Video anyone?

rockin4theking · 12-04-2005, 12:09 AM

I'm just curious to see if anyone else does videos here. I'm just getting started, and have only made a few, but I'm learning as I go. For some short clips go to my website and have a look if you're on high speed internet.

Mainly I'm into doing crew videos, which are just videos that highlight the season, and the people who worked together for most of it.

Anyway, if you want to look go here: www.fireandforestry.com/videos

zekthedeadcow · 12-04-2005, 05:55 PM

I reciently finished a feature length DV movie called Invisible Bridges...as basically a technical director and producer... I was basically the cinematographer but others I trained did a lot of shooting. We're still submitting to festivals...and will be doing so for the next year... It cost just under $15,000

It was shot with a hybrid analog/digital rig I put together
Panasonic WV-F250 dockable camera with AD250 studio adapter
Datavideo DAC-100 analog to firewire video converter
and it was recorded onto an iBook G4 (with a RAM upgrade)

so it was basically like DVCAM just without some of the extra compression...though still 4:1:1

It took just over a year including preproduction... photography lasted 6 months. It was lots of fun and very stressful at times... I think if I was to do another "regualr" movie I'd do film or "maybe" HD... I'm thinking about doing some experiments with online distrobution with some cheapy DV movies but I dunno yet.

Now I'm getting into still photography.

Brent · 12-05-2005, 09:23 AM

What software did you use for editing? Rendering a feature-length film on an iBook...that must've taken the other 6 months you had. heh I used After Effects a lot in school, so it's fairly familiar to me. I just got a Powerbook a few weeks ago now and have Final Cut Pro 4 (I think that's the version...) on it and have been learning it fairly easily. So many more parameters you can change than After Effects, though. I've got a 12" Powerbook, 1.5Ghz processor and 1.25 GB of RAM....80 GB hard drive I believe. Right now I'm just noodling around with a video for my church to get a feel for Final Cut. It's a view of our steeple from the ground and I've keyed out the sky and put in a moving cloud loop behind it. I'm flying in words fading in and out that say "Welcome to..." etc. etc. for the church to use as a welcome video in the announcements MediaShout presentation that runs before every service. Easy stuff, fun stuff.

Mugga Please · 12-05-2005, 10:39 AM

hey whats up,

ya ive gotten at the beggining of the year. Fun stuff. I'm starting to do video for my church and make small promotion videos for events. So far people have loved the stuff. I got like 5 new ones coming just this month. So..its all good.

But you can check out my stuff at my web site: www.walkoffvideos.com under 'videos'. The stuff i've done for my church so far is under "vineyard promos".

zekthedeadcow · 12-05-2005, 04:10 PM

We hired two editors from the local CBS affiliate... they used FCP. They cut us a huge deal and did it all for $2500. I think we ended up with about 1.5TB of data all in all... audio was recorded seperatly onto my DAW using an Aardvark Q10 recording into Cakewalk SONAR 2.2XL... plus on remote locations the entire mess had to be powered by two deep cycle batteries. It was a lot to lug around but the fact we looked like a news crew saved us from the police a few times...

stringsamateur · 12-05-2005, 09:56 PM

my brother does it, but i don't know much about it. he uses pinnacle studio, i think.. and says it's not very good. but then i wouldn't know.

FilltheEarth · 01-06-2006, 07:45 PM

Hey, do any of you know how to do those animated video things that people have on the opening pages to their websites, that always say "made with shockwave" or something like that? Cause I downloaded shockwave, and maybe I'm just really at a loss for how to use it correctly, but it doesn't seem like an animation/graphic editting type program, but more a layout and design program. Help me out here, anyone.

rockin4theking · 01-06-2006, 08:29 PM

That's probably a question for the Computers forum...I think it's Macromedia Flash that creates the "video" and Shockwave that plays it, but I could be wrong. I've never messed around with that kind of thing. Sorry.

LesPaulLuke · 01-17-2006, 04:46 PM

im obsessed with filmmaking ive made like 9 screenplays and im only 14 weve actually filmed them also they range from the amauter stuff like skateboarding to crazy things like band stuff and jet sking

ApparentlyNothing · 06-08-2006, 12:01 AM

I've got a couple videos I did for my Digital Video class. Enjoy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...68316849600224

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...47190317769589