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Collage and Code, was the subject of the morning session. In it Michael Murtaugh spoke about his ideas dealing with what he calls "collage" editing as his preferred technique in manipulating video. As the title of the session clearly states, he was referring to collage achieved mainly by software and coding. In the first part of his presentation he explained that he had found in .srt files (the conventional file extension used for subtitles) a very powerful and simple resource for experimenting with the time line and the time code.

In session 04 Bitnik.org gave a brilliant presentation about their general philosophy summarized in the slogan "A hack a day." As an example, they showed images and gave a detailed description of their Opera Calling (Arias for All) presented in 2007, at Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich. In this project, they placed "bugs" made with old cellphones inside the Zürich Opera House. This phones were connected to an application fed with the whole city's white pages.

oups...me running late... seems that morning is/will be dedicated to Pad.ma which was partialy presented last night (video should be available soon) at the public event at OKNO...this time presentation is more of a discussion on exames from practice/life/media...pad.ma licence (free-software-licence with tech spin on Low-Res)...

...continuing a bit slower (practical work brings tech issues) in using utilities like ffmpeg2theora, ffmpeg, dvgrab... using HD source material, linux pipes...also discussing different container options (ogg for web video and matroska for Blue-Ray and DVD ripping due to a number of features it became popular in Anime community). Somewhat less dynamic ;)

Host institution is wonderfull flamish cultural center PianoFabrique...

With (very) short delay and (very) few participants missing workshop started off with quite serious and detailed overview of licensing policies, economic relations, technological limitations and much more from the digital video world (from perspective of open source developer/producer/user)... as (somewhat) expected Jan Gerber of (0xdb and pad.ma fame) is showing some of the amazing examples of what future version of web browsers (primarily Firefox and Opera) with support natively video+svg+JavaScript ...this will enable us to do/see - AMAZING NEW WEB of VIDEOS and not just web pages ...while avoiding embedded propertary technologies/content (flash & other plugins)!
Presentation of http://MetaVid.org/ was also impressive demo of what can be done using semantic wiki data JavaScript applets and SMILE (the fact that SMILE is back in big style - brings SMILE back to my face ;-)

Open Source Video is a project of Constant, a Brussels based organisation for Arts and Media. 17-23.11.2008 for the second time international workshop is organized to mediate know-how transfer in this field both between int. software/service developers/maintainers/educators and (primarily local) content producers/users.
IMP researchers Lilia Perez and Željko Blaće joining this workshop and will be on/off blogging/reporting...