Arnie Schlissel
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[Mick Haensler] “The client is now saying they need the work ASAP, I’m saying I need to get the old invoice cleared up and paid before I release the current job.”
I would ask for payment on both jobs before releasing this new one. Otherwise, you might never see the money for the new one.
[Mick Haensler] “I’m thinking of going to the referral company to see if anyone else has had issues with them.”
Excellent idea!
Arnie
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Your only real choices are the AJA Io family.
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Smoothcam is ‘non-destructive’, meaning it doesn’t actually modify the original media. If you’re not happy with the result, you can simply crank up the smoothing & re-run it.
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You need to rent an HDCam SR deck, or find a facility that has a deck and can capture the footage for you.
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I think that’s some kind of watermark. Do you have any demo plugins or programs? Try removing them.
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This sounds like it might be a watermark from an unregistered plugin. Can you post a still?
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[Scott Sheriff] “If the courts allow a state to do this, and force Amazon to cough up the customer records, it will open the door for others to try for retroactive judgments knowing they could use the court to obtain customer records to collect the judgment if they win.”
It’s not really comparable. First, many states (and nations) have long reserved the right to collect sales or VAT taxes on catalog sales from out of state. The issue here has been on who is responsible for collecting & paying.
More to the point, catalog merchants keep detailed records of every transaction, including names, addresses & billing & payment info.
YouTube & Vimeo don’t ask me my name or location or billing info when I click on a video. I suspect that the only information needed is an IP address, & I have no idea if that information is even kept for very long.
And what if I was watching a video at an internet cafe? Or at the public library? Someone else’s computer? On a dialup or other non-static IP address? There’s simply not enough information to trace back to me reliably.
And how would you bill royalties or licensing fees for the thousands of hours of reality programming and hundreds of low budget films already completed with HDV cameras? By the amount of footage shot? Used in the final product? How does MPEG-LA find out what show was shot using their patents? Do they subpoena every production company in the US?
It’s a lawyer’s wet dream, but a plaintiff’s nightmare.
Arnie
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These claims are probably unenforceable. How can you retroactively collect royalties from the millions of viewers of YouTube or Vimeo videos? Send them an invoice? I doubt that YouTube’s parent, Google, would allow them to make a profit at their expense.
The historical precedent is Thomas Edison’s film trust. In the end Edison failed to control the market for motion picture film, but he did succeed in two things. He succeeded in marginalizing his own company and making Biograph, his chief rival, the dominant player in the film business. He also succeeded in shifting the film industry’s center of gravity from the greater New York city area to the LA/Hollywood area.
If the MPEG-LA tried to enforce their patents, they would simply drive that segment of the pro market to other technology.
Arnie
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Since you already have the EX3, why not test out your Nikkors on that? You could buy an adapter from someone who has a decent return policy, or rent one for a few days while you run some tests.
If you’re not happy with those results, rent a Cannon for a few days & see if you like the results & workflow.
Better still, test both! Run some tests side by side, and see what differences there are & how they’ll effect your workflow & your project.
Arnie
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The Kona 3 does not do this. No capture card does this. For this you need compositing software, and someone who knows how to use it.
Arnie
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