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| == About ==
| | '''See the [[P2P Audiovisual Guide]]''' |
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| This section, maintained by [http://www.indiworks.bytebeat.net/ Valentin Spirik] , will focus on the '''how-to and technical aspects of producing audiovisual content''' using the new [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/2.1.C._The_construction_of_an_alternative_media_infrastructure P2P autonomous media infrastructure].
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| This is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki] - if you, the reader, have information that you feel is missing and want to share: get involved and '''help building the P2P Audiovisual section'''!
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| We started porting some directory items from the P2P Encyclopedia. Only the letter A is done so far.
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| == Some Basic Resources ==
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| '''Ourmedia's Learning Center''' is a great place to start learning about podcasting and webcasting: http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center/open.
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| This '''[[Open Media Directory]]''' list at Ourmedia is a good starting point for exploring a variety of other alternative/participatory media projects on the web: http://www.ourmedia.org/about/open-media-projects.
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| == Beginner's Guide to the AudioVisual P2P Net ==
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| Using the net's P2P audiovisual infrastructures can be seen as '''connecting oneself to a collective mind''' - an intelligence much smarter than each individual. Here is how it works:
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| '''Tools and Platforms'''
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| A blog (basically a dynamic homepage, last entries show up first) is an individual's or an organisation's virtual home in the audiovisual P2P net - here a '''review of blogging tools, providers and some basic blogging introduction''': http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050714gardner/. Very popular is the free and '''open-source WordPress platform''': http://wordpress.org/.
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| New blog entries can be tagged (keywords describing the content) and then be found via '''blog search engines''' like '''Technorati''' http://www.technorati.com/ or smaller but more specialised ones like '''Blogdigger''' http://www.blogdigger.com/.
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| An important tool for bloggers is the '''RSS feed''', readers can subscribe to a blog's feed (like to a channel) and will be notified automatically about all updates. '''Feedburner''' http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home is the largest feed management provider and offers a very useful free basic service.
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| There is a vast choice of "free" services for media hosting - important in this context is the question "Who owns the content?". Since those "free" services all want to make money somehow they all have a "terms of service" or "terms of use agreement" that should be read and understood before uploading media. In most cases "free" means that the service retains the right to alter the user's media and to use it for advertising. Some of the more recent "terms of service" agreements from some of the better known providers seem to be very bad for the users/creators. One of the few safe choices at this point (July '06) for free media hosting are still only the '''Internet Archive''' http://www.archive.org/index.php and '''Ourmedia''' http://www.ourmedia.org/.
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| Licences, like the popular '''Creative Commons licences''' http://creativecommons.org/ are important for an unbureaucratic online distribution: instead of restricting a user's possibility by reminding him of the copyright, online audio and video gets distributed ''because'' users are ''encouraged to share'' e.g. a podcast under a certain license.
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| For musicians/DJs specially interesting is '''ccMixter''' http://www.ccmixter.org/ - featuring creative commmons licensed samples/remixes and making it easy for artists to focus on the creative part of their work.
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| The open-source '''Democracy Player''' http://www.getdemocracy.com/ and '''Broadcast Machine''' http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast, as well as '''Videobomb''' http://www.videobomb.com/ - all from the '''Participatory Culture Foundation''' http://participatoryculture.org/ - are very interesting options for distributing/promoting independent online film and video.
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| Still in earlier development, but promissing for independent audio/music distribution is the open-source project '''Songbird''' http://www.songbirdnest.com/.
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| This '''Open media projects''' list at Ourmedia is a good starting point for exploring alternative/participatory web media projects: http://www.ourmedia.org/about/open-media-projects.
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| A good general resource for audio/video web related topics is the Wikipedia: e.g.: Podcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast or RSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29
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| '''How-to'''
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| '''Ourmedia's Learning Center''' is a great place to start learning about podcasting and webcasting: http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center/open.
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| A good place to start learning about '''videoblogging''' is http://freevlog.org/.
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| '''Theory'''
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| The so called "digital revolution" at the end of the 20th century was often exclusively described as a technological revolution - it was going to bring consumers a new "digital" quality (CDs instead of LPs) and advanced productivity to almost every industry. Ten years after the web went mainstream a different picture evolves: consumers turn into producers, we blog about a participatory culture and citizen journalism and we share our media - recommended '''article "We Are the Web" by Kevin Kelly''' http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech_pr.html.
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| Or in short: what was "Power to the people" in the '60 of the last century today is '''"We are the media"''' http://www.ourmedia.org/node/9237, watch this '''"Video Mash-up about the Vlogging movement"'''.
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| == Useful Software ==
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| The '''VLC Media player''' http://www.videolan.org/ is a free and open-source '''video (and audio) player''' available for all major platforms and capable of playing back most of the video formats found online. The latest release now also offers transcoding (though this seems not to work yet on the OS X version, VLC 0.8.5). The VLC can also be used as a streaming server http://www.videolan.org/streaming/.
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| The open-source '''MPlayer''' http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html is "The '''Movie Player for Linux'''", but there is also the MPlayer OS X http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/.
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| The open-source '''Democracy Player''' http://www.getdemocracy.com/ brings '''independent internet tv''' (and using the '''Broadcast Machine''' http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/ anyone can publish media - also via torrent). Since the latest version (July '06) now also supports drag and drop the Democracy Player becomes an interesting alternative for use as the main media player. Available for all major platforms.
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| '''FireAnt''' http://fireant.tv/ is - like the Democracy Player or Apple's Itunes - a '''feed aggregator''', meaning a user can subscribe to a particular channel via a publisher's RSS feed and the app will automatically download the latest episode of a particular programme. FireAnt is specially popular with videobloggers, but also happens to be one of the best ways of playing back downloaded .flv flash videos. ('''KeepVid''' http://keepvid.com/ lets users download flash videos from sites like YoutTube.) Available for Windows and Mac OS X.
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| '''Ogg Vorbis''' http://www.vorbis.com/ (for audio) and '''Ogg Theora''' http://www.theora.org/ (for video) are '''open-source alternatives for media encoding''', also interesting for commercial online publishing since they are patent free and no license fees will have to be paid.
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| The open-source '''Streamripper''' http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ lets users record e.g. webradio as .mp3 files. For OS X users: StreamRipperX http://streamripperx.sourceforge.net/ (the old StreamRipperX 1.0.5 still works under OS X 10.3.9, not only 10.2 as mentioned).
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| '''ffmpeg x''' http://www.ffmpegx.com/ is a popular shareware programme for '''transcoding video''' on the Mac, maybe not a tool that is easy to use, but works well once configured to one's needs.
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| '''Flip4Mac''' http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm is a commercial but free (there is a pro/to buy version) that '''allows Mac users to watch (newer) .wmv encoded files''' either via the web browser or with the QuickTime Player. This is of interest since the open-source VLC (0.8.5) - listed above - currently can not play back videos encoded with the latest Windows Media 9 codec (on the Mac).
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| '''Audacity''' http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ is an open-source '''audio editor''', available for all major platforms.
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| The '''Gimp''' http://www.gimp.org/ is an open-source '''image manipulation programme''', available for all major platforms. To make the transition easier for Photoshop users there is also the GimpShop http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294.
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| '''CinePaint''' (Film Gimp) http://www.cinepaint.org/ is an open-source programme for '''deep paint manipulation and image processing''' (e.g. motion picture frame-by-frame retouching) - new major update expected for August 28th, 2006.
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| '''Inkskape''' http://www.inkscape.org/ is an open-source '''vector graphics editor''', available for all major platforms.
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| '''Jashaka''' http://www.jahshaka.org/ is "The worlds first OpenSource '''Realtime Editing and Effects System'''", available for all major platforms.
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| '''Blender''' http://blender3d.org/cms/Home.2.0.html is an open-source '''3D modelling/animation programme''', available for all major platforms.
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| == Guided Tours ==
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| This is a little '''experiment in how-to communicate Wiki content'''. The idea is to make reading the Wiki more of a (useful and applicable) experience, so this is more '''blog style''', but '''with condensed information/links'''.
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| '''Tour 1 - Indie Film Maker's Tour (Editor's Tour)'''
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| '''''a) The classic route'''''
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| Apple's Final Cut Pro is still one of the best options that indie film makers have when it comes to film and video editing. A great '''resource for FCP tutorials''' (plus reviews and more) is '''Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro''' site http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html. Another classic is the '''Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User''' Group website http://www.lafcpug.org/, check out their forums for questions/answers from FCP pros. The "top-rated media pros forum community on the net" is '''Creativecow''' http://forums.creativecow.net/index.html, you'll find very active support forums for e.g. almost any Apple or Adobe software, but also "Today's Industry & Cow News". Bringing all the latest news from the HD world is the '''HD for Indies''' Blog http://www.hdforindies.com/, have a look at their linklist.
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| '''''b) The early adopter route'''''
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| Worth checking out are '''open-source editing alternatives''' like '''Jahshaka''' http://www.jahshaka.org/, this project also has its own community site http://www.jahshaka.net/. For free media hosting there is the '''Internet Archive''' http://www.archive.org/index.php (you can upload via ftp to their '''Open Source Movie section''' http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies) and '''Ourmedia''' http://www.ourmedia.org/. Great open-source tools for D.I.Y. internet TV are the '''Democracy Player''' http://www.getdemocracy.com/ (watch TV) and the '''Broadcast Machine''' http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/ (make TV). Once your video is online you can promote it, discover other artist's works and make a video playlist (that generates an RSS feed that can be used as a channel in the Democracy Player) at the '''Vidoebomb''' site http://www.videobomb.com/.
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| == Related Online Articles ==
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| (17.08.06) '''In the Making: Tutorials for Online Video''' http://www.getdemocracy.com/news/2006/08/in-the-making-tutorials-for-online-video/
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| (17.08.06) '''John Gilmore donates US$15,000 to the Freenet Project''' ("John Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions, has donated US$15,000 to the Freenet Project, to support the ongoing development of the Freenet software.") http://freenetproject.org/
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| (14.08.06) '''PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World's First Commercial Darknet''' http://www2.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/press_release_pirate_party_launches_worlds_first_commercial_darknet/
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| (14.08.06) '''Closing Letter to the Copyright Industry Associations of America''' ("Today we announce a massively distributed copy-less file system. A place where all content is available instantly, anonymously and to everyone, without breaking any laws. Today we announce the Owner-Free File System.") http://thebighack.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=622&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0
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| (03.05.06) '''Soderbergh: Burn, Hollywood, Burn''' http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70795-0.html?tw=wn_index_16
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| (07.04.06) '''Ten video sharing services compared''' http://www.dvguru.com/2006/04/07/ten-video-sharing-services-compared/
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| (06.04.06) '''Video Editing, Publishing And Remixing Online Is Here''' http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/04/06/video_editing_publishing_and_remixing.htm
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| (14.03.06) '''Why Ogg Theora Matters for Internet TV''' http://maketelevision.com/log/why_ogg_theora_matters_for_internet_tv
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| '''Apple's H.264 Frequently Asked Questions''' http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/faq.html
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| == Audiovisual P2P Related Media ==
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| '''Who Owns Culture?''' by Lawrence Lessig, 20 min. 5 sec., Google Video (via Videobomb): http://www.videobomb.com/posts/show/2121
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| '''Copyright Criminals Preview''', 10 min. 29 sec.: http://www.archive.org/details/criminal02mov
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| '''We Are The Media''', a Video Mash-up about the Vlogging movement, 2 min. 20sec.: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/9237
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| '''Ourmedia - 21st Century Media''', Open-media seeks open-source cooperation - a promotion video for ourmedia.org - 3d animation, 45 sec.: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/251924
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| http://ia310141.us.archive.org/3/items/valentinspirikourmedia-21stcenturymedia_stillfromvideo_/ourmedia_21st_century_media_mini.jpg
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| == The Directory ==
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