Andrew Reid

  Do I need to spell it out for you... really? For the guy who doesn't know what the word 'filmic' is in relation to cameras, I better not even bother!

Copyright isn't designed to stifle creativity or prevent artists from creating new work, but that's exactly what it is doing in the case of the Vimeo Copyright Match system. And the big shame is, every time a match is made and the clip deleted or muted, the potential to make money for the rights holder of the song is squandered.   The problem is law makers and businessmen are not artists, they don't understand the process or even the very concept. Again they all need to get round the table and thrash out a new world order, otherwise the music business will go bankrupt and the creative scene will die from a lack of inspiration and new talent coming through.

I would offer some of mine but have decided they are copyright.   I want 1 million dollars for each one.   Sorry about that ;)

Fair Use exists for a reason. Please do look it up...   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use   Although it originated in the US it applies all over the world including in the UK.   The easiest solution to all of this is still to pay the musicians.   The current system for doing so is shit.   It needs a ground-up rethink and all the recording industry bosses around the table with the major internet companies.   Copyright law also needs amending as a lot has changed with the internet age.

What's the ultimate cross-breed camera of 2014? If we take all the strong points of the manufacturers and put them in one camera, what do we get? Full frame sensor from the Sony A7S 4K internal codec from the Panasonic GH4 Big EVF from Fuji and their lovely X-T1 5 axis in-body stabilisation from Olympus (working for video with any lens) Cine lenses by Sigma - their 35mm F1.4 and 50mm F1.4 are that good Bundled grading / editing software from Blackmagic - Resolve 11 Ergonomic styling by Fuji I'm very sorry but I couldn't think of a single class leading technology that Canon and Nikon have brought to the market in the last few years to complete my dream camera! Read the full article here

I did no noise reduction or FPN removal at all for Aerogirls yet it is clean.   I shot Video Mode, exposed for Video and that's just the way it came out!

  No actually, it qualifies as Fair Use under copyright law.   However the Fair Use system is useless.   Say for example a musician is busking and singing a cover version.   Nobody tips and they die of starvation... That is non-commercial use of the cover, so Fair Use.   As soon as someone tips him, he risks being sued because he lacks the required license.   Copyright infringement is one thing... Quality of life quite another.   The current system is not fit for purpose and it doesn't protect the earnings of musicians, it decreases them.   I am sure the uploader of that Staff Pick would gladly pay for a license for the sound track if they could be granted it with some certainty, quickly and affordably (i.e. within their means).   There simply isn't that system in place.   ----   I'm sorry Andy I don't agree it is stealing. Nobody is denying the right of musicians to sell their work. By taking their work and creating something new with it - in this case a rather brilliant video - that is the same as The Beatles being influenced by 50's R&B.   New stuff cannot exist if you put legal roadblocks in the way of creating it.   Therefore new careers and new businesses cannot exist...   It is stupid creatively and stupid economically and something really needs to be done.   It is ridiculous we are all ok with listening to such a broad range of commercial music on the radio and on Spotify, where the musicians get rewarded monetarily, and yet there is not a licensing system at Vimeo for the exact same music.   I'd much rather listen to music this way (i.e. with the video playing above) than to switch on the radio.   Have you listened to the radio recently!? Oh dear.

  Well since it is arriving this week, and this week being 'the future' I don't have much to spill at the moment. I know what it is, but before I have it in my hands, it would be silly to blog about it wouldn't i!

  Please do not do this again on my forum. Thank you.

  Theft or inspiration?

Above: my sample showing no fixed pattern noise in low light at ISO 400 on the Production Camera - it's all about the grade Almost all Blackmagic Production Camera users have experienced fixed pattern noise - a banding effect or grain texture over the image - and they are quite upset at Blackmagic over the issue. But is the fixed pattern noise problem on the Blackmagic Production Camera a case of faulty cameras OR is it a limitation of the spec? This is a complex issue and every user seems to report something different. However in my own experience with the camera and of looking at the experiences of others I have to say that all units look to perform in the same way. It is a limitation of the spec, not a case of a large number of faulty units being shipped out. Yet many users - over 200 of them - are now putting pressure on Blackmagic to acknowledge a hardware or quality control 'fault' and to do hardware replacements. Sorry but I just don't think this is right. It is best to look at how to handle the camera in order to avoid the FPN in the first place... Read the full article here

According to Photo Rumors, Samsung will launch a flagship APS-C camera for pros at Photokina called the NX1. It is to feature 4K video. Read the full article here

  This will be a necessary move for Vimeo if they are to keep hold of their users. I won't be on Vimeo unless they improve the system. Already looking at alternatives.

  There is the Fair Use disclaimer though don't forget. Complicated and no guarantee, but some work can use copyrighted material with no permission.

Good news is the latest version works with MLV! (For audio, metadata, etc.)   I found it buggy but there's an update being reviewed on the App Store right now which should make it more stable with MLV.

The GH4 has nearly 12 stops of dynamic range in 4K mode and the colour looks like 10bit... The issue is that the camera hasn't been handled right in post or with the in-camera settings for at least 95% of the footage out there so far on the web. There's a range of weird things you need to do to tweak it and you also need to adjust a few curves in post as well.   I have only just mastered it myself!

  Erm that is kind of how art works isn't it? Appropriation, borrowing ideas, images and sounds from others, mixing stuff together to create something new.   Also I don't think that 'lifting crap work on the free or cheap' is really the idea most filmmakers on Vimeo have in mind when they mix their cinematography sensitively and thoughtfully with a piece of music that inspired the shots in the first place.   Good job The Beatles didn't have to pay licensing fees to the musicians who influenced their sound... they'd have never have made it out the door.

  Very true.   And this is a big opportunity for the music industry to get their house in order.   It costs a musician something like 50 quid to licence a famous photo for their album cover. That is a one off fee I believe, not dependant on number of album covers printed? Correct me if I'm wrong, this is second hand knowledge and I haven't researched it myself.   The synchronisation fees for music - it is obscure and inaccessible - the system needs to go mass market. To license a famous Radiohead song it should be as easy as going to a website and clicking, paying, then getting a license by email.   A system like that needs to be cheap so it goes mass market, it is better than the mass market piracy and copyright infringement that we have now. Imagine all the amateur video producers using this for their many many cat videos :) It would make the record label and artists a nice little earning.   It is much better than the current system... which in the eyes of those uploading tracks to their artistic Vimeo clips... is non existant!   Of course I agree musicians should be paid. It is so obvious. It goes without saying. I know musicians in Berlin. One of my closest friends here is one. I have seen their money struggles first hand because of the industry implosion and shift in technology. As a content producer myself I have seen the impact piracy has (on my books). I hate that people have come to expect art, music, knowledge - all for free - and expect us to invest money back into quality material. That does not work! I have been both a consumer and an artist, and the perspective is very different, but somewhere there is a system that works for both of us.   I'll be damned if the current 'suits' at big companies will find the right one any time soon.

Stuff like this is 100% better and more creative than 99% of what I've heard on The Music Bed and Vimeo Music Store https://kishibashi.bandcamp.com/album/lighght

I recommend turning off iTunes and listening to Bandcamp for a while, then if you like something for your own personal artistic freedom of use, get in touch directly with the artist via their Twitter or Facebook page.

  How about MIDI tracks of classical music, where the computer is the performer. Anyone know of any good MIDI resources for the written music where copyright has expired, and a good app to take the basic notation and turn it into something more interesting than a series of bleeps?

  This is why fair use copyright law needs more clearly defining. At the moment, it seems to work on witches brews and magic.

The music business has a right to protect the business and enforce copyright, of course it does - but it is doing it in such a way as to actually harm the business.   The amount of music bought legally and the number of artists given vital exposure far outweighs whatever the music industry would gain through royalty fees from charging or suing Vimeo and their users.   I don't agree with Andy that whenever a song gets airtime and no royalties are handed over - that constitutes theft - all the musicians I know want the exposure. If their own labels start hacking away at the very infrastructure giving them that exposure then it is goodbye new talent. The end.   Vimeo is the music industry's friend and instead they are attacking it.   In my view the record labels should all simply be bought out in hostile takeover bids by internet companies and the whole business model changed to something better suited to the 21st century. It is the only way artists are going to get paid for their work. The current strategy just won't work on a business level, never mind a fair use / artistic freedom level. Also fair use copyright laws desperately need to be tightened up and made clearer. It is not acceptable for artists who experiment and share their experiments on the internet on a non-profit basis to risk lawsuits over copyright infringement.

  Agree 100%!

Saying record companies lose money due to Vimeo airtime is as crazy as saying they lose sales through radio play and extensive advertising.