[Eric Susch]

I agree. Test out David’s procedure yourself, make any modifications you need for your situation, then tell everyone else what to do. Video compression is an art with a billion different variables. It’s not something you can learn the night before the election. Keep the technical stuff as simple as possible and concentrate on the mission of the day.

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[Steve Wargo] “Can’t screw up if he’s ded.”

Hmmmm… “ded” …typo or misspelled?

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Well, this all makes sense now. This company obviously wants to hide the fact that they outsource their production work. Not sure why they care though because big companies like the Discovery Channel do this all the time and it doesn’t de-value the content or the Discovery brand.

I realize you are in a delicate situation and you probably have to say this:

[Bryce Leverich] “assuming I could use them on my website was wrong on my part.”

…but I’m going to disagree for the benefit of others who read this thread. Uploading video to YouTube gives EVERYONE implicit permission to embed the video on another website. It’s what YouTube was designed for. The embed code is prominently displayed on the YouTube page specifically to encourage people to do it. If you are against embedding your content you shouldn’t upload it to YouTube.

To pay an attorney to send a cease and desist order for embedding a YouTube clip is just plain crazy. In your case I would think a simple phone call from them would have been the appropriate response for their concerns about the wording of the text on your site. Hope you are able to smooth this over and work it out.

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Marcus,

I actually have a credit story that may help you feel better. Years ago I did the audio post for a low budget independent action feature. I did ALL of the sound work even some of the recording of the dialog on set. And there wasn’t much dialog either. Most of the film was gun battles, car chases, jousting, more gun battles, musket battles, more gun battles, and general running around – all shot MOS. I did lots and lots of foley and used every trick in the book and some that weren’t to keep the sound exciting like an action movie is supposed to be. And it was sci-fi too so a lot of the sound work had to be invented and recorded, all by ME in my personal studio.

The movie wasn’t that great but I was quite proud of my contribution. It improved the film quite a bit. The producer called it “The $150,000 movie with the 1 million dollar soundtrack.”

When the movie came out my credit was listed as “Sound Designer” which is as good a credit as any I suppose. But, below my name were listed nineteen FICTIONAL PEOPLE for various audio post positions. They obviously did absolutely nothing, being fictional and all. I did that work by myself but the producer wanted to make the movie look like a bigger production so he padded the credits.

…and that’s the way it was.

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[Bryce Leverich] “I simply embedded the clips on my site”

This is not what you said in the first post in the thread. In your first post you said:

[Bryce Leverich] “I am wondering if it is legal to use footage owned and copyrighted by my clients in my demo reel”

Using footage in a demo reel and embedding a YouTube clip on your website are two entirely different things. If you want a specific answer you’re going to have to be much more specific about the details in your question.

I’m also getting the sense that “your client” is not the ultimate client but another production company that actually produced the clips. Is this the case? I’d be careful about implicitly taking credit for things that I didn’t do.

As far as legality goes, in these situations I think the law is irrelevant. Anybody can sue you for anything if you broke the law or not. And many people (especially lawyers!) don’t understand that embedding a YouTube clip is the same as linking and not the same as copying.

These days it’s easy to create your own personal productions to showcase your work. I’d drop the issue with these guys who are pissed off by you embedding their YouTube clip and make your own demo’s for yourself.

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HD is always written in the scan rate or Hz. Interlaced always refers to the field rate because that’s one scan of the frame. With progressive the scan rate and the frame rate are the same.

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Are you saying that you aren’t receiving stats for the video anymore and the stats are only going to Next New Networks? Have you lost any type of control over the video? For example, can you delete it or update the tags etc. or did YouTube transfer that control to NNN as well? I’m just curious what YouTube is doing. I like to keep abreast of these things.

The only way to be 100% original is to not have anything made by someone else in the video. That said it sounds like what you are doing may be “fair use” given that it’s an interview situation. (It’s hard to make a judgment though without seeing the video. Do you have a link?)

Keep in mind that fair use is a legal term and only means something if you go to court. Next New Networks and YouTube can complain about and/or take action against anything and everything they feel like. This can sometimes be quite arbitrary. Welcome to the wild west of internet video.

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I’m a little confused by this thread. Wouldn’t you want the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 in a Mac pro? Wouldn’t that be the best card for Motion?

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I wish there was a simple answer to your question. The short answer is that this industry is too young for any numbers that mean anything. Some are making money and some are not. Those who are making money are essentially pioneering their own thing so duplicating what they’re doing isn’t always possible. It’s the wild west. Technology and the marketplace are changing very rapidly.

Our show is making money but we aren’t making a profit yet. We’ve yet to sign a sponsor although we have a few good prospects. We are making some big waves in the knitting world however, so I know there’s value in our show. We have the top knitting video podcast by far with about 15,000 downloads a month. (…with two shows a month.) The trick is getting somebody to take a risk on us and pay for that value.

Rev3 has an advantage because they run their sponsorships across all their shows. There are other so called “networks” that are trying to do this but I think so far Rev3 is doing it the best. They have a lot of overhead though. They’re supporting a multi-camera soundstage and a really large staff (by podcasting standards.) Check out the keynote with Jim Louderback CEO of Rev3 from last year’s expo:

https://podcastacademy.com/2008/06/11/pnme-2007-jim-louderback-keynote/

The best place to learn about all this stuff if you’re serious about getting into it is at the New Media Expo. Nothing can replace meeting different people from all over who are succeeding / failing / pioneering this new space. I’ve actually stopped going to NAB in favor of the Expo. It’s just so much more valuable. If you end up going next week, be sure to look me up and say hi. Our presentation is Saturday morning if you’re interested in what we are doing. It would be nice to see some folks from the COW there.

And if you can, click through the link in my sig to register. Maybe I can get credit for referring at least one person 😉

PS – just as I was finishing this post I found out about this:

Sony pictures acquires exclusive worldwide cross platform distribution rights to Rocketboom

Rocketboom is one of the original pioneers of internet video. It’s reportedly a seven figure deal. I know Andrew who produces the show so I’m really happy to see this kind of success for him (and all of us in New Media.) There’s never a dull moment….

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I’m curious. What podcasts are you watching that have these types of credits? Revision3?

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