[Paul Gilmore]

pro 11 and yes 64bit.. and I installed the newest update

“Film is a dramatized reality and it is the director’s job to make it appear real… an audience should not be conscious of technique.” – David Lean

[Paul Gilmore]

I have had it happen to 2 different projects.. 1 project was filmed with an SLR so it’s .MOV file the other project was with a Sony FX-7 in HD it’s .m2t file

“Film is a dramatized reality and it is the director’s job to make it appear real… an audience should not be conscious of technique.” – David Lean

[Paul Gilmore]

Well this resolves the issue.. I wrote the US Copyright Law office just to be 100% clear.. this is their response:

Good afternoon Paul,

Thank you for taking the time in contacting us about your copyright question. We understand there can be much confusion and debate about using copyrighted music/material in online videos. And you are one of the smart ones to contact us before making the mistake in using copyrighted material in your online videos.

Paul the US Copyright limitations on the music rights principle and the fair use statute of copyright material are very limited and generally reserved for non-commercial activities such as scholarly research, use in museums/archives, student films, etc. In short for Educational, non-profit or for personal purposes only.

It seems very clear here that this is a commercial website and the videos are an advertisement. Unfortunately your only option here is to use royalty free music/sound recordings. I will be honest Copyright Law Offices in each state do have a list of businesses that operate in the state and they do track down each state registered business and their website/s to ensure proper copyright laws. Unfortunately the state from time to time will make an example of a business using copyrighted material which means a hefty lawsuit will be filed. This is not a chance anyone should take. Fortunately there are plenty of royalty free websites out there. Do a web based search for “Royalty Free Music” and numerous websites will come up, some free to download others you do need to pay to download. That is your only option legally, without spending thousands of dollars for the rights.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you for contacting us and we wish much success in your venture

US COPYRIGHT LAW OFFICE
WASHINGTON DC

[Paul Gilmore]

From all the info I have read the bottom line is: Using copyrighted music for any form of advertising is illegal use and you will either be told to take the video down or sued. Unless it is for a student film, educational purposes, personal use or parody videos or unless you get permission from the studio/producers who owns the rights, which is very hard to do and most likely you’ll never hear back from them.

The part that really makes it hard is finding royalty free music that will flow with the video and that also sounds good and is either very cheap to purchase or free. Sites I have looked at their free music sounds very poor quality and the music that has good quality and I like is to expensive. I could ask the owner to pay for the music, but I’m trying not to go there if I can. I did find a couple good songs from Vimeo music store, however the owner didn’t care for it and wanted something more fun and hyped up i guess. The song he wants is Canned Heart – On The Road or Johnny Cash – I’ve Been Everywhere.. so I’m trying to find a song that has that type of tempo but so far without any luck..

[Paul Gilmore]

“or purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports”

looks like only if it’s used for say student films, or educational purposes..

[Paul Gilmore]

I did go to the US Copyright Office website and this is what it says:

How much of someone else’s work can I use without getting permission?

Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports. There are no legal rules permitting the use of a specific number of words, a certain number of musical notes, or percentage of a work. Whether a particular use qualifies as fair use depends on all the circumstances.
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html#obtain

So to me this is saying you are allowed to use portions of copyrighted material but not the entirety…??

I did go ahead and email them just to get more clarification on it.. maybe they’ll email me back.. ?

[Paul Gilmore]

Well the reason in asking is I’m editing 3-4 online videos for a charter bus company and they want certain music for the videos.

[Paul Gilmore]

Thank you everyone for all your knowledge and help…
I ended out using color corrector, color corrector 2 then I adjust the Limit Lumiance then I added and adjusted the contrast and looks pretty good.. no more blown out whites and that blue tint…

I’m defiantly looking more into 3rd party plugin’s as was suggested, but for now this will do the job. I sent the videos in yesterday and the owners of the company LOVED them and actually hired me as their in house videographer.. so I guess I did something right..

Thanks again for EVERYONE’s help it was very much appreciated!

[Paul Gilmore]

I’ve been in the same situation as you are.. What I have done is visit YouTube and type in creating business 3D logos and a huge amount of tutorial videos will come up.. very handy

[Paul Gilmore]

and btw I LOVE Vegas Pro.. and I don’t plan on changing over to FCP anytime soon! I was just curious if there really was a difference?