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nature films?

Cyrus
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Jul 20, 2004, 4:01 PM

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Hello every body
My question is about movies of nature, do you use nature films like sea, sunshine, beach, forest, mountain, night and … at your vide project? If yes, could you recommend some of the best to me? Do especial companies work on this field? Do you usually use products from special companies? I live in Asia and my information is not enough about it and I am very interested to know more about it, I have excerpts from Earth scapes by David Fortney which is very nice.
Any help appreciate in advance.
Cyrus

rayzir
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Sep 3, 2004, 4:53 PM

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I suppose on what you are planning to do with the video. If it's only for personal reasons, I'd use footage you find in your favorite nature film. As long as it's strictly for personal reasons, you're pretty safe on using that footage. However, if you are selling the movie or if anybody is making a profit from this video, it's best to either shoot your own footage, or buy stock footage. I know there are a lot of stock buy-out companies (one time fee for unlimited use) as well as licensed companies (pay per usage for a given period of time). The company I work for uses licensed footage. We use Getty Images (www.gettyimages.com) and Corbis (www.corbismotion.com). They have spectacular footage with film or HD backing for finishing. You can browse their collection at their web site. They are pretty expensive, so I suppose it depends on what you need the footage for. For lower end projects, I'd look into buy out stock footage. Just do a search in Google. I'm sure you should be able to find plenty of sources. Hope this helps.

Travis