Film Festival Guys

[berrywise]

I finally got around to sitting down at my computer last night to begin work on a flyer that we can distribute to local shops advertising the film festival. I figure to make up an easy web site that will have more in depth guidelines and instructions on how to get signed up but would like help with suggestions on what stuff should be on the flyer itself.

What I have right now is pretty basic and all is subject to change. Any help on some of the bullit points to be added to this?

Here is what I came up with for starters. Like I said nothing is permanent so design and text suggestions welcome!

http://www.scottharaldson.com/images/misc/morcfilmfestival.jpg

[KleinCrazy]

Scott,


I like the idea and your initial design.

We will need to provide you with one of the new MORC logos and come up with 3 or 4 bullet points to put on the flyer.

Keep us posted and I'll try and come up with some ideas also.

Thanks for helping with this.
James

[Buck]

Yeah Scott,

I like the flyer!!!! Cool.

I don't know if I'll have a flick this year or not yet...I hope too...;) ...I want to atleast take a wack at defending it...:laugh: ...hopefully a lot more people sign up, I know there are some closet photo/video gurus on this sight!!!:crazy:


L8R
Buck

[EmL34]

Very Nice!

You should try to come to the next board meeting, James has scheduled a sub cmte meeting for 6PM, May 10th at REI in Bloomington (494 and Lyndale).



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[berrywise]

Very Nice!

You should try to come to the next board meeting, James has scheduled a sub cmte meeting for 6PM, May 10th at REI in Bloomington (494 and Lyndale).



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Sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can get my buddy Andy, who wants to help too, to come with me. Hopefully REI Roseville will let him out an hour early ;o)

[grizzly adam]

That looks great so far!

Just one suggestion: Add me to one of the pics :D:crazy::geek:

[Earthman]

you are more then welcome to post up a link on my website when you get yours up and running also let me know if you need any other help I am a member of the Mn Film board and IFP as well

i should have my site fully up and running in about a week
www.generationoutdoors.com

[Buck]

you are more then welcome to post up a link on my website when you get yours up and running also let me know if you need any other help I am a member of the Mn Film board and IFP as well

i should have my site fully up and running in about a week
www.generationoutdoors.com (http://www.generationoutdoors.com)

That was a pretty cool little teaser you have on your website. What kinda gear are you guys using???

L8R
Buck

[Thewavebb]

you are more then welcome to post up a link on my website when you get yours up and running also let me know if you need any other help I am a member of the Mn Film board and IFP as well

i should have my site fully up and running in about a week
www.generationoutdoors.com (http://www.generationoutdoors.com/)

Welcome to Morc, its nice to see others who are active thrillseekers. Pretty slick trailer.

[Earthman]

i will assume you are talking about the video gear not all the other stuff

we have 2 helmet cams
2 GL1's
1XL 1
i am thinking about getting a couple of the little sony HD cams as well they shoot OCC and myth busters using them as back up and second camera

when i get the site done there will be more videos on it as well

i am glade you liked it so far only people in the film world have seen it
and you can show them some really lame stuff and they will think it is cool

[KleinCrazy]

i will assume you are talking about the video gear not all the other stuff

we have 2 helmet cams
2 GL1's
1XL 1
i am thinking about getting a couple of the little sony HD cams as well they shoot OCC and myth busters using them as back up and second camera

when i get the site done there will be more videos on it as well

i am glade you liked it so far only people in the film world have seen it
and you can show them some really lame stuff and they will think it is cool

My God!!!

How do you mount a GL1 on a helmet and not kill your neck?!?!?

And what is this little Sony HD cam you are talking about? I have been doing helmet work with a Bulletcam system and would like to upgrade to a HD capable system if it does not cost me an arm and a leg plus a strained neck.

Thanks
James

[berrywise]

Joshua,

That would be very cool. I'll have to check out your website when I get off work tonight. Hopefully we can get a link off morcmtb.org that we can have details, as they become available, and a link to the forum for discussion.

I'm hopefully gonna finish the flier this weekend and then have it for download on the website. Hopefully some of out members can print it out and bring it to their local shop.

If this thing got big enough we might have to have a judges preview the films and narrow it down but that depends on how many videos get submitted. I'm starting work on mine now that the weather has changed and I'm getting excited to get out and start getting footage.

[Buck]

i will assume you are talking about the video gear not all the other stuff

we have 2 helmet cams
2 GL1's
1XL 1
i am thinking about getting a couple of the little sony HD cams as well they shoot OCC and myth busters using them as back up and second camera

when i get the site done there will be more videos on it as well

i am glade you liked it so far only people in the film world have seen it
and you can show them some really lame stuff and they will think it is cool

Nice set-up I myself just got a hold of a DVX100a, can't say enough about it! What kinda helmet cams are you using?
L8R
Buck

[J2]

Anyone care to host a 10MB clip I threw together a couple years ago?

[Thewavebb]

in about a week or so I will have a boatload of hosting available. I wont have my account switched over till then and I'm on the Winona State server which blows goats

[Buck]

Anyone care to host a 10MB clip I threw together a couple years ago?

check out www.fooriders.com (http://www.fooriders.com) they've hosted over a gig worth of stuff for me, awesome website and it's totally free, that is where all my work is!
L8R
Buck

[Tetreves]

My God!!!

How do you mount a GL1 on a helmet and not kill your neck?!?!?

And what is this little Sony HD cam you are talking about? I have been doing helmet work with a Bulletcam system and would like to upgrade to a HD capable system if it does not cost me an arm and a leg plus a strained neck.

Thanks
James

Good luck. I think you'll have to wait about a decade. The HD camera's still cost a fortune, and they're generally not true "HD" unless it's a broadcast camera, which is huge. At least a shoulder carry, if not tripod only.

[Buck]

Good luck. I think you'll have to wait about a decade. The HD camera's still cost a fortune, and they're generally not true "HD" unless it's a broadcast camera, which is huge. At least a shoulder carry, if not tripod only.

Have you seen the new cam I think it is like the HDX that uses the P2 cards??? That would be sweet! to bad it cost an arm and a leg...I think this year at NAB they were supposed to be releasing some nice HD cameras that were hand held, but HD is an ever evolving thing anyways, in other words the camera you have now was HD like 4 yrs ago...

L8R
Buck

[Earthman]

i got bussy working on my house and drinking

GL -1 as a helmet cam you buy a hemlet cam put the camera in your back pack and run the wires up to the CCD lense on your helmet

the sony HD cam i was talking about


HVR-Z1U Camcorder
it is not "true" HD but even the HD you see on tv with your brand new Plasma is not True HD it is an Mpeg version of HD that will stream over a network and on to your tv and that is the same idea behind the HVR-Z1U
likee i said they use it as a second cam for alot of Tv shows

and my feelings are if i can shoot a Polaris ad on my GL and nobody notices when it is playing on tv then i can shoot HD using that cam and nobody will notice i know i can not tell the differance when i am watch stuff shot on the HVR-Z1U i am not sure about the
HDR-FX1 this is the consumer bases HD cam and is a couple grand less

well back to panting my house

[Tetreves]

HVR-Z1U Camcorder
it is not "true" HD but even the HD you see on tv with your brand new Plasma is not True HD it is an Mpeg version of HD that will stream over a network and on to your tv and that is the same idea behind the HVR-Z1U
likee i said they use it as a second cam for alot of Tv shows

True HD IS being broadcast, you just need an HD UHF antenna. Satellite and cable companies compress the snot out of the video to save bandwidth. Cable companies are the worst about it, the "third" satellite company is best for HD. I always forget the name, but it's not Dish Network or DirectTV.

And it's not really MPEG, it's just plain video compression.

As far as HD cameras go, remember that with any digital camera, the optics are the most crucial part of it. You can have a great digital camera, with a cheap lens (or worse, non-detachable) to lower the price, and it will still suck. I can tell you that a broadcast quality HD lens (or any broadcast quality lens) can cost $250,000.

[Earthman]

this is from a text book from my film school

in 1994 The Moving Pictures Experts Group defined a standard for the digital coding and handling of moving pictures and audio. Improving on an earlier standard, (MPEG-1, ISO/IEC-11172), MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818) was designed to be flexible, expandable, scalable and have a higher quality suitable for the broadcast industry. The original design of MPEG-2 was founded upon the requirements of normal video, but it soon expanded to include increased requirements of HD. Although MPEG-3 was being developed for HD, it was realized that MPEG-2 could be modified to include HD

MPEG-2 also defines a data transport stream structure that can be used to distribute the encoded image data. SMPTE 310M is a transport stream based on MPEG-2 that is used for the ATSC 19.4 Mbps HDTV standard. The DVB transport protocol used for satellite, cable and European digital video transmission is also based upon the MPEG-2 transport stream structure.

. At a data rate of 19.4 Mbps (2.425 MBs) for ATSC-compliant HDTV MPEG-2 files, it takes 145.5 Mb a minute and 8.73 GB per hour to store. As the bit rates rise, the storage requirements for HD grow quickly. Compressed but high-quality HD can have 64 Mbps to 120 Mbps

so unless you have a magical tv that has a magical signal that can stream 64 to 120Mbps you would still not be play uncompressed HD

as far as the new polaris ad it is being shot on HD with the lense i am renting and will be sent out at 19.4 Mbps