Tester13's GH1 hacks

Wow!! checkout these!!
http://www.mishra.tv/wordpress/?s=tester13
http://www.gh1-hack.info/
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/16/official-gh1-lenin-hack-project-discussion

AVCHD from GH1 - Pulldown removal with FCP & Compressor.

Do you own a Panasonic GH1? How do you edit the video recorded in FCP? How can you get the 1080/24p "film look"?
I was looking for pulldown removal steps and found this: http://www.hotrodcameras.com/2009/10/gh1compressor-workflow/

Here is the content from the above link (just in case the link does not work anymore).

To Bring in the footage;
1. Open FCP
2. Log and Transfer footage from card into project
3. Highlight all clips in Bin and EXPORT–>Using Compressor
4. When files open up in Compressor
5. Highlight all the clips that have transfered and add pre-existing setting, Apple Prores 422
– Modify by changing frame rate in the Encoder setting to 23.976
–Turn on Frame control and change the deinterlace field to Reverse Telecine
6. Choose target
7. Submit
8. When done, re-import new clips you have created into FCP.
9.Create sequence for Audio sync
10. Add In point to each clip where slate hits and In point on audio clips. Sync.
11. Link both clips
12. Drag to new bin and rename clip according to scene and take number.

Funding your movie through grants

God! How many times have I gone through this vicious cycle - get some funds, make a no budget movie and then get some bridge funds, grants, friends-family-relatives...!!
Again me and my buddy are stuck at the same tight spot - frantically trying to raise funds :(
Today I stumbled on http://www.filmproposals.com/Film-Grants.htm and http://www.caryn.com/indie/film_financing/grants.html - these lists sound too good to be true. Let me know if you really raised some funds using any of these.
In addition, as always there is good info on financing a movie at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_finance

Writing sheet music - again!

After my last post, I learnt that RoseGarden is much easier for what I want to do and it also is integrated with Lilly Pond so still can print sheet music that I always wanted. Check it out! It is available for Windows and Unix flavours. RoseGarden seems to be an exhaustive solution for music composers.

Wana write/print sheet music on your computer...?

I have been struggling to get sheet music for popular songs - especially Tamil songs because all you find on Internet uses Carnaitic notations and occasionally classic notations but then they are mere text and not sheet music that you can print and play straight off of. (See: KeylessOnline or TfmPage)
For a while I printed out the blank sheet music like the free ones at LinkwareGraphics and manually wrote the score on them - boy it was not easy.
Then I landed on this article: on writing sheet music with OpenOffice. This is really exciting. I am going to experiment more and let you know if I was able to print sheet music. In the meanwhile you too give it a try.

Resources:

• http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/
• http://lilypond.org/web/switch/howto

A'right - I downloaded Lilypond on Ubuntu - Ubuntu has a package already available so all I had to do was to choose Lilypond from Synoptic Package Manager and install. That's it.
I then opened a text file (test.ly) and entered the following in it:

\header {
title = "Suttum Vizhi Chudarae"
composer = "Composer: Haris Jeyaraj"
subtitle = "Movie: Ghajini"
meter = "Scale: Cm"
}

<<
    \chords {
      c1:m r1 c1:m r1
      c1:m r1 g:m
    }
   \relative c' {
      c4 dis dis c dis f f g c, dis dis c dis f f g
      f f g g g f g f dis d r2
    }
   \addlyrics {
      sut -- tum vi -- zhi chu -- da -- ra -- e, sut -- tum vi -- zhi chu -- da -- ra -- e
      en -- nu -- la -- gam un -- nai sut -- ru -- dh -- ae
    }
 >>

Then I ran the command "lilypond test.ly" from a Unix shell prompt to get a test.pdf file with the sheet music - see the screen shot below.

As per the instructions in one of the above Web links, I downloaded OOoLilyPond-0.4.0.oxt - the OpenOffice Extender and installed it too, but I didn't have to use it to generate the sheet music.

Script Repository

Hmmm... I thought that I had posted a few of these earlier, but then....!
Here are a few WebSites whee you can find screenplays for a few popular movies. Read'em and learn :)

• MediaFire


• Script-o-rama


• Simply Scripts


• Movie Scripts and Screenplays
  

I found a bunch of links at Open Directory:

• Awesome Scripts and Screenplays - Collection of various scripts and screenplays, listed in alphabetical order.


• Cinefania - Scripts from horror, sci-fi, fantasy and thriller movies, ready to download.


• Colin's Movie Monologues - Hundreds of monologues from popular films, arranged alphabetically.


• Daily Script - Collection of screenplays for a number of mainstream films, in alphabetical order.


• Drew's Script-O-Rama - Index of downloadable movie and television scripts.


• HorrorLair - Collection of horror, suspense, and science fiction movie scripts in plain text format.


• Inflow's Script Depository - Self-contained HTML scripts that you can read online - no downloading of files


• Internet Movie Script Database - Movie scripts online free for reading and downloading. Hundreds of popular movie scripts available.


• JoBlo's Movie Scripts - Scripts and script drafts of movies.


• Mooviees.com: Movie Scripts - Featuring links to movie scripts and transcripts.


• Movie Script Archive - Alphabetical listing of screenplays and transcripts of films from various genres.


• Movie Scripts - Alphabetical listing of screenplays for various action, science fiction, and horror films.


• My PDF Scripts - Film and television screenplays in PDF format, along with reviews and a small collection of miscellaneous film-related publications.


• Satan's Script-o-Rama - Alphabetical listing of science fiction, action, and horror films, in ZIP archive format.


• Screenplays Online - Features a variety of online scripts available to read in an unzipped format.


• Screenplays for You - Features downloadable scripts from various movies organized alphabetically.


• Script-Fix - Provides an alphabetical listing of online movie scripts.


• ScriptCrawler - Features searchable database of free movie, tv, radio, and anime scripts.


• SimplyScripts - Searchable directory of downloadable scripts. Includes television, radio, anime and unproduced scripts and screenplays.


• Television and Movie Scripts - Some scripts of television shows and popular movies.


• The Sci-Fi Movie Page - Downloadable sci-fi, fantasy and horror movie scripts.

Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

Here is a list of 36 dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations
• http://www.inkalicious.com/cheatsheets.php

Check out how conflict can be introduced. Enjoy!