u/HMasteen

Hi,

I've had a look at the whole sub, sorry for another post about pressure issues, it seems a recurrent topic.

My Elizabeth v2 has been working flawlessly for a year, until I changed the "softener cartridge". I guess I haven't put it in the water long enough but now the problem persists even without cartridge plugged. So I run all my tests without the cartridge just so you know.

My Lelit is no unable to go beyond 3 bars. I did all the testing with the blind basket. I let nearly 1 liters of water run through all the system in several "shots" from 1 to 10 seconds, like if I could remove some trapped air somewhere.

The pump does a normal sound.

I opened the whole machine to check everything: no leak, no crushed pipe. I have seen a syringe technique to push the water but it didn't help. I also read here that blowing into the pipe could help too, but it didn't help too.

Has anyone had this problem before and solved it?

Hi!

I’m in my 40s, with an established career outside the film industry, and for the past couple of years I’ve been developing an original animated feature alongside that work. I’m now at a point where I’m not quite sure what the most rel
evant next step is. But I'm already getting myself ready for lots of unanswered emails and automated declines.

I'm deliberately not sharing the title, logline or story because I'm not looking for feedback on the film itself or asking anyone to read anything. I'm more interested in hearing from people who have been through development or production and might have some perspective on the situation.

The project has grown into a fairly large development bible. The overall story is structured, including the main character arcs, momentum pressure controls, sequence-level progression and causal chain. There's also a lot of work on the world and its internal rules, visual storytelling and staging, sound/music intentions, themes, audience. I have even made mood reels for the main sequences using other film materials and temp tracks to really show the intent. I've also made shorter documents that extract the important parts depending on who I will be presenting the project to.

Screenplay hasn't been part of this work. A lot of it has been figuring out the story, structure, rhythm, world, characters and how I imagine the film and its concept working visually and emotionally.

That's also why I don't really consider myself a screenwriter. I created the project and want to stay very involved creatively (a bit like a showrunner would in a series), but I don't necessarily want to write the final screenplay alone. Ideally I'd like to work with an experienced screenwriter who could challenge and improve what I've built rather than simply turn my notes into screenplay format.

My goal now is ultimately to find a producer and an animation studio in France, and I'm also starting to identify screenwriters who might be a good fit. I'm not looking to raise money or finance the film myself at this point. What I'm really trying to figure out is how to move from developing it alone to bringing the right professional people into the project.

So I'm curious what people here would do in this situation. Would you approach producers first and potentially find the writer with them? Try to find a screenwriter first? Or is having a screenplay basically expected before approaching producers with a feature like this?

I'm also wondering whether developing something this much before bringing professionals in is generally useful, or whether there's a point where having too much already defined can actually become a disadvantage.

I'd especially appreciate hearing from people who've worked in development or producing, or have seen projects come in from people outside the film industry.

Hi everyone,

I’m not really facing any issue but I was wondering whether it is normal that I see a temperature warning icon after about 20-30min in a 25°C environment when the fan is set to automatic and the auto power off temp set on standard.

I have set it to high and now it looks like I don’t have the icon again.

I have no clue whether the icon means it is really going to shut the camera off soon but I kept shooting for a few more minutes before turning the camera off. It didn’t seem to be a real problem.

I am surprised it appeared so fast in a cold environnement (25°C). I could hear the fan with my ear next to the air exit, so it wasnt off.

Or maybe the auto shutdown set to standard is very « careful »?

Edit
I was recording in Xavc HS 4K and the camera was plugged to a small rig battery using usb-c.