Tag: filmmaking
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Year MMXIX summarized in 5 minutes
As part of my seven-years retrospective, here’s a 5-6 minutes readable summary of what I did in 2019. Personal life summary Q4 2018’s intense professional stress was replaced by emotional exhaustion in 2019’s Q1 and Q2. Caring for folks who have residual schizophrenia comorbid with depression and high-functioning autism, really is a lot of work…
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The origins of the Flow Game 🎥
Let’s kickstart the new year with a short & simple blog post, as a way to get me back on the blogging treadmill, and as a way to ensure my blog still works fine (I have just finished a very heavy-handed migration and database encoding surgery for my blog, which took months to solve… that’ll…
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Introducing Atypica
A while ago, I envisioned building a new* professional video production collective for commercial and non-commercial projects, both as a “creative outlet” for one of my long-standing passions, and as a way to build a specialized service offering that can act as a bridge between my own Montreal-based marketing agency and other collaborators or artists…
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The Ultimate Free and Open Source conference explanation video
Have you ever wondered what the best community-oriented open source conference events look like? Ever wanted to attend one, but never dared to? Or need something to convince your boss to support you in attending as part of your work? For many veteran FLOSS contributors who are part of big established projects, it is easy…
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Reviewing the Librem 15
Following up on my previous post where I detailed the work I’ve been doing mostly on Purism’s website, today’s post post will cover some video work. Near the beginning of October, I received a Librem 15 v2 unit for testing and reviewing purposes. I have been using it as my main laptop since then, as…
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Capturing the essence of a cool symphonic orchestra through video
One of the things I do as part of my varied service offering at idéemarque is filmmaking, sound and video editing—as some of you must have realized by now, I have this undying passion for storytelling and the making of motion picture. So when a symphonic orchestra requests my help to make a promotional video…
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Help us get the GUADEC 2014 videos published
For those who could not attend GUADEC 2015, video recordings have been processed and published here. You might wonder, then, what happened to the GUADEC 2014 videos. The talks in Strasbourg were recorded indeed, but the audio came from the camera’s built-in microphones (so no truly directional mic and no line-in feed). This is problematic…
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How do you visually represent a project's timeline?
Here is a fun example to illustrate why software development in general is a complex endeavour: You think you’re going to fix a tiny problem: “hey, maybe we could make ‘s welcome dialog look a bit nicer“. Eventually, someone proposes a design or idea that looks interesting, and you realize that to truly realize it,…
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2013 open source video editor user survey
What was initially planned as a one-question referendum for Pitivi users (how critical is it for us to have perfect xptv import on the upcoming release) became a full-fledged survey to give us a clearer picture of what users care the most about these days. If you’re a fan of Free Software and video editing,…
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GStreamer Hackfest 2013: Moving Images
I’m back from this year’s GStreamer hackfest, which was fantastic as usual — an intersection of great minds, big challenges, flaky Wi-Fi and good food. Christian already did a generic summary, so I’ll be narrating from the GNonLin/GES/PiTiVi perspective. See the end of this blog post for a nice video retrospective. Edward provided an initial…