putfile.com
zed.cbc.ca is pretty good, but watch out for copyright.
yousendit.com for times where you may want to email something.

LUCID - My 20 minute short film is DONE - MOVIE inside
 

I wanted to post this before i got on the road to go home... This is is a pre release of my 20 miunte short film, as there are a few things i want to change after watching it on a big screen. But anyway, here it is. Comments more than welcome.


http://www.doubleitproductions.com/lucid.wmv

20ish meg WMV file. A divx version will come later when i have time to do it

Very nice job!
doug

thoughts/opinions? Did anyone watch it?

Want to show my short
 

Hey all,
Somewhere in here, once upon a time , someone posted info on cheap websites where a person could load movies so people can see them....anyone know where? I have a short which is 18 minutes and too big for my own website because I only have 20Mb of space there...?

I believe Glenn Chan listed these three in another simular thread...
"putfile.com
zed.cbc.ca is pretty good, but watch out for copyright.
yousendit.com for times where you may want to email something."


As for me... I don't know of any locations for this, but if you can send your short to me at abby@danielpatton.com and I might host it for you in our DV stream section on our server. So long as the material is something allowed.

If everything goes okay I will send you back a direct link that you can send to people or post it on the forums. Our servers stream very well, I can send you some examples if you like.

It's just an offer, no obligation.

Neptune.com will give you 500 Mb per annum for about $99, while 150 Mb is only £59.
You can also store still pix as well.
They are very good and I often use it to upload material for people to view.

Robin

There are a bunch of web hosting companies that oversell their web hosting and will give you a lot of bandwidth at a low price (it costs the company 15cents/GB-$1/GB for bandwidth; if you calculate it out, a lot of the web hosting companies would lose money if you used up their plan). Anyways, if you want your own website to host your videos, then look for bandwidth without strings.
A- Read the terms of service. Certain types of content may be disallowed (warez, adult material, etc.).
B- The TOS also lays out the grounds the host can kick you off. One host has a vague clause which lets them terminate your account if you use 10% of server resources.
C- Look carefully at what happens when you exceed your bandwidth. The best is if they shut down your website. Others will charge overage fees, i.e $6/GB.
D- Payment: You may need to prepay for a certain amount of time to get a certain rate.

Also register your domain name seperately from your web hosting company so they can't hold your domain name/website hostage. I suggest namecheap.com. Some web hosts give you a domain for free. If you wait 60 days, you can transfer it to namecheap.com. Check who owns the domain though- sometimes it ain't you.

2- Dreamhost.com has a promotion where you prepay for a year and it costs you $10. "120GB"/month ($1/GB overage, bandwidth throttling), $1/GB overage, you can manually set the website to shutdown/throlle at a certain GB threshold.
I think it's still running. Search for "dreamhost 777"
Be sure to have your domain registration with a *seperate* company (well before your web hosting expires), and turn auto-renewal off, and bandwidth throttling on.

3- webhostingtalk.com has excellent forums regarding everything web hosting-related. Search before you post.

4- To set your expectations a little more realistic, icdhost.com (a good budget host) gives 5GB/month for $5/month, and they shut your site down when you run out of bandwidth (instead of charging overuse fees).

Not able to see it
 

I´m sorry but i tried to see it and even got the VLC, but nothing, just audio and black image... I´ve been following Lucid since i first read about it from you.

If it´s possible ty to get it in quicktime, that would work, i hope so!

Sorry it didnt work for you. I am fixing a few audio issues and then finalizing it for the DVD and at that point i will make a quick time version of it.

Crank
 

http://zed.cbc.ca/go?POS=2&CONTENT_I...TER_KEY=100192

Joan, a materialistic young woman, gets more than she bargained for when she unwraps her brand new cellphone.

new Website for indies
 

http://www.theflux.tv/ seems pretty nice, but a warning on that first film, not for the faint hearted.

Man, that just worked well. It was almost like there was meaning behind it.. like... "The guys go out and drink good beer and be guys"

The music though was what really made it interesting. You didn't by any chance make that music did you?

Also, the XL2 performed well (as it always does) and, like the above post, I just sorta liked it. I really did.

Whip me, Beat me, Make me feel cheap
 

40th trip video, thought I could use some criticism from someone beside fishermen. This is the introduction for the soon to be filmed (trip is next week) Panama, Pinas Bay.

Anything thoughts for improvement are welcome.

Jim

http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/m/jmmnt/pinas.mov

Looks pretty good. It is hard to give is a decent review because the PIPs are to small to really see very good. But I am sure your audience will be reved up and ready to see this video, so the action and audio are probably going to do their job, which is to get them even more excited. Right?

Love to see it but...

"Access Denied. Bandwidth limit exceeded"

I can´t...

I liked the visuals. The audio clip does not scream intro to me though. It seemed too even and did not have an 'ending'.

I didn't understand what was going on.

Blue Rose Motel
 

It is finished! Well, as much as any project like this can ever be finished. This was my first attempt. I had a lot of questions during production and a lot of you gave me some very good answers and advice. Thank you.

Our first festival entry is Crested Butte Reel Fest. I haven't heard yet whether we have been accepted.

I don't have the 31 minute short on the web yet, but I do have a web site containing the trailer and a lot of production pictures and still frames.

If I may advertise the web site, it is.....


EquinoxWorldPictures.com


I hope you like what you see and provide me your comments.

Thanks again for all your help,

Douglas

I thought the footage looked interesting, but the narration in the trailer put me off. Maybe you could edit it to build suspense and hook the viewer in trying to guess what's about to happen.

Also, decrease the shot length - we don't need to see much of each scene, just take a peek to arouse curiosity.

Of course, all just my opinion. I'm just finishing my first short, so I know how hard it can be...

Blue Rose Motel
 

Thank you, Dave. Good advice. Now I'll see if I can put my limited knowledge to the task.

Good luck with yours.

Regards,

Douglas

Drop Off -> A short experiment
 

Hi,

Here is a small production I put together. It originally started of as an exercise in DOP and camera settings, but in the end the material was good enough to make into something a little extra. So here are the fruits of my labour! Hope you enjoy, and any feedback more than welcome....

On a technical side.... it was shot on s GS400 in 16x9 Interlace; Manual Mode for everything; In post I converted it to 25P. I wanted to see if there was any noticable difference shooting between 25P Frame Mode and doing 50i->25P. In the end, I have come to the conclusion, I actually prefer the look and quality of 25P Frame Mode.

The whole movie was shot in 3hrs on a Sunday morning here in Sydney. My partner Ella plays girl driver in the movie, which I have to thank her for. There were no on-camera filters used apart from a standard UV filter to protect the lens.

Well, you can download two versions... a full resolution / high quality MPEG2, or a smaller WMV version.

1. http://www.robertrobertproductions.c...a/drop off.mpg (MPEG 2 -138MB)
2. http://www.robertrobertproductions.c...a/drop off.wmv (WMV - 38MB)

Enjoy

Robert

very nice short. What was doepped off? Money or what? I did not get that part... otherwise nice edit and focus rolls and all.

Hi Robert,

I liked it. The best thing I can say about it is that the piece drew me in. I really want to know what was in the box ..... or was it just a decoy to get the girl to go somewhere out of the way to blow her and the car up?

As well as that your camera work and editing were great. And your choice of music good as well - I especially liked the heartbeat ... I felt quite nervous watching and waiting .... A little more handheld footage may have added to the tension.

The explosion was the only part that suspended my 'belief' - not a bad effort though :) What did you use to create the explosion?

Good work, and thanks for posting it.

Matthew.

Thanks Matt / Dan.....

Good question what was dropped off :-).... I think that will always remain a bit of a mystery.... But if I had my way it would be some of the clothes that my partner owns... she has way too much !

The explosion was done in AE, using a few layers, and some explosion footage....

Thanks

Rob

tahnk you, well done! Keep it up!

Short Horror Flick
 

I finally set up my website with my first ever film.
The trailer still needs some tweaking, but it's nearly there.
You can watch it at:

www.theheadlesspuppy.com

Any comments on the website or the trailer very much apprecciated!

I think a comment on the site would be, that it would be a lot more fun if you had some more behind the screen pictures or something. That's maybe personal, but I mostly like to watch those. So if you have them, it would be cool if you put them up.

Which cam did you shoot with?

Comment on the trailer: some very atmospheric cinematography. I think it's only a shame that you only use music and no sound or dialog. Maybe try that once?

I liked the second music part, but the first one ruined a little bit the mood, maybe.

That said: all rest looked fine to me, looks interesting!
Keep up the good work!

Nixon - Back From the Dead
 

About 7 Mb, so it takes a little while to dl.

http://www.tidepoolproductions.com/nixon.mov

Used 2 500w work lights to light the green screen, 75w clamp lamp for the keylight, XL2, wide angle lens, medium shotgun mike, Googled WH image, "Hail to the Chief.aiff", FCP 4, PowerMac, Quicktime's 264 codec. Has lighting, sound, writing, visual effects issues but fun nevertheless. Concept to final cut = 2.5 hrs.

Upres tests for your examination
 

Wasn't sure which forum these would belong in, but this one seemed as good as any. I decided to upres a shot from my old XM1 and compare it to an up converted shot from my pdw510. I was mainly doing this for my own interest because I have been hired to shoot a fire safety information film that will be digitally projected before films at a local cinema, but thought people here might like to see the results.

The first is an XM1 shot from The Silencer originally shot in frame mode and converted to 1080p. I wanted to compare the noise and sharpness with the new camera so I upconverted it to the highest HD resolution to really push it.
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tests/upres_XM1_1080p.png

The second is a shot from the pdw-510p of a similar style of shot to the one from the XM1. This one was shot in 25 frame progressive, again upconverted to 1080p.
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tests/...510p_1080p.png

Lastly two shots from the 510 converted to 1280x720p. This I feel is a sensible resolution to upconvert to, and in actual fact isn't that much larger a frame than anamorphic PAL.
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tests/...w510p_720p.png

Lastly a medium wide shot.
http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/tests/...mediumwide.png

From these tests I think upconversions to 720p are perfectly viable as long as the camera sharpness is set up decently (ie no edge enhancement) and does not suffer from any noise. Further things can be made more successful by keeping the shots to medium wides, and close ups of various degrees.

If anyone here can output any of these to a HD TV of some kind I would be interested in hearing what they look like.

Incidentally they were straight upconversions using Vegas 5. Further improvements could be made by using both Algoliths edge mosquito noise filter and then upconverting using the Algolith upconversion software.

Experimental
 

www.rch-e.com/temp/Neighborhood.mov

Experimental video for contest. I don't know if I should have a voice over with an internal monologue going or not. I think the video kinda works for itself. Let me know what you think.

PV-DV953 16x9
1/60 Normal
Magic Bullet Suite

very nice...
 

My first thought would be a dialog of what it's like growing older and into a father... Something like that... Very nice pacing...

Our 48 hour film festival Entry: awarded in top "Best Of" selection
 

Hey all:

Well we competed in the Washington DC bracket of the 48 hour film festival about a month ago and ended up getting in the top 14 films or "best of" spot meaning we'll be on the area's DVD but won no other specific awards. We learned a lot about who enters the contest as our preminitions were incorrect:

Our average age was ~23 and we thought there'd be a lot of people like us entering. Among the Best Of screening, we were the only team to have this be their first time competing, we were the youngest team by far and we had the smallest budget. One team even shot their short on a Panasonic SDX, most had professional actors, sets and studios and so on, some were joint production company entries so it was a bit of a let down to see what we were competing against but regardless of the rankings, we were happy with our little film, glad people could see it and excited to be included with such larger budget company.

Production Info:
DVX100a, Audio Technica AT897 Boom Mic
One China Lantern from Target and 200 watt bulb plus dimmer for lighting
FCP HD on Mac MINI with Maxtor 300 gig external HD :: edited from Sunday 1am until Sunday 1pm straight

Our crew was 4 of us from here in Raleigh, NC who have worked on many short films before and then we met 3 friends who signed us up for the contest who live in DC who have never worked on a film before and then a friend of mine lives near by Raleigh who composed the score based on what I told him our feel we were going for was.

Anyways, it's an extremely dry comedy (ala BottleRocket, Rushmore, anything Wes Anderson pretty much). Hope you guys enjoy!

http://www.definingfilms.com/48hourfilm.htm

Not working always
 

Well, I've had cross-plarform encoding issues. Might be back up in a few days. Encoding Quicktime for the web delivery is tricky stuff.

Update
 

Well, got my bs little satire up. The content is completely absurd, so I consider it apolitical. Used Sorenson Compression, 15 fps.

38 views, anyone? Love, hate, don't care?

Volleyball video for critique
 

Shot with a Panasonic DVC30 in 60i, edited in FCX, graphics in PS Elements.
The song is "Any way you want it" by Journey, but the band playing it is "Rise Against"

Sorry about the compression during the intro, I tried several different variations of settings, but nothing cam out very good.

http://homepage.mac.com/bbm20/.Movies/v-ball.mov

Tell me what y'all think?

I liked the story line, some of the shots were really shaky, i dont know if you were going for that look, but it didnt seem like it was neccessary for the story at least. I thought the acting was very sincere. The writing was also sincere. Good work.

24 with Bobby Lee (MADtv)
 

Has anyone seen this PDX10 made production and what did they think about it? I laughed my head off! I love it!

Independent 30min Movies
 

Check out www.anewbreedcinema.com and find a place to showcase your work and generate revenue at the same time.

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