Open Source Video

Zimmermann + Latrive

Jeremie Zimmermann and Florent Latrive talked during the debate ‘Are we all pirates’, part of the Imaginary Property program in Cinema Nova, Brussels.

“There is not a week going by without media attention for the dangers of “piracy”, which is depicted as an attack on creativity and innovation, an harassment of cultural heritage of authors and inventors. Because digital media permit cultural production on a mass scale, an artificial creation of scarcity is beneficial for commercial exploitation of cultural artefacts,” which is often disguised as a discourse about good and evil. An evening which promotes a more nuanced perspective to the issue of piracy, touching upon issues such as the current EU legislation concerning copyrights and the events surrounding the French Hadopi; loi Création et Internet.
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Animated Route in Cinelerra

Have a look at this excellent explanation of how to achieve something so simple, yet complicated as visualising a line that moves from A to B, by our favorite Cinelerra hacker the Mule.

The wackiest bit in this guide is a project in itself: how to the customise shadewipes in Cinelerra, which is well described on the Akira Project website

Hmmm! Looking forward to more of this tasty stuff !

Article: Blender, working in 3d

Sumit Sarkar, a visual artist whose character based artwork takes the form of digital and canvas paintings, digital sculpture, and aerosol art, was invited to write Blender: working in 3d for the Digital Artists Handbook.

The article offers a helping hand to anybody who would like to start working with Blender. Written by an artist who is informed by using the software himself, the article manages to introduce this elaborate tool in a clear and accessible way. For those who want more after having been kick started by Sarkar’s article, references for more detailed information are given.

Read more here: http://goto10.org/two-new-articles

Article: Video editing with OS tools

“Video editing with open source tools”, a new article written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia, has been added to the Digital Artists Handbook.

After a quick-step through the most common workflow (capture, edit, manipulate, export), the article ‘showcases’ quite a number of available FLOSS video softwares, mostly for time-line editing, which is quite useful for anyone who wants to find her / his way through the different features offered by softs for video-editing that work on GNU-Linux platforms.

Read more here: http://goto10.org/two-new-articles

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Video tag in Dailymotion: Flash out the door

Download Firefox 3.5 beta next to your current browser, follow this link, and see a flash free version of Daily motion, which uses the html < video > tag instead of Flash.

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Journées du libre 09

Find here a video registration of the conference ‘Free software in education’, which took place in the context of the yearly festival Journées du libre, on
9 may 2009 in the Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles in Brussels.

In this framework, Constant invited teachers connected to various art and design schools to discuss the way open content licenses and free software find their way in the courses they are currently teaching.
Why do they think Free Culture brings something important to art and to education? What is the difference free software can make in this context? How do they think the situation will further develop?

With:
Marc Wathieu: artist, teacher of digital arts at ERG (École de Recherche Graphique) Brussels, and visual communications at HEAJ (Haute École Albert Jacquard) Namur. http://www.multimedialab.be

Stéphane Noël: artist, teaching digital arts at ERG, active in the SPIP community.

Loic Vanderstichelen: director of short films, teaching infographics at l’Ecole d’Art d’Uccle.

Michel Cleempoel: artist, teaching digital arts at Ecole Supérieure des Arts plastiques et visuels (ESAPV), Mons

Moderated by Constant and OSP member Femke Snelting

Direct link to file:
http://video.constantvzw.org/JDL/jdlmedium.ogg

48 mins., 160 mb, ogg/theora, 384 x 288,
download and play with VLC

Registration is licensed under the Free Arts License

Kaleidoscope

Find here a short video-registration of the results of the Kaleidoscope workshop that took place in les Brigittines from 24-27th January.

Info about the Kaleidoscope project can be found on the weblog

Camera by Laurent Van Lancker, edited by Matthias Koole using Kino and Cinelerra.

link to file:
http://www.osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/osn.ogg

Blender talk – LGM 2009 – Montreal

snapshot about the blender talk at LGM 2009 in Montreal

From Montreal, at Libre Graphics Meeting,

two talks about blender, the 3D open source software

presented by Martin Poirier and Bassam Kurdali.

The main subject was about the animation’s potential uses and the different steps to make a film.

So more for the initiated people and animation side.

You can see the video here : http://river-valley.tv/category/conferences/graphics/lgm-2009/

I’m trying now to explore the object design conception.

Imaginary property

When you are in Brussels between May 15 and June 07 2009, do not forget to check out the excellent program of Cinema Nova on Intellectual property and its alternatives.
16 days filled with great debates, demo’s, music, performances and films films films, including Osvid favorites such as: RIP: A remix manifesto, Sita sings the blues, Rip in pieces America, Pierre Merejkowsky and many others.

Download here the full PDF:
http://www.nova-cinema.org/prog/112/nova112.pdf

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Psycho theora

Working with Ogg/theora encoded videofiles in Cinelerra does not always result in clean films, but sometimes produces errors in the coding. Based on this defect I am producing some clips that try to use the generated defects as a visual effect.
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