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So your scheme relies on anonymity and obscurity to work; how is this polite? Of course, any email I see sent to me that purportely originates at my box goes immediately in the trash...so your scheme works perfectly at getting your replies ignored.

Congratulations on having completed the projects you've done. Keep in mind that an artist needs to have enough sensitivity and awareness of the world around him to pull something truthful from life into his work. On the other hand, a working artist has to toughen himself up enough to be able to...

I'd be interested in seeing what the mrmons edit of Texas Chainsaw Massacre would look like...;) Filmmakers and studios negotiate these censored versions in their production contracts. But if studios provide "cleansed" versions of films for the airline industry, they could just as well provide...

Thanks for summarizing the court case, it made some interesting points. Doesn't the airline industry pursue a similar censorship policy for its in-flight movies? How is that different from the Mormons?

So Fox/CNN is paying OBL for rebroadcast rights? Making videotapes is OBL's main business nowadays. If Fox/CNN is paying him then they are financially supporting worldwide terrorism, and you by extension are advocating it. Hello, Homeland Security? Oh, wait, you're saying that Fox/CNN is NOT...

Or how about CNN/Fox News taking snippets of Al Jazeera newscasts for rebroadcast? I don't know if Osama Bin Laden cares either way whether his videotapes are quoted out of context, but others might. On the other hand, I don't watch AJ, so CNN/Fox is likely to be the only place I get to see it...

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Sachtler is a good choice for fluid head tripods. They are very expensive, but they really work. If you have an important shoot (in any format, film or video) you might consider renting a good tripod. Your audience will thank you.

That covers a lot of ground. So should a Beethoven symphony not be shown with footage of flying blue whales as happens in Fantasia 2000, or even be shortened and played at the faster speed performed in the movie, because Beethoven had not explicitly authorized his work to be played faster, to...

For $200 you can't get much of a wireless setup. I work regularly with wireless lavaliers costing 10x that much and they're still a pain in the @ss. You should be able to find a wired lavalier that will work for you. Just get the positioning right or it will be more trouble than it's worth.

Isn't this issue more about freedom of choice? Perhaps some people would prefer to see a movie that has gratuitous sex & violence removed and lets the story (or lack of one) shine through...

Welcome, Kin0pic. My feeling is you have the gear that you need to make movies that can look fabulous no matter your choice of final format. One of the great improvements in the last couple of decades is the quality of high speed 16mm movie film; just about everybody from the ASC pro to the home...

I'm in the process of buying a Beaulieu 4008 ZM2 because it has user-adjustable ASA, a high quality lens (Optivaron 6-66) and repair shops still refurbish Beaulieus. As for buying overseas, I haven't ever been totally burned in an ebay transaction, domestic or overseas, so have no opinion...

I'm a film fan and would naturally argue for S16, but the presence of child talent warps all other considerations. I'd say shoot with HD or a 3-chip DV or DigiBeta system, just so you can afford to shoot the coverage you need without sweating over the film costs. When you've got more production...

What camera did you buy? We'd like to hear about it. The way to figure out exposure for any speed and shutter angle is thus: exposure time = shutter angle / ( fps * 360 ) So, given a 24 fps and a 150 degree shutter angle, you'd have exposure time = 150 / (24 * 360 ) , or 1/57 sec. In all...

"I'm 17 years old, I had a job but after working months and months at $5.15 an hour, inadequate checks that where LESS than what they should be, and two raises that NEVER showed up on my checks, I said "screw it" and quit. Renting, I just dont want to." Eating. I used to eat, but it got too...

Nonsense. It's called PlusX. Color wasn't invented until 1964.:no:

Another vote for Celtx. I've been using it on a Windows machine in the past several weeks and it works fine. Good formatting capabilities and good automation guesswork.

Reg, you're talking about buying a slate? Sure, they start about $50, and go up into the thousands for timecode generating slates. All 35mm film and most 16mm US film intended for projection or video is shot at 24fps ever since the dawn of sync sound. Europe shoots 16mm at 25fps to more easily...

An inexpensive camera doesn't cost very much. An expensive camera costs more. That's the main rule :) For the extra money invested you should get a fully functional camera with better lenses (critical for getting a sharp image in this small format) and the ability to manually adjust focus and...