Hart House Film Board

Announcement: Grant Meeting June 20th

Film Board Grants help budding filmmakers cover the hard costs of production or finish movies in post-production. The next grant meeting is on June 20th and you can find the grants form on the grants page. Any questions can be directed to Anita Corsini, our Grants Officer at grants@hhfilmboard.com.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Updates!

Howdy folks,

We’re making a number of changes around the Film Board as I’m sure many of you have noticed. Most of the latest ones are related to the edit suite. Here’s a listing of some of them:

• Unfortunately the DV Deck is down again. We’re looking to purchase new ones as we gear up for the move, but we’re working to get ours fixed.
• Final Cut Pro now captures more than 5 minutes. Remember that capturing more than about five minutes is not good resource management. You can setup a quick Batch Capture to capture from say 00:00:00;10 to 00:05:00;01, then from 00:05:00;01 to 00:10:00;00 and so on. Remember to make the next in-point 1 frame later.
• Unfortunately, the cure can be worse than the illness, as in this case. Final Cut Pro may work but LiveType files can no longer be imported into Final Cut Pro and if you would like to use Compressor, you have to go your home folder>Library>Preferences and delete “com.apple.compressor.Compresso
  r.plist” by right-clicking and Move to Trash. Start up Compressor and that should fix it. Let us know if it does not.
• New two-button mice. These mice also have side-to-side scrolling to blast through your long timelines. Amazingly configurable in System Preferences (in the Dock or under the Apple menu at the top) and Microsoft Mouse. Click Add and select Final Cut Pro HD. I’d also suggest increasing the Horizontal Scrolling speed. I’ve got my middle click to zoom into the timeline and the button on the side to be zoom out.
• The firewire jacks have been fixed. We’re also going to be blocking all ports on those computers and making some extension cords available next to monitors for you to plug your equipment into. USB and Firewire 400 6-pin is to be expected.

General Film Board News:

• New interim website, of course. Reservation calendar and equipment request page can now be found on one page.
• Assorted Light Kit has been created. It contains a 1KW, 600W and a 300W light.
• General cleaning up and tightening up of procedures. We’ve been hard at work cleaning up and throwing out a lot of stuff to become a leaner, meaner Film Board. Much kudos go to our new Technical Coordinator, Dagny Thompson, for spearheading this project.
• We’ve moving soon! Keep an eye out for more information on that.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Loan Form and Reservations on One Page – Beta

I’ve put the loan form and the current bookings calendar on one page now. It is accessible by clicking on the giant ugly red link on the loan form, or clicking here. Please let me know what you think in the comments section of the loan form, or in the comments here.

Thank you!

Ammar

Film Board Curator

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Film Board Hours Changes

Please Note:

• Equipment return hours have changed. Monday and Thursday return hours are now 5-5:30. All other hours are the same.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Film Board closed Mon. May 19

Film Board is closed for Monday, May 19th holiday. Monday hours have been moved to Tuesday, May 20th. Equipment borrowed that day is due back Friday, May 23rd from 5-5:30pm.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!