Thank you very much!!

Thanks!!!

No your amazing Gary haha

Hey ~ thanks so much for checking this out and the feedback :) Ya, totally lucked out with the confetti... I had no idea that was coming and it was so pretty.... And then security asked me to leave! haha!

I mainly used the 7d but some of the still timelapses were done with the 5d... LOVING the intervalometer!

Good advice about the stock library but we shot this for Queensbury Media so they own the footage but were kind enough to let us cut a short film with what was shot.

You brought up an interesting subject: When photographers shoot paid photo assignments, they own the rights to the images and the client is granted a license to use them for that specific use (these are the rules of the International Photographers association). If the clients use changes like they had a national TV buyout and they decided to us it on the web. They need to pay another license for web use. Same policy works for music, you are licensed the right to use the artistic work for a specific purpose.

But video is a gray area. If you write your contracts like a photographer you could stipulate that you own all rights to your footage and will license them the rights to us it for what they hired you for but it's your (intellectual property) and you can sell it in other venues (unless your contract with the client asks for a buyout) which is usually costs 2 to 3 times more, so most clients don't care what you do with the footage once they've got what they wanted it for.

I stared to do this in the mid 90's and nobody even read far enough down the contract to know about it. But an interesting scenario came up with footage that I had shot for Jim Beam Brands. I had done literally 100's of projects for them in a 17 year period. Out of the blue they contact me 2 years after I had done my last job with them asking for all of the footage that i shot over the years (approx. 300 videotapes). I told them no, I owned the rights to this footage and they would either have to license is from me or buy me out of the footage. Well to shorten this story, I shipped all 300 tapes over to them and they paid me a lot of money for it. Two lessons learned.
1. Always have a contract with this clause in it.
2. Always keep all of your footage.

hmmmm food for thought.

Thanks for the info, Steve. I know it's really a grey area regarding video and licenses. Clients usually tend to think that they own the footage. We are not as organized as the music industry which has highly organized collection societies that brutally control the business - almost nobody gets away with using music without clearing the licensing.

I have run into this problem frequently, and I'm also currently building up a portfolio of purchasable stock footage clips on iStockphoto and other sites (to reach the goal of a steady income, making me less dependent on the project-based business). I use footage from projects I shot for clients, but those were - as you said - for specific purposes.

What did your contracts look like so that clients didn't even bother reading everything? I want to include that clause into my contracts but I fear that some clients many turn down an offer due to this fact ...

Great comments. Steve. I'm dealing with some of these issues now on many different levels. My wife (an attorney) does my contracts. I would like to press for this clause from now on. Shhhh.

Straight away, unless your contract specifically states that the client will buyout all rights to the footage. I think you have a claim under the International Photographers rules. Especially now that we are using DSLR's ;-) I made that case years ago and was not challenged on that. I made the argument filmmaking/photography same thing. The contract did not say that Jim Beam Brands owned the rights to the footage, only 2 final edited masters, which they got.

Now photographers would spell it out much further. They would say you hire me to take the images, then I will license them to you for a 1 year period for magazine use only. If you decide to do billboards, we have to renegiotiate.

I would make you contracts so that they do not claim you client will get anything but 2 final edited masters. Don't specify who owns the rights to the footage. Go and sell it as stock and make them come to you and say they think they should own the footage and show you where it says that.

thanks loving the glidetrack compact. it's so powerful for such a small tool.

Thanks! It's funny cause I went to photography school and the first thing they told me was NOT to shoot pigeons cause they're overshot but I love them :))
Hehe!

Yeah, I heard some 'advices' like this... but who cares as long as it's original and fits perfectly in your shoot like here?!! Moreover, it's not easy to catch birds before their arrival on the cable! ;)
I can't stop playing your vid guys, your statistics will reached the sky!
Alex

haha thanks :)

I agree with Alex. That is the best footage in whole of this stunning piece of film.

thanks for watching and your nice feedback.

thank you kind sir.

Hey ~ thanks for checking this out!
So ya, besides the timelapse, all the realtime footage was shot at 25p and all the slow mo shots were filmed and 50p and then conformed with Cinema Tools.
We converted all the 25p footage to 720 to match the 50p footage :)

Had a blast working with you too David! Thanks again!!

no definitely didn't want to imitate philip bloom's "people" series. he has created a very unique style all his own.

appreciate it.

thanks for the kind words.

haha very true.

Thanks :)
And do it! Drive to NYC now! Pick us up along the way so we can hang out :)

thanks!!

Thanks for watching & commenting!
Ya... pigeons aren't very good models but we got lucky after filming them for about 5 minute :)

Ha, just watching it again not to sound cruel but, I noticed Greenspan seems to hit the skids 2:15.

Recently discovered the intervolometer myself, absolutely love it, still learning though.

hahaha saw what you meant...

RJD2 is amazing...

yeah wasn't too sure that would actually work. cristina was the mastermind behind that one :)

currently obsessed since we got our intervalometers haha

What kind did you use?

wow very high compliments :)

thank you!!

appreciate it :)

thanks!

thank you!

thanks!

Cristina and Jon,

I have taken video with the 5d Mk II also, but it is not nearly as crisp and clear as yours here. Did you do any post edit on color, sharpness, noise reduction, etc? Any tips you might pass on?

Thanks!

We flatten color in camera so as not to lose detail and then color grade with Magic Bullet Looks :)

Thank you ! Love both the 5D and 7D. they are definitely well worth the money!!! :)

Thanks! The font was century gothic :)

there's a lot more footage, just cut a little montage but thanks for the feedback!

Thanks

thank you!!

thanks :)

now that just made our day :)

Hey thanks for sharing this and for the kind words!!

Thank you for the wonderful comment. we normally would allow D/L however much of the footage is going to be used in a larger project that has not been aired yet so unfortunately we really can't.

Thank you.

You are very welcome and thank you!!

And we hope to be inspired by you as well :) That's what it's all about...

Wow!! That's a huge compliment.Thanks!

Hey there! Thanks for the feedback! The rest of the footage will be used for a new documentary series ‘Greatest Ever’. As of now, this is all that's online.
Thanks!

Love RJD2. He actual lives in our city (philadelphia) now

Ang galing mo to you too Marvin haha