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    Need contract form for editor/composer

    To license music you will need two different sorts of documents. You will need a "Synchronization and Performance Rights Agreement" as well as a "Motion Picture Master-Use License" to use music in your film. The master-use agreement is what allows you to use the song the composer has made and...
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    Covering myself in a free web-only educational documentary

    This is the sort of dangerous terrain filmmaking is inherently likely to come across. When considering licensing issues, please be careful in how you go about handling the situation. Often times doing something legitimately is more of a burden, but is safe. Licensing is such that even if no...
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    Format of footage/timeline

    You should always change the default settings of your timeline and overall FCP use to match the speed/quality specifications of the raw footage. The only exception would be editing offline, that is to say where you use lower resolution video footage than the raw footage so that you can smoothly...
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    Setting up the DVD case.

    What you are refering to is commonly known as the billing block. The major production companies keep their fonts a safely guarded secret. However, the ingenuity of the online users has led to the development and sharing of fonts that replicate quite closely the style of billing block on a...
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    Using film

    Here are our thoughts on the matter: This is something I am quite familiar with as a producer. Filmmaking is inherently expensive regardless of the medium you shoot on, but there is something to be said for digital. There is a significant drop in cost when the switch is made to digital...
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