http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: news - Recent Posts en Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:28:24 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59827 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:11:48 +0000 composite1 59827@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I read the article and it seems that as usual the inherent problem lay with human retardation, laziness and corruption. Build a city atop loose volcanic pumice and then not maintain or properly build a water system within the soil. When it rains and pipes burst, don't bother to go down and fix them, just hope 'it takes care of itself'. Why does it always take a big G-damned hole or a hemorrhaging 'Oil Volcano' disaster before we take a serious look at what we are doing? I am by no means a 'tree-hugger', but I happen to like having solid ground beneath me, air that I don't need to chew like jerky, water that won't stand a car up if you tossed it in and on occasion shrimp and oysters that don't taste like what I just cleaned out of my car's engine.</p> <p>I like money too, but I also recognize that you can't breathe it, drink it or make it into a tasty and nutritious stew. Yet there are people out there running these outfits that are poisoning everything in the name of Mammon. I really don't want to have to spend my time hunting cats and keeping an eye out for my 'neighbors' who think I'd make a fine fricassee' like Denzel Washington had to in "The Book of Eli". But man, it just seems like there are hordes of folks who don't seem to have a problem with us heading down that path.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59810 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:13:21 +0000 CraftersOfLight 59810@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Okay, did a little further searching and I was way off on those dimensions. Here is a National Geographic article on the possible cause of it. BTW 60ft Dia. and 300ft deep.</p> <p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2010/06/100603-science-guatemala-sinkhole-2010-humans-caused/">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2010/06/100603-science-guatemala-sinkhole-2010-humans-caused/</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59776 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:11:36 +0000 composite1 59776@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Man, that looks deeper than 100 ft! Not surprised there are still people living nearby. Where were they going to go?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59774 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:04:44 +0000 CraftersOfLight 59774@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> One news report listed it as 300 ft diameter and 100 ft deep. And people were still living in the buildings next to it.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59770 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:42:04 +0000 composite1 59770@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>No idea on both questions. However, from the overhead view it looks like there might be a lava tube or cavern beneath that neighborhood. I speculate because it seems to 'go to black' too abruptly at the bottom of the hole. If that's the case, even a 'junk shot' wouldn't do jack to fill up that hole. Maybe we could get BP to spill oil in it!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59763 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:35:19 +0000 james4king77 59763@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>how deep the sinkhole is ? LoL</p> <p>will the govn't of Guatemala fill that sinkhole up? </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59289 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:03:12 +0000 composite1 59289@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"The earth called. It wants it's oil back."</em></p> <p>HA! Ain't that the truth! Thanks for the laugh. It was well timed.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59278 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:18:57 +0000 pseudosafari 59278@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>And BAD CGI fakes at that (at least that first pic looked pretty fake, but man, what an awful mess).  Reminded me (on a much lighter note) of the 3D street art guy:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59275 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:49:17 +0000 grinner 59275@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The earth called.</p> <p>It wants it's oil back.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-real-world-tops-cg-everytime#post-59274 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:26:35 +0000 composite1 59274@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Have any of you seen this? Photos of the sinkhole nearly a block in diameter in Guatemala City after Hurricane Agatha this weekend. At first I thought they were CG fakes! But the poor souls who fell through it can tell us otherwise. Check them out.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/01/central.america.storm.deaths/index.html?hpt=T3">Sinkhole in Guatemala</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/virtual-studio-backgrounds-for-green-screen-shoots#post-58291 Wed, 05 May 2010 10:17:49 +0000 virtual-studio-set.com 58291@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi <strong>bobcypheruk,</strong></p> <p><strong>I haven't setup any PAL versions for download yet (that's actually pretty good idea, I have done a number of sales outside the US, mostly HD though).  I would be more than happy to convert any of the files over to PAL for you if you are interested in anything in particular.  Just let me know.  </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Thanks!</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Robert</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.virtual-studio-set.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.virtual-studio-set.com</a><br /></strong></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/virtual-studio-backgrounds-for-green-screen-shoots#post-58264 Tue, 04 May 2010 15:06:05 +0000 bobcypheruk 58264@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi, just had a look and wondered if there are plans to make the sets available in PAL because I would definitely be interested.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/virtual-studio-backgrounds-for-green-screen-shoots#post-58258 Tue, 04 May 2010 14:38:07 +0000 virtual-studio-set.com 58258@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi, </p> <p>I am an animator and I just recently launched virtual-studio-set.com  it is a collection of backdrops that video producers can use to place behind green screen footage.  All of the footage is royalty free and I am planning on adding many more backgrounds in the near future.  We also do custom design and animation work, so please get in touch if there is a project you need help on.  Thanks for looking,</p> <p>Robert<br /><a href="http://www.virtual-studio-set.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.virtual-studio-set.com</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/news-on-line#post-49035 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:30:41 +0000 EarlC 49035@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am glad you are here and that you find some of what goes on at Videomaker Forums useful, Lara. Hang around, this is a GREAT community.</p> <p>Doing satire or using such material for a spoof or some kind of Saturday Night Live type skit is probably going to pass as fair use. Still, you have to give some serious thought to how you use it and under what circumstances it is shown. In addition to copyright issues, there exists the potential for other legal complaints as well.</p> <p>You should really consider having knowedgeable legal counsel regarding footage you intend to use even for informational purposes with or without credits or acknowledgement of copyright ownership without written releases. Everybody is so litigation happy, sometimes rightly so, in this day and age. What is that spoofy news site? Onion something or another, that plays off real world news? I am sure there are ways, but it is paramount that you understand the potential pitfalls before treading on thin ice.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/news-on-line#post-49026 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:08:49 +0000 larafiction 49026@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>You are completely right it's just that I read some where that you can use footage for information purposes, not fiction or action and you should type some kind off legend on the video. </p> <p>Now what do you think about having a LCD Screen on my back tuned on CNN and talking about the same subject. The point of having this, is that I want to have a comedy section about the world most important news.</p> <p>Thank you very much for your time EarlC, it's my first time here at this forum. I been reading your great answers to other members for over 3 hours you really take the time to read and share what you know.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/news-on-line#post-49022 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:18:59 +0000 EarlC 49022@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The various stations, or whomever acquires the footage (audio &amp; video) owns the rights and using any of this footage without their express written consent will be copyright violation of the worst kind. Their attorneys will be either jumping all over you, or at best sending you an immediate cease and desist notice. I suspect that any other news source will not take kindly to the use of their footage or materials by any competition - web, cable cast or broadcast.</p> <p>Your best bet would be to cover local events with your own crew, as you indicated doing, and not even bother trying to compete with national or international news - there are already plenty of sources for that on the web, over the radio, cable and broadcast, even print, so it isn't likely you are going to hook anyone based on your regurgitation of news outside your immediate area of coverage.</p> <p>Local news is what gets overlooked for the most part by the big boys, so your best chance is establising STRONG and solid coverage of local goings on instead - chamber of commerce, city council, area police blotter, fires, human interest, etc. This focus would be a LOT more likely to draw traffic, the kind local and area businesses would support through advertising, provided of course you can establish that you have high eyeball levels tuning in on a consistent basis. And, doing your OWN coverage will at least assure that you aren't violating other production copyrights in the process.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/news-on-line#post-49020 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:38:56 +0000 larafiction 49020@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi </p> <p> </p> <p> I am thinking about making a local News studio in my town,  right now it will be just me and one friend. I am going to be the host and my friend is going to shoot outside. I want local business to suport this project wich means that I will be charging money to place an ad at the starting point of a each clip. My question is ... if i want to show some international news like... mm..   something about China for example,  can I use footage from other tv station like ABC placing some type of text on the footage? I seen that many times but I don't know how that work's. I hope some body can help</p> <p>Thank you </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/krama-inews-a-blog-for-videomakers#post-43762 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:40:45 +0000 Krama 43762@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Announcing a blog for videomakers <a href="http://blog.krama.tv" rel="nofollow">http://blog.krama.tv</a> with video production industry news, tutorials, product reviews, showcase of my work and more. Need your opinion in order to improve it, so feel free to leave your comment.</p> <p>Cheers </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/news-scroller-like-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen-during-the-news-report#post-35270 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:36:32 +0000 Johnboy 35270@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>type out your text on a line, go to the placement tab, move the text all the way to the right so that it's just of the edge of the screen, that is your first keyframe, go to the last frame of the event, move the text all the way to the left on the same axis and set a keyframe at that point and voila a news ticker</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/news-scroller-like-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen-during-the-news-report#post-35107 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:27:47 +0000 thebergs2010 35107@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> how can i make a scroller like at the bottom of the screen during the news report in Sony Vegas 8 Platinum (not pro)??</p> <p>any help would be appreciated!</p>