= Workshops =

'Kino workshop'

Wednesday 7th February 2007, starting at 7.30pm

admission free - no booking required

This will give a hands-on introduction to working with Kino, a simple-to-use video editing tool for Linux, and FFMPEG, a tool for converting between video formats and many more deeply useful things.

= Resources =

Information and links related to Free Software video tools and related projects.

'Editing'

Kino - simple but effective editing and DV capture tool: http:www.kinodv.org Kino tutorial: http://www.yourmachines.org/tutorials/kino.html Cinelerra: http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 Cinelerra manual and tutorials: http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs.php Lives: http://lives.sourceforge.net Avidemux: http://avidemux.org General tutorial: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/05/1949213 'Utilities' FFMPEG - video format conversion and frame extraction, etc: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg Transcode - video format converter: http://www.transcoding.org mencoder - converter and encoder: http://www.mplayerhq.hu, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncoder, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide dvgrab - command line DV video grab tool: http://www.kinodv.org 'Players' mplayer: http://www.mplayerhq.hu xine: http://xinehq.de VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc 'Streaming' Video Lan - server: http://www.videolan.org Ogg Theora - codec: http://www.theora.org Icecast - server: http://www.icecast.org Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux - artcle: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6720 FFMPEG streaming howto - artcle: http://www.radiovague.com/listen.xhtml Peercasting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peercasting 'Animation and motion graphics' Jahshaka: http://www.jahshaka.org Synfig: http://www.synfig.com Blender: http://www.blender3d.org Basic Motion Graphics with Python: http://www.yourmachines.org/tutorials/mgpy.html 'Live performance' Fluxus: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus Packet Forth: http://zwizwa.goto10.org/zwikizwaki.php?page=PacketForth PD Network Video Loop: http://www.yourmachines.org/tutorials/pdvideolan.html Collaborative Streaming Performance: http://www.yourmachines.org/tutorials/collab_stream.html 'Resources and projects' FLOSS Manuals: http://www.flossmanuals.net Re-Transmission: http://retransmission.org.uk Clear Channel: http://www.clearerchannel.org Dyne: http://www.dyne.org Pure:Dyne: http://puredyne.goto10.org