[Shane Ryan]

can you please stop posting in this thread since you have no intent of helping me, you’re also embarrassing yourself with your incredible lack of knowledge pertaining to copyright law.
In a parody, for example, the parodist transforms the original by holding it up to ridicule. Purposes such as scholarship, research or education may also qualify as transformative uses because the work is the subject of review or commentary.
In some cases, the amount of material copied is so small (or “de minimis”) that the court permits it without even conducting a fair use analysis. For example, in the motion picture Seven, several copyrighted photographs appeared in the film, prompting the copyright owner of the photographs to sue the producer of the movie. The court held that the photos “appear fleetingly and are obscured, severely out of focus, and virtually unidentifiable.” The court excused the use of the photographs as “de minimis” and a fair use analysis was not required. ( Sandoval v. New Line Cinema Corp., 147 F.3d 215 (2d Cir. 1998).)

[Shane Ryan]

the 2 files on the flashdrive are 4KB and 400,000KB. When I try to play by R-click, Open with QuickTime, I get: Error -2048 this is not a file QuickTime understands.
Is the problem the way it was saved to my flashdrive or the way I’m trying to open it?

Also regarding “piracy”, I’m simply trying to use the DVDs I have for this project. Everyone is using music from their iTunes to score our films, these projects are under 5 minutes. As I stated in my initial question, my goal is to get a scene (5 to 30 seconds) off a copyright protected DVD and into FCP. IDK if pirates care about that…

The school and teachers are good, just there is a lack of technical instruction with this, I’m not the only student to complain about it.