@spuddy13

Youtube

I've put up quite a few videos on YT with commercial soundtracks with no issue. You get a copyright "claim", the music details will appear in your description, and you will not be able to "monetise" you videos. That means any ad revenue will go to the artist/s, not you. Funerals probably wouldn't generate that much traffic anyway, methinks.

It is, of course, depending on how you look at it, in their interest to promote their music, so having it on one of your videos for free actually is doing them a favour.

If they will not permit your music, it will either be blanked or you'll get a strike against you. That is bad, as I think it's 3 strikes and your channel is closed down.

Therefore, my suggestion then would be to create a second YT account, upload the video and see what happens. If YT places a claim against you, great. If they give you a strike, you'll have to resort to plan B.

Another option to distribute your video is via Google Drive. Files there can be played back on the computer quite easily, without having to resort to Youtube and without any copyright issues. Here's an example (cuts off half way through):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F673PmDUdjwarr7k_SyKegC35ACtUhBm/view?usp=sharing

BTW, I got a copyright claim against that soundtrack but it's still up.

Splicing out the bad video

Re your wonky video, another option would be to go to the church and take some general footage that you could use to fill in the gaps: ceilings, walls, pews, a shot of the outside. Then you simply uncouple your video object from your audio object, chop out the bad video, put in the new video, then couple them up again.

thanks for all advice

will get time to edit tomorrow night and try a few suggestions

really appreciate advice and time taken to type it up

google drive an option but i always thought if i sent a video it would download and not play..so thats great if it auto plays

Hi Brian.

Regarding Google drive.

Videos put onto Google drive take longer to render than on YouTube.

You will be stuck with showing the video with a Maximum playback resolution of 1920 x 1080.

There is only 15GBs of free space on Google drive without a subscription. The amount of free space provided can be changed with little warning. Originally Google provided 20GBs of free storage.

Each video has to be set permissions to view and / or download and sometimes I have had to give additional clearance from my Google account before a video could be played by another person passing the link onto another person's machine.

I have only ever uploaded MP4 files and have no idea if other files types can be rendered to play back on google drive but assume That Google drive has the same requirements as YouTube. You can upload files of any resolution you like but the site's own player will not play the files back at more than 1920 x 1080. But with the correct permissions given can be fully downloaded at the uploaded resolution.

Google Drive has the same copyright rules as YouTube. Not surprising as Google owns YouTube.

"Respect copyright laws. Do not share copyrighted content without authorisation or provide links to sites where people can obtain unauthorised downloads of copyrighted content. It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. Repeated infringement of intellectual property rights, including copyright, will result in account termination."

They reserve the right to periodically inspect the content of anyone's drive account and act upon any infringement they find.

A complete terms of service agreement can be found here.

I have never tested the copyright infringement rules to find out as all my uploads have only ever consisted of my own work or with the copyright owners permission.

Terms of service can be country specific with variations dependant on the users location.

Ray.

[Edit]

Thinking upon this further.

Every Funeral service provider must have a performing rights licence to allow them to play copyrighted music in a public space, That has become increasingly more complex over the years as more bodies have arisen to cover independent musicians as well as those covered by major music labels. That would not cover further and later distribution of of such materiel. The only legal way I can think of is to replace such music with a copyright free alternative or generic background sound track with a written caption of what music was actually played along with a copyright restriction notice such as 'original soundtrack replaced due to copyright infringement laws'. Either that or cut out those parts altogether.

If you have someone talking over parts of that music that needs to be retained there are now programs out there that can separate the voice from the music to be inserted in the soundtracks place but that is fiddly at best to sync to picture and much more work.

folks,

i tried all the suggestions and got my error schenes sorted and my video is nearly ready for sharing

thanks so much for all your training and guidance

however one final request for hep beore i go 😁

i wanted to do this idea on my video before i complete it

if you follow what i require and can offer advice on how to do this

i have a picture at the end of my funeral video of the sky with a scrolling message

while i was displaying the message and folk reading it i wanted to fade in a picture of the deceased with a dull

image of low opacity so you can just see the guy and no more then fade it out again with dramatic music

i have been ages trying to do it but getting knowhere

i have done fades in my other videos but not fade in a picture over another on a different timeline

any help appreciated

hope you follow

brian

@spuddy13

Hi Brian.

Have you tried putting the image on a higher numbered track and then just reducing the transparency for that image?

For the image I used an edited file and erased the background and saved as a png file for transparency of the images background. You can change the size and position of the image using the size / position / rotation effect.

Or do you want something different?

Ray.

Ray

thats exactly what i want

how did you remove the background round guy so its kinda see through

thanks for samples

i love this forum and the people within it

Ray,

you really are great

thats my clip complete

i just need to find out how you trimmed the background from the guy

so he blends in better with the main video without the photos square background

@spuddy13

Hi Brian.

I used a separate photo editing package to erase the background from the face and save as a png file with alpha layer.

Then reduced transparency on the track itself as shown above.

If you click on the face image you will see what an alpha layer does in a png file. It needs a bit of tidying up as the background is not entirely erased.

I've used Photoshop but a free program like GIMP could do it as well.

Erasing backgrounds is probably getting easier in newer programs but manually that took me about 20 mins. Then again I get a lot of practice.

Ray.

Ray,

is that you in the pic

great to see the man that assists me

i have everything complete apart from the above

so i do have gimp on computer

i am away to play with it now

if i get my film finished ,ater rendering its time to publish

its a funeral that had about 400 people live, but others are waiting on the video

so you helped me complete this baby so again i really appreciate your efforts

you always give enough info for the newbie to process

take care Ray

thanks

Brian

@spuddy13

Hi Brian.

If it wasn't me it would have been another member.

These things normally only take me a half hour or so to reply to with an example. I enjoy the challenge.

I can neither confirm or deny who is in the image but assuredly I have model release forms for everything I put on line and I am covered by the landowners / performers ticketing permissions from the events I take images of as an accredited photographer for the various organisations I work on behalf of. 😄

Ray.

@spuddy13

Hi Brian

A quicker alternative to trying to erase the background is to use an Alpha mask located in

C:\Users\Public\Documents\MAGIX\Common\Videocontent\Movie Studio version Content\VideoEffects\EffectAlphaMasks, as shown below:

Note the direction of the Alpha effect indicated below

HTH

John EB

@johnebaker

It's odd but the Alpha effects don't show when using the MS2024 Suite's Explorer

but they do in Wndows Explorer; I have to drag and drop into MS2024

Maybe I'm unique 😇😂

AndyW

@me_again

Hi Andy

Maybe I'm unique

I couldn't possibly comment on that...😇 but I see exactly the same with MMS Premium 2024.

Jeff

 

It's odd but the Alpha effects don't show when using the MS2024 Suite's Explorer

but they do in Wndows Explorer; I have to drag and drop into MS2024

Maybe I'm unique 😇😂

AndyW

@me_again Hi, try looking in Platinum not Premium. Mine don't show in Premium either.

It's interesting that it shows all the other files within the VideoContent tree.

As Alice (in Wonderland) once said "Curiouser and Curiouser".

AndyW

@me_again, @emmrecs

Hi

IIRC you both migrated from an earlier version and the old version is 'linked to' rather than migrated across.

My folder path is for a clean install of MMS and I put version in the filepath I gave.

John EB

@johnebaker

True, I did come from an earlier version but I don't understand how everything in the COMMON folder is linked to in the current MS2024 except that one folder?

It doesn't really matter, I'm just curious now.

AndyW