Comments on: Sam after Shaving

By: OlympiaLogger

OlympiaLogger — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:01:48 +0000

Like this one for instance…

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/pho/602759232.html

By: OlympiaLogger

OlympiaLogger — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:37:47 +0000

Eddie,

Don’t know how far you intend to upgrade, but there are older, much cheaper but still very good Canon XL1s’ out there.
I found one on craigslist last night that was $1,200 and it had a bunch of goodies with it to boot.

If by “somthing better” you mean BETTER-better, then look at the Canon XHA1.
It’s as good as the XLH1 but just doesn’t have a bayonet mount lens.

Whatever you look at it should at least:
Be a 3 chip camera.
Have an audio IN jack.
Allow you manual control.
Be MiniDV.
And stay away from the ones that record directly do a little DVD.

By: frizo

frizo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:38:34 +0000

bloody hell ^^

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:54:50 +0000

Hi Andrew one question im using a panasonic mini dv camcorder for my shots but im not happy with the quality somtimes. So im thinking of upgrading to somthing better. What do u think about the cannon x1 i think thats the model would there be a big improvement or im wasting my time and go for a HD camera im limited for money.
Thanks…By theway your tuts are great

By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:56:47 +0000

Looks Amazing!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:43:22 +0000

Hey Andrew,

Can’t wait ! but I must say, Plz take ur time to show us the BIG BOOM again in ur 60th tut

U always Rock. – Thnx for Everything

Best Regards
Sandy

By: YanStofurst

YanStofurst — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:39:00 +0000

I just used some knowledge and tricks from VideoCopilot to create a regeneration effect, I found myself to be so original “Yeah! i didnt just copy Kramer effect like all the others, i did something new and nobody will accuse me of ripping of VideoCopilot”

Damn, and it look better than what i’ve come up with.

By: York

York — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:27:23 +0000

oh yah Sandra,

With premiere CS2/CS3, they do have solved the problem with their
program called “adobe dynamic link”
You can directly import AE Composition file into premiere, which helps
ppl making their lives alot easier. I tested it, its working pretty good
but then it only works smooth if you have a nice computer. I dont prefer
using that method cuz my computer is around average kind. It takes a lonnng time for me to import large composition into premiere, plus when you view the AE comp video in the premiere timeline, its very laggy, which creates more difficulties for editting.

As for output compression…I think Andrew has a very good tutorial that explains all the core issues in it, you can browse thru the site. I forgot which one it is.
Basically, when you outputing ur film, 1st thing you may want to consider is how large is ur hard drive is? and what it is ur film for? If you dont mind having a very large file size in ur hard drive, I’d say output ur film into image sequence. TGA is definitly a nice choice. But if you dont have that much space in ur hard drive, I’d suggest you go with Quicktime “Animation”. It turns out pretty much the same as it will with TGA. At least with human eyes, you cant really tell the differentce.
just my opinion