Re: [LAU] multimedia content

On Sat, March 9, 2013 2:25 am, Patrick Shirkey wrote: I have been scouring the web and come across a reasonable selection of quality content. A couple of things I have noticed which I hope people round here can make some headway on this year. There are a lot of tutorial videos out there. That's very helpful that people have taken the time to make video tutorials but I think we have covered that space pretty well now. You can literally find a video tutorial for every piece of major Linux Audio software and sometimes the same topic is covered several times by different people. My suggestion is that if you are thinking of making a tutorial for an audio app please take a quick look on the web first and link to an existing one if possible. We also have a lot of music videos which are just screencasts of the music software playing the track while recording. I can see the value of this for a couple of uses but really it just looks a bit crap and pretty boring. I know that people are proud that they have mastered the tools but IMO if you are going to the effort to create a song it doesn't take much more to grab some video footage with your phone, stitch together some photos with blender or even just take some CC videos from http://wikimedia.org and make a video collage. Apart from that feedback there is actually not that much in terms of original FLOSS multimedia content being put online atm. Sure, Blender folks are pretty active and doing some very amazing stuff mostly in terms of short films less than 10 mins long and there are lots of demos of various FLOSS animation tools but comparatively few people are actually producing large amounts of original multimedia art at the moment. It's a lot less than those who are producing FLOSS audio on a regular basis. So my overall feedback is that people round here who are making music and games, etc... could do well to put in some time on the multimedia creation front too. After all we are mostly here to create digital art and audio does go so well with video. One thing for certain is that there is a huge consuming market waiting for anyone who cracks the audio/video entertainment production process for the global Linux community. And that represents a significant amount of cash too when combined with google ads or other marketing strategies... 1 good video can receive millions of views. Take a look at the animation tools like synfig, tupi, tvpaint, gimp (with gap). Get into blender, cinelerra, kino, kdenlive, openshot. Try generating some visuals with your favorite 3d game engine. Even try coding up some animations with open/webgl if that's what floats your boat. Putting together some original video footage for an audio track is really not that hard. We have all the tools so I don't know what is holding things up. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd