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overlandfilms said:
I'm excited about this one and I agree that the science-fiction contest makes a great bridge event between the DVX and HVX technologies.

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Hey overland - thanks for the hi hat board! :thumbsup:
 
aw grasshopper said:
Gurus -

I will not be in this contest. It is way beyond my video shooting capabilities - but I will enjoy seeing what all of you come up with. Good luck.

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ever see the twilight zone?

I can't do any CGI

and my short won't be taking place in a slick spandex future

Comeone DUDE saddle up Woohoo YEah!
 
Oh, hey! Congratulations! I was wondering when I'd find out who won what. In addition to the hi-hat board, we're throwing in a gift certificate to FilmTools Burbank, so you can spend that on whatever you need most.

How are you guys holding up down there? We have a few Louisiana families staying here as our guests in Concord and I know they've had a rough couple of months. PM me your mailing information?

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overlandfilms said:
Oh, hey! Congratulations! I was wondering when I'd find out who won what. In addition to the hi-hat board, we're throwing in a gift certificate to FilmTools Burbank, so you can spend that on whatever you need most.

How are you guys holding up down there? We have a few Louisiana families staying here as our guests in Concord and I know they've had a rough couple of months. PM me your mailing information?

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We have been in Texas and must have been the luckiest couple, beagle, and two cats in the hurricane. Saddly our Beta fish is probably ... sleeping with the fishes, but he had a good year - much longer than usual for those little guys. But our place was completly UNTOUCHED as far as we know. We go back Monday in my new perfectly running $1000 grip truck that I got at a university auction here in Texas lol --$6K camera and a $1k grip truck! We're a little iffy on our address - want to make sure the forwarding is off, but I will get an address to you and /or Barry in the next couple of days.

Thanks again! Those apple boxes will rock too, one of those things that's soooooo useful but usually something you feel like you can't afford on a very very low budget.

here's a link to see the winner's films:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?p=321463#post321463
Here's a link for the announcement of the winners and what all the prizes were:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=36230
 
jdanstan said:
no they can enter
they just have to have 100 posts to vote
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I wasn't expecting that comment. Funny stuff dude...

I'm all for scantly clad, in fact, on a one to ten voting scale I think I give an extra half point for every piece of clothing removed...
 
AmishFest, eh?
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DVXUser AmishFest 2007
Be there and be square.​

Now that would be a challenge. I'm in.
 
Now that made me laugh out loud with enough volume that my girlfriend woke up and yelled at me... I'm now being told I need to get off the computer....
 
Barry_S said:
You have your choice of 16:9 or 1.78:1. :) That's letterboxed 4:3 or stretched 4:3 or anamorphic 4:3 but all 16:9.


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I'm not sure I'm clear on this - as long as it is at least 16:9 we'll be ok right? So 2.35:1 is acceptable.






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Sorry couldn't resist. Thanks for the clarification Barry. It looks like Disjecta will have to go back to framing for 16:9 ...
 
Actually I do need one more point of clarification on this -- sorry to be obtuse. The 16X9 is a technical requirement, not an aesthetic one yes?

For example as long as the video is actually shaped 16X9 (or anamorphic) I can matte to 2.35:1, just like Disjecta and I both did this time around.

(EDIT: Actually Curogonwas 2:35.1 as well.)

Incase my vocab is off here's another attempt at clarity.
I shoot anamorphic 16X9
My NLE settings are
DV/NTSC
23.98
16X9
Anamorphic Box Checked
I matte to 2:35.1
I output my matted cinescope with settings identical to the NLE settings
DV/NTSC
23.98
16X9
Anamorphic Box Checked
And you and Jarred (and disjecta and I) are happy?

Thanks!
 
Jack, that's fine...it just needs to go on a 16x9 DVD and Jarred is just attempting to make it all uniform and cut down his work. So, unless I'm misunderstanding anything, you can still matte your 16x9 to a 2:35:1 aspect.

The settings you mentioned are good.
 
That's what I thought; that waltlind is just trying to get our goat that naughty naught boy!
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EDIT: It's be hillarious if someone was as hellbent on shooting 4:3 as we are on 2.35:1 and shot 16:9 and then pillarboxed to 4:3 (and not just for a single effect like you did) lol!
 
Not speaking for anyone here, but my understanding is that the final product must be:

1.77:1 / 16:9

I further interpret the rule to mean that the following aspect ratios are also not allowed:

1.33:1 / 4:3
2.35:1 within a 1.77:1 or 1.33:1 raster

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well obv one of the yella fellas (mods) will have to chime in
but I think disjecta is right -- its about jarred not having to blow up and crop a lot of things which is what he is having to do now for the DVD.
Would seem silly to ban 2:35.1 matted esp. since all three winners of the fall fest did exactly that.
If I can't frame for 2:35.1 w/in a 16X9 frame it will be like having sex with a condom on vs. doing it without one*** (sorry for the graphic analogy but really seems most accurate to me) In other words better than not shooting at all but not the transcendent indescribable exp that creating something in 2:35.1 has come to be.


While I'm all for artistic freedom (think you should be able to matte to 10:1 if that tells your story / floats your boat), I was just joking about someone pillar boxing to 4:3 -- hope to god no one will do that, lol!

***in a committed monogamous relationship of course
 
I don't think they give a flyin' F and a rolling donut what you stick inside of that 16x9 frame.

If you want some black bars to create an end frame of 2:35/1 then do it. I think the ONLY thing they're trying to do is reel in some of the workload, not restrict creative freedom. If Jarred's computer sees a 16x9 file I think he's happy. Of course I may be making a horrible assumption here and if so then I hope I'm strongly disciplined... strongly.

Since I see the trend... "wider is better"... I'm going with 8.125/1... otherwise known as "banner framing".
 
That's what I'm hoping was meant but Barry's comment about allowing letterboxed footage (while the next listing is stretched letterbox) leads me to believe he's serious about everything being 16:9 - no matting.
 
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