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Progress on Collaborative Filmmaking Infrastructure

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In order to have more volunteers get involved with this project, then I need to build the infrastructure in order to put them to work in helping edit the film.

Lately, I've been able to make some promising advances and gain some new insights on my original plan for Collaborative Filmmaking. I completed some milestones that have allowed me to prototype the workflow and make alterations to the original flowchart.

Once I get these tools into place, then a lot of my writing will become less technical and geared more towards creating videos that will instruct others how to participate.

This is what my plan for collaborative media currently looks like:

Collaborative Filmmaking Flowchart Version 2.0

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I've been able to successfully assign sound bites to a unique URL by importing Final Cut Pro sound bite XML data into Drupal.

And I've also been able to successfully generate valid Final Cut Pro XML for sound bite sequences -- this allows me to take paper edits completed by volunteers online and be able to directly transfer them into my professional editing software on my local computer.

By simply entering three sound bite node numbers into some code that I wrote in PHP will collect the necessary data required to generate Final Cut Pro XML.

I had originally thought that I would collect folksonomy tags and volunteer ratings on the sound bites, and then separately have volunteers string together sound bites into sequences. But I knew that there had to be a way to combine these two efforts.

I finally realized that the collected folksonomy tags and ratings could actually help volunteers cluster sound bites into groups -- or also known as "bins" using Final Cut Pro terminology.

If nothing else, the user's own tags and ratings would help cluster sound bites together into these bins where they could be reordered to form sequences.

And there may actually be further ways that the collected metadata could be fed into a filtered search where users could use to find sound bites that have been peer reviewed and vetted by the community.

In either case, the sound bites gathered in bins would be ordered into edited sequences. This sound bite reordering would be analogous to how a Netflix user selects movies into their queue, and then chooses which order they want to receive the movies. Just the same, an EchoChamberProject.com Drupal user would select sound bites into different queue bins where they would then be ordered into sequences.

And I'm having some friends look into whether it'd be possible to hit a "Preview" button, that has a web program dynamically convert these paper edits into streaming video or audio sequences in real time.

If it's possible to dynamically preview these edits, then other users could rate the completed sequences so that the best sequences could rise to the top.

And since Drupal can generate valid Final Cut Pro XML, then all of these roughly edited sequences could be exported back into this more professional and robust editing software offline.


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