Author: OSVideo

SMplayer

I never bothered to install it, thinking that Mplayer’s command line options gave me everything I needed .. but finally gave SMplayer a try and I am enjoying it a lot. “One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie […]

News, Software

Free as in: Big Money

One of the introductory keynotes to this years Fosdem addressed the widespread use of Linux systems in Hollywood film production companies such as Walt Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks. Speakers were Robin Rowe and Gabrielle Pantera. Both work for MovieEditor.com: an entertainment and technology company based in Beverly Hills focusing on ‘upbeat commercial projects’, which might […]

News

0xdb

The 0xdb is a film database which collects metadata, provides citations, analyzes and contextualizes different types of media, and makes both the information it gathers and the tools it employs available for personal, non-commercial use. It uses a variety of publicly accessible resources, like search engines and file-sharing networks, to automatically collect information about, and […]

Annotation tools, Copyrights and licenses, Media archives

dotSUB

Friday 18 january, Michael Smolens, Founder and CEO of DotSub gave the fastest pitch ever during the Video Vortex event in Amsterdam. dotSUB is an online tool which facilitates easy transcription and translating of subtitles. I uploaded a short clip to have a go at it. Feel free to log in and play with it, […]

Annotation tools, Editing software, Pre-production

Transcriber

Transcriber is a simple but handy tool to transcribe audiofiles. See homepage Transcriber is a tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, and labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions. It is more specifically designed for the […]

Annotation tools, Editing software

video object in html

Today, you need to use plugins and proprietary formats to view videos in browsers. There is great demand for a better solution to serve video content to users. A native video format in browsers without all the licensing and patent issues that plague other format could be beneficial to all parties (perhaps except those who […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, News

FOSS Codecs for Online Video

FOSS Codecs for Online Video: Usability, Uptake and Development An excellent overview of the best available tools for the creation, playback and embedding of online video using Free and Open Source Software video codecs, and a set of recommendations for development to enhance their adoption by social change video projects on the web. Input was […]

Annotation tools, Manuals, Problems and solutions

Cinelerra Package

Download the following debian package for 64 bits computers: cinelerra_2.1.0-1svn20060912_amd64.deb to install as root: dpkg -i cinelerra_2.1.0-1svn20060912_amd64.deb

Editing software