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Here is a sample of a contract that shows the client as owner of all footage.
https://contracts.onecle.com/hansen/reach.svc.2003.03.18.shtml
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Your question intrigued me and I did a little looking around.
Try this https://www.acronymfinder.com/
Since the advent of the internet and especially text messaging, we are buried in acronyms. Most of them, we take for granted. ASAP is very common in the US and so is RSVP, but most Americans don’t actually know what RSVP stands for other than “The Favor of a Reply is Requested” or “Let us know if you’re coming or not”.
Good luck on the job.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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oops. Meant for that to drop into the forum that was discussing “Work for hire” or “who owns the rights”. This contract shows that some clients take their video under their wing as far as ownership.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Thanks for the warm welcome and it sure is cozy to be seated next to my pal, Leo.
In 2005, a group of us got together and looked into why the motion picture seemed go around Arizona to other states. We wrote new legislation for tax breaks and tax incentives and placed it before the Arizona Legislature. It was debated, modified and passed in record time. It took effect on January 1, 2006. We are now buried in feature film work. Our Sony CineAlta camera has seen more work this year than in the past 4 years combined. Ironically, it’s in Lancaster California at this time an an LA based feature.
Last year (2005), we shot a feature in August, named “The Hoax” and another in September named “The Controller” (www.cut-scene.com). We also supplied the gear for an HD short named “Diablita” starring Jeff Fahey. Coming up this fall, we’ll be shooting a feature of our own titled “Trailer Trash”. More news on that one as we progress. We have already signed Jerry Springer, Danny Trejo and Bill Clinton impersonator, Damian Mason (Space Travesty 2001).
We have three feature films completed and are seeking buyers and/or disribution.
More news as we move along and I am always willing to help anyone who can use it.
As for “The Hoax”, there is another feature with the same name now in the works. This should prove interesting.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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https://contracts.onecle.com/hansen/reach.svc.2003.03.18.shtml
https://www.masterfreelancer.com/wsstore/epp001-showbiz_music_contracts.html
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Maybe the friend in the training department needs to be the one who informs someone above the new “hero” that you are the actual owner of the footage and that she is about to screw up years of work trying to save money that will never even show up in the company books.
We are going through a similar situation right now where a “hero” at one of our largest clients has informed the internal video department that they need to have a back up video company on call because we are usually backlogged and she fears that a job will pop up and we won’t be able to do it. It so happens that I have an adaquate source of great editors, shooters and producers that can perform any task. We have three FCP systems and the hardware to support them. We charge them the same price as we did when we first started working for them, 6 years ago. When we do HD jobs, they pay a small premium for the HD camera and possibly a charge for the HD deck. (HDCAM, not HDV)
You might want to arrange a meeting with the “hero”, the training guy and several others from the company. Discuss the fact that they get a lot of small freebies because they are an ongoing client. The reason is that they are loyal clients and are rewarded in small ways for being such. Bring up the fact that you legally own the footage but they are always allowed full access because of the loyalty factor. Discuss still photographers and their way of doing business.
However, you can count on the fact that she will look into the legal end and you will be presented with a “work for hire” contract if you want to keep working for them. It will be a shame to see a great client/vendor relationship go down the toilet because somebody wants to save a company a few dollars. Loyalty is drowning in the business practices of the “ME” generation and us old timers who do business on a handshake and know the value of long term relationships are losing ground to people who have no idea how a business actually works.
Good luck on this one.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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I’ll bet that if you jump over to the Audio Professionals forum, you’ll be able to get a very detailed answer with a rundown on +4, -10, -60 and the other numbers that are a mystery to many people.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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The credits should now read:
For her: Wannabe editor who couldn’t make it work
For DRW: Editor who came along and saved our bacon by taking over someone else’s hopeless work, re-writing quite a bit of it and making it happen.
For him. Teary eyed jerk who puts his little friend before the actual business at hand.
This stuff constantly fries me. If someone can’t do the job, they deserve no credit other than “person who tried” at the very most, and we know that will never happen.
This just happened to us on a feature and the original editor got “editor trainee” as his credit. The guy who came in later and fixed and finished got “editor”
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Are you going straight from the D-Beta to the DVD recorder or are you going into final cut and then making DVDs? The first method is quick and easy and cheap.
Method two is clumsy and waaaaaay too much work
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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We rent ours for $125 per day for the DVX100 and $25 more for the 100A. Use it for 7 and pay for 4. Use it for 30 and pay for 15. Somewhere down the line, it might make more sense to buy.
I see a lot of people ask why a company will rent something when it’s cheaper to buy. The answer can be taxes or the fact that some Movie Production companies do not or cannot own anything because it becomes an insurance liability.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!