Fembot video making

[BionicMix]

howdy all!!

Just joined the group a couple if weeks ago. Been reading alot of the posts on the forum and i realize alot of you have made alot of these fan-made videos.

I have a few questions because i'd very much like to edit and create a new fembot video. (Taken specifically from clips from Kill Oscar).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the video editing program? Where i can get source material? I know theres strict rules about using certain music as well. So any advice anyone has would be appreciated.. Im not too sure what program is best to use. Whatever program it is, it has to be vanilla and easy to use!!

Thanks all!! I look forward to speaking to ya soon!

[dale coba]

If you are in the U.S. or similar, there are no limits to your editing of footage, so long as there is no sale or profit from the resulting re-edit.

My copy of Kill Oscar was taken from the torrent at Piratebay. It's 3 gigs, good resolution for your purposes.

Since it's not a commercial project, sound effects can be taken from anything. Why not a stock footage web site? http://www.pond5.com/sound-effects/1/robot.html

Firefox browser with the right add-ons will let you grab any youtube, then you can cut out just the audio. If you don't want to pirate an app, you (and collaborators) can edit video for free through a web app https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vi ... ng+on-line

- Dale Coba

[jolshefsky]

If you are in the U.S. or similar, there are no limits to your editing of footage, so long as there is no distribution, sale or profit from the resulting re-edit.

There, fixed it.

Stuff you do in private is fine. As soon as you distribute it (like if you put it on YouTube, or even put it on a server for others to download) then you'll need some kind of permission from the originators. That said, most content creators don't worry much about stuff that wasn't making money for them anyway (e.g. Bionic Woman clips). There are sort-of "safe harbors" in things like "fair use" (like using clips to demonstrate a point in a movie review; generally including credits to the source) or "parody" (where many elements of an original are used for purposes of satirizing it) but "remixing" (taking samples and using it in your own work in lieu of, say, hiring actors and filming it yourself) is not.

[dale coba]

If I don't charge for it, it's not a violation."

False. Whether you charge can affect the damages awarded in court, but that's main difference under the law. It's still a violation if you give it away -- and there can still be serious damages if you hurt the commercial value of the property. There is a USA exception for personal copying of music, which is not a violation, though courts seem to have said that doesn't include widescale anonymous personal copying as Napster. If the work has no commercial value, the violation is mostly technical and is unlikely to result in legal action. Fair use determinations (see below) do sometimes depend on the involvement of money.

Technically, yes - but only technically. I say, why make a bogeyman where none exists?

Let BionicMix his videos, without giving him ulcers over NOTHING - like, no reasonable chance that anyone could ever care about his "infringements".

- Dale Coba