[Ruby Gold]

Thanks a lot. Very clear and to the point!

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks Barry (love your book, btw). I’m PC-based (I edit with PPro 1.5), so can’t use FCP. I wish I could utiltize Noah’s stuff, because it sounds very helpful. Alas…

I read Adam Wilt’s piece on all things DVX, and confess with embarassment that I still don’t thoroughly understand the issues around various pulldown schemes and their ramifications for selecting timelines in PPro and/or mixing 24p and 60i footage on said timeline, as I described above.

thanks-
Ruby

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks Tim for the URL and Steve for the reassurance that different modes can co-exist in the same timeline. I think I need to learn more about pulldown and what goes into that, how that all works.

I got scared a bit by previous posters’ admonitions about putting 24p and 24pA on the same tape and timeline, thinking it might also apply to 24p and 60i footage, so I appreciate your green light there.

Love your “dry heat” tagline btw.

thanks again-
Ruby

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks everybody for the helpful advice.
Ruby

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks so much–this is a terrific link!
Ruby

[Ruby Gold]

Exactly. That’s one of the documents I’ve read in coming to my beliefs that it’s fair game to shoot folks in public space on the street and use the images in productions. Here’s another older reference that’s more “legal precedent” based, but pretty useful:
https://rcfp.org/photoguide/

Also, on a separate but related note, for anyone interested in the latest thinking on “fair use” of copyrighted materials (music, film clips, etc) for documentarians, this is an interesting document:
https://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use/

[Ruby Gold]

Yup. Being polite and respectful is always a good policy in my book.

[Ruby Gold]

Love the ‘oops I tripped’ versus ‘bowels of hell’ comparison. ;-}

Yeah, I know that many buildings are trademarked and that the other kinds of things you mentioned are definitely NOT in public domain. As well, many works of art that land in public domain after however many years get snapped up the Gettys and Turners of the world. I understand that.

What I meant was shooting ordinary people walking by on the sidewalk, in the public arena (not through an office building window or dressing room), and using the shot/footage in a production. My understanding is that this is quite legal.

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks Ron. I went to the two sites Walter suggested and the Big Stock site as well. They are far less expensive than the Getty Images and other like sites I was looking at, but after doing preliminary searches for the kind of things I need on iStockPhoto or BigStock, they seem to run anywhere from 2.50 to four bucks or so a shot after subscribing. The ClipArt.com subscription was $169/year, so I’m not sure what Walter meant about being $65.

Also, maybe I just need to look harder, but after this preliminary look, the photos definitely looked like posed, well-lit stock photos to me, not much of a verite look that I could find, which is what I need. But, maybe I just need to look harder.

Walter–in answer to your question–I used the wrong term, ‘public domain.’ I was referring to the right to take photos of anyone in public space such as a street, sidewalk, park, etc.

Again–thanks for both of your responses.
Ruby

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks Walter–guess I was looking at the wrong sites–they were insanely expensive, and, as I said, look like slick stock images. Thanks a lot for these sites–at least it addresses the expense problem. BTW–am I correct in my assumption that stuff shot in public domain space can be used legally any way you want–correct?

thanks for the help-