Dorit Grunberger
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“When a client comes to us to produce a project, we quote a price – for a finished project. The client gets a finished tape, or disc, or file, whatever, and that’s it. Anything that our company acquires, makes, films, records, etc. during the production process belongs to us, not our client. If you buy a car from Ford, you don’t have a right to the machinery Ford used to make the car.
On the other hand, the client paid for the finished project. It’s theirs to do with as they see fit.
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That’s what I mean makes sense to me 🙂 -
That makes total sense to me…
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Does this mean that despite having copyright to the content of the tapes we shot, we are obliged to give them up to the clients so they can hire someone else to re-edit a new project for them in the future?
The original contract between us was paying per finished minute. We gave them an 8 minute project and we accepted payment for 4.5 minutes… -
Hi Christopher and all
In a previous response I asked if it would be possible to share some generic contracts, but nobody followed up. Is this a touchy subject? I’m just not sure if it is or isn’t. Perhaps I’ll start a new thread. What do you all think? -
Continues to be verrrrrrrrry interesting! Thanks Steve. No, we never billed for the tapes and I doubt this issue would ever reach a hostile place with the non-profit. We delivered a very nice little project for close to nothing for them.
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This thread is getting very interesting.
I don’t have the exact wording of the cotract here right now, but I think we charged per finished minute. No travel, or equipment expenses were passed on to the client.
Might this thread morph into a place for sharing contract forms with others? Would folks feel comfortable doing that? we can obviously toss out specifics and keep it generic.Thanks so much for all the info and good debate
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Hi SumFun
FINALLY. Got it figured out. Somehow, the 1st sequence I opened up in FCP decided to be a 29.97 video rate timeline while all my clips were in the correct 23.98… All the other sequences I created were also in the correct video rate. Once I deleted the sequence and created a new one with the correct settings Voila! No more need for rendering. Thanks for your pointers.
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Hi Russ
FINALLY. Got it figured out. Somehow, the 1st sequence I opened up in FCP decided to be a 29.97 video rate timeline while all my clips were in the correct 23.98… All the other sequences I created were also in the correct video rate. Once I deleted the sequence and created a new one with the correct settings Voila! No more need for rendering. Thanks for holding my hand through this.
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Hi Russ
I’m away form the computer, but I know i’m set currently on safe RT and dynamic. When I get back, I’ll switch to RT unlimited and let you know. I’m starting to think that it might be due to bringing in 24pa footage and editing in 23.97 fps. Just a suspicion at this point. -
yeah, I don’t know why it’s asking me to render all the time. The system is pretty good: G5 dual processor, 4GB RAM, FCP 5. Footage captured into FCP using the 24p pulldown setting(shot in 24pa on panasonic DVX100).
I put 2 clips on separate video tracks, maybe they should be on the same track? Currently there are no effects or transitions at all, but every time I manipulate a clip in any way, it’s requiring a render. Are there any preferences or settings I can change? thanks