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I plan on making a movie next winter but...
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i dont have a cam, what is a good vid cam to film with?
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check the media and arts forum. they'll have more info
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i made a pretty decent 33 min ski film with just a little JVC camera
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good beggining cam? maybe chack out a gl1 or gl2
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I suggest you allow me to rip you off in an insanly bad deal for my gl2 w/ excesories come fall
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I will then use the money I robed from you on spelling lesons
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most definatley and high def camera, real pricey but worth it when it comes to editing
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i dont think he'll figure out what the fuck to do with a really nice camera
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if you are going for that, make sure you have an external hard drive , 1 minute of filming = one gigabyte
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why? it is pointless unless you can view and edit in HD, and are you really suggesting that he goes out and drops five grand for an HD camera that is going to make little to no difference for him. On top of that HD cameras are complicated and take alot of time to figure out how to make them look good. I have been using my GL2 (much more basic in terms of manual settings) for over a year, stole settings from slandis and still don't film to the GL2's potential.
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you mean Fincal Cut Studio 2? Final Cut 2 is waaay outdated.
as for a cam, a good one is like an hv20. I dont know much about the small consumer cams though, my first camera was a GL2.
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not trying to rip on you, but i know HD cams from 600-1000 that are not bad. HDR-HC7 is a sick camera
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get something in the panasonic gs series. It's the best quality/price to start with.
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or you could just get Sony Vegas
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The only real quality HD camera out right now is the HVX. everything else has flaws in their image or control.
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GL1s are shit, don't go there
GL2s are around $1300 - $1600 used with a bunch of accesories. Theres people selling them on NS all the time.
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try out the panasonic dvc-30, its fun
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i think im getting sony, idk the modle
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holy shit thats a lot of storage needed
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Just get like a 600 dollar camera, some small camera. You don't really need a 3CCD camera to make a movie, just make sure you use a tripod and make sure the lighting is always good in the shots, and it will look decent. But if you want a super legit movie check out the sony VX series and canon GLs or panisonic fx. But if you do, be prepared to drop 2000 on a camera.
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they are that cheap for a reason.
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final cut takes vegas out and shoots it in the back of the head
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isn't it only for macs though?and what about fincal is that for mac only?
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Thats why studios use Raid systems that can store 7 TB of data each.
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they also use raid systems for the crash protection
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haha yeah they have sooooooooooo much space on those things.
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fucking sony HD something..hahah good for anything. even stills
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well also a raid system involves multiple disks for each hard drive so a raid six will write the data to 6 disks atomaticaly so when one of those disks tilts and scrapes against it's housing or gets really friendly to a big magnet you still have all your data.
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multiple discs for each hard drive?
a raid is made up of several hard drives which make up a raid not a new hard drive..
also raid6 doesn't mean that there are 6 discs in the array, the 6 refers to the raid level. The raid levels have varying amounts of data protection and different methods of distributing the data between them.
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are you talking about making a high quality legit film? or just a little dvd to watch with your homies?
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haha i think tbc needs better editing and filming. (better cam and editing program than wmm)
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hahah i was goanna say, dont ahte my editing skills, but yes your right i gotta get some dope software for next years film.
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haha I was just bored, shoulda been studying but for some reason NS was more fun
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THUNDER BUMP PRODUCTIONS, not teddy bear crisis, i knew someone would misunderstand that, but i havent seen teddy bear crisis
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HV20 + Mini Death = Sick ass setup
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haha overated? clearly you dont own it and havent used it.
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did I say something about it being overrated?
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haha thats hilarious, your like gl1/gl2, then you say he wont know what to do w/ a nice camera...obviously you havent done much with cameras outside the GL2. I started w/ an fx1, and every other camera has been easier, using a gl2 was even more complicating to me for some reason...mostly cuz it was so much different than the sony's but. If he were to read the manual and watch some online vids i'm sure he'd be fine.
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haha no dude you got the Slandis all wrong!
I have used the FX1, XL2, all VX's, both GL's, and the DVX.
Personally I think the VX is harder to use than the GL2 because all the controls seem scattered to me and it feels like I have to go out of my way to make sure automatic features are always off. I think its just a personal thing though haha.
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right on man, i didnt know you logged on to two different names haha...i knew you had experience i just that yoda was someone else reccomending a GL2, then saying dont get an hd cuz they wouldnt know how to use it. When almost all cameras are some what similar in some functional way.
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oh no...that wasnt me haha. I just saw you talking about the GLs and I assumed you quoted me. dumb mistake eh?
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haha as the other kid said, i suppose i'm retarted from time to time....
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