FAQs for the Lois &
Clark Archive
I receive
many emails about the website, aside from the thank you card
ones (which I greatly appreciate) some are the same basic
questions, and I’ll get into detail with here to help
anyone who may be confused.
Andrea in her bedroom April 2004
(obsessive Much?) <eg>
- Where
do you get all your media clips?
I didn’t become a big FoLC until
third season, and taped everything I could. In the meantime
I got on the Internet in July 1996 and met cool people who
helped me with episodes and interviews I didn’t have. We
traded each other for various things and my good friends Deb
and Cookie provided me with tapes of footage I didn’t have.
My co-webmaster Molly has provided a lot of stuff as well
given she’s been an obsessive FoLC like myself almost since
the beginning. Everything clip wise on this site is from our
personal collections. We do not take from other sites and
hope (even though I’ve found sites that have taken all from
this one) that people would understand how much effort is
put into this site and not just “take everything.”
- Why is
the quality of some of the clips…not good?
Because they are old, on old
tapes that have been run through VCRs for over 12 years and
time has not been too kind to them. I also render them at
WMV format at a pretty high format, but not TOO high because
I realize some people still have dial-up, actually quite a
few, and I don’t want them to wait too long to download
clips.
- Why
don’t you have the interviews from the DVDs on the site?
Because anything that could be
easily, or eventually purchased, will not be included on the
site. The point of the archive is to archive everything on
Lois & Clark that is not possible to come by nearly 13 years
after the show started.
- Why
don’t you have the episodes on your site?
I don’t even think I HAVE to
answer this one, but I do. I know Lois & Clark isn’t in
syndication and that is a tremendous loss to future fans,
but I will never put entire episodes of the series on the
archive. I'm already playing too close to the copyright
infringement line with the music videos, so there’s no way
I’d try to get under Warner Brothers skin with putting
entire episodes up.
5.How do
you make your music videos?
I have
every episode saved on my hard drive. I captured them from
my videotapes and keep them there to grab clips of for the
videos. I use a program called Pinnacle Studio 8 to make the
videos and special transitions that had to be purchased
separately. Now Pinnacle has Studio 10, but I prefer 8.
6. May I
take clips from your videos to make my own?
No. I’ve
gotten a lot of flack about this from people calling me
greedy or other names for not wanting to “help’ people. In
my eyes, you basically want me to make the video for you and
giving yourself the credit. Yes, it may just be clips, but
that’s like saying “I want to make a dress. Please someone
give me thread, material and the sewing machine to do it.” I
am very attached to my videos, and I think if you want to
make them yourself, and I know a lot of people do, you
should make the effort to get everything yourself. NOW, I do
make exceptions. If you are missing a SPECIFIC scene, cannot
find it, damaged video etc, and need that THAT I can do for
you, but if I get an email asking me to send “a general clip
of Clark talking to his parents” that could be ANY episode
and I don’t think you’re thinking too much about the
specific scene you want to use, or you would know and say
“The scene from the pilot where Clark is talking to his
parents at the table about Lois.” Then I know you care
enough about the video to know which scene you need and in
that case I will help. I’ve had this happen with my friend
Molly because my copy of Don’t Tug On Superman’s Cape has
problems due to a bad descrambler I had back in 95 and she
will help me if the scene I need was damaged, and I will do
the same for anyone who can prove they care that much about
the video they are making to know exactly the scene they
need, and if it’s over 30 seconds then I will question that
as well, you generally never need that long of a clip for a
video.
7. Can you
send me a DVD of all your media clips so I can make my own
website?
Do I
even need to answer this one? Actually the email angered me
so much I never responded to it. Basically NONE of the media
clips from this site are even on DVD, and why would I burn
them onto DVD in “full quality’ which isn’t even possible
since most don’t look that great to begin with, just for
someone else’s site with no compensation whatsoever? This
may come off as venting, but any email that asks me to let
someone use everything on my site for their own site, upsets
me.
8. This
site looks oddly familiar to one back from the 90s called In
Loving Memory of Lois & Clark
That
would be because THAT was my site as well. This site doesn’t
have everything that was on that site, I cut down on the
older screen caps and such, but it’s generally the same with
the exception of better graphics
That's all
for now, if you have any questions that are not on this site
please feel free to email me at
webmasters@loisandclarkarchive.com or directly at
DaniPayson@aol.com
Andrea:)
