[Richard Herd]

[george sloan] “Width: 1280
Height: 720”

Preface: I checked out the forum to look up some canon camera information, but ran across this post. If you haven’t already, the compression forum can probably help.

I don’t understand why you’re setting your DVD picture size to HD. Before brining your picture into DVD Studio Pro, you first need to compress your HD image to one of Compressor’s predefined DVD settings. This will create a file that DVD Pro will then turn into a VIDEO_TS.

Step one: Export out of FCP a QT video.
Step two: Use compressor to compress step-one’s video into the proper video, using a predefined DVD setting
Step three: import step-two’s video into DVD Pro.

[george sloan] “That with too low a shutter speed(or other camera adjustments) would cause my video to look good everywhere along the line until final output.. which is playback on DVD. “ No.

[Richard Herd]

[Carlton Rahmani] “Richard, I’ve checked out your stuff, and have to say you are not the person to tell ANYONE they don’t know what they’re doing. I guess you gotta bend your neck back pretty hard in order to look down your nose at people from where you’re at.”

I didn’t say my stuff was good. I said you don’t understand or know the difference between RESOLUTION and ASPECT RATIO. Shaving 1.4mm off the gate is a very big deal.

Also I have shot a lot of 16mm and s16mm.

Almost the entire video you linked is 1.33, silly child, and I think they are pretty images.

[Richard Herd]

[Aaron Cadieux] “If one buys a DVD of a movie that is in the public domain, does the company that transfered the film for THAT copy of the DVD own the rights to the content on that DVD?”

There’s too many possible scenarios here to answer with only “yes” or “no.” Generally speaking, there is no such thing as a work of art in the public domain. That is, the author of the work owns the copyright. Let me also mention that a ripped DVD is not public domain.

[Aaron Cadieux] ” In other words, I know they don’t own the copyright to the film itself, but does THEIR copy of the DVD fall under copyright as an artistic work derrived from a public domain source?”

No. A license agreement between the copyright holder and distributor, publisher, and or exhibitor includes distribution rights, royalties, marketing and advertising rights, and — of course! — a fee schedule. Because authoring a DVD is a derivative work, the DVD author would need this license agreement from the copyright holder. Make sense? But the DVD author does not hold the copyright to the DVD. Weird stuff, here.

[Aaron Cadieux] ” Even if they don’t make any artistic “changes” to the DVD? Thanks”

Yes.

Anyway, some specifics are needed to really answer your question, and of course– Ask an attorney!

[Richard Herd]

Try this forum https://forums.creativecow.net/hdhighend

[Richard Herd]

What a shame to ruin the camera. And for what? 1.4mm in aspect ratio. LOL!

[Carlton Rahmani] “in a case like this, to have to deal with; what might I have to worry about compromising or losing”

You apparently do not understand that you are going to ruin a camera and only gain 1.4mm in ASPECT RATIO which as nothing at all in the world to do with RESOLUTION. That 1.4mm is a very big deal when it comes to getting the camera to work properly, in sync with the optics, gates, registration, and pin.

My opinion is you are thinking about the image acquisition of your project all wrong. You can shoot on 16, the equipment you already have, and still have plenty of RESOLUTION to crop the frame where you want it. You could even shoot on Kodak 7219, desaturate it, export the b/w frames to a printer and use crayons to color them in.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT ruin a camera, for what amounts to a misunderstanding between ASPECT RATIO and RESOLUTION.

[Carlton Rahmani] “I admit that I’m not a cinematographer, so don’t try changing my plan through bringing up my lack of credentials.” You brought it up. Not me. You have no idea what you’re doing, and you should not ruin a perfectly fine camera.

[Richard Herd]

You should check your state’s Film office for Short Term Production Insurance agents.

[Richard Herd]

You can use two people. One in front pushing, the other in back pushing back.

[Richard Herd]

It might look really nice to bounce light into the “milk,” an eerie uplight with water waves.

[Richard Herd]

[Todd Terry] “”plastic toy.””

then FANTASTIC PLASTIC must buy that camera!

(Also waiting for Canon)

[Richard Herd]

[Morgan Schenk] “Whats the best way to transfer all of these files onto ever computer in the lab? Should i be worried about how big some of the projects are?” Firewire 800. Have each student do it, one at a time, even if it takes a lot of time. You can stress media management, and capture scratch and so on.

[Morgan Schenk] “Is it going to take a fort night to transfer everything or is there a simple way?” Since this is an example, you don’t need that much footage, just a wide shot, medium shot, close up shot. Stressing this is practice for your real project.

[Morgan Schenk] “Also does anyone know where i can get some stock footage for them to play with? “Don’t even worry about it. The power of learning the gist of editing is you can make your own stuff. So the more you can get them to do that, the easier time you will have.

[Morgan Schenk] “Am I missing anything important?”

You should google the state standards for video. It can be categorized as two things: (1) An art class where a set of aesthetic values are emphasized, or (2) A career and technical education where work place practices are emphasized.

You should discuss both in relevant ways. For example, on aesthetics, you can explain matching action or 180 degree rule and so on. But for work place practices you can explain “technical” details like capture scratch, render, codecs, and all the other crap the makes normal people’s eyes glaze over.

Also they’re going to want to cut footage as soon as possible. I mean they’ve heard about the digital revolution and they want to participate in it. Then they will want to do their own project and export to a medium (probably a DVD) they can show people. They might also enjoy uploading to youtube or facebook.

You will run out of time before you run out of material (whether art or tech), and your instruction should have some lecture and plenty of one on one time.

People learn in different ways, some are listeners, some are seers, some are doers. So it’s wise to incorporate all three types of learning styles.

Oh and some people won’t know where the on button. And other folks will complain that it’s a mac. And so on.