[Sam Lesante jr.]

Forgot to mention that I did try making another .mov in compressor using the h264 codec, but got the sam e thing. I am trying now to export my hd mov form fcp out of quicktime as an mov

[Sam Lesante jr.]

Ok.. thanks for all the input. So i’m guessing it’s ok to show a before and after of breast augmentation as long as nipples are blurred? It would air on a local cable channel and possibly a broadcast station like WFMZ in Allentown

[Sam Lesante jr.]

Off the top of my head, It could be the fact that u r using alot of effects and/or maybe there’s an issue with the hard drive. I also find that if i have alot of other programs open it slows down too.

My two cents 🙂

[Sam Lesante jr.]

cool..thanx

[Sam Lesante jr.]

Thanks Nick,

So what can i do in the future to ensure that what & who I shoot is my property to sell?

Is it as easy as a video release form?

TIA

Sam

[Sam Lesante jr.]

Thanks Mark. This really helps me out alot.

I appreciate everyone’s input.

BTW, here’s a rough cut trailer from it 🙂

https://vimeo.com/27156265

[Sam Lesante jr.]

Thanks guys for the input.

Let me give you some more info. This is my first doc. and I kinda of did it “bass-ackwards” 🙂

Initially, I met with the guy I wanted to do the doc on. He agreed, the company agreed and we went from there on a hand shake. I wanted to get all the paperwork out of the way before I shot but it was taking so long just to get a response back from his employers and there was valuable time wasting so I decided just to go ahead and start following him around and recording him without any paperwork or contracts.

So now, I have one more shoot in July with him when he goes to visit his family in Canada.

After that, I will be editing it and hopefully selling dvd’s by christmas time.

So basically, right now all I have as far as paperwork is a contract from his employer giving me the right to use their logos and his likeness ( he’s a mascot BTW 🙂 and a few releases of the people I interviewed.

So, thinking out loud here, there’s really nothing on paper that gives his company or him any right to and %. Now could this bite me in the a** later?

[Sam Lesante jr.]

BTW I’m running 5.0.1.0 on a mac os x version 10.6.8 with 2 x 2.4 ghz quad core intel xeon and 20 gb 1066 mhz ddr3 memory 🙂

[Sam Lesante jr.]

thanks for all the insight. Definitely helps 🙂

Sam

[Sam Lesante jr.]

Thanks Jan and Steve.

I did call Panasonic in NJ but got their voicemail. I will try again. I’m not sure what the heck the driver did to the cards. When I put the cards back in the camera to playback, it just says error on all the cards. So I’m not even sure if the driver reformatted or not.

As far as the hard drive, I have the computer at the local Mac “genius” bar for diagnostics. So I will find out hopefully this week what’s up with the computer. I do back up all my videos. It just so happens that I did not back this show up cause I still had it on the P2 cards 🙁 but fortunately, the hosts of the show can re-shoot the show this week 🙂

Thanks again for your posts.

Sam