On the acting side. Timing is crucial. Leave enough pauses for the right amount of time. Leave it to long you look like you can't remember the lines don't leave much of a gap looks like your trying to race thought it. Allow for a tiny bit of ad-lib to give it more of a natural flavour.
Quote: James Cotter @ December 15 2009, 4:38 PM GMTLeave enough pauses for the right amount of time.
I know what you mean though James!
Quote: Marc P @ December 15 2009, 4:42 PM GMT
What so funny about that advice?
Well only that it doesn't make any sense. 
It's like saying make your pauses neither too long nor too short - but just the right amount of time that is required to make them work. But I know what you meant.
Quote: bigfella @ December 15 2009, 4:26 PM GMTSounds like the rest of my life!
It is only a piece to camera. A bloke in a chair talking. So I'm hoping it will just be a case of adding a title page and a bit of introduction music.
Hoping!
Alright. Well PM me if you need some technical help.
Quote: Marc P @ December 15 2009, 5:00 PM GMTWell only that it doesn't make any sense.
It wasn't confusing to me because I knew what I meant. Timing is crucial.
Timing! 
Quote: James Cotter @ December 15 2009, 5:12 PM GMTIt wasn't confusing to me because I knew what I meant. Timing is crucial.
So what advice do you give him for getting it right.
He means overact.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ December 15 2009, 5:03 PM GMTAlright. Well PM me if you need some technical help.
Will do Godot.
Many thanks
How's Mr. P getting on with editing?
Quote: don rushmore @ December 15 2009, 2:35 PM GMTThere are lots of acting classes on YouTube.
The Slaggs do a whole series on how not to do it. 
If you want quality, MiniDV is the format to choose (uncompressed and usually captured in a format your editing software can recognise). DVD and HDD cameras are almost always precompressed by the camera and often put out in a proprietary format that you need to convert to input it into your editing s/ware.
If you have the capability to add (or already have) USB 2.0 or FireWire, you'll have little issue capturing the vid. If you do have trub, capture on someone else's PC and transfer the AVIs to your PC via stick or DVD.
Quote: Leevil @ December 15 2009, 5:22 PM GMTHow's Mr. P getting on with editing?
Just edited a wedding vid for a friend and did a pretty damn good job if you ask me!
Good, good Solve the Benny Hill problem?
Quote: Leevil @ December 16 2009, 5:23 PM GMTGood, good
What, the bride's dress fell off as she married a little old bald man?
