I don't really see how iMovie project files are relevant — iMovie can export into a variety of mostly-patent encumbered formats (mpeg4, h.264) and even theora with xiphQT installed... Any of these can be read by ffmpeg/gstreamer and imported into any free or non-free video app for further re-use. So they aren't left out at all.
Or must free culture content also be 'open' in the sense that all project files and source files be made available as well*? (eg, should 'free culture' writing supply wiki-like history files starting with the first draft?). Not many videomakers release their project files and source footage. However, there would be nothing stopping someone using a proprietary application like final cut from releasing that footage in a widely readable/writable format along with an exported EDL if he or she wanted other people to be able to pick up the work. And even if not, the "finished" video, barring unbreakable DRM, could still be chopped up into its component parts after the fact by any cultural worker who decides this is a good idea**. -a *I particularly like stealthisfilm's implementation of this: http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/video/18 **an illustration of this is Anne McGquire's 'Strain Andromeda The' ( http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?STRAINANDR ) - a 1992 re-edit of the 1971 film which reordered all the scenes around each 'cut' so that the action plays forwards but starts with the last scene and slowly moves backwards to the first. Fun stuff. Matt Lee wrote: > But if it was an iMovie project, then it leaves people without iMovie > with two choices -- install proprietary software, or be left out. > > That is unacceptable for free culture, in my opinion. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
