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I like making stuff. Aiming at quality, hopefully take you somewhere new... If it is fun to make -- it shows. This is a portion of a 'haunt' intro (7 minutes). The entire 'longer' project was shot in a weekend. I have edited out the scary stuff, the make you jump footage -- the haunt plans to use the footage for Halloween, 2014. Watch in 1080p if possible -- YouTube. Strange, it restarts up but for some reason the opening 12 seconds of footage did not capture correctly onto YouTube...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xqWCpS11g

Comments are always welcomed.

Technical stuff -- This was shot in DVcam 4X3 (using my old 1998, Sony DSR300), then converted from SD to HD, from full screen to 16X9 (expanded using two separate SD shots lined up and placed side by side and melted together after correcting composition) on a S6000. Yeah, had to shoot each location (shot) twice using a heavy duty tripod or bean bag (for low angle shots)! The HD final result came out, over 60 Mbps. Finished production was shown on a HD video projector at the haunts 'scare theater' for entering patrons. Looked sweet on the big screen!

Excellent! Good editing.

If possible, how did you expand the 4:3 aspect to 16:9?

Lou, Sorry I missed this post and your question. I will answer now - hope it helps. I shot footage using 2 old DVcam cameras... DSR300 on tripods side by side, slightly over-lapping the right camera's left with over-lapping the left camera's right side footage (cameras kept wide open & identical settings)... download all footage to S6000 in SD. Then I converted footage to HD on another 'project' with settings at 1080 30p. When converted, I did PIP placing two images side by side, overlapping and dissolving where they meet. Then adjusted as needed and letter-boxed. The footage was rated at 60 Mbps. This is time consuming but, the footage did look pretty good -- especially when expanded onto a movie screen using a 1080p projector. Sorry, I took down the film from YouTube a while back...