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EngageMedia at Making Links
EngageMedia will be running a workshop about online video distribution at this years Making Links conference in Sydney, October 30-31. If you are interested in finding out how to compress your video, get your content online and get it out there make sure you come along.
Quick Guide to Burmese Uprising Coverage and Video
There are a range of spaces online to find out information about the current uprising in Burma, in particular video content which in previous times would have been hard to access. The following is a list of such web spaces.
UnionTube - Japanese Labor Organsation using Plumi
Japanese labor organisation LaborNet have implemented Plumi, the video sharing system produced by EngageMedia, to run UnionTube, a site focussed on Japanese worker's issues.
Rogue Education Conference, Workshops and Screening
Come to the opening of "Institutions, Capitalism, and Dissent: A Rogue Education Conference" at Trades Hall, Melbourne from 6:30 PM on 14th September. The evening will be a casual affair, featuring films, a few laughs and plenty of free food. EngageMedia will present a screening of Rocking the Foundations - an amazing documentary account of the NSW Builders Labourers Federation in the 60's and 70's, along with shorts.
Version 0.18 of Xiph Quicktime Components Released
The Xiph Quicktime Components allow you to play back and create Ogg Theora/Vorbis files with any application that uses Quicktime architecture - such as Quicktime Player, Final Cut Pro and iTunes. XiphQT is easy to install on both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. This new version contains fixes and improvements to help make Xiph codecs more usable than ever.
Digital Fringe 07 Call for Entries
Broadcast across the city using screens, projections, and the web, Digital Fringe showcases the latest digital art from around the world and features interactive media shenanigans from a gaggle of local media artists. Digital Fringe is seeking submissions of digital visual material to broadcast over the Internet as a part of the The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe. Deadline closes Friday 21st September
Get on your digital soapbox!
September: As part of ANAT's "Still Open" workshops EngageMedia programmer Andy Nicholson will be speaking in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane at a series of free public lectures along with Alessandro Ludovico and Beatriz da Costa.
Going to APEC? Looking for video makers
EngageMedia is looking for video makers going to the APEC summit in Sydney this week. We want to cover a range of angles on the site from those challenging APEC's neoliberal agenda. If you are planning on being there, are looking for other video makers, or have content to contribute then let us know.
OpenMute Agent Network Beta Launched
OpenMute is proud to announce the launch of its first ϐ version of 'Agents Network' a distribution service for independent media.
Ogg Theora to Flash Transcoding Live on EngageMedia.org
EngageMedia are happy to announce Ogg Theora to Flash transcoding is live on the website. What does that mean?? Ogg Theora is a high quality FOSS (Free Open Source Software) video codec developed by Xiph.org. It means that now you can make an Ogg file of your video and when you upload it you'll be able to watch a transcoded (or converted) version of this in the EngageMedia embedded Flash Player - just as you would with any other video format. At EngageMedia we try to encourage the use of free software wherever possible. As far as video codecs like Quicktime, Windows Media and Flash are concerned, these are proprietary codecs that can cost huge amounts of money for online distributors to use, depending on the license and how these videos are delivered to the web audience. We encourage the use of FOSS codecs where possible, and are hoping to increase their usability and uptake.
FOSS for Media Makers Workshop at MRC, Adelaide
On Saturday 4th of August EngageMedia conducted a workshop on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) at the Media Resource Centre in Adelaide. Topics covered included the historical and social/political basis for free software, differences between proprietary software, free software and open source, FOSS tools for different parts of the production cycle (pre-production, production, post-production and distribution), FOSS web applications such as MediaWiki and Wordpress, and FOSS desktop applications such as Thunderbird, the GIMP, Audacity and Handbrake.
OPEN CHANNEL'S SHORT AND SHARP PITCHING COMPETITION
OPEN CHANNEL is proud to partner with Australia's first Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) in presenting Short & Sharp. Don't miss this opportunity to WIN $5,000 worth of OPEN CHANNEL resources to help you realise your short film project for screening at HRAFF, RMIT Capitol Theatre, 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2007. For more information and submission guidelines, check out www.openchannel.org.au. Deadline extended to 10 August 2007.
Democracy Player Becomes Miro
The popular Democracy Player has just transformed itself into Miro and offers a bunch of new features. Miro is THE application for subscribing to video podcast (vodcast) feeds (you can find a big range of these feeds on EngageMedia) and it's all based on Free and Open Source software.
Democracy Player Becomes Miro
The popular Democracy Player has just transformed itself into Miro and offers a bunch of new features. Miro is THE application for subscribing to video podcast (vodcast) feeds (you can find a big range of these feeds on EngageMedia) and it's all based on Free and Open Source software.
OK.VIDEO MILITIA WORKSHOPS
EngageMedia has partnered with the OK.VIDEO Militia Jakarta International Video Festival at the National Gallery of Indonesia to distribute the festival videos online, present an online video training for video artists and participate in a discussion about video activism. This article by Reza 'asung' Afisina, the Workshop Program Coordinator, explains the objectives of the OK.VIDEO Militia series of video workshops conducted in various towns and cities in Indonesia, capturing the 'quintessence' of each area by asking participants to explore their own questions about their social, political and physical surroundings using the medium of video.
New Ogg Theora Tutorial for OS X
We've just added a new tutorial on how to create Ogg Theora/Vorbis files to upload to EngageMedia, using the new Simple Theora Encoder from v2v. Check this out to see how you can generate video files made with free open source video codecs on your Mac running OS X.
Camera-person needed for Chinese Labour Activist Tour
China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is already Australia s second largest trading partner. A Chinese Labour Activist visits Australia to talk with Australian Unionists and FairWear campaigners. Engage is looking for someone to film the Melbourne public meeting.
Released! Plumi - Free Software Video Sharing Platform
EngageMedia are very excited to announce the first release of Plumi, a free software video sharing Content Management System. Plumi enables you to create a sophisticated video sharing site out-of-the-box. In a net landscape where almost all video sharing sites keep their distribution platform under lock and key, Plumi is one contribution to creating a truly democratic media.
A YouTube for the Activist World
An article by Indian Journalist Frederick Noronha about EngageMedia.
seeking films for Freedom Film Fest
Komas organize an annual human rights film festival held in Malaysia and we’re currently looking for films/documentaries for our screenings that will take place in September. We would very much appreciate your suggestions and submissions to our film fest.
