Welcome to my low budget film and movie making site. Here you will find tutorials, guides and sound effects for your projects as well as information on my films. The site aims to help other low budget amateur film makers by passing on advice and information relating to writing, shooting, editing and DVD production of home movie masterpieces! Not forgetting sound and special effects.
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The following information explains how aspect ratio, resolution and frame rate is recorded in the header of a DVD compliant MPEG2 video. This allows you to tweak values in a hex editor if required.
A video is nothing without a decent soundtrack. This guide aims to explain how you can obtain quality, free and legal sound effects and music to use in your films, movies and YouTube videos.
Over the years I've often come across the sites of other people blessed with the name Matt Hawkins. I decided to list those sites here as a salute to my namesakes around the World!
There are some great software tools out there for creating and editing digitial video. Some of them are freeware or opensource and should be in any video makers toolbox.
This is a video of the only air worthy Avro Vulcan XH558. It was filmed at the Airbus Friends and Family Day, Filton, Bristol, England on 18th September 2010.
An ISO image is a file containing an exact copy of the contents of a disc. This tutorial shows you can use the free ImgBurn application to burn ISO files to blank discs.
I watched Avatar a few times now and one thing that is very noticeable to any James Cameron fan is the number of similarities between Avatar and Aliens.