Apertus April 2012 Newsletter
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Apertus Newsletter - April 2012
To our dear community,
It may not seem like much activity is happening on the surface but rest assured, there are some pretty cool developments happening behind the scenes. As you read this, our project is in the running to win a Prix Ars Electronica Award and we are now awaiting the results of this highly prestigious international contest.
In regard to our kickstarter appeal, we are taking the greatest care to safeguard our plans for developing a new super 35mm sensor front end. We DO NOT intend on failing, and our success will be largely dependent on your support. We’re still not ready to divulge our grand plans just yet, but each day brings us one step closer to doing so. Our opening shots will be set in motion soon, and we can only ask for your continued patience and interest in our project whilst we fine-tune it to perfection.
Kinoraw at Telenoika:
Film-maker and photographer Carlos Padial and researcher Simón Vialás have been working with Apertus at Kinoraw.net: Free Libre Open Source Software & Hardware Cinema Lab (http://www.kinoraw.net/) to test the workflow involved with bringing Elphel 353 footage into Blender. The first results of this work can now be seen on Carlos’ vimeo page (http://vimeo.com/user1561190) and in our project forums at: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=416.
Following this, project member Biel Bestué de Luna attended the open source video workshops run by Kinoraw and organised by Telenoika in Barcelona, Spain. As a regular attendee, he gave us a first-hand report:
“On Friday the 2nd of March we attended the 2nd Kinoraw workshop and an important step was made. We first introduced the Elphel 353 camera to those who didn’t come to the last meeting. Many of the people who attended were from various backgrounds with differing knowledge on cameras. … After a little bit of playing with resolution, and studying how changes in resolution and pixel binning affected the operating speed of the camera, Carlos Padial and Eduardo Ovejero started re-streaming a copy of the stream coming out of the Elphel 353 to the local intranet. This resulted in our laptop receiving the video, albeit at a low framerate, and a mobile phone that was able to recognize the streaming ogg file.
Eduardo and Carlos achieved this with VLC because they didn't get GStreamer to work with the camera (yet), and they streamed at a fairly big resolution, around 2k. At this resolution, the laptop was getting 14fps IIRC. The next Kinoraw meeting might serve to work off the GStreamer streaming and also get the mobile phone to receive and display it, amongst other things.”
New communication channels
Apertus IRC & Twitter:
We now have an official IRC channel, which can be accessed through the APERTUS website at the following URL: http://apertus.org/en/irc
Additional Info:
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #apertus
There is also an official Apertus Twitter page. You can follow us at: http://twitter.com/#!/ApertusOSCinema.
Graphic Design Team Update:
We now have a small team of dedicated designers and artists working on branding concepts. Their goal is to visually take our project to the next level, positioning Apertus as a vibrant professional and International force to be reckoned with. All progress can be seen on our forums here: viewforum.php?f=20
This is all for now, but before signing off we want you to know that there’s a nice surprise hopefully just around the corner. Stay tuned to our forums for further news in the next week or so.
Here’s to wishing you the very best for your own projects and creative endeavours in the coming months.
Thank you,
The Apertus Team
To our dear community,
It may not seem like much activity is happening on the surface but rest assured, there are some pretty cool developments happening behind the scenes. As you read this, our project is in the running to win a Prix Ars Electronica Award and we are now awaiting the results of this highly prestigious international contest.
In regard to our kickstarter appeal, we are taking the greatest care to safeguard our plans for developing a new super 35mm sensor front end. We DO NOT intend on failing, and our success will be largely dependent on your support. We’re still not ready to divulge our grand plans just yet, but each day brings us one step closer to doing so. Our opening shots will be set in motion soon, and we can only ask for your continued patience and interest in our project whilst we fine-tune it to perfection.
Kinoraw at Telenoika:
Film-maker and photographer Carlos Padial and researcher Simón Vialás have been working with Apertus at Kinoraw.net: Free Libre Open Source Software & Hardware Cinema Lab (http://www.kinoraw.net/) to test the workflow involved with bringing Elphel 353 footage into Blender. The first results of this work can now be seen on Carlos’ vimeo page (http://vimeo.com/user1561190) and in our project forums at: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=416.
Following this, project member Biel Bestué de Luna attended the open source video workshops run by Kinoraw and organised by Telenoika in Barcelona, Spain. As a regular attendee, he gave us a first-hand report:
“On Friday the 2nd of March we attended the 2nd Kinoraw workshop and an important step was made. We first introduced the Elphel 353 camera to those who didn’t come to the last meeting. Many of the people who attended were from various backgrounds with differing knowledge on cameras. … After a little bit of playing with resolution, and studying how changes in resolution and pixel binning affected the operating speed of the camera, Carlos Padial and Eduardo Ovejero started re-streaming a copy of the stream coming out of the Elphel 353 to the local intranet. This resulted in our laptop receiving the video, albeit at a low framerate, and a mobile phone that was able to recognize the streaming ogg file.
Eduardo and Carlos achieved this with VLC because they didn't get GStreamer to work with the camera (yet), and they streamed at a fairly big resolution, around 2k. At this resolution, the laptop was getting 14fps IIRC. The next Kinoraw meeting might serve to work off the GStreamer streaming and also get the mobile phone to receive and display it, amongst other things.”
New communication channels
Apertus IRC & Twitter:
We now have an official IRC channel, which can be accessed through the APERTUS website at the following URL: http://apertus.org/en/irc
Additional Info:
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #apertus
There is also an official Apertus Twitter page. You can follow us at: http://twitter.com/#!/ApertusOSCinema.
Graphic Design Team Update:
We now have a small team of dedicated designers and artists working on branding concepts. Their goal is to visually take our project to the next level, positioning Apertus as a vibrant professional and International force to be reckoned with. All progress can be seen on our forums here: viewforum.php?f=20
This is all for now, but before signing off we want you to know that there’s a nice surprise hopefully just around the corner. Stay tuned to our forums for further news in the next week or so.
Here’s to wishing you the very best for your own projects and creative endeavours in the coming months.
Thank you,
The Apertus Team
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