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post #1 of 7
10/15/05 at 4:16am
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Hi, I'm making some videoclips of a summer trip and I was wondering if it's illegal if I use say the opening scene to Enemy of the State? and also, how I would go about like editting over some stuff?

Also, I wanted to make a MTV Cribs like video. HOw would I go about doing that? Please let me know if you can help me. Thank you.
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post #2 of 7
10/18/05 at 10:24pm
There is such a thing as Fair Use clauses. If you are using the footage for a NOT FOR PROFIT endeavor, or for a humanities purpose, then under Fair Use you may use it.

However, if you are going to sell the clips, then no you may not.

This is why the RIAA is such a pile of steaming horse doo doo - they want to get rid of Fair Use clauses so that if you wanted to put a small clip in your home movie, you'd have to pay them. They think any use that they don't get money for is piracy.

When you hear the RIAA talk about illegal downloads of music and etc . . . remember, Fair Use is what they are REALLY talking about.
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post #3 of 7
10/25/05 at 6:22pm
I've hered the program Vegas is good for video editing I'm thinking about trying it out.
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post #4 of 7
12/15/05 at 12:07am

Vegas has some good aspects
but I prefer Adobe Premier. In fact, I love all the Adobe software for it's compatiblity with each other.

Adobe Premier 1.5 (Video Editor)
Adobe PhotoShop Cs2 (Images)
Adobe After Affects 6.5 (Special Effects)
Adobe Audtion 1.5 (Sound)
Adobe Encore (DVD Authoring- Creating DVD Menus and ect.)
Adobe Illustrator 12.0 (Logos)

and more......

But Adobe Premier is definitely some serious pro software. Check it out.

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post #5 of 7
1/22/06 at 2:10am

Editing Programs.....

I am a film/video editor working in Los Angeles, and I can tell you that the two best editing programs you can use today are Avid and Final Cut Pro. Unfortunately Final Cut is for Macs only Avid systems cost $100,000 , but they do have a cheap version, their Avid Xpress line. http://www.avid.com/products/xpressFamily/

Remember you can probably find this stuff online and just download it too bad I don't know where you can do that!

If you wanna see some really amazing stuff, simply the highest quality systems money can buy, check these out>>>>

http://www.avid.com/products/composer/adrenalinehd/

http://www.avid.com/products/symphonyNitris/

http://www.avid.com/products/dsnitris/nitris/

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/
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post #6 of 7
1/22/06 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by D_W
I am a film/video editor working in Los Angeles, and I can tell you that the two best editing programs you can use today are Avid and Final Cut Pro.
The keyword above is "film" For prosumer Vegas or Premiere are better: Vegas for ease of use and short learning curve, yet as powerful as FCP when it comes to DV and unbeatable in audio editing capabilities, Premiere - for integration with other Adobe applications and being easily extendable through multitude of plugins available right now. FCP is great when it comes to pro editing and you need to offline a lot. But prosumer does not need offlining, unless it's HDV (and both Vegas and Premiere do HDV intermediate just fine).
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post #7 of 7
1/24/06 at 2:32am
sony vegas is pretty good for the half newbie editors out htere, atleast i use it, it will do alot of little tricks too
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