Originally posted by: Laserman
You'd like to be a film maker, so you know enough??
/Start stupid rant/
C'mon Daniel, stop wishing and start doing! Australia would have to be the easiest place in the world to be a film maker. I remember years and years ago, when I was stateside I saw Stephen King on set (I was a lowly grip) and one of the cameramen was talking to him saying 'I always wanted to be a writer', and SK turned to him and said something I never forgot.... "Writers write". That's all he said and walked away.
And it is so true, writers don't want to be writers, they write, and film makers don't want to be film makers, they make films.
I saved up my mowing money (for 7 months) when I was 11 to buy a 2nd hand Super 8 camera and a reel of film, and attempted a stop motion feature with my Star Wars figures. To my surprise it (kinda) worked, and I haven't stopped making films since. Talk to nearly any film maker and they have one thing in common - they actually make films, whether they get distributed or not, whether they are any good or not - that's what they do. And many of them hold down a 'normal' job and family at the same time.
You don't even seem to have the drive to do something that you supposedly feel passionate about - i.e. making an archival OT transfer - even though doing so would start to build some of the skills you would need to start doing films of your own.
If you really wanted to do any of this stuff, there would be no stopping you.
/End Stupid Rant/
Seriously, my offer is real of lending you the Laserdiscs, catpure card, software to make your own OT. I'll even lend you a burner. (I promise this is my last Daniel baiting)
Whew, OK now that I have offended everybody, I gotta go pack, I've got to supervise a shoot and will be away for about a week if all goes to plan. I'll check in here if I have time.
To everyone actually making a transfer, may your edits be glitch free, may your free space be plentiful and your laserdiscs be sparkle free.
The first thing I need to work on is writing a story (I already own a ton of gold original ideas). My friend who would apparantly be my partner in it however is lagging, so I have to wait unti he comes around. I'm not interested in transfering the LD's, even if I had access to all the needed stuff right now. There are other people working on it. If there weren't, maybe I would. Or maybe the PAL LD's and the german rip, I'd see what I could do with them. But then that would lagg me from filmmaking. You have to apply to the OFLC for a classification exemption to show it at film festivals, right? You'd like to be a film maker, so you know enough??
/Start stupid rant/
C'mon Daniel, stop wishing and start doing! Australia would have to be the easiest place in the world to be a film maker. I remember years and years ago, when I was stateside I saw Stephen King on set (I was a lowly grip) and one of the cameramen was talking to him saying 'I always wanted to be a writer', and SK turned to him and said something I never forgot.... "Writers write". That's all he said and walked away.
And it is so true, writers don't want to be writers, they write, and film makers don't want to be film makers, they make films.
I saved up my mowing money (for 7 months) when I was 11 to buy a 2nd hand Super 8 camera and a reel of film, and attempted a stop motion feature with my Star Wars figures. To my surprise it (kinda) worked, and I haven't stopped making films since. Talk to nearly any film maker and they have one thing in common - they actually make films, whether they get distributed or not, whether they are any good or not - that's what they do. And many of them hold down a 'normal' job and family at the same time.
You don't even seem to have the drive to do something that you supposedly feel passionate about - i.e. making an archival OT transfer - even though doing so would start to build some of the skills you would need to start doing films of your own.
If you really wanted to do any of this stuff, there would be no stopping you.
/End Stupid Rant/
Seriously, my offer is real of lending you the Laserdiscs, catpure card, software to make your own OT. I'll even lend you a burner. (I promise this is my last Daniel baiting)
Whew, OK now that I have offended everybody, I gotta go pack, I've got to supervise a shoot and will be away for about a week if all goes to plan. I'll check in here if I have time.
To everyone actually making a transfer, may your edits be glitch free, may your free space be plentiful and your laserdiscs be sparkle free.