MOX
Usually I use this blog to announce a piece of software I've written, but now I'm announcing something I'm hoping to write. It's MOX, an open source movie format for video and film production. You can read all about it on the Indiegogo page . The reason to use crowd funding is twofold. First, this free software project is too big for me to just put it together in my spare time. Second, we are proposing to create a new standard so we need to know there's support for it before we get started, to know that it's really worth doing. Continue reading for the details of how this all began. For probably about as long as I can remember, people have posted on the AE List about problems they were having with movies. Maybe the the gamma was messed up on other computers, maybe a codec they were using broke. Working at The Orphanage, I encountered some of these problems firsthand, and was frustrated to see I had little ability to solve them, due to the closed source nature ...