality deterioration given the footage is VHS / SVHS quality.

I'll be shooting a (short) movie with an external shotgun mic (NTG 3) at a 7/11 type store which has a few fridges running that I can't turn off. Hooking the mic straight to the camera as using my pre-amp is just way too inconvenient. Will playing with the audio cut-off work? For...

I might be switching back to PC. Have a 2.8 Eight Core Mac Pro / 10 GB RAM / Final Cut Studio / Apple care / MS Office / Parallels desktop. Everything is original and in perfect working condition, bought May last year from Apple. I am a PC person, and not sure if I like Mac environment that...

In Celtx, I used the subscript feature where I could keep a sections of main script to edit, a backup copy, etc... A cool feature. Now I have switched to FD7. Can't seem to find this subscript thingt there. I have to send a few lines (edited) to an actor. The Celtx way was to copy the...

Like everyone else, I was planning a non-union feature. Wanted to hire an actor who happens to be a SAG member. He suggested that if I go union, he can work. Based on what he knew, there wasn't any downside (he can work for $100 / day that I am paying the other actors). Does anyone know of...

I am having this annoying problem. DVD Studio freezes while muxing at different locations (32%, 46%, 77%, etc.). Have a Mac-pro 8 Core, 10 GB Ram, and a lot of hard drive space. The color wheel comes on and the only solution I have is to turn the system off, and back on. Have gone through...

I have a short where a girl sitting at the kitchen counter is talking to a lady making a sandwich (standing). The girl's shots are medium whereas the woman's are wide. So, basically, we are cutting between a medium shot and a wide shot. Is this an acceptable practice or the shot types have...

Have read quite a bit about the Kessler products. Are there any other good competing products in under $1,000 range for an EX1 (6 lbs)? Also, when they say fixed focus capability, do they mean that I can lock on to an item, say a dinner plate, and camera will continue to show the dinner...

I have a Sony EX1. I upload the footage into FCS, export it to a Quicktime file using "current" settings. This file is a good file as I can play it, and use iDVD to burn a DVD. However, my DVD Pro (a part of FCS studio) won't accept this file as it doesn't recognize the format. All I want...

I am sure this has been discussed before. I'll be shooting a stage show - 3 to 4 hrs long - using my EX1. The final output will be a standard DVD. Normally I shoot 1080 / 24P (movies). Have 3 hrs of recording capability at 1080P (2 x 16gb KxS, 2 x 8gb SxS). Can increase the capacity if I...

What kind of powder (or whatever) is used to tone down the bright reflecting areas (forehead, for example) from an actor's face?

I am using a shotgun mic (NTG-3). Room echo is always a problem; one way to remove it is by covering bare walls / floor with blankets. Three questions I have in this regard. 1. It is not always easy to do wall-to-wall coverage. Where should one focus the most? Ceiling? Front wall...

Resource constraint is the major issue. Ideally, I would have preferred the real life, not its simulation. Then, ideally, I would have used a 35mm camera, if not, at least a 35mm adapter. Here I am, like many others, with a crew of two (if I am lucky, myself beihg crew #1) trying to...

I posted this in the cinematography section as there was thread going on already. Copying it from there to here. Suppose you light up the whole stage with varying intensity of light, that is, the areas of interest (talents, for example) have more light then the areas of no interest...

Thanks. I did go to the site, and can see the difference. If I buy one, it'll be from them. Here is a related question. I am setting up this green house studio (for movie shooting) in our own house. I can paint couple of walls of an unused room (12 x 12) green, or get 1/4" Plywood...