jogn said: "I love this! This is great stuff!
The dvx 100 is the indie film maker's film camera. Parts of the 24p look is killed if you pan too fast, or fast forward too quickly. The only problem with the dvx100 is the 4:3 aspect ratio for their CCDs whereas the HD cameras will have true 16:9 aspect ratios."

jdg said: "u can always fake the 16:9 wiht croping.

i wish u didn't end on the the last note. just one earlier.


i always foudn it funny that 24p looks like flim so much even when its not.. our brains are tricked!
i wonder if someone has never seen film, if they'd prefer video or film better?"

Fredo said: "Yeah, BetaSP used to be the format of choice. Now it looks like turd."

jdg said: "know what you need.
a steady cam jr.. those are awesome... u can even build your own.
man.. they're not that much anymore link"

bbwax said: "jcd, i didn't want just a filmic look, i wanted an old beat up filmic look. so i think it's okay. "

bbwax said: "...if you know any good after effects resources point me to 'em! "

bbwax said: "
thanks jogn. as you can probably tell by my responses to fredo, i'm waiting out the whole changeover to HD stuff. not only with cameras, but home electronics also. jesus h that crap is confusing and misleading a lot of times. all the things i have now (cameras, tv, dvd) work fine so i'm gonna wait until i need something new and hopefully by then all the HD mess will be sorted out. do you have any HD gear?"

jcd said: "
Fair enough.


Chris & Trish Meyers remind me of the Married News Team from Tom Goes to the Mayor, but they're great at introducing fairly complex ideas in a simple manner. That's why they've been writing for DV magazine for so long. An archive of some of their past articles can be found here:
link

Ayato@web has less than perfect English, and he assumes you are already proficient with the program (and stocked up on premium plug-ins), but he's got some tutorials that teach you how to do the 'wow' stuff, the CNN bumper stuff, the fancy, glowing, shining stuff. And that can be very good stuff to know.
link

CreativeCOW is definitely a site to check out, but that site seems to be down. Not sure if this is temporary or permanent. It's worth attempting several times, since it's a large and deep resource of tutorials written by various professionals.
link

Hope you continue to post videos!"

jdg said: "do it!

i loved it... running around the woods at night with high gain on. 300bux aint bad, really!
im sure there are even better deals.
but get a the "real" one.. some of the off brand ones i've used broke. (again, 10yrs ago experience)"

jogn said: "
Hey don't worry about the entire HD thing, i've got the same feelings as you, i'm not about to fork out for HD gear of my own, except maybe for a hdv camera. It's probably not going to get sorted out til like 2005 or something, though the pace seems to be quickening. The reason that you might want a HD camera though would probably be for the added pixels, so you can selectively crop pictures, and then fit to ntsc/pal resolution. That's about the only thing going for it or the more compressed HDV, AVCHD. For the casual shooter, that's totally fine. Everything else can be rented.

There's a website out there that has a blueprint for making a $14 steady cam. Here you go! link"