Todd Terry
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All good advice so far.
As others have said, the quality of the source footage makes no difference…
If someone asks you to carry a bucket for a mile, it’s no less work if that bucket contains ten pounds of garbage as opposed to ten pounds of diamonds.
The subject doesn’t matter either… an artist doesn’t charge less to paint someone’s portrait if they are ugly.
And lastly the intended usage doesn’t matter either. If someone needs you to dig a big hole of a certain size, it doesn’t matter if it’s for a sand trap at the nicest country club, or for an outhouse… it’s the same amount of work.
Your hourly rate is your rate, and if you don’t have one… get one.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Craig Alan] “wondering if there isn’t some cheap way to help with the noisy vents we live with now?”
Well yes, if it is just the vents themselves that are noisy… just remove them (not the prettiest solution, but if it is vent-whistling etc that will stop it).
There is what was an old mill building here in town (I think they made shoes or something 100 years ago) that was converted into a theatre and performace space. They have the most amazing totally silent HVAC system… but as I understand it was right at a bazillion dollars. You can definitely spend a lot on sound mitigation, if you are inclined to.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Erick Stoll] “Has anyone heard of an SD card being at fault for a problem like this?”
Haven’t heard of that, but anything is possible (even though I don’t see how it could be). I would definitely scrap that card, though. Or at least stop using it until this happens on another different card as well. If it is the card, this might be one of those “I know know idea why this is happening, but I know how to stop it” issues.
[Erick Stoll] “…anyway to tell from c100 metadata what size sd card the footage originated from?”
Nope, the metadata does not include that info, sorry.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Might consider some completely different light sources, such as monitors… sort of like when they shot the greenscreen footage for the movie “Gravity,” big displays were used as lighting sources, the displays showing the images that would be seen by the talent, so that the lighting would be true in the end composition.
In an extremely poor-man’s version of that, I once had the need for a shot of someone with some police lights flickering on them. I didn’t actually have a real police bar (and does anyone else morn the loss of the squad car “bubble gum machine” lights with the real rotating blubs?… I do)… so I made a short video clip of police lights with the proper white/blue/red strobe pattern and ran the video in a big monitor, which was my light source (with its brightness cranked up to the max). This was on stage so it was relatively convenient… it would have been more troublesome on location.
I’m thinking the same method would work for firelight. It’s not for every situation, they obviously have to be scenes that are dimly-lit enough that a monitor can actually provide illumination.
More than one way to skin a cat. Or light one.
T2
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Glad you found them…. 1000bulbs is a good source, I’ve bought from them before (HMI globes and tungsten bulbs).
The Medusa device is pretty cool… but I agree that it is very overly-engineered and likely much more complicated than is necessary. A much simpler, more elegant, and easier-to-use solution is no doubt possible.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Funny, every now and then there is suddenly a new thread about gimbals, always started by a brand-new user that signed up for the COW that day, or the day before.
The discussion quickly turns to the MOZA, with questions asked about it from also-new just-signed-up users, and then glowing reports about the MOZA, also from new just-signed-up users.
Geez people, we’re not stupid.
The MOZA may be a good product, or it might be a piece of junk. But these fake marketing efforts do not bode well for generating good feelings about the company.
Stop doing this.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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It’s too bad that dye is no longer available, that stuff looks pretty cool.
I would think that exact precision on the colors is not that important, and most big-box hardware stores (Home Depot, Lowes, etc.) sell colored bulbs (usually calling them “Party Bulbs”) in yellow, orange, and red… I’d think that would be more than close enough.
I’m a huge LED fan, but in this instance I will part with Mark and not recommend LEDs, this is a tungsten job. Couple of reasons, if you just go with household Edison-socket bulbs, LED bulbs are going to be about 10x the price of tungsten… and you need a whole bunch of them. More importantly though is dimmability… only the more expensive household LEDs are dimmable… and they aren’t dimmable 0-100%. Usually they will dim down to about 20%, and then go off. Then when dimming back up, you get nothing until about 30-40%, and then they are suddenly on and will ramp back up to 100% (trust me on this, I have tons of LEDs at home). I think in this instance plain ol’ tungsten bulbs are called for.
And as Mark said, you can always gel ’em to tweak the colors more.
Fun project.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Mark Suszko] “The down side of Pharrell’s deal is he has to wear those hats.”
But the upside is that he gets free Arby’s.
I’m a fan, actually somehow he makes it work, as silly as it is. I once saw Pharrell performing at a formal event, and his tuxedo pants were shorts… well, more like capri pants. Somehow he pulled it off.
[Mark Suszko] “A bad person would file complaints against the other hospitals with you tube”
Yes, a bad person would. Bwaaahaaa haa haa <–evil laugh
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Greg Ball] “…there are several versions of videos for large companies using that song on YouTube….How is this possible?”
I can only envision one of two scenarios as to how that is possible…
1) They paid for the usage rights
or
2) They simply haven’t been caught…. yet
There’s at least one national spot that I can think of that uses “Happy”… and they no doubt paid for the rights, and paid big (but Big Pharma can afford it). But even they don’t use Pharrell Williams’ version…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XenPb1swfc
On an unrelated note, would one of you who is more contract-savvy than me please review Pharrell’s deal with the devil?… I’m very curious about the details. He has not aged a day in 15 years.
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Richard Herd] “A music video and the footage are derivative works of the original song and subject to a license agreement (and other agreements, for example, model releases).”
Well… images and sound are two completely different things.
If it were a sync-sound actual performance of the song, then no, the shooter could make no claims to ownership of the audio portion of the footage… if there were any (and likely not, or at best wild sound of a scratch track that was being used only for lip-synching).
But of course many music videos are not performance videos at all, many are narrative, completely different scenes, completely different stuff other than an artist’s vocal performance. Publishing, performance, or sync rights to the song would have no bearing on this footage at all, and the shooter could very possibly make a valid claim for it, depending on whether or not it was contractually stipulated as Work for Hire.
And of course we have no idea what the original poster’s video content was… it could have been 100% performance, even an actual live performance of the vocalist. Or it might not even contain one frame of actual or simulated performance footage… all that is unknown to us.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
