[Krystallia Sakellariou]

Thank you both! It works fine now:-)

[Krystallia Sakellariou]

Ok, thank you for your reply!

[Krystallia Sakellariou]

Thank you Chris and Bernard for for your suggestions. As a matter of fact I used to have a miniDV camera, but I didn´t bring it with me when moving abroad. I never thought I would need it again since I have a digital video camera now. My miniDV camera is about 6 years old so I thought that it was getting useless now having a digital camera,so I learnt something new!
I will see if I can have it sent to where I live now.

I also wanted to ask you about rendering a master? Would that mean just creating a quicktime file, for example, compressed with as best quality as possible (h.264 I have heard it supposed to be very good) and that file is my digital master?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I haven´t worked so much with digital video before.

Thank you and have a good weekend!

Lia

[Krystallia Sakellariou]

Ok, thank you for your reply!

All the best,

[Krystallia Sakellariou]

Hi Gordon,

Yes I know what you mean, I am not making any money from this either (or not yet…)

Actually I find imovie working pretty good for me so far. I looked into final cut express, I am not sure about the codec question you had, but it seems you can´t change color and contrast and those things on it (or atleast that´s what I read) which I at least couldn´t be without.

Good luck with you work!

All that with the pal/ntsc I don´t even dare to think of yet.. I think I will got for toast and burn a dvd there once I am done.

Lia

[Krystallia Sakellariou]

Hello Gordon,

Thank you for replying and for sharing! It does sound like a pretty easy way to go so I think I will try it in the future.(maybe my problem with QTP was I didnt have the sequence right)

For me some circumstances have changed though, I bought myself a new macbook pro!! It definitely helps, so easy and fast to work on:-)

But I couldn´t afford to get the FCP as well (can´t believe it´s almost 1000 dollars for it.)

So I found a temporary solution for now…It´s doing everything in imovie -in advance settings (.11 seems really great btw),
BUT, I am creating one scene at a time(with maybe 100 images each), exporting it with HD 1980×1200 into a movie file, and then I reimport it into a new project in imovie which is then composed of only different movie files instead of all 1000s of photos.It seems to be working fine, the quality looks good too.

It turned out the easiest solution right now as I could re-use some of the events from my old project. (I had done a lot of Green screen which would have been so much work to redo.

Although I do have some worries in the back of my head for how to export the project when finished. I remember idvd never gave good quality, so I need to figure something out there (I guess FCP would have solved that?!)
Somebody recommended toast, does anybody on this forum have any ideas?

Good luck with your work, cool you are also doing stopmotion animation. Have you worked on it for a long time? I started this fall, and I really love it. (if I only get the technique right…)

[Krystallia Sakellariou]

Hi Rafael,

Thank you for reading and replying to my post. My film might not even been 10 min with stills actually, probably just 8 min and the rest is video material, so if 30 min is the limit this should be alright:-)

I will try and do it all in FC then (just need to read some tutorials on it first…), I will try to keep the ratio 4:3 and having the black bars on the side.

Thanks again and have a good day!

Ps, the videos from Laos look so nice!