Flash Video can be converted with various tools to other formats that can be edited. Its a little more diffcult and the quality of the end result looks bad, but its do-able.
-josh On 1/23/06, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tis true. Any time you release something into the world in any > format, Internet or analog you risk someone copying your work. The > best defence is to not do anything or if you do never let anyone see > it. But that's not really an option is it? So thats why we have a > legal system. I suspect that your subjects are being slightly more > paranoid than they should be. What was your agreement with them? And > why are they so paranoid about their images being used in other > context? > > Bill Streeter > LO-FI SAINT LOUIS > www.lofistl.com > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > If you put something on the internet, someone will find a way to > use it if > > they want to. Even if you streamed it or used flash, someone could > use a > > screen recording program to make a copy of it. The way you protect > the work > > is to license it according to your wishes. Then if someone > misuses it they > > are in voilation of the license. You can't physically stop people > from using > > it though - just read any conversation on DRM anywhere on the > internet. > > -Verdi > > > > > > On 1/23/06, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I am starting a vlog using video that I have taken in the course > of making > > > some documentary films. People gave consent for me to use the > material on > > > the basis of their trust in me and how I would use it in a > film. Now I am > > > contacting my subjects for permission to release the video on > the internet > > > in a vlog. (I should point out that the subject matter centers > on horseback > > > riding and I am dealing with professional trainers and riders > who have > > > granted me unusual access to their work. Nothing naughty or > embarrassing.) > > > > > > My QuickTime files can be downloaded and not only re-edited but > can be > > > re-released in unauthorized compilations. Some of my subjects > would not be > > > happy about that. I would like to reassure them that the videos > can be > > > viewed but not altered. And, if possible, that they cannot be > > > re-distributed. > > > > > > My questions: > > > > > > Should I switch to Flash? > > > > > > If I do go to Flash, is there an encoding app that does not > cost several > > > hundreds of dollars? I am new to vlogging and would like to > ease into it as > > > I see how it progresses. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Stan Hirson > > > http://hestakaup.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > > > > > > - Visit your > group "videoblogging<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging>" > > > on the web. > > > > > > - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<videoblogging- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > > > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > Me: http://michaelverdi.com > > R&D: http://evilvlog.com > > Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org > > Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/