I rendered out the first 30 mins of slayers at 720 using the web preset and though it was under 100megs, it didn’t look so good. This morning Russel took me to this site and told me this is where he got the idea for our new project. So I paid the $1.25 to watch this guys movie. Over all it was a great flick. Plus it has given me tons of stuff to research. Like now I have seen what a 30 min movie looks like streaming. Picture quality, transfer speed, even how it felt watching it at that size on my computer. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. At least I know now that at 320×240 you can make it full screen and it still doesn’t look that bad. I want say great job by Jon Londono on his movie Hacker Hunter. I encourage all of you to pay the $1.25 and watch this flick. Check it out at www.g-films.com
As a side note; just in case you didn’t know, everyone is able to leave comments on these posts I leave by clicking on the link that says comments. Feel free to ask questions, post responses, or just say what’s up.
CRC
Another day of shooting and another day of great footage. We shot the 2nd half of scene two today as well as scene three. We had shots in a car, in a trunk, and some nice hand held running shots. Here are some pics from the last two days. I can’t wait to cut these two new scenes. We have three more days scheduled and we will be done.
Other news: I stayed up until 2:30 am running tests on a few things we were having snags with and solved a few of our problems. First, I was unsuccessful in making a 24p dvd from Canopus Procoder, but was able to in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and it looked great. Even though in the past the Mainconcept encoder hasn’t been that good, the final result was very nice. So this was a problem I had with the Vampire Movie. The second issue was encoding the internet movies. I was told that I needed to get a 30min long movie to be under 100megs. The first few renders I did were very crappy quality. But after a few tests I was able to make a custom preset that gave great results. At the moment I am rendering out a full size, 720×480 movie using the same preset. If we can keep it under 100megs then we will use it since it will be a larger movie to watch. The only problem left unsolved is hosting. We need some serious bandwidth and storage. We meet with a guy tomorrow to go over what they have to offer. We’ll see.
CRC
Well I rolled into the office today and busted out the laptop. We hacked out the first scene which we shot on Wednesday. Turned out pretty good. Again, kind of hard to watch without a little music and sound fx, but visually it looks sweet. Russel is a great director, and I love the fact that I get to shoot and edit. It makes life a bit easier when cutting it. Plus I get to do both which gives me more work to showcase in the end.
Well we shot another scene today and it was short and sweet. After watching the dailies all I can say is I love my Canon XL-2. The footage looks great! We think that we can wrap up the rest of the shots in 4-5 days. By then Slayers will be done and we’ll be planning the schedule for the next one. As usual stay tuned for more updates.
CRC
Published on April 24, 2005
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Man what a day. It started by waking up at 5 am and meeting the up with the guys so we can could take one car. We went down to PIR to shoot a reality tv show called Driver. It’s about a guy who is trying to make it to Nascar to be a pro driver. The first season has already been aired in Utah I am told and this was episode 1 of season 2. We were out there all day and I am really sun burnt now. But it was such a fun day. I got tons of great footage for them. And I have great pics from my phone that I will be posting tomorrow on TA. Big thanks to Shane and Tracy and to Black Hawk Entertainment for having us out there and for taking care of us. I look forward to working with you guys again.
CRC
Hell ya!! That’s the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of today. Today was the first day working full time for New Breed and man I loved every hot minute of it. We got 30 shots in about 5 hours which is huge. We’re working on a short called The Rookie; and just after the first day it looks sick! I have put up production stills of today here. It was a small guerilla crew, and the actors; just the way we like it. You can a get a sense of what a true independent film looks like when being made. The budget on this flick will be around $1000 not counting our pay. So you can imagine how we will be running things, clean and lean. Lots more to come so stay tuned, the ball is rolling, and so is my camera.
CRC
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