Footage Firm is marketing heavily right now, both through individual emails and through a blast via Movie magazines. They are offering "free" stock footage for the cost of an exorbitant "shipping and handling" cost. It's a scam. I fell for it the last time they did this, thinking, why not have a collection of low cost footage that I might need someday? It cost me $50 and the HD DVD was totally unusable. It had severe interpolation problems (lines streaking the footage). Also, their DV DVDs have random people in them - you don't get the rights to use those people in your projects. No releases or permissions come with the DVDs. You can tell most of them are taken by tourists or something with a camcorder because the footage shakes and has the look of your dad taking footage with a camcorder. People randomly look into the camera, making the footage self aware. Virtually all of it is unusable for real projects. I sent several emails and complaints to the "company" but none were answered. Also, I bought 5 or so of these DVDs and they all came in a single envelope. Somehow, I'm supposed to believe that it costs them $50 for shipping that. Big Scam here, stay away!
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