I know this is totally off topic but I had to share it with someone!

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Check this out if you don’t already know.

Also… I am finishing a long overdue project in Final Cut and then I think will experiment with puredyne linux and cinlerra. Already installed and working on an old dell.

“Larger than life”… Hehe. Nice, thanks!

Yeah it is a tough one. Some how I think that she hit the nail on the head. Of course you are not smiling away like on a family holiday photo on the beach! But you do, do a lot of thinking and that is fact :-) Somehow it makes you seem larger than life. I find it kind of cool. Take a photo of yourself in 10 years and compare it to the portrait from Anna today!!!

Paul

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“People out there don’t realise how hard it is for young people to get a really good television when you have to actually buy it.”

That’s the worth!

There will also be a copyright reform in Europe soon:
http://www.osnews.com/story/24017/Commissioner_Kroes_Copyright_Reform_Needed

As for my own work: I publish everything under a Creative Commons license using only music that either I or colleagues created that are not a member of an organisation like RIAA, GEMA etc.

For video footage I either use my own work (incl. Blender 3D created clips) or footage from the Internet Archive where you can download old movies that are in the public domain.

You have a variety of perfectly legal choice as an artist these days, no need to be afraid of Hollywood and big business!

Also many dirty big business practices will be exposed in the months to come:

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-interview-with-wikileaks-julian-assange/

check my blog and see what i have to say
Alexander A.
33t labs

For DV I’d try to get a good second hand model from somewhere (online?). I also had no chance finding a fitting new DV one, nor a cam that does not have one of the the MPEG-LA’s dirty codecs (h.264 and MPEG-2) in it. Talk about monopoly!

One option might be to shoot with a camera that does at least something like 12 single frames/second (in an ok codec!), this should be an option for e.g. visuals/music videos when using slower paced images (like landscapes, nature in general) and then using Blender for retiming the footage and editing. Finding a (new) fitting camera that does not also include one of the dirty MPEG-LA’s codecs may be a bit more difficult…

If (one day) you have the budget I’d recommend looking into the Red offerings, of course they have their own codec, but I think I’ve read about a Red/Blender VSE workflow somewhere, at least it should be possible to get this done.

I, for now, (re-)focus on 3D filmmaking, I refuse to ever work with one of the MPEG-LA’s codecs again, and if I have to shoot my next movie (again!) on 16mm or find a cool Super-8 look that fits my story, I’ll go with that any time…!

In the long run we will win this, don’t give up hope just yet! Blender (Beta) 2.5.5 is just around the corner and the next Blender Foundation open movie (2010/2011) could bring open-source compositing/video post to a whole new level…

I say that within about a year from now we’ll have VP8/Theora etc. cams and a faster and faster growing open-source video post scene (Blender, Lightworks (!), …).

Here another link that gives me hope, maybe one could try to build something like this…?!

“Frankencamera”:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fcam/

Like you said before, this all makes my head spin!

Also, I can’t find cheap cameras that use miniDV anymore! They now all use flash memory. I have 100s miniDV tapes! What to do?!

It’s just a clever salesperson’s trick they are using, give you the “Old Maid” (“Schwarzer Peter”) card that you will deliver for them to your customer, … last one looses/pays!

You know how I’d feel if I was using my new camera now and shooting stuff…? I’d feel being like a freaking Monsanto farmer, *not owning* the fruits of *my own labour* – only I *never signed* away my life and soul to the MPEG LA, it’s enough for them to hold those *H.264 patents*…!!!

What the f*** happened?!! Did I wake up in some weird “Brave New 1984″…?!!

Uh…, sorry, this still upsets me a lot.

But many thanks for reading and commenting!

It’s so good to know that there are other people out there who won’t shut up or just go back to business as usual! Because it’s not “as usual” anymore – it’s business as your new MPEG LA overlords would like to see it.

F*** them I say, they wasted my time and money (me shooting footage) and now they still want another cut of my work.

F*** you MPEG LA.