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Why does anyone care about video plagiarism? |
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Written by phoenix
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Sunday, 16 March 2008 |
Quite simply put: we expend a lot of time and effort into crafting a vid. The vid making process starts with the time put into mapping out the video, deciding which clips to use, perhaps timing out the song to know how long a clip you need for a particular part. This can take several hours. Then comes the long process of capturing or ripping the clips. This is a process that takes hours. I will normally spend about 4 hours gathering clips for a vid that is not a single episode vid. Those take less time to collect. Now that the clips are on my computer I begin the editing process. Depending on the vid this can run more than 15 hours over the course of days or weeks. This includes arranging clips, getting the timing correct, working with overlays, fades and other effects, rendering and re-rendering to track down ghost frames and fixing things caught by the beta viewers. I would say one video averages about 20 manhours of effort, though I have had those that take less and those that take significantly more. The other vidders I have spoken to average a similar amount of effort for a low complexity vid.
To take a sequence that someone potentially spent hours perfecting to match their particular song is not only rude, it's morally wrong to pass another's work off as your own.
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