Author: Peter

Tips for Transcoding Cinelerra Compatible Video with FFmpeg, MEncoder

Alexander Grundner is a San Francisco Peninsula based web publisher who likes to play with Linux in his free time. He posts some tips on transcoding video on his blog that might be helpfull for all you Cinelerra lovers. Thanks Doma

Editing software, Manuals, Problems and solutions

Open Movie Editor blog

Check out the (relatively) new blog: Open Movie Editor News by Open Video enthousiast and developer of the open source video-editor Open Movie Editor Richard Spindler. Open Movie Editor is a video-editing software for Linux which can be downloaded here Some nifty tips and articles on the blog; among others Richard has been fiddling with […]

Editing software, Manuals, News

Lumiera first steps

A new initiative on the Open Source Non Linear Editing video block: Lumiera started out as Cinelerra 3, a complete code rewrite of Cinelerra, but is now turning into an independent project. On the still very incomplete Lumiera.org website you can share your ideas on the GUI with the developers. As an introduction you can […]

Editing software, News

The pearls you cast before swine make you seem alive

Committed to sharing her music via the net, Kristin Hersh is throwing her muses at us in unconventional ways. In this small manifesto she writes: I think I need to engage in a grassroots kind of capitalism, choosing principles over profits, values over image, ideals over marketing. I have to create a permeable membrane between […]

Copyrights and licenses, Media archives

Then you win

thenyouwin.yooook.org A sympathetic documentary project in the making: Then you win is an open content project by France based organisations Loin de l’Œil and Yooook. Check the FAQ for more concrete info. Ekta Parishad is a mass movement based on Gandhian principle – organized in October 2007 the “Janadesh”, the largest non-violent gathering in India […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses

R+R streaming walks

As part of the exhibition Place@Space in art center Z33 I have made a ‘Routes + Routines’ installation and organise some walks that are streamed and can be viewed in the exhibition room. Clips from the stream are added to a random ‘film’ that is subtitled by a choice from quotes and citations from legal […]

Collaborative filming, Streaming

OVL Saturday: Miro

We spent some saturday afternoon time installing the current version 1.2 of the Internet tv application Miro. Christina installed it on her G4 Power mac running Mac OSX 10.4.10 and I updated at the same time an old version 0.9.8.0 Beta on my Linux Ubuntu box. After a smooth upate from the Synaptic package manager […]

Media archives, Software, Workshop Open Video Libre

Mapping AV streams to DVD

I edited a film in Cinelerra, and rendered it as a QTfor Linux file, settings: Sound ‘two complements’ Video ‘DV’ The soundtrack was exported seperately as Wav files, with exactly the same length. I wanted to replace the original sound with the soundtrack, and used ffmpeg to mux the files and convert them to a […]

Editing software, Manuals, Problems and solutions

workshop Command Line Video Editing

In the framework of Verbindingen / Jonctions , Michael Murtaugh made a workshop editing video from the command line in Actic, Brussels. A cookshow full of text based visual magick, examples of small scripts and inverted use of player functionalities. Look on Michaels wiki page which contains example code for encoding tools like ffmpeg and […]

Manuals, Software, Workshop Open Video Libre

Sending a stream (command line)

Streaming with the command line: $ dvgrab –format raw – | ffmpeg2theora -a0 -v5 -fdv -x320 -y240 -o /dev/stdout – | oggfwd 127.0.0.1 8000 hackme /tcvi.ogg This translates as: take the raw input of the attached device (typically a digital camera), pass it to the program ffmpeg2theora that will create a video flux with a […]

Streaming