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Duration: 3 minutes and 17 seconds

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Viral Video

Producer: Ryanne Hodson & Jay Dedman

Director: Ryanne Hodson & Jay Dedman

Views: 2,483 (347 embedded)

Posted by: ming0 on Mar 23, 2009

Open Video is more than just open codecs — watch and find out. http://openvideoconference.org/

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The dream for Open Video
is to be able to collaborate
on video work
with the same level of ease and facility
that I'm able to collaborate on a Wikipedia article
An open video editing and distribution platform
that is free and open source in terms of its licensing
For me, what I think would be really exciting
to come out of this is something along the lines of a social movement
and I think the Open Video Alliance
has an opportunity here to really bring those energies together
and focus them and really create something amazing out of it
For those places where Open Source is important
how can we actually make it work, in reality
so that people can actually use these tools and formats
I think we need to figure out a system
that lets us reach a mass audience of people
with tools that are totally open
and not dependent on any big company
For me the biggest thing is just making
content free and getting people
from across the world access
to the content they want
in the format that they want it in
You can have a situation where
everything's open and all the API's are open
everything is accessible
and it's wide open and amazing
but if no one is using it then it's a moot point
so it's all about bringing it to average people who would use it casually
I want to see a lot more strong connections
being made between grassroots media activists
and policy makers—policy hackers inside the beltway
I think we're moving into a future
where everything is going to be reusable
it's not going to go on 16mm film
in some vault somewhere
it's going to be born digital
and so people are going to expect it to be there
and expect it to be used and reused
It's truly hard to convince
people who are working with traditional
and old media, particularly documentary film makers
about the value of sharing their footage
This idea of being able to use popular culture
in video work
and we need to be able to use that without fear
of being sued every time that we're commenting or critiquing or whatever
Somebody makes something just with a web based editor
that can plug into the software I might already be using
and that I'm trained to use
and the other way around
so that they might be able to take
work that I've done and keep building on it
If it's going to be a movement, if it's going to succeed
there has to be cooperation
and even if we're all going in the same direction
if people haven't even talked to each other
that's not really cooperation, that's just sort of mass movement
There's not a great tool set, from end-to-end
for people to make, publish, and watch
Open Video in a really friendly, easy way
and that's what the commercial tools are doing right now
and that's what I think Open Video tools need to do
One of the things I want to see is
a consistent story around what Open Video really means
that has to be the first thing that we do
Free Software tools and their usability and uptake
how we can all implement free codecs into what we're doing
The browser platforms have to
become capable of playing and editing video
without reliance on any additional proprietary tools
The most important thing is getting Firefox 3
shipping Ogg Theora, and that'll solve all the problems

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