48 Hour Film Challenge

[jerzybondov]

Its still cooler than f***ing around with machinery all day, and bloody good money involved too I imagine. Especially if this film thing takes off?

Re the money - not so much really (don't know if you tend to discuss this sort of thing on the forum?!), it's amazing how much running a small business can cost (employees, premises, rates, cleaning, accountancy, book-keeping etc) and the industry itself is very competitive with pretty small margins (the sectors in which we've tended to work especially) so I don't think I've made any more than a graduate would doing IT in London for the last few years (in fact probably less).

But yes, if the film projects happen that should change!

[mec]

i think u have done a bloody good job there jez ! better than all the other crap on that site !

well done !

mike

[Dan 6511]

I agree its much better than the other films on there. I actually nodded off watching one of them lol!

Good luck with it, I hope it takes off. What sort of computers and software do you use for the editing?

[DMC GLEN]

cool

[Suz Haldeman]

That was awesome!!! I didn't know that the 48 Hour Film Project went worldwide. Here's Cincinnati's version: http://www.48hourfilm.com/cincinnati/


Suz

[jerzybondov]

Good luck with it, I hope it takes off. What sort of computers and software do you use for the editing?

We cut on Final Cut Pro on Macs - we split the workload between a new iMac and my Mac Pro and it wasn't too bad. They can handle the HD footage fine. We did the (temporary) graphics in After Effects. It's the tracking that's difficult and AE is good at that...

[Dan 6511]

What format do you work with when sending final films/programes to tv companies etc.

[jerzybondov]

What format do you work with when sending final films/programes to tv companies etc.

Broadcasters tend to like everything on digibeta so you have to master to that whether you've shot in SD or HD. If you've shot at DV res then you can just run straight off to Digi (or if you've shot Digibeta and digitised uncompressed) but if you shot HD then you'll need to render it down (usually to 8 bit uncompressed for best quality) to SD.

[Dan 6511]

That didn't mean a thing to me lol !!

I'm used to MPEG, AVI and crap like that

What about if the TV company wants HD? which I assume more will be in the coming years.

[jerzybondov]

That didn't mean a thing to me lol !!

I'm used to MPEG, AVI and crap like that

What about if the TV company wants HD? which I assume more will be in the coming years.

Haha - well what I was talking about are codecs like MPEG, AVI are, just better ones. DV-PAL is your basic one, then digibeta cameras shoot 'uncompressed 8 bit', and there are various HD codecs too - for example this short was shot on XDCAM EX (HD).

If you're delivering HD stuff to broadcasters, you'd normally run it off to HD-CAM tapes the same way you would with Digibeta (except you need faster machines, faster drives, better video output cards and more money to hire the decks).