Licensing and consent

The free trial

The trial is the complete plugin, with nothing held back. The only difference is a pattern of diagonal stripes over the rendered picture. Use it to check that FaceTweak works well on your computer and with your footage before you buy.

When you buy, you don’t download or install anything new. You enter your license key in the plugin you already have, and the stripes disappear. Your settings and the effects on your timeline stay exactly as they were.

Your license

• One-time purchase. Pay once and keep using FaceTweak. There’s no subscription.
• Two computers. One license activates FaceTweak on up to two computers at a time.
• DaVinci Resolve now, Premiere Pro soon. FaceTweak works in DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve Studio. A Premiere Pro version is in beta and coming soon. Your license will cover it too: your two activations can be in either DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro.
• It belongs to the computer, not the project. You activate once on each computer, and every project on it is licensed.

Buy FaceTweak when you’re ready. Your license key arrives by email.

Activating FaceTweak

1. Select a clip that has FaceTweak on it and find FaceTweak’s controls (see Getting started if you haven’t added it yet).
2. Open the License section, near the bottom of the controls.
3. Paste your key into License Key. If you like, give the computer a name you’ll recognise in Device Name, such as “Edit suite iMac”.
4. Click Activate License. The computer needs to be online for this step. License Status confirms when it’s done, and the stripes disappear.

After that, FaceTweak checks in with the license server from time to time. It keeps working for a while without an internet connection; License Details shows how long.

Moving to a new computer

On the computer you’re retiring, open the License section and click Deactivate This Machine. That frees its place, and you can activate on the new computer with the same key. If the old computer is no longer available, click Manage License to see the computers your license is activated on, or contact support.

The License section

License Status

Whether this computer is licensed or running the trial.

License Key

Where you paste your key. It stays visible until you quit the app, but it’s never saved in your project or in presets.

Device Name

A friendly name for this computer, shown when you manage your license online.

License Details

Activation details, including how long FaceTweak can keep working without checking in over the internet.

Activate License

Licenses this computer with the key you pasted.

Refresh License

Checks your license with the server straight away, rather than waiting for the next automatic check.

Deactivate This Machine

Frees this computer’s place so you can activate FaceTweak on another one.

Manage License

Opens your license account in a web browser.

Why FaceTweak asks for consent

FaceTweak changes how a real person looks, where they look and what their mouth appears to say. Used well, that rescues a take: a glance at the monitor becomes a look down the lens, or a dubbed line finally sits on the lips. Used badly, the same tools could put words in someone’s mouth or show them doing something they never did.

People have rights over their own face and performance. Many productions, and union agreements such as SAG-AFTRA’s, require written consent before a performance is digitally altered. So before FaceTweak changes any footage, it stops and asks you to confirm that the consent is in place. It’s a deliberate pause, and it protects the people on screen, you and your clients.

When you approve footage, you’re confirming that:

• everyone shown was 18 or older when it was recorded;
• written consent has been obtained to digitally alter and distribute their facial performance (by the employer, where a union agreement such as SAG-AFTRA applies);
• you hold the rights to the footage; and
• you won’t use it to make sexual, deceptive or defamatory content, or a fake endorsement, of a real person.

You also accepted the Face Alteration Terms and the license agreement when you installed FaceTweak. They set out these rules in full.

Approving footage

The first time you add FaceTweak to a clip, the Digital alteration: rights certification notice opens by itself.

1. Read the statement. Only continue if every part of it is true for this footage.
2. Tick I have read and certify the statement above.
3. Optionally, attach a release form (see below).
4. Click Yes. Certification Status changes to Certified, recorded in this project, and FaceTweak starts working on the clip.

If you click No or close the notice, FaceTweak leaves the clip exactly as it was filmed, and the viewer shows RIGHTS APPROVAL REQUIRED. Nothing is changed until you approve. You can open the notice again at any time.

Certification StatusRights Certification section

Shows whether this footage has been approved. Until it has, FaceTweak passes the clip through untouched.

Open legal noticeRights Certification section

Opens the notice again: to approve footage after clicking No, or to attach, export or remove a release form. Use it too if the notice didn’t open by itself, which can happen with footage stored on a network drive.

What gets recorded

Your answer is saved in the project, tied to that piece of footage. FaceTweak records which version of the statement you agreed to, that you ticked the box, when you did it, and a fingerprint of the footage: a code worked out from the footage itself, not its file name or where it’s stored. Using FaceTweak on different footage asks again, and a future version of FaceTweak with an updated statement may ask again too.

Keeping a release form with the project

If you have a signed release or consent form for the footage, you can store a copy inside the project, right alongside the clip being changed. The paperwork then travels with the edit. Anyone reviewing the project later, such as a producer, a clearance team or an auditor, can see that consent was on file for that shot, and when it was attached. It’s optional, and it’s there for convenience.

1. In the rights notice, click Attach release… and choose the document: a PDF, JPG or PNG up to 5 MB.
2. Check the notice shows the attachment, then click Yes. The attachment is saved when you click Yes. Clicking No or closing the notice discards the change.

Attach release…In the rights notice

Embeds the document in the project. FaceTweak notes the file’s name, the date it was attached, and fingerprints of both the document and the footage it was attached for.

Export copy…In the rights notice

Saves a copy of the stored document to a folder you choose, for example to send to a legal or clearance team.

RemoveIn the rights notice

Takes the document out of the project when you click Yes.

FaceTweak checks the document each time it’s opened. If the attachment was made for different footage, the notice says so. If the stored copy has been damaged, it says the release failed its integrity check, and you can attach the original again.

All of this lives in the Rights Certification section. Find it at the top of FaceTweak’s controls, open Rights Certification › Open legal notice, and you’re back in the same notice.