hi On 8/1/07, David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > French subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT-4AHINw24 > > English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQu5sz3tLJ0
Camille, it is difficult for me to express how wonderful I found this film short to be. The theme was great, the pacing was great, the edits were great, wonderful cutting of b-roll into this interview. And the fact that it was done with Cinelerra is an extremely emotion point for me, as I am struggling to learn Cinelerra for my own documentary project, called the Digital Tipping Point. Our film is a story about how Free Open Source Software can change the world, and IMHO, your 7 minute short is an excellent example of the power of FOSS to bring tools for mass media to people who otherwise might not have access to it. If you are ever in the San Francisco Bay Area, I would love to interview you briefly about your film. If you are NOT going to be in the San Francisco Bay Area anytime in the next 7 months, then maybe you would consider shooting yourself answering a few questions about the making of your film and what it meant to you to use Cinelerra and why you chose Cinelerra, and then maybe you could send a high res file to me. I am now downloading the high res version of the 7 minute short, and I would like to ask your permission to include it the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. Unfortunately, our collection is held under a cc by sa license, and so our license might be too liberal for you. At a minimum, I do plan to link to this video from the Digital Tipping Point main page. Also, we welcome any input from anyone on this list for creating the Digital Tipping Point film. We are actually hoping that people will take our footage and improve it and use it to show Windows newbies in their own language how cool and free and powerful FOSS is. We are hoping to make our film a 100 minute documentary, and we hope to have approximately 10 ten-minute "module" or short stories revolving around the theme of how people are using FOSS in their part of the world. We will then stitch together these 10 modules, and that will be our film. > > > High resolution video: http://garbure.org/~mammique/TYC_20070726.mkv > > > > Feel free to present it as a sample about cinelerra, Yes, this is why I would like to include it in the Digital Tipping Point collection. We don't yet have any work done in Cinelerra, as we are still just in the process of creating a video library. We currently have 51 hours of footage loaded onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection <http://archive.org/details/digitaltippingpoint> (IA DTP VC), and since this interview with Kalsang Godrukpa is finished and since it fits so well with the theme of the Digital Tipping Point (FOSS empowers people, people make FOSS), we would love to add it to our collection under a cc by sa license. I understand that it is a different license, and so maybe we could promise not to promote the IA DTP VC copy, but only promote the YouTube copy linked above, so that people would go to your site. or also broadcast > > it because IMO these people really deserve to be listened regarding > > their bad treatment by China. > > Very commendable, Camille, deploying open source tools such as Cinelerra > to advance the struggle against human rights violations. I agree. This is soooo important. There is a meta issue here. Using Free Software to promote free culture. That is just awesome. I hope it inspires many others to do similar. This is also the goal of the Digital Tipping Point film. We want to encourage people to use these Free tools for the purpose of improving the tools and establishing free formats as a standard, rather than closed proprietary formats. Never before have the tools of grassroots mass communication - cheap > video cameras, free editing/production software, affordable production > hardware and free worldwide distribution - been so freely and easily > accessible. Yes, that is one of the basic concepts of the Digital Tipping Point film project. For most of recorded history, the channels of communication have been controlled by the few to dominate the many. Now, for the first time, someone like Camille can make a film using very low cost tools that will convey a powerful message of freedom to the whole world. After watching your video, I'll be lobbying some politicians here to > consider a New Zealand boycott of the 2008 games. Yes, this is wonderful. What Camille has done is to give the TYC a voice that will reach around the globe. The more widely that we spread Free Software, the more that we can take control of the media away from the very few wealth people who own the media. That is my dream. Since Camille is ahead of us in the Digital Tipping Point project, in many ways, she is helping me to imagine this dream. I know that there are others who have done similarly good work with Cinelerra, but I am very new to this list and very new to Cinelerra, so in many ways, Camille's piece will remain forever in my mind as the first piece that I saw completed with Cinelerra. For that reason, her work will always be very special to me. By the way, in the US, Camille is a woman's name. My apologies if Camille is a man. Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point<http://archive.org/details/digitaltippingpoint>
