Dmitri

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I particularly annoyed by the advert commenter. I am not against advertisements as long as they are in their own distinct boxes so that I will not be fooled by it. It is advertisements that fund the site and keep it running. There are so many good and free resources out there that have advertisements and that’s life. The only way to avoid it is to close your eyes lol.

The film was edited with the program “Avid” and the High-Def parts were edited in Final Cut Pro (an Apple program) . The 3D parts of the movie were made using the programs Maya, XSI, and Lightwave. The 2D parts were made with the programs Shake, Inferno, Fusion, and Combustion. The film makers prefer Apple computers, but large portions of the movie were made with Linux computers. They made some custom software to do some of their movie magic. Color management was handled by Truelight software. The film was scanned on a northlight scanner [which is just a film scanner] and was recorded on the Arrilaser [The Arrilaser is a digital film recorder made by Arri which writes digital movie files onto film after it's been edited and such]. Most of the film was shot at high speed, between 50 and 150 frames per second. Normal film is projected at 24 frames per second. The film was transferred to High-Def SR tape (just a type of tape, like Mini DV or Hi8) and quicktime files, and High-Def quicktime files were the basis for the High-Def preview cuts. The working resolution for the film was 2000 pixels (normal MiniDV resolution is 720 x 480), at a working aspect ratio of 2.11 and a projected aspect ratio of 2.35. (those are ratios, haha. Like in math. Google that bit)

Hope that helped any confused people!

Cool article and as someone above said, loks like a couple hours of PS coming up.

Heh, No, dude, I totally caught your sarcasm, and turned it against you. Muuhahaha, I’m so damn witty.

I think you forget that people in general take themselves way too seriously. I’m not one of those people. hence the comment about press releases.

Of course I wouldn’t take the piss out of my regular readers, but if people send me ridiculous press releases about random stuff that is complete rubbish, then I might decide to do a write-up to highlight the fact that they’re rubbish. See it as an incentive for PR companies to do their job properly, rather than to just fire irrelevant adverts everywhichway.

As for the ads: If I stick them in the sidebar, people don’t notice them, and if people don’t notice them, they don’t click on them. If they don’t get clicked on, I may as well not bother. It’s a necessary evil, I’m afraid. If enough people made donations, or if I managed to get a bigger sponsor, then I’d strip all the ads out in a heartbeat. In the mean time, I have no other choice, I’m afraid.

No hard feelings, kid.

You have a good site with some good articles, it seems a shame to spoil them. I didn’t email you directly as the comment “You can even send press releases, if you are a company, but if they are crap, prepare to be ridiculed.” put me off giving you my real details. That attitude doesn’t really seem right for a site which is for helping people imporve their photography skills.