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Yup...well aware. That's part of the impetus for this small project I'm doing. If this works out, I'd like to take it to the next level and hopefully involve some of the fine folks here.

Thanks for all the help, guys. A few PMs, phone numbers, and I'm set. Got a bunch of pictures and heard some great stories.

The sweet spot will vary greatly depending on the sensor size, FWIW. Matt's right, of course, RAW is by far a better option, with low ISO. I hit up a guy named Victor Milt (Former DGA pres) and he said if you really wanted to go deep into this, provide sensor size, lens availability, and he'll grab calcs and go to work. He's very old school. There is also a professor named Peter Gloeggler who has written many white papers on lenses, chromatic abberations and color timing based on imager/sensors combined with various focal lengths. Google his name, and you should find a few. He went to work for Sony for a short period of time, but retired early and now consults to Zeiss. PM me for his contact info if you're interested.

I suppose I could laugh harder at you trying to tie Linux being deployed as a slave in a render farm to decrypting DVDs for personal use, but I'm already amazed at the constant twists and turns you've taken to make your point. Are we talking about personal computers still, or are we now in the realm of corporate IT? Until this very moment, it's been a discussion on personal use. Or maybe you believe corporate Hollywood is interested in ripping DVDs? I'm well aware of Linux and it's uses in the industry in which I've worked for probably longer than you've been breathing. The people in my industry are the ones trying to protect themselves from those that would pirate their work. they're not the ones trying to decrypt DVDs for pirate or personal use. They're quite aware that DVD players have decryption built in, as do software DVD systems. Great job at trying to spin it otherwise. Utterly ridiculous, but "A" for effort. There is a significant difference between ILM using Linux for SGI work, and someone trying to play a DVD on their personal computer. When you've got something worth listening to or looking at, come talk to me about copyright. Til then, it's just blah, blah, blah from a 3 jump AFF student telling Fastrax what's wrong with their exits.

do you know which states they live in so I can start tracking them down? Or more lazy, anyone got contact info?

Why won't you buy beer? Additionally, this comes up once in a while, the Search field is your friend.

Dish HD!...14' screen, just like being there. Mayweather will take De La Hoya, probably by decision. It's not gonna be a bloody fight as some predict, I don't think. Both fighters have too much style and come from the "hit and don't get hit" school. The undercard has now been announced, and it looks like a great night in front of the screen. Always feels nice to win a coupla hundred bucks.

Sounds like he, or Lew Sanborn is who I need to chat with, as I need something from someone with the authority to give me a limited license for broadcast. I have a fun project related to aerial photography that needs a few cutaway/Broll pieces.

of a skydiving camera rig going back as far as I can go, preferably stills vs video. Anyone able to help? Something from the mid 60's would be about right.

FWIW, If you buy lots of 25, you can get the same/similar pricing all the time from Media Right. it's worth it to get together with 2-4 guys and buy a lot of 100, IMO. We tend to purchase around 100 per month; if someone wants to chime in on a monthly, I'll be ordering in a week for May/June.

Linux has nothing to do with it. Either you've got a decoder or you don't. Fair Use has nothing to do with right of first sale. This statement alone demonstrates how you're talking through your pockets. Maybe a few minutes reading might help you understand the concept of Fair Use. "Use" is cap'd because it's a specific subject; Fair Use is explicitly explained, with general interpretations in Sec 107 of the US Copyright Act. First Sale Doctrine is covered under Sec 109 of US Copyright Act. First sale allows you to resell used media, but overall, the First Sale Doctrine applies to software and games more than anything else. It also allows some freedoms for schools and churches to display movies where there is no admission charge, for specific purposes other than sheerly being entertainment. In other words, you cannot put up a screen and projector in your church and show "The Passion of the Christ" and charge admission for it, and can't do it if there is no admission and no subsequent discussion of the movie following the viewing of the movie. Sec 109 also makes it legal to broadcast movies into hotel rooms via non-cable for enrichment/enjoyment of hotel guests. Overall, Sec 109 (as I remember it, I could be wrong) is that it's relative to education, religious institutions, libraries, and transmittors of media (television, radio, cable, ISP/webcaster). You keep going on and on about Linux. Write a decoder. Download VideoLan. http://dvd.sourceforge.net/ I've been an artist for nearly 30 years, and I don't use Linux, so why should I care? In fact, I don't know *any* working artist in NYC or Hollywood, Austin or Seattle, Miami or Chicago using Linux as their primary toolbox. I could not care less if Linux just went away. 99% of the computer users of the world couldnt' care less. its' not "thanks to the DMCA that you can't play the content on your Linux box", it's that you've deliberately chosen an open source that isn't entirely supported and doesn't pay for licensing of technologies. You haven't lost any rights, you're just pissed cuz you don't have rights that you want. There is a SIGNIFICANT difference. You've never, ever had the right to copy and redistribute content. Ever. You may have once found it easier to do, but you've never had the right. Fair Use isn't a technical term, nor is it arbitrary. I know exactly what Fair Use is, but apparently you (like most folks that have never read the US code) don't know what it means, or you'd quit applying it to this discussion.

Glad you found it. I'm still using QT 6.5.2. I installed 7 and found several incompatibilities, so dropped it. I was unaware of the Conform setting, so glad to now know about it. Good find!

Fair Use isn't "fair use." The sooner people understand that, the sooner we can move on in the discourse. Fair Use is a legal term that applies to society as a whole, not the individual. What makes you think the Supreme Court is avoiding the issue?? They're not. It has to be brought to them, not the other way around.

Obviously, we don't. Study hard, go to school, win a few awards along the way; you too can look like an idiot. It just takes a little practice.

Gawd, on days like these, I wish.

Not skydiving, but my other fun.

by your numbers, somewhere you're shifting non-square to square pixels back to nonsquare. Either it's a codec issue, or project setting. I'm at Adobe training; I'll present this to the AE team tomorrow and see if Bob has any idear of specifics. The spec is indeed 1440x1080, and AE and FCP will both work with non-square pixels. Are you exporting using Compressor at some point? Also, how are you getting a DV 25 file? Are you using DV25 offline and then onlining to HDV? After all is said and done, you also would probably love the CineForm tools, now *finally* available for Apple. I'll see what i can find. This is not one I know the answer to immediately, I don't edit native HDV in FCP; I use the AIC or Sheer.

Yes, it is readily (and commercially) available. Remember that at the beginning of this thread, you were unaware that you even had the right. Now you know you've been given the right via exemption, howsabout looking around and finding the tools to do the work. By the way, your comment that it takes "heroic effort" is ridiculous. Copying parts of a movie from VHS is very slow, real-time, and consuming. And you lose quality. Ripping relevant segments from a DVD takes seconds, minutes if it's a longer passage, and is ridiculously faster. Where are the heroic efforts you speak of? Send me a DVD you want segments compiled from, and I'll email you back a file within the hour of receiving it. No heroics, just a couple minutes of your time. Or, go buy the VHS tape and dub it from there. Most hardware devices have TBC so you can ignore Macrovision. It's easy when you know how. I can teach you in about 5 minutes over the phone. Don't have the tools? I can point you to where you can get them. For free. No heroics required. Just a moderately slow internet connection with which you can legally download legal software in a 750Kb package.

Dish HD!...14' screen, just like being there. Mayweather will take De La Hoya, probably by decision. It's not gonna be a bloody fight as some predict, I don't think. Both fighters have too much style and come from the "hit and don't get hit" school. The undercard has now been announced, and it looks like a great night in front of the screen.

Nah, it's just one judge that had the balls to stand up for intelligent thought and protecting business that should be protected. He'll likely be either appealed and overturned or voted out, because he didn't protect the masses of asses from their own behaviors. Rational thought, ethics, and responsibility are dying traits in humans. IMO, you're right about the scary new world, however.

In the YouTube interview, this was the first point mentioned; L&B has the best customer service I've ever seen. Simply amazing. Altitrack, ProDytter, Jumptrak Optima from them. All have had one issue or another. All have been dealt with incredibly fast, and they're halfway around the world.

I don't at all disagree, I feel manufacturers should take an assertive and proactive role in training. But they won't or can't. As part of a project I'm working on, I interviewed a few manufacturers at PIA on this very subject. Apparently they've been counseled that they're better off being hands-off. I can see a manufacturer recommending that a purchaser of an HP canopy take a course, and I can see a reseller require that someone purchasing the HP canopy provide evidence that either they've taken a course or demonstrate that they possess the skill required to own the canopy. Indy 500 doesn't just let anyone on the track; neither should we.

Ask them. Chris You'll never get manufacturers to train users/operators of this sort of product, because of inherent liability. They could raise the price to cover the costs incurred by raised liability potential, but even then, it's not likely, because of the differences in mental and physical abilities. I'd just as soon see DZO's or resellers that sell canopies be liable/responsible for who they sell canopies to. I like the idea of a canopy instructor rating, there is no reason that the USPA should be resistant to the concept that I can think of. We have freefall instructors, why not canopy instructor ratings?

Someone using your wireless router isn't stealing something other than airspace/bandwidth. Taking intellectual property from a DVD, CD, HDD, or any other mechanical device, reproducing it on another mechanical device is theft. Pretty simple, I'm surprised you don't see it that way. Sorry, I don't see stealing in different shades of grey. Either you steal, or you don't. Like the old saying goes, "we've established what you are, now we're just negotiating the value." The argument of "Taking a song from a CD and uploading it to the web doesn't hurt anyone" doesn't hold water, because the person who owns the content isn't aware he/she is being hurt, let alone that the song has been uploaded. In so many threads here, I've read you and others state how experience is paramount, and/or how jump numbers plus physical/mental acuity is important when reading or formulating a response to a question regarding the sport of skydiving. If you've never created a work that others want to enjoy and have enrich their lives, never registered a copyright, at the end of the day you don't know WTF you're talking about. I might as well have a 2 jump AFF student lecturing me on how to freefly because just like the 3 jump AFF is clueless on why certain aspects of the sport exist, so is the person who doesn't understand why we have copyrights or what it means to create the content that needs protection whether it's legal, moral, or physical. DRM is a pain in the ass. I wish my music, film, and software works didn't require some form of protection. IMO, this thread demonstrates the absolute need for it. People steal. Plain and simple. Some would argue "I'll never pass the content along to someone else" and my only response to that is "bullshit." I'd prefer a thief take my TV from my shelf before I'd feel good about some jerkoff replicating my work and flooding the market with thousands of copies. but hell, it doesn't hurt me when some asswipe copies my work and sells it on Ebay, right? After all...no one would have purchased it anyway, right? Except for the unsuspecting sucker that bought it from Ebay. Obviously we'll never agree on this subject; all I can say is that I'm saddened to see that people I respect would advocate for theft from creatives. It's unfortunate you feel it's OK to steal from me because my work product is intellectual, and someone else' work product is physical.

Can't disagree with you for the most part. However, NO ONE with a product worth owning takes the position of "don't copy our stuff and sell it." Most small-time pirates don't sell what they pirate, they give it to their friends. The biggest bulk of piracy is happening at grotesque levels in Russia, Canada, and China, but the small numbers add up to huge sums, and anywhere that this activity can be slowed, it's gonna be slowed. Digital protection schemes will always be broken. As a result, the locks get bigger/tougher. Remember when a cheap chain and barrel lock held a 10speed in place? Today, we have monster titanium whatevers that weigh as much as the bike. Software/media content is no different. Yes, copy protections will always be broken Yes, pirates will always copy and sell out of their car at the flea market. Yes, unscrupulous people will copy/rip songs and give them to their friends or upload to p2p sites. Yes, DRM is a losing battle at the end of the day, particularly for honest people (BTW, I'm not defending the various schemes of DRM, I'm defending my rights as an artist to protect what I've created). Yes, no matter how smart engineers are, there are always going to be those that will reverse engineer or use brute force to break code. Yes, thieves will always try to break into your home or car. You are correct in all your points. So, should we simply quit locking our doors and let whatever happen? What is ironic, funny, sad as hell, is that there are those that speak in these very same forums about how they've got guns and whatever else and will shoot to kill to protect their homes and property. Yet those same people freak out about artists and studios trying to protect their property. How stupid is that?