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Remix Cinema workshop
March 24-25, 2011, University of Oxford, UK Welcome to Remix Cinema: the collaborative making, deconstruction and distribution of digital artefacts, a workshop exploring the role of audio-visual remix practices in contemporary digital culture. Organised by the Oxford Internet Institute – OII (University of Oxford) in collaboration with UNIA Prácticas y Culturas Digitales (Universidad Internacional de […]
Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, News, WorkshopsUnlogo, the Corporate Identity Media Filter
. Something to look out for: A promising project that is still in a very early stage. Unlogo is a web service that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from videos. On a practical level, it takes back your personal media from the corporations and advertisers. On a technical level, it is a really cool […]
Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, NewsBuy cheap copies !
Article in La Liberation on the intervention of artist Tania Bruguera who sells copies from video’s from the Centre Pompidou collection in the streets during exhibition Voir / Revoir. Read article in French Below a French to English machine translation
Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, NewsOpen Video Conference 2010 coming soon !
3 weeks left to register! Open Video Conference is a summit to explore the future of video on the web. It’s about building open source and open standards for online video, but it’s also about some larger questions: With so much free stuff out there, how will creators get paid? Who knows what you watch? […]
NewsOpen Video @ Jan Van Eyck Academie
OPEN VIDEO HTML5, the next revision of the HyperText Mark-up Language, is supposed to open a new chapter in web design and web-based publishing. The support of multimedia content by self-explanatory video and audio tags will have major impact for developers, designers and content producers. Most importantly, it allows the seamless integration of open-source encoded […]
NewsPioneer One
An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world. Pioneer One is the first ever ‘made for torrent’ series. Pioneer One is the latest project from Josh Bernhard and Bracey […]
Films and Projects, NewsOpen letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube
The Theora codec is derived from the proprietary VP3 codec, released into the public domain by On2 Technologies. Google has now bought the On2 company. The Free Software Foundation has published an open letter to Google: “With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google […]
News, Patentsraw1394 module … encore
After installing Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch, I have had some bad flashbacks to the zillion times this problem occurred before in previous sytem installations. Capturing in Kino / dvgrab does not work because the /dev/raw1394 module is not loaded and I, as a user, have no write permissions. I found the following post helpful. It […]
Manuals, News, Problems and solutionsffmpeg2theora 0.26 released
(fwd from Theora list: http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora) ffmpeg2theora 0.26 is out – http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora Some changes that went into this release: * use a/v sync from input container this should fix many issues that came up with variable framerates * include metadata from source in –info json output * update fmpeg * update libkate * OggIndex support, can […]
Editing software, News, Pre-production, SoftwareTO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT
“To shoot an elephant” by Alberto Arce/ Mohammad Rujailah is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians. The film is a […]
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