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NEXT MEETING -- LinuxMovies.org -- Hollywood Region
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Dec 7th, 2005 - "CinePaint Glasgow, the Next Generation"
Note this presentation will be repeated at SGVLUG (http://sgvlug.org/) in Pasadena on Dec 8th.
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CinePaint is an open source software application primarily used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting. CinePaint is different from other painting tools such as Photoshop because in addition to common 8-bit per channel formats like JPEG, it supports deep color image formats such as Cineon, DPX, OpenEXR, and 32-bit TIFF. These file formats are common in motion picture visual effects and animation. Many films, such as Harry Potter and Spider-Man, use CinePaint. It was used by Flash Film Works to add flying arrows in The Last Samurai, work that helped them win a VES award for Best Supporting Effects. CinePaint is the most popular open source application in motion picture production.
CinePaint originated in 1998 as a film industry initiative to add film retouching features to GIMP (an open source paint program that had started as a student project at UC Berkeley in 1995). But in 2000 GIMP forked the code, rejecting the work paid for by the film industry. Later a new group unrelated to GIMP resumed development and the software was renamed CinePaint.
For 2006 CinePaint has a completely new design. The new CinePaint Glasgow architecture is a radical change from the legacy Film Gimp architecture. Basing CinePaint on GIMP saved a lot of development time and gained valuable user experience, but that foundation was far from ideal for a motion picture tool. Where the old architecture was a single monolithic GTK-based tool, the new architecture is a pipeline of applications that use FLTK or run at the command-line. FLTK is a fast free portable GUI API contributed by the film industry.
CinePaint project leader Robin Rowe will talk about the new Glasgow architecture, what's implemented, and what remains to be done. CinePaint Glasgow is scheduled for release on December 31, 2005. Glasgow runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX. Robin Rowe has led CinePaint since 2002. He's the founder of LinuxMovies.org. He's a partner in motion picture technology company MovieEditor.com.
Meeting Location
- 7pm - 9pm Presentation at Flash Film Works (743 Seward St.)
- Afterwards - Alessi Italian restaurant (6602 Melrose Ave.)
Flash
Film Works
743 Seward St.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-468-8855
*** DIRECTIONS AND PARKING ***
- From Glendale: Rt. 134 west, exit Lankershim south (you can't get on Rt. 101 south directly), pass Universal Studios and under bridge, turn right at light and right again on 101 south, exit on Vine south, Melrose west, Seward north.
- From North Hollywood: Rt. 101 south, exit on Vine south, Melrose west, Seward north.
- From downtown Los Angeles, Rt. 101 north, exit on Melrose west, Seward north.
- From Santa Monica: Rt. 10 east, exit La Brea north, take La Brea to Melrose east, Seward north.
- From Beverly Hills: Melrose east past La Brea, Seward north.
Flash Film Works is located just north of Melrose between Highland and Vine on Seward St. in Hollywood. The Seward Street sign is hard to see. It's the second right after Wilcox when going west, or the second left after Cherokee when going east. Park on the street. Walk through driveway gate. Enter building in back and then upstairs.
To go to the restaurant afterwards park on the east side of Highland, not on the west side of the street directly in front of the restaurant (posted no parking there).
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