Transcript for Open Video

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