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Irish Music Irish Music Hi, You can get some fairly good Irish music via royalty free libraries like Flying Hands: http://www.flyinghands.com/style-mp3+irish.html Depending on the length of the cut, the cost can be as little as $9 for a short cut to around $30 for the full piece. If these...

Style Style You might think about adopting a style to fit your equipment. Instead of trying to make your movies look like they were shot on 35MM or with a $90,000 HD camera, pick a style that fits what you can do. For instance, Steven Soderbergh goes for certain "looks" such as handle held...

Getting the Film Made Getting the Film Made When it comes to getting your film made, it is going to be series of compromises. Since it is your project, you get to decide what and how much gets compromised. So, you could hold tight and keep your project as it is now without compromises, and...

Save Error Save Error Check to make sure you have not maxed out your memory. JimT

Manual Manual If you are referring to the GL2, you can download the manual at: http://alpha02u.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900 Good luck. JimT

Post Sound Post Sound Not all "Hollywood productions" use looping. In my early days as a docu producer, I did my share of sound recording and I have a strong appreciation for location sound. Later in my career, I produced a TV movie shot 100% on location and hired a sound mixer with a...

Music Royalty Music Royalty OK, here's the Killer Track's non-broadcast deal: For one cut of music (I selected one at random), for each use (every time you put it in a video), you pay bsed on the number of copies to be made: 500 copies or less: $75 10,000 copies or less: $95 They do have a...

Music Music You are right about the marketing but I guess it is an inconvenience to be tolerated if you want their product bad enough. I will be in touch again when I hear from them. JimT

Music License Music License There are basically two types of music license: Royalty Free-you pay one flat fee for all uses; Royalty Based you pay a license based on how you use the music. For instance, for the same piece of music, you would pay a small license fee for non-broadcast...

FCP Titles FCP Titles 1. In the viewer, go to the pull down menu for text (the icon with a frame of film and the letter A in it) and select text. (From your post, you seem to have done this OK). 2. In the viewer, you should see a checkerboard pattern with "SAMPLE TEXT" in the middle...

Video Pixels vs. Film Grain Video Pixels vs. Film Grain I supposed that at some point digital pictures could match film for resolution and color, contrast, and black levels. However, will video ever be able to match the soft edges and blended look that film can achieve with millions of random...

Missing Media Missing Media Here is another thought. Pulled this off of FCP support site. It is another reason to recapture individually instead of via batch: Timecode breaks occur when a tape is started or stopped while it is being recorded, and a gap appears in the timecode track. This...

Missing Media Missing Media Did you check in the Capture Scratch folder in your FCP Documents to see if the media is indeed missing? If it is, try re-capturing one of your scenes again just to make sure that the time code error is only not enough pre-roll time on the first scene. If I think...

Reply to Dave Reply to Dave For actors in low budget projects, I have always had good luck with community theater groups. And they are a great source for older actors. JimT

Reply to Dave Reply to Dave Hi Dave, Don't worry about your age or that this is your first project. The people you end up working with will probably be in similar circumstances. As far as respect, the way you get that is by respecting others. Be appreciative of the contributions of others...

You need to tell us what monitor you want to go out to and if you are talking HDV or uncompressed HD. If its HDV, yes you need to use an HD Link and no its not 2500.00 its 695.00

Reply to Siddhartha Reply to Siddhartha Hi, Like many of you, I have a day job that pays the bills and then there is the fun stuff I do in my spare time. Right now, I do instructional videos for my own company. They are of the teacher training variety and I am about to start on a series of...

Reply to Chris Reply to Chris Hi Chris, I like your music a lot. I especially like what you have done for "Deployment Strategy." You have talent and will go far! Best of luck. JimT

Reply to Chris Reply to Chris Chris, Very nicely said. If you are not up for directing, perhaps you should thinking about writing. JimT

Movie Making Movie Making I enjoyed reading all of the posts about how hard it is to make movies and I think that, to some extent, all of you have part of it right. However, I think you all left out an important part of the process and that is the rest of the team needed to make a movie. I...