IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Hi Ned - have you looked at Wikipedia about this? I was looking into this very issue recently and the Wiki article makes some interesting points, although it might not be an exact point of law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Hi Roy - I don't use any of the programs you have so I'm not sure if it's a problem with the clip or any 'keyframed pan and crop' movement you have set to animate the text. If the movement is part of a video clip and you have grabbed an image of the wording where you want it, try deleting the origin...

Frank - I agree wholeheartedly about the cutaways. I am currently working on a couple of music videos and I quickly learned to set the camera rolling before the required shot (whilst framing or focussing or giving directions etc) and keep it running for some time afterwards. Sounds simple but I'm su...

Hi Willy, I have received your package with many thanks and I shall endeavour to view the films when I have some free time to devote all my attention to them - at the moment I am in the middle of editing quite a complex music video and I know I won't be able to give your art justice. I hope you enjo...

There's no excuse for bad manners, no matter what equipment one is using! :evil: Curiously, I've found filming with a DSLR (or more correctly a DSLM in my case) quite advantageous as people assume you're taking photographs and not shooting video, so I've been able to capture footage in places that w...

Thanks Brian - I had a rare venture into town to have a look, but spotted Digital Filmmaker's "The Definitive Guide To Filmmaking" at a more hefty £12.99 just above it so plumped for that instead. Certainly worth a look through (at over 300 pages quite a lengthy look through) and although ...

Willy: you have a PM

All the best - John

Willy - do you have a link to your documentary "On the Road to Passchendale" at all? My grandfather was in Ypres and fought at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 and I would find this fascinating to add to his account of the horrors of the battle.

Many thanks - John Roberts

+1 for Movie Studio 12. I 'upgraded' from Premiere Elements 2.0 (yes, I know - there is a big gap in between) to what was Movie Studio 10 and moved on from there, and I find the interface very intuitive and don't often feel the need to refer to the manual. I haven't upgraded to MS13 because MS12 doe...

Hi Tim - I think I got my words a little jumbled haha! I was referring to how I'd personally feel inside if I used my own footage from an old drama or holiday film I'd shot and tried to make it look as if it was news reportage - every time I looked at it I'd know that I'd used said drama or holiday ...

I agree, Lee. On the occasions I have asked for permission to use copywritten works I have not to date been told I can't! I think the issue I will have is as Dave W pointed out - finding out for certain who holds the rights to give permission to use part of a film clip is almost impossible these day...

Hello to everyone :-) Further to my recent thread about copyright-free footage, I'm putting out a call for anyone who might have any kind of footage resembling natural or ecological disasters, or extreme weather. Such as: Storms, monsoon-type rain, floods, fire plus anything ecological such as rubbi...

OK - thanks for the advice and tips

I'll try and see if I can cobble together enough random clips from what I already have from previous films, if not I'll put out a shout for any specific 'style' of film clips I'm lacking.

Thanks again

Hello to everyone! :) I'm currently putting together a short video which may or may not contain very short clips (i.e. 1 or 2 seconds) of material that isn't mine. The idea I have in mind is for someone to 'channel hop' a TV in the corner of a room, which will then show the clips. Not many will be n...

Thanks Tim, I'll look into that. I'm sure this info will help Ned as well. Most of the plug-ins seem to be retained in later versions (new ones are added obviously) but some change slightly in their operation or disappear altogether. In particular the image stabiliser in v11 is superior to that of v...