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DV 101 sion. These free downloads are helpful in planning your project a different way, as well. They can help you create an anamatic storyboard for your project to get a better idea of the flow and feel — whether or not you’ll be using the stock footage in the final project. They can also help you decide exactly what you need to shoot in the field if Most people think of stock footage when they think of old newsreel clips or expensive aerial location shots, but you’d be amazed what is available from insert shots to high-tech background textures for your next commercial or industrial project. Companies like Greenlayers.com specialize in alpha-ready talent shot on greenscreen in a wide variety of poses, directions and movements that can be composited readily into your project for a variety of uses. Licensing agreements differ from site to site and even from clip to clip. Royalty Free clips are the best bet as they are the least complicated to deal with. Sometimes a particular need won’t be available royalty free, so read the licensing agreement carefully. Rights Managed clips can quickly rise in cost as your distribution goes up or moves from one format to another. In any case, read your licensing agreement very carefully before making the final purchase. If possible, have a legal representative look it over for you. The majority of the sites that I investigated had extremely vague and subjective clauses dealing with “defamatory,” “objectionable” or even “embarrassing” material that could easily be applied to any project that is even remotely controversial. If you’re making a documentary on a controversial subject, or a political message or a critical look at a corporation — you could be violating the licensing agreements for several of these sites if they interpret the project “objectionable,” “defamatory” or “embarrassing” (only one site had the ridiculously vague term “embarrassing” in its license agreement). Read your agreements carefully and, if in doubt, contact the site’s legal representation with specifics about your project and usage of the clip before buying it. DV MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF MANY INDIE PRODUCERS, YOUTUBE IS NOT A STOCK FOOTAGE RESOURCE. you have very limited time and/or resources for a particular project. These animated storyboards can be used for client presentation or director/producer approvals and can aid in communication without spending a dime shooting in the field or even purchasing the footage. It’s highly possible that one or two of the clips you download will be perfect for the project, and you’ll end up purchasing them in the long run. In addition, if you’re cutting together a project and you’re missing key elements that were not included in the original shoot, before you head out to do re-shoots or pickups, you can use stock footage comps to make sure you really need those shots and make sure those elements will work to complete the project in question. ADVERTISER INDEX COMPANY AJA Avid Azden B&H Photo BlackMagic Design Calumet Photo Hewlett Packard Kino Flo Marshall Matrox MOTU Panasonic Primera Technology Roland Systems Rorke Data Safe Harbor Smart Sound Sonnet Technologies Thomson Broadcast Varizoom Videoguys PAGE 13 5 17 41-43 7 21 11 23 27 15 52 2 25 29 33 35 31 34 9 45 37 WEBSITE www.aja.com ww.avid.com www.azden.com www.bhphotovideo.com www.blackmagic-design.com www.calumetphoto.com www.hp.com www.kinoflo.com www.lcdracks.com www.matrox.com/video www.V3HD.com www.panasonic.com www.primera.com www.edirol.com www.rorke.com www.sharbor.com www.smartsound.com www.sonnettech.com www.grassvalley.com/edius www.varizoom.com www.videoguys.com COMPANY INDEX Aaton…14; Abel Cine Tech…10; Adobe…29, 40; AJA Video…10; Antares…26; Apple…6, 24, 29, 40; ARRI…14; Artbeats…46; Assimilate…10; Audio-Technica…30; Avid…6, 8, 14; BeachTek…27; Bias…26; Birns & Sawyer…10; Blackmagic Design…8, 10, 24, 29; BOXX Technologies…12; Canon…20; Cartoni…30; Celemony…26; Cinevate…16; Corbis…46; Detonationfilms…46; Digidesign…26; DSC Labs…16, 30; Edirol…33; ElectroVoice…38; Fujinon…14; Gettyimages…46; Indie-Dolly…30; Innovision…30; iStockvideo…46; IZotope…26; JVC…32; Kinomatik…10; LaCie…24; Litepanels…33; M-Audio…38; Matrox…8, 29; Media Services…28; Microsoft…40; MOTU…8, 30; Nady…38; Native Instruments…26; Panasonic…28; Pond5…46; Prompter People…32; Quantel…6; Red Digital Cinema…6, 12; Rosco…28; Sachtler…18, 32; Schneider Optics…22; Sennheiser…36; Shure…36; Sonnet Technolgies…34; Sony Electonics…6, 14, 16, 34, 38; Studio Projects…36; T-Jib…32; Thomson…8; VariZoom…33; Wave Arts…26; Waves…26; YouTube…46 http://greenlayers.com http://greenlayers.com http://www.aja.com http://ww.avid.com http://www.azden.com http://www.bhphotovideo.com http://www.blackmagic-design.com http://www.calumetphoto.com http://www.hp.com http://www.kinoflo.com http://www.lcdracks.com http://www.matrox.com/video http://www.V3HD.com http://www.panasonic.com http://www.primera.com http://www.edirol.com http://www.rorke.com http://www.sharbor.com http://www.smartsound.com http://www.sonnettech.com http://www.grassvalley.com/edius http://www.varizoom.com http://www.videoguys.com

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