The Open Sourcerer

Tag: filmmaking

  • Lightworks is not anywhere close to open-source

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    I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the…

  • How do you visualize grouping?

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    Here’s a tricky usability question: how would you represent the actions of grouping and ungrouping clips on a timeline? (Un)grouping is used for changing the way selections affect a set of clips. It allows you, among other things, to separate and remove the audio from the video of a clip. It is very hard to…

  • YouTube considered harmful

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    This morning, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox: apparently Dragons Dream infringes “La Red”‘s copyright. Bullshit. My video does not infringe on anything. It is a pure mashup of Elephants Dream and Sintel. No other music, sounds or visuals were used. Yet, they claim that the visuals belong to La Red (whatever/whoever…

  • M60 2012

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    I went to see one of the screenings of the Montréal 60 seconds film festival Friday night, it was really entertaining (there’s a final screening tonight if you missed the first two). As expected, there were some dubious movies, lots of good/okay ones and a couple of wonderful gems. It was nice to see my…

  • GUADEC talk video published

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    No no no, I said video, Not videos. Seems like even though I spent hours editing and rendering a single recording, I’ve still beat the GUADEC organizers when it comes to “time to publish” 😉 My “neko edit” also has good sound quality (from a dedicated USB microphone) and high resolution versions of the slides…

  • The glorious history of FLOSS video editors

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    In case you have been living under a rock and have not seen my talk at LGM this year, you have probably missed this important piece of information: This image is now published in the contributing section of PiTiVi’s website (as if you did not have enough arguments already! What are you waiting for? Come here…

  • Canon S95

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    J’ai décidé de m’offrir un cadeau longuement attendu et d’acheter un S95 (ironiquement, après que Eugenia ait rhâlé qu’il offrait moins de fonctionnalités vidéo que d’autres appareils Canon). C’est une mise à jour justifiable par rapport à ma Konica Minolta DiMage Z5 achetée il y a cinq ans. J’ai passé des semaines à faire des…

  • Video editors usage statistics: duty calls

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    WARNING: POLLS AND STATISTIC CAN BE BENT TO SAY ANYTHING I can’t resist biting OpenShot’s bait. Jonathan, with all due respect, I think you haven’t paid enough attention in statistics class (or you paid too much attention and you are trolling). Reasons your conclusions may be wrong: In Ubuntu, PiTiVi is installed by default. Which means…

  • La styromousse blanche

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    Hier, j’ai passé six heures à faire du tournage pour un mini clip (entre la pub et le documentaire…) en intérieur. C’était amusant parce que ça faisait des années que j’avais pas fait de tournage, parce que j’avais un excellent matériel (deux caméscopes HD, mes deux trépieds, deux lampes de 500 watts, mon réflecteur, etc.)…

  • Variable time stretching (ramping)

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    Here are some initial thoughts on how slow/fast motion video (with variable speed within a clip) could be designed in PiTiVi. What we could have is a concept of special keyframes that go in only one dimension (the x axis, and not the y axis). So, let’s say we have a clip on our timeline:…