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SandeepG — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:57:30 -0000

Great suggestions, thank you.

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Modi_chinki — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:59:46 -0000

great here u marketing ur own books.......lol...nice work Mr.William Mims.....

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Diploma in Film making — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:42:24 -0000

yea your right soundtrack can make or break the movie ....i tried it :P

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Mims — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:52:49 -0000

There are a lot of things to know about making a quality, professional film. As a filmmaker from the Hollywood 'old school' of splicing film and watching workprints on a Movieola to learning computer FCP/Vegas Pro9 style editing, I can tell you regardless of what you shoot with or edit on, it is still about telling a good story that people want to watch. There are basics that this new age of young filmmakers should know about and make an effort to learn and apply. I have a book on Amazon called Advanced Film and Video Production. It is a film school course in one book. Take a look at it. If you think it will be of benefit to you, buy it. It will save you the mistakes I and others have made over years to bring you closer to being successful as a professional filmmaker. It has never been easier or less expensive to get your first project to a commercial audience.

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Marcus — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:00:13 -0000

Great competition to get indie films in 50 AMC's: http://bit.ly/blSfO3

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Jan Morris — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:03:17 -0000

That was very helpful we i've been doing video for 10 years and utilize many of these techniques myself . Here is trailer to my latest project .

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Chandrc_9 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:27:02 -0000

Thank you so much for sharing. I am just starting my own small production house and the article was so helpful.

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Andimeilee — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:17:32 -0000

thanks for sharing this. i've just starting going into fillmaking myself and know i'll need to spend more hours reading valuable stuff like the ones you have. i've also found this site which i also bookmarked: http://thenewfilmmaker.com/

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Flv Player — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:57:47 -0000

Amazing economical info thanks for the stuffed post.

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Chaudie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:38:48 -0000

Thanks for posting this. I'm trying to start a reality show and these tips are greatly appreciated.

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Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:33:49 -0000

http://www.budgetfilmmaker....

I didn't watch many of them or read up on the fine print, but I'm pretty sure you can get them to host it for free. People can download them to watch them. There may be a better site, but it's good to look at what other people are doing.

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dyroy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:40:29 -0000

i am looking to host my short film on the internet. i was wondering if you know of any good sites that host short films that arent full of garbage like youtube

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some guy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:24:37 -0000

I have cheap camarea that runs out of batery in five minutes and I stiff make films easy the camera makes almost know diferanc (unless theres know on button)the story and on rehersal make all the diferance

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MRB — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:52:17 -0000

$5,000 is way too much for the serious film hobbyist. If people are trying to sell movies, than the better camera is an investment, but for most of us, we want to spend less than $1,000. In 99% of all independent films, the quality of the camera is the smallest factor in determining if the movie is any good or not.

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thirdbase — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:18:32 -0000

If you're ever going to be serious about film, don't waste your money on a on a chep camera. Save your dollars and get the Panasonic HVX200. (around $5,000.00) It is an HD camera that records to flash memory cards. With that camera, a Mac, Final Draft screenwriting software, and Final Cut Pro film editing software, you will be able to create incredible films!

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joe pro — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:19:51 -0000

it was the canon XL1 on 28 days later, two of them.

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Sam Anderson — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:53:23 -0000

How do you do underwater shots?

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Dustin Bachrach — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:21:06 -0000

To do that Aaron, you need to trim the video portion of the clip but not the audio portion. In FC, you can use the slice tool and then select only the video portion of the clip and then delete. It's really just a matter of realligning which audio is under which video track.

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Aaron Haynes — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:03:45 -0000

on the subject of in and out points what should you do when you want the audio of the next seen come in before it starts/or when the other person's voice(in the case of people conversing) comes in when the shot is on the person not talking.

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Dustin Bachrach — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:05:40 -0000

I'd just like to add that Scruss is very right about MiniDV. My camera uses it as well and it a lot of advantages. It's very tiny so you can get really small cameras, and you record pretty long on it. I just hook up my camera to the computer through firewire and then capture the footage on the MiniDV tape through FinalCut and I'm ready to edit. The tapes are also very cheap, so you can buy a lot and shoot lots and lots of footage on a tight budget.

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Scruss — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:26:19 -0000

I am a beginning filmmaker(indie) and have little money. I spent a good 3 or 4 weeks deciding what camera i wanted to buy. I finally made my mind up and went with the panasonic pv-gs320. The camera is of 3ccd design. 3CCD is a three chip camera, each chip handles a different light, which makes for crystal clear video. I spent 430 dollars for a brand new camera from amazon. The camera is beautiful and is minidv, which means its small. I would recommend this camera to anyone starting out with little money. The dv tapes are cheap as well, and you can film for about 70 minutes depending on the play length you choose.

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Nick — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:52:31 -0000

Josh Zombie Fan -- Consider the Canon GL2 or the Panasonic DVX-100a/b -- these are both really good quality cameras that shoot great video (3ccd, panasonic can shoot 24p). Unlike the XL2 or the XL1, they are handheld and will be a lot more flexible with movement/action shots.

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JOSH ZOMBIE FAN — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:13:09 -0000

WHAT ARE GOOD NOT SO EXPENSIVE CAMERAS TO USE IN HORROR MOVIES

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Dustin Bachrach — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:07:00 -0000

Unfortunately I do not. I would assume that they would be film cameras so your looking at a pretty expensive camera (thousands of dollars) and also lots of money on film.

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JOSH ZOMBIE FAN — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:03:50 -0000

do you know the types of cameras were used in the moviES '28 DAYS LATER' AND EL MARIACH IF YOU KNOW PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW MUCH THEY COST