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Video tips on making your own movies According to the October 1999 issue of WIRED magazine, which we recommend reading, a 20 minute celluloid short will cost you $40,000 in film and processing. The same shoot on DV can be done on a $10 two hour cassette that can be used over and over. Desirable is a good camera such as a Sony DCR-VX1000 at $3,699 or the popular Canon GL1 at $2,699. Or if you have $125,000 to spare, check out the Panasonic AK-HC830 HDTV. The above Sony and Cannon are 3-chip miniDV cameras, but you can get a Sony 1-chip miniDV the DCR-PC1 for $1,899. Another possibility is the Sony DVW-700WS digital Betacam at $51,000. There are no processing fees, and you can edit at home on your G3 using a $700 software package like Adobe Premiere. We cannot guarantee you will be the next Spielberg but below are a large number of microcinema and digital movie links and following that you will find a number of post production links. See you at Cannes. |
| AtomFilms | With partners like HBO, Sundance, and Warner Bros. Online, AtomFilms screens Oscar-nominated shorts and festival hits. Each week features four new shorts running from 30 seconds to 40 minutes. The player: RealPlayer G2 http://www.atomfilms.com/ |
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| Bijou Cafe | Alternative indie site with shorts, features, and genres like sci-fi film, noir, horror, and docudrama. The player: RealPlayer G2 http://www.bijoucafe.com/ |
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| The Bit Screen | First-run shorts and episodic series running under 10 minutes. The player: RealPlayer G2 http://www.thebitscreen.com/ |
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| Film.com | Backed by RealNetworks, this movie file portal offers clips of current-run features and blockbuster trailers. The player: RealPlayer G2 http://www.film.com/ |
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| iFilm | A cross-genre clearinghouse with 270 shorts and rated audience reviews. The player: RealPlayer G2 http://www.ifilm.net/ |
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| MDFKR.com | A clickable videologue chronicling 70-odd glimpses of people's lives. Each segment runs short - most under 30 seconds. The players: QuickTime, Shockwave http://www.mdfkr.com/ |
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| The New Venue | Online counterpart to D.Film's 21-city worldwide festival showcasing films made with computers and new forms of digital technology. The players: QuickTime, Flash http://www.newvenue.com/ |
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| SFComedy | All-comedy site with shorts and feature length films updated weekly. The players: RealPlayer, QuickTime http://www.sfcomedy.org/ |
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| ShortBuzz.com | A popular lunch break hangout, dedicated exclusively to shorts with audience and editor rankings. The player: RealPlayer G2 http://www.shortbuzz.com/ |
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| The Sync | From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) to a rock-and-roll bag piping mockumentary, this archive offers shorts, features, animation, and net-only talk shows. The player: RealPlayer http://www.thesync.com/ |
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| Underground film.com |
An open forum that excludes only home movies. Story pitches and screenplays are available for download. The players: QuickTime 3 or 4, Flash http://www.undergroundfilm.com/ |
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| Urban Desires | A specialist archive rotates films on a 3 week cycle and includes interviews and contact information. The players: Quicktime 4, Flash http://www.desires.com/ |
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| Westerns.com | 75 full length classic western films. The player: Windows Media Player http://www.westerns.com/ |
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| D.Film Digital Film Festival |
One of the original all digital festivals, this traveling showcase hits the Pasadena Convention Center as part of the Digital Video Conference & Expo http://www.dfilm.com/ |
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| RESfest | RES the magazine of digital film making presents a multicity tour of panels, workshops, shorts, and long films. http://www.resfest.com/ |
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| The No Dance Film and Multimedia Festival | Another alternative to Park City's indie proving ground. No Dance packs it screening into a 140 ft. DVD theater. http://www.6161.com/ |
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| Conduit Digital Film + Gaming Festival | Austin Texas - home base of Wing Commander guru Chris Roberts - hosts two days of screenings, parties, gaming, and conversation. http://www.conduitfest.com/ |
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| onedotzero | This self-styled producing festival attracts experimenters to London's Institute of Contemporary Arts for films, panels, and classes. http://www.onedotzero.com/ |
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| Darklight Digital Film Festival | Hosted in Dublin's Temple Bar District, this 5 day pro-am fest highlights 3-D animation, digital performance art, and full length features. http://www.darklight-filmfestival.com/ |
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| Avid Media Composer 9000 | A complete on and offline editing package, Media Composer is still typically used for editing offline only. The system has a CPU and video sub-system; two monitors and a speakers. Rental at film foundations and commercial facilities starts at $25-50 per hour. Cost: $40-65,000 http://www.avid.com/ |
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| Media 100 XR | What Avid is to film, the Media 100 is to video. Unlike Avid, it allows you to mix and match among third-party hardware manufacturers to tailor the system to your needs. The Blair Witch Project shot on analog Hi-8 video and 16-mm film was edited on a Media 100 Cost: $27,000 http://www.media100.com/ |
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| Accom Axial 3000 | Accom's online editing system revolves around a two-computer chassis armed with Windows NT and VX Works software - just bring source tapes and the EDL on floppy disk. Axial controls video decks, disk drives, switchers, and effects and sound equipment in an editing suite. Rental runs $400-900 per hour. Cost: $30-150,000 http://www.accom.com/ |
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| Apple Final Cut Pro | An online editing suite with all of Apple's interface elegance. Downside: It's Mac-only, doesn't support PAL and takes longer to render than some PC packages. Cost: $999 http://www.apple.com/ |
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| Digital Origin EditDV | Not quite as fun or good looking as Final Cut Pro, EditDV for both Mac and PC, comes with its own capture card, so you have a complete system from the start. Cost: $799 http://www.digitalorigin.com/ |
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| Adobe Premiere and After Effects | Premiere, once the only software available for editing video on a home computer, has fallen out of favor. After Effects is still the standard computing and effects software used by video makers and even a few ILM f/x gurus. Cost: $899 http://www.adobe.com/ |
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| Apple Powerbook G3 | Coupled with Final Cut Pro you can edit full digital video anywhere. Cost: $2,499 http://www.apple.com/ |
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| Sony PCG-F280 Vaio | The top of the line PCG-F280 Vaio is the only laptop on the PC side that has a FireWire-like i.Link and drives for capturing full-stream digital video. Cost: $3,500 http://www.sony.com/ |
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