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I worked as an editor for nearly 20 years and that is a ridiculous time frame to spend editing a documentary, even if it's done in your spare time.

Barry, I would suspect even if the video footage was filmed by you, copyright permissions would still have to obtained from official sources as you don't own the music? I may be wrong and the laws in the US could very well be different but I'm pretty sure that's how it works in the UK. With interviews, it would probably be ok but where there is live music I'm not sure how that would work? To give an example, I worked on a promotional film once and at the end the client wanted to put some funny outtakes from various interviews, one of these included a chairman bursting into song - it was a Sinatra track but I can't remember which one. They asked me to phone PRS to check it would be ok to use before including it and much to my surprise I was told that there would be a charge for it!! I was very surprised as we weren't using the original recording and it was an off the cuff moment caught on camera, personally I thought it was really over the top, they even wanted to know if the words have been modified. It was never used in the end.