[Brant Mills]

Thanks for the responses – for what I’m looking to do Corbis showed a photo of the Mona Lisa by a specific photographer broadcast worldwide for over 6 thousand dollars. I was just at the Louvre last month and you aren’t allowed to take photos or video in that area (for obvious reasons of light causing the photos to fade in photography.)

Then I found this on Wikipedia. (which could mean its not accurate anyway)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources#Visual_arts
“Visual arts
Note: Accurate photographs of visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting’s copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.”

Does that mean that of any major artwork that was created prior to 1923 any photo regardless of when it is taken is free game? If so – then why would anyone pay that much for the rights to use a photo of a portrait when its free to use anyway? Is Corbis making that much money off the quality alone – or does the photographer actually claim some rights to the work – i.e. digital reproduction rights etc.? It makes since that the paintings’ representations would be in the public domain.

I really want to make sure I’m covered, but conflicting information like this always makes me second guess myself.

Does anyone have a definitive answer on this or know a good entertainment lawyer well versed in digital rights management? Thanks again – I really appreciate this!

~Brant

[Brant Mills]

Thanks I appreciate the response!

~Brant

/wish I could afford Genelecs
//am not sure how to pronounce “Genelec”

[Brant Mills]

I just wanted to say thanks for the great advice – thats exactly what I needed!

[Brant Mills]

Ugh – I hate that style. Why copy other people’s styles? Be more creative. I first saw graphics in this form from a hack out of L.A. a couple of years back and hated it then. Then it started running rampant on web graphics on underground sites. Now I’m seeing it in mainstream advertising and on TV and wondering why people aren’t taught to do something different. At least try to improve on the theme. I can just see the porn industry jumping (no pun intended) on this style next (if they haven’t already – I wouldn’t know) and change it from paint to something else. Just my two cents.

[Brant Mills]

(Disclaimer: I’m not that great at the audio side of stuff – I mainly deal in video. That being said I’ll give it a shot.) I’m not sure whether the sound card has two spdif (optical) outputs or just one. If it has two you should be able to just hook up two audio monitors with optical inputs to the sound card. (If you try to use the analog outs you may (read – more than likely will) have a problem with the audio not sinking up with the video when played from the timeline.) If the sound card only has one spdif (optical) output You may need to get a receiver with an spdif(optical) input and then can connect monitors through either analog or digital outputs based on whichever you prefer. Staying in digital would be better, though it will cost a bit more. As far as to which brand you should choose – I’m at a loss. You may be better off starting a new thread at the top to learn which specific monitor brands are best for your price point. When you decide to gear up for HD – I keep hearing really good things about BMD’s Decklink solutions, and your Boxx systems will more than handle it. Glad I could help out a little, and good luck to you.

[Brant Mills]

What sound card did you get in your box? What capture card did you get? The brand and model numbers would be helpful. Also, which equipment specifically were the avi people trying to sell you on. You can probably find it cheaper and/or find something of equal or better quality relatively easily. What brands do you have in mind? What’s your remaining budget? I’ll look at the specs of the sound card you are getting and go from there. You’ll probably be ok with just two main monitors at minimum, and maybe a subwoofer – unless you will be working with 5.1 or 7.1 surround. Are you going to need a mixer? Will you also be needing microphones, shockmounts, cables, stands, pop filters, foam for the audio room, etc. or are you just setting up the edit suite? What type of clientele will you be serving? Broadcast? Film? SD? HD? HDV? Please be as detailed as you can and I’ll do what I can to help.

[Brant Mills]

There is no standard cut-and-dried way or “proper” way to go about this. I’ve set up a couple of studios for other people in addition to my own and the best advice I could offer would be to decide which nle software you want first and on which system (pc or mac) and build everything based around the specs of your nle and computer system resources. Setting up the audio will be dependant upon your capture card’s and sound card’s specs and your capture card’s specs and quirkiness will depend on your nle which will be dependant on your system, ram, video card, processor, etc. If you know a lot about computers then your work is cut out for you; otherwise – befriend a techie to offer sound advice. Either way start with the software you want and build the system around it. You can find the system requirements on their websites. If all else fails and you have the money for it – call the folks over at Boxx technologies and tell them what you’re looking to do. They’ll set you up with a killer system – but it will cost you.

Hope this helps!

[Brant Mills]

I agree that the animated gif export from ae is crap. I had to find a workaround for site design stuff. If you output a jpg sequence to its own folder you should be able to import that into flash – or alternately (to save the time it will take flash import the sequence and later to export a larger file) you can make an animated gif out of the jpg sequence in imageready and you can then open a high quality animated gif directly in flash. I’m not sure on the alpha channel issue though. Hope this helps.

[Brant Mills]

Thank you for the info. I certainly appreciate it. I still have a few months before I absolutely have to buy a new system – so I think I’m going to wait it out anyway for prices on certain components to fall a bit. Thanks again for your time!

[Brant Mills]

Thank you VERY much! I really appreciate it.