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Welcome to the FilmForge ! This page is a project overview for the general public. If you're looking for the development page, it's here: FilmForge/ToDo. The installation profile page is at FilmForge/DrupalProfile. The original proposal for the project, focused on our long-term plan to develop Free and Open Source Software browser-based and collaborative video editing tools, is now at FilmForgeOverview. The background page for the Hewlett Foundation is here: FilmForge/BackGround -- SashaCostanzaChock FilmForge has a publicly viewable test install at http://filmforge.koumbit.net.

For developers working on the project, or for those interested in looking under the hood, there is a list of To Do items and development notes here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/ToDo.

For those who want to help maintain the FilmForge drupal installation profile, it lives here: FilmForge/DrupalProfile.

Current Functionality

This list was seeded from http://plumi.org (thanks, http://engagemedia.org !).

Out of the box, FilmForge currently has the following features:

• Playback of Quicktime, Flash video, Real and Windows Media within the browser
• One-click fullscreen playback of all videos
• Download videos
• Copy-and-paste code for users to embed videos elsewhere
• Video uploading in any format, using a web form
• Automatic server-side flash transcoding and embedded playback
• Automatic thumbnail generation
• Customizable video metadata
• Open Content Licensing (creative commons)
• Rating / voting system
• Free Tagging
• RSS2 feeds with media enclosures (or "vodcasts") created automatically from tags or users

Future Functionality

In the future, we hope to implement some or all of the following features (to be prioritized):

• Video downloading in several formats (especially autotranscode to the free format ogg)

• Automatic creation and seeding of BitTorrent files upon video upload

• Additional Open Content Licensing (GNU Free Docmentation license, 'Copyleft' license, anticopyright license, customizable license.)
• Collaborative film production tools
• wiki (built in to the installation, not a separate install)
• subtitling / logging tool
• browser based editing tool
• video distribution toolkit (screenings, downloads, seeding, sales, EPK)
• Custom profile page for site members with personal latest videos vodcast feed
• Integration with gnutella and other p2p networks
• Donations system for contributors and online purchasing
• Mobile phone uploads and downloads

Demo

A demo of the out-of-the-box FilmForge package is live at http://filmforge.koumbit.net.

Get Involved

You can get involved in FilmForge development by:

• go to #filmforge (or #koumbit) on irc.freenode.net
• email filmforge AT koumbit.net

• join the discussion list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/filmforge-discuss

• help edit the development wiki at FilmForge/ToDo

Download

Once the core functionality and theming is all working well, you will be able to download and install FilmForge as a preconfigured Drupal package. It will be available either at a Drupal.org page, at sourceforge.net, koumbit.net, as a .bittorrent file, and/or in SVN repository.

People

If you want to know more about who has worked on FilmForge so far, check out FilmForge/WhoAreWe.

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