Cory Petkovsek
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[Derek Fremd]
if client is supplying talent, should it be their name on the releases and not the name of my production company?I would put both. See below.
If it is my name on the release am I opening myself up to legal issues regarding payment to talent?
A “release” is a legal contract. You can put whatever you want (all parties agree to) in a contract. If your release specifies anything to do with payment (which it shouldn’t), then yes you might. Instead it should say essentially, “we can use this footage however we want, wherever and whenever we want.”
Should I put both sets of names on the releases to CYA?
A standard release “contract” is a waiver of liability for the principals in the project. If you want to release your production company from liability then you had better make sure you are in the contract either directly or indirectly.
I would just have my production company in there, then make sure one of the additional words would include my client in a reasonable definition (reasonable in court). Since the client is getting the copyright, but we both want to be released from liability I’d do something like:
The undersigned hereby gives to Corporate Video (“Producer”), its assigns, agents, licensees, affiliates, clients, principals and representatives the absolute right and permission to copyright, use, exhibit, display, print, reproduce….
Make sure it logically releases you and the client from both liability and releases any claim over copyright or permission to use the footage. Look up standard release forms and see how they are constructed; modify to suit. Check with an attorney for professional advice.
If I put my name on the release, should I include language regarding receipt of renumeration by client’s name?
I would not put anything to do with money in the release. Let that be a separate agreement, if there is anything written at all.
If the client is paying them, then they need the W9s. However since you’re a responsible production company, you can certainly print up blank w9s and make sure they all get filled out and turned into your client, ensuring each actor understands the client will be paying them directly.
What you are interested in is a release of liability and claim over footage. Don’t make it messy by mentioning compensation or your client’s and their relationship.
If you want, you can make another simple contract with verbiage that just makes the relationship clear; that they are contracted by the client and you have no relationship with them. However that’s just kind of redundant. “Let’s make an agreement that we have no agreement.”
If on the other hand the client is only footing the bill, but paying you directly, and you are paying all the talent, then it’s a completely different story all together and you are for sure liable and had better take steps to make sure to protect yourself.
BTW, beware of taking cues from the talent agency.
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Sales principle: Price based upon value to the client.
When you say 30 second commercials, some people here (like me) think broadcast; which is where Todd’s prices come in to play. What you are really talking about are low production value web video. Those are $500-1000 for equipment/crew/production/post. You can make them cheaper once you develop infrastructure, but that’s not a market I recommend.
Cory
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PAL and NTSC are broadcast and DVD standards. It’s unlikely you’re looking at cheap cameras to capture broadcast footage. If you are delivering on DVD, any HD camera can downres/crop to a DVD frame size, pal or ntsc, so you just need to figure out how to convert to the pal 25p framerate in post* if you can’t capture it in camera. If you’re delivering for the web any camera will do as long as it meets your quality and functionality requirements.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p#Converting_24p_to_PAL
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Well that would take a long time to explain. Here’s a file I made. Open it up and look at the xpresso and ask questions. I assumed frame base of 0, so the box rotates on frames 20-24. Frame 25 is 0 thus does not have rotation. Adjust this in the modulo tag and condition tags.
I arrived at the additive rotation by taking 1 radian or pi (3.14159) and dividing by 2 for a 90 degree rotation, then dividing by 5 for the 5 frames it rotates.
1179_xpressorotatingcube.c4d.zip
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Divide and conquer.
Divide the problem into two roughly equal portions and determine in which half the problem exists. Then repeat until you narrow it down to the offending piece. This allows you to test possible solutions in an log N base 2 order of magnitude number of steps which is far less than testing each and every possible setting.
Does it work on a new scene with a similar texture on a sphere? If not your cinema settings are messed up. If so, something in your scene is messed up. See? Halves.
Save to a new file. Delete half of the gun object, see if it textures properly. Repeat until it does, then figure out the offending object, or delete until you’re left with a null and one object.
Try replacing everything in the null with a simple square or sphere, like your first test.
You need to determine if it is your object settings (texture mapping, etc), or the material or your display and render settings. Swap them out and experiment.
Render to picture viewer is the way to get your finished images.
Check the render alpha and straight alpha buttons to render an alpha channel.Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Strange, it looks like there is stuff on them. Do the artifacts stay the same or are they different on every frame? Can you post a closely zoomed in picture (close enough to show only a handful of hearts)? How is your lighting setup? What kind of texture is on the hearts? Do you get different results, or different artifacts playing with the GI settings?
Edit: Also see this for basic troubleshooting technique:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/19/871581Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Is this the full ad? Day 2 and Day 3 for the same hours but different rates makes me think you “paraphrased” it for us.
Anyway, I see you’re in Penn. I don’t know what it’s like there, but in CA if you’re not interested in general work for low rates, there’s 10 more people with zero to a lot of experience willing to do it.
I mean it’s not like this is a big budget feature; a small production with general work. The questions should be, do you have anything else going on and do you want the money?
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Uh, Walter is that a question to me? I think the rest of that sentence you quoted should clarify what I was expressing, if not the whole paragraph. It appears that you quoted half my sentence, then asked about the other half of the sentence. ??
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[John Grote, Jr.]You seem to be missing the point, so I will try to clarify it a bit.
John, forgive me for missing the point of this thread. You are using us as an outlet for your frustration. Some people offered suggestions, but it seems like you just want to dump your emotions? Btw, I did not take offense.
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
Corporate Video
http://www.CorporateVideoSD.com