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We were all set to start shooting tomorrow when a lead actress in my film and someone who, despite only having known here a while, would call a friend called me late into the night upon just having heard that her husband had suffered a heart attack (he's stable now thank God but there's much...

My camera/loader and digital guy only has one of those new Mac Notebooks without a slot for the P2. Is there like an adapter drive which can be connected via USB2?

I love to storyboard because I love to compose shots. I think composition makes such a HUGE impact on a movie. That said, I'm a perfectionist and even though my storyboards aren't incredibly detailed, I end up spending and hour or so on each panel just re-doing it until I think the composition...

Ok, I've got a 30-minute short coming up in two weeks. In college I did a number of no budget films with all-student crews and since then I've been running my own videography business (just a one man production company). Recently, I realized it had been two years since I'd made a film for...

I know this sounds like a stupid question but hear me out. I've owned an HVX200 for my business for almost two years now and it's served me well. I know the ins and outs of the camera, am happy with the results I've gotten from it, and feel very comfortable using it. In a short time I'm...

I'm shooting my first short film in two years and the shoot is soon approaching. I've had my HVX200 for two years now as well (got it right after I finished my last film) but have always just used 2 4 gig cards with laptop offloads for all the corporate video work I've done. I'm tempted to do...

About a year ago, I invested in a Audio Technica 4073a because I was told it was the cheapest professional quality mic I could get. I only used the little foam piece that came with it and it served me well on my smaller shoots but I must admit wind could do some real damage. Now, I'm planning...

I recently decided to give After Effects a try instead of Combustion since more and more people I know are using it. I shoot HVX200 and edit with Avide Xpress Pro HD but am having trouble bringing those files into AECS3. I created a DVCProHD 720p 23.976 composite but, whenever I try to import...

This may well be a dumb question and I haven't been on the boards for a while but why is the 16 gig selling so cheap. Since I've had an HVX200, we've been paying more per gig on bigger cards with the 8 gig always being more than twice the price of the 4 gig. Now I go online and see an 8 giger...

I have no idea what is wrong. All of a sudden, Avid won't display my color corrections unless I render the shot. Obviously, I don't want to render when I have no idea what it's going to look like. Everything else works fine. Color Effect still displays the changes without rendering as do...

I'm starting to do more corporate video work and a lot of that means working with still pictures. In the past, when I wanted to import a still, I'd simply re-format it to 16x9 in Photoshop so Avid would scretch it out or put in black bars. For animations, I'd go ahead and take it into...

Ok, I've been shooting a lot with my Rebel XT as of late. This is the first time I've ever dabble in still photography and if anything I've realized that I have no idea what I'm doing (kind of wanna run back to cinematography with my tail between my legs). I just shot a round of photos that...

I just recently got a Rebel XT but am noticing an odd issue. RAW files don't seem to appear on the CF card in the computer. I see that they're on there in the camera but, when I plug the XT in to my computer, they don't show up. I've tried displaying hidden and system files but they just...

As I'm doing more jobs with my HVX200, the need for a decent digital still camera is becoming more and more apparent. I don't need something with a detatchible lense or something for the best photographers, just something with a lot of manual controls and at least five megapixles of resolution...

It seems like every time someone wonders onto these boards wondering if they should buy a HVX200, the biggest problem is P2 workflow. Well the camera has been out for about a year now so I figured why not those of us who have taken the plunge share the experience we've had with P2. I'd invite...

I've been using Sorensen for a while and I'm losing my patiences with it. I love all the options but I've tons of errors (it won't let me encode progressivly, often it stops compressing half way through and half my video is just white, recently files I compressed with it have a bunch of green...

I'm finishing up a training video and have encountered an odd glitch. I shot it on an HVX200 in 720p24pN mode and edited my footage in Avid 5.23 and then sent QT references to Sorensen Squeeze. I then compressed that into an MPEG 2. My settings were as follows: DVD_NTSC_Lg Format Constraints...

My girlfriend got a cheap card that would let her cable and VCR plug into her computer so she could tape shows. She'd like to be able to burn these to DVD but the card only allows one to record in MPEG1, DivX, or uncompressed AVI. I can easily transcode the AVI in Encore 2.0 but just one hour...

I've got a PC with 2 512 sticks in it and four slots. I decided I wanted to get another gig of ram and ordered a 1 gig stick. I tried everything but I couldn't get the two different RAM's to play nice. I could get it to start with the 1 gig stick or the 2 512s but never both together. I...

I've got a PC with 2 512 sticks in it and four slots. I decided I wanted to get another gig of ram and ordered a 1 gig stick. I tried everything but I couldn't get the two different RAM's to play nice. I could get it to start with the 1 gig stick or the 2 512s but never both together. I...