Category: News
OpenCut contest
OpenCut claims to be a ‘completely open-source’ film competition designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way. It is organised by the Red company, producers of camera systems, and in that light we should understand that the true goal of the contest is to advertise their products. […]
Collaborative filming, NewsBig Buck Bunny
Big Buck Bunny is a new film produced by the Blender foundation, makers of The Elephants Dream. Big Buck Bunny is a funny little showcase of what Blender is capable of: rolling 3D eyeballs, an über realistic 3D spacious layout, high definition detailed imaging, flying camera pans … an enjoyable film although a bit manieristic […]
Films and Projects, NewsJudge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom
( From blog.wired.com ) Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material […]
Copyrights and licenses, NewsOpen 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, NewsLumiera 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, NewsStray Cinema
Stray Cinema is an open content filmproject. The idea behind it is that people from all over the world can download and re-edit raw footage, they make different films using the same footage. The films are then uploaded and voted on by the community. Stray Cinema organises ‘real world’ screenings of the top five films. […]
Collaborative filming, NewsOpen Source City festival
A good way to start the summer: From 20th to 22nd June 2008 folly and SoundNetwork are bringing Open Source City; a micro-festival of art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture. Read more about the festival.
NewsSMplayer
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, SoftwareFree 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 […]
NewsRemoval of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5
In a previous post, we were enthusiastic about the new developments of html5 that would include the video tag and its implementation in the royalty-free format ogg/vorbis. But: “As some of you may be aware, the WHATWG has dropped the recommendation for Theora and Vorbis in the video/audio section of the HTML 5 specification. Many […]
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