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Open Video Conference

Open Video Conference: call for proposals ** Submission deadline: March 19 ** We are now accepting proposals for panels, workshop sessions, demo sessions, and other programming for the inaugural Open Video Conference in New York. Join us and over 400 participants during our groundbreaking two-day conference and make your imprint on the online video space.  Visit http://openvideoalliance.org/proposals/ […]

News

Between shared practices ….

Towards new modes of creating documentary: between shared practices, normalisation and diversification is the title of this years professional days taking place in the framework of documentary festival Cinema du Reel hosting two panels around online sharing. In this context, the morning session: In search of new practices: production and distribution of open source video, […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, News

Open Mail to the Lumiera Community

(Fwd. from the Piksel mailinglist, thanks Hadrian) Dear Lumiera Community ———————- Lumiera is a huge project, we will depend on every possible contribution. Sitting and waiting for other people to finish it would bring us nowhere, and if people want to use it they will need to consider to contributing; every little step counts. We […]

Editing software, News

CC Al Jazeera

Launch Press Release: Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License Doha Qatar – January 13, 2009: Al Jazeera Network today announced the world’s first repository of broadcast quality video footage released under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’ license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time footage of the War […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, Media archives, News

Sita hates copyright jail

From Questioncopyright.org: “Animator Nina Paley has announced on her blog her plans to make her award-winning, feature-length film “Sita Sings The Blues” available online for free decentralized distribution, as soon as she gets it out of copyright jail. As Nina Paley told us in her interview here last November, in order to release Sita, the […]

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Kaltura 1.0

Hi, I’m excited to update you that today we have officially launched our open source video module for Drupal, a leading open source Content Management Platform used by more than a million sites. Kaltura’s All in One Video Module enables Drupal site-builders to easily add video and rich-media functionalities to their Drupal sites. The module […]

Annotation tools, Editing software, News

Strobo scare

Via the Makezine blog: What a network camera combined with motion can do to keep your cat away from your plants: check out the Blender Defenderproject ” Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out […]

Hardware, News

Collaborative Online Video

Coming soon ! We’re happy to announce the upcoming Open Source Video Libre workshop + presentations around collective video distribution. The workshop consists of a series of hands on exercises in sharing (P2P) video, distributed editing and Content Management Systems for video sharing and archiving, and a series of evening presentations focusing on inventive practices […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, Hardware, News, Workshop Open Video Libre

Video tag in Firefox, an update

Spotted by Pierre Huyghebaert on Kein.org It was my last day at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street smiling all over the face: “I have great news” he screamed. “Firefox […]

Copyrights and licenses, News, Patents

Workshop CIN XML SVN

During the last week a small group of people have been working with Deptford.tv at Deckspace, Greenwhich on setting up a system for collaborative video. Building on the proposals by the Echo chamber project to connect Final Cut Pro’s output XML to Drupal, thought has been spent on creating a system involving the XML output […]

Collaborative filming, News