Dexter Mcbride
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The company I work for once used one of the larger stock image libraries to do the rights search and negotiate for us. As others have pointed out, the process isn’t cheap. There was an up-front charge, and you pay it regardless of whether or not you can secure the rights.
All involved parties (record label, recording group, composers and publisher) must be contacted and come to an agreement to license the material, and many times those parties have to be negotiated with individually. Some or all of the parties involved might also have a most-favored-nation clause, which can drive up the cost pretty quickly.
And did I mention, the band doesn’t take American Express? It wasn’t quite as bad as a request for cash, in small, unmarked bills, but it was close with a ridiculously short turnaround.
Be prepared for a five-to-six figure quote for the music, depending on usage.
In the end, a great learning experience.
As this was several years ago, the situation might have changed. And if the performer is media savvy (think Moby), you might luck out.
Good luck.
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It shouldn’t matter what channel the tuner on your VHS deck is set to, but it might be cleaner if it was set to one of its line inputs. The input on the DV deck, with the set up you’ve described, should be S-Video in.
If you press the record button on the DV deck, it should force the machine in to E-E, passing the signal through via the firewire cable. I am not familiar with the deck you’re using, however, so that could be wrong.
And as I said on my earlier post, if you are attempting to send through anything with Macrovision or the like, it is very likely the circuitry in the DV deck is seeing that, and not allowing you to capture anything.
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On the DSR-11 and DSR-40, if you try and copy a VHS with copy protection (Macrovision), the deck will refuse to go in to record, and I suspect might not allow the E-E mode. Are the tapes you are attempting to digitize copy protected?
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You shouldn’t be using a USB drive for editing. That may be compounding your troubles. And using your system drive is also a bad idea.
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I would imagine you’re problem almost certainly stems from using a FAT32 formatted HDD. Any chance you could copy those files to a properly formatted drive, and try loading your project from there?
Dexter McBride
MacPro, 10.5.8, FCS 2