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I spoke to my contract/intellectual property lawyer about this a while back during a big legal battle here in Phoenix.
W-2 = The employer owns it. Let’s say you work for GM in the video dept. When you shoot anything for the company, they own it because, in effect, they own you while you are on their payroll. Same as if you work for Motorola and you discover the secret to Iridium on company time.
1099 = You own it. GM hires you, ABC Video, to shoot footage for a production. And here’s where it gets sticky: If someone hires your company to shoot footage, you own the footage. If you hire a guy, you still own the footage because you were the photographer of record, not the college kid you hired to hang from a rope in a poisoned well.
The “Work for hire” contracts give the copyright to the person doing the hiring.
In other words, I believe that you own the raw materials. Now, here’s a catch 22. Did you bill for the tape? If so, they own the tape and what’s on it. We NEVER bill for tape when we feel that the footage might be handy to own in the future. We bill for storage of raw footage.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
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When you go to this page https://www.libec.co.jp/eng/index.html look for “other accessory” on the right side of the page.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
Scroll down to the photos of the accessories
https://www.expandore.com/product/Sony/Proav/model/XDCAM_HD/XDCAM_EX.htmAnd here also:
https://www.libec.co.jp/eng/index.html
I have a LIBEC tripod handle that I use with all of our pro Canon lenses and it works very well. The entire handle was only $250 from a guy in St. Louis around 5 years ago (New – on E Bay)
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
It encodes DVDs in real time. I know a hundred people with huge videotape libraries and they want to archive their stuff to DVD. The LX1 reads time code with an RS422 connector. It takes about 2 to 4 minutes to do a set up and the LX1 controls the tape deck and captures the clips. It also has an EDL system built it. It can be used as a source deck in a standard editing environment. We usually charge $25 for the first hour and another $10 after that. A custom menu can be built in Photoshop and we get $50 to $100 for those.
We do this while we’re doing other projects so it takes very little time to do.
We shoot a lot of seminars and roll each presenter to the LX1. When we’re done, we export a VOB file to a Mac and import to DVD Studio Pro and make a DVD master.
We converted all of our archives over a 6 month period. Part of that was a hundred 3/4″ and S-VHS tapes that I shot for ESPN Speedworld from 8 years of stringer work.
We’ve billed out over $15K in conversions at almost no labor cost. And, it’s NTSC and PAL.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
Call your dealer immediately. Jeff Cree at BandPro would know.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
Sorry I didn’t reply sooner. I’m going to have to read this several times to digest it all but you’ve answered several questions that have been rattling around in my head for some time. Thanks for taking the time to give all of us a primer in the world of sound.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
I’m a certified welder and metal fabricator. I quit building off-road super trucks to get into video. In the race truck business, there were a lot of personalities but very little politics.
In the video (entertainment) business, there are a lot of strange people who have hidden agendas and really strange business practices.
As some of the others said, I would walk back in the door representing yourself as a part time freelancer. I have people that I hire on short term, high intensity jobs that drop in on occasion. you might want to visit a number of companies with the same approach.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
i would call Location Sound and ask them which mics they would rent to you for that applcation. I’m sure they would have an answer.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
Mark
I am not an audio tech and I could use a paragraph explaining the technical side of your concern. Pretty please…?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way. -
Can you elaborate on that just a bit for us non-audio types?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
Sony EX-1 on the way.