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Somebody here's in charge of Nikon, right? My 50mm is a fine lens, except it requires way too much light to autofocus, is way too loud, and slow. Give me a mechanism that works like the 70-200mm or 300mm, and I'll take it at any weight.

Hey everyone, after a long post-production I'm happy to present the promo trailer for our show "Zombie High". This show was shot with an original DVX100, stock lens. I co-wrote, DP'd, color graded, edited some, and did visual effects on the piece. We're pretty pleased with it and shopping it...

I need a costume person at the end of the month for a shoot in South Carolina. Budget is modest for what we're trying to do (1850s/1880s period stuff) but if you know anyone, please drop a line!

Here's a question I've not found a suitable answer to: I am interested in adapting a published short story as a film. What is the process I need to pursue? The author has been dead for nearly 20 years, and the story was written nearly 30 years ago. It has since been published in several...

Hey guys, we're working on a little project coming up towards the end of the summer and are casting actors immediately. Let me know (or just submit materials) if you or anyone you know is interested in these roles! POWER OF THE PEN Psychic Bunny is casting for their upcoming production...

Hey guys, I need to shoot some elements tonight for compositing. One of the things I need to shoot is water pouring out of a bottle. I need to be able to pull a clean key off of this, so I'm thinking definitely a black luma situation. But as far as getting nice sharp highlights and...

Spent most of today finessing this, which is DVX + lots of other stuff. http://www.psychicbunny.com/temp/ZH.14A-3.640.h264.mov Still needs CC, and picked up a bit of noise in the compression.

Anyone know a good source for projector rental in the LA area? I'm looking for a 3000+ lumen projector for about 2 weeks from now. I've talked with Atech already, but I'm hoping to find a lower rate.

Hey guys, Just came back from shooting a movie in 24-hours for the Mayday movie contest this past weekend. Here's the movie: http://www.maydayfilms.com/films/04_team-lower-gatsby.mov On the whole, though, the experience was completely positive. Not having to capture tape was absolutely...

I've been looking and not yet found a suitable writing partner in LA. I have plenty of ideas and am a fine writer, but I find that I never complete anything on my own. My previous writing partner is too busy at the moment, and I'm feeling the need to write. If you're in the same boat, meet me...

Hey guys, I'm trying to capture DVCPRO50 24p direct via firewire to a FCP 5.1 setup, and it's working fine except for I'm getting pretty nasty interlacing. If I do 24pA, I can Remove Advanced Pulldown and be fine, but what do I do for normal 24p?

I know Barry has lamented how useless the "feature" is of switching the focus ring between Focus and Iris, but I've found a potential use for it. So now my question is: why doesn't it work?? I've set it to my user button, and when I press it, the LCD indicates "Ring Iris", but the ring...

I don't really know much about electrics, but is it possibly to take the output of a 9v battery and easily/cheaply convert it to a 5v feed?

Hey guys, here's two commercials my company just did for Firefox on the HVX200. The first one is "Smells Terrific", written, shot, and directed by yours truly. http://www.psychicbunny.com/video/Firefox_SmellsTerrific_320.mov The second one is "Easy", written and directed by my partner Jesse...

I found this Kanguru USB drive out and about... seems like it might be a workable solution for maintaining dual backups on shorter shoots, or for handing over footage to clients. Would it work in host mode, directly plugged into camera? If the price came down a little, it might be a nice tool...

I'm sure this is something basic I'm missing, but we did a commercial shoot this weekend and all of the audio coming into FCP is 6 frames out of synch. Not a big deal to synch it back up but I'd love to avoid this in the future. Any idea what it is?

We've got this shoot coming up tomorrow (in LA), and I'm looking for some safety P2 cards just in case (we only have 2 right now). It's short notice so I'm having a hard time getting through to camera houses. I've called EVS, Moviola, and Birns & Sawyer and have yet to talk to an actual...

Hey guys, if any of you are in LA and know any older actors (40+) that are good to work with, particularly for comedic roles, I'd love to know. We've been putting together a lot of very short shorts and spec commercials/pilots, and while I've got a really solid gang of actors in their 20s and...

Any idea when it'll be released? Is it released already? I haven't been paying full attention.

Tell me if there's anything wrong with this idea: car battery + inverter to power a semi-portable production monitor. How much running time do you think I'd get out of a battery running say a Sony 14" or the Dell 2405, for instance? Is there any reason this wouldn't work?