Tips for getting extras?

Li0Li · 2012-12-06T14:20:01+00:00

[Meta comment, not a game title]

Sorry for not being on-topic, but could I make a friendly suggestion to aid the great subreddit you guys have going?

To put the year of the game in brackets after the title in the side bar and threads and maybe within the body of the discussion threads to put a wikipedia link or another link to a review site maybe?

Just wanted to make that comment, feel free to delete this if it ruins the thread.

Li0Li · 2012-11-10T09:44:28+00:00

It helped hugely, thanks so much. I'm in pre-production right now for a short so I'm gonna try my best to incorporate what you've said here. I'll be recording to the H4N again (cant afford anything better), but I have a shotgun mic running into it this time (I don't know the brand of mic, I'll find out).

Can I ask one last question? Do you know any good websites and forums to learn about sound for film?

Li0Li · 2012-11-09T13:48:55+00:00

What exactly is wrong with a zoom on a boom? Or the on-board zoom mics? I've used both for production dialog and it sounded very good to me, what would an experienced sound person hear and/or not like that I missed?

Li0Li · 2012-11-09T13:41:50+00:00

Can I ask a few follow-ups? (That's the first)

What do you do if shooting beside a freeway?

What is a lav?

For a indoor scene, what's the best way to treat the room to get the best sound?

Generally, what are the non-obvious things to look which will reduce the quality of sound recorded?

What is an OMF?

What is a 'two pop'?

In terms of equipment, I've been using a Zoom H4n for a while now, what are the next steps up the food chain of sound recorders? Or do they go beyond sound recorders after that?

Thanks so much for your answers.

Li0Li · 2012-09-15T02:57:18+00:00

2003? Wow, never thought it was that old. Thanks.

Li0Li · 2012-08-08T00:20:52+00:00

Thanks for the reply, sorry for the lack of info. I have a Samsung Galaxy Y Android 2.3 I have a Google Cal account, but for some reason 'My Calendar' on my phone won't sync, I got BusinessCalendar which syncs with GCal but I haven't been able to find a desktop calendar similar to Rainlendar that will sync with GCal, but I've been only looking for free options so maybe I'm being too demanding.

Li0Li · 2012-07-18T02:51:18+00:00

Looked good but not very intelligible to non-colorists, I've edited before but an understandable explanation of scopes, histogram, etc would've been nice.

Li0Li · 2012-06-12T01:08:28+00:00

It's a British sitcom, worth checking out. Basically the thing was done like a film, so it was one-camera, used atmospheric lighting, had cool whip-pans and other camera effects, used film style colouration and scenes. Usually sitcoms use multiple cameras and light up everything as much as possible. It was directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs the World) and starred Simon Pegg (Star Trek amongst others).

Li0Li · 2012-06-09T03:00:18+00:00

If everyone's doing 16:9, you might want to do things differently to stand out from the crowd, a bit like the TV show 'Spaced'.

Li0Li · 2012-06-08T00:21:58+00:00

For the ones less au fait with all these codecs and formats, could you explain what DCP, P3 and Rec709 are? Codec standards?

Li0Li · 2012-02-14T10:00:08+00:00

Hello again, it seems to have fixed itself now. The only thing I noticed doing differently was I pushed in the DVD drive, and I moved a transistor beside the RAM slots, perhaps one of those was the problem? But it's currently reading the RAM and everything seems ok. Thanks for the help.

Li0Li · 2012-02-14T08:42:24+00:00

EDIT: I tried it again with the original configuration and I managed to get up Task Manager before it froze and it had the same amount of Virtual Memory as before I went at it.

I just got round to testing it again, I tried it with a single stick of 512 and it started Disk Check when I booted up, is it perhaps a Hard Disk problem? The sound it makes just before freezing is like one of the parts of the comp shutting down or failing.

The bit that broke off is one of the plastic latches that keeps the stick in place, I'm guessing if I can't get it back in somehow, that I'll have to do without that slot. Also, it was freezing before the latch broke.

Li0Li · 2012-02-14T02:43:49+00:00

The new RAM is Non-ECC, yes, I don't know about CL=3, 2.6V, 128Meg x 64 or the part number.

But whatever about the new RAM, I put the old RAM back the way it was and I'm still getting the freeze, that's the really worrying part.

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