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    • Mark Cuban's HD . net/ a HDTV network that has two channels (as one is movies. Mark's interview at PC World.
    • Indie TV
    • Your Health Care: Choice or Chance?
    • TAPPED INÅ Online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers and librarians, professional development staff, teacher education faculty and students, and researchers engage in professional development programs
    • TextArc.org/
      • Another Opening

      A possible new Pittsburgh TV show, working title: "Another Opening," is to feature past productions and present rehearsals from performing arts groups in the community along with staged readings and showcases for new works.

    • C-SPAN
    • WSNTV 21 - uses spam tactics
    • In the Classroom - with 20/20's John Stossel

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    Utilities

    • Linux Movies - advancing Linux in Motion Pictures, mainly with The Gimp.
    • CinePaint, popular in the movie business. So is Linux.
    • Blender was used to do some of the work on Spiderman. Someone that gets paid to do 3D animation said going from one $$$ program to Blender to another $$$ program took a little learning, but was worth it because of the skills you learn.
    • Open Sound dot Org
    • Audacity (software)
    • Linux Video Editing System
    • Free Film Project from GNU software
    • Playback Time Charles' QuickTime site
    • Qtilities nice utilities for QuickTime
    • Linux Music & Sound Applications
    • http://the-fix.org/songforge/
    • Blender 3D software
    • WaterCooler, A Powerful QuickTime Tool for Internet Video without a Browser http://www.watercooler.lastexit.tv

      • "Songforge aims to provide a means of making music in an open source environment. It is written using PHP and MySQL, and allows users to upload and download audio files (mp3/ogg), add their own instrumentation to the tracks or remix the tracks, then upload the new file as a "child" song of the original base track. Songs can exist as works in progress, or as final mixes. A "SourceForge" style interface is be provided for managing artists and songs. It is released under a BSD-style licence."

    • Norpath Elements Studio 2.1 is an authoring system for interactive media.

      • It does not require writing code, can build standalone applications, and includes object-based tools for drawing, animation, multimedia, interaction, and application logic. The new version adds a runtime theme editor, an interaction tracker for monitoring messages passed between elements, an option for viewers to add personal bookmarks, new knowledge elements for creating interactive quizzes, and other improvements. Norpath Elements Studio is $349 ($149 academic) for Mac OS X 10.1.5 and up and Windows.

      Simple Video Splicer (SVS) is a basic video editing tool for cropping/joining movies, images, and audio went open source in 2003. http://www.chipersoft.com/svs_source.html

      Virtix iBubble for iMovie, a package of titles that allows you to place thought bubbles and speech bubbles anywhere you want them, for $25.

    Invites

    Musicians and sound artists are invited to join Opsound project.

    Opsound is a record label using an open source, copyleft model, an experiment in practical gift economics, a laboratory for new ways of releasing music.

    Opsound is gathering material for an open sound pool which will be drawn on for the creation of a series of online and real-world microlabels. All material for the sound pool will be released under a Creative Commons license (the "Attribution-ShareAlike license" ), a copyleft license similar in spirit to open source software licenses which allows for all kinds of copying, remixing, and use, and reuse while retaining an attribution to the original artist.

    Anyone can contribute sound files to the open sound pool, including field recordings, ambiences, incomplete improvisations, monologues & dialogues, unfinished experiments, detached soundtracks, vocal solos, strange noises, bedroom laptop, microsound, generative, glitch dub, idm, minimal techno, blip hop, hip hop, turntablist, downtempo, uptempo, reggae, ragga, raga, roots, breakbeat, basement punk, garage band, indy, shoegazer, psychedelia, noise, song, be-bop, free jazz, modern composition, avant-anything, etc. Sound files can be complete pieces of music, or elements intended be combined into something new.

    Entries will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

    Opsound guidelines include: 

     3. It is strongly recommended that sound files be offered in mp3
 format (simply for the pragmatic reason of wide compatibility). You
 are more than welcome to provide alternative format options for each
 file, including the open source ogg vorbis format, uncompressed
 aiffs, wavs, etc.
    Strange: MP3s, a patented, anti open source format are "strongly recommend." The "pragmatic reasons" from personal experience (i.e. friends asking "how do I play your ogg-track?"), but from the misson, that opensound.org seems to be on, I'd expect a strong recommendation of ogg over mp3, and only use mp3 as a (bad) alternative, when there already is an ogg. ciao -- Frank Barknecht

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