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Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-a-project dept.

osliving writes "This article takes a tour of the hardware and software behind the innovative Apertus, a real world open source project. Led by Oscar Spierenburg and a team of international developers, the project aims to produce 'an affordable community driven free software and open hardware cinematic HD camera for a professional production environment'."

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  1. CODECs? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In terms of video codecs the camera supports .mov, JP4 RAW (requires post production conversion), .ogm, and JPEG sequence plus optional tags like geo information/GPS coordinates.

    Last time I checked, .mov was a container, not a CODEC.

    A .mov file can use a lot of things. Quicktime 7 gives me PNG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, DV, DVCPro, Apple Pixlet, MPEG-4 and H.264 as video CODEC options. Older Quicktime versions would have offered me older CODECs too.

    And what's JP4? Never heard of it. I sure hope they don't mean their camera runs on jet fuel.

  2. Re:Open hardware? by jedidiah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > So not open source = George Orwell? Are you really that much of a blind zealot?

    When you play with someone else's ball, they get to dictate terms.

    You don't have to be a "zealot" to understand this. HELL, the film industry fled the East coast over this very nonsense.

    That is why there is a Hollywood to begin with.

    --
    A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.