If you have any trouble with downloading homebrew, please don’t hesitate to get in touch! If you really don’t want to download homebrew, you’ll just have to download scripts individually and move them around your computer in a way that I’m not capable of instructing… I installed homebrew a long time ago, before I started my residency and knew a lot about the command line, so I’m confident that most of you will be able to download it without too many problems (if you don’t have it already!). I found the homebrew installation process fairly straightforward, and when I ran into any errors, a quick google search of the problem I was having lead me straight to a GitHub issue tracker thread with directions on how to resolve the problem I was having. Homebrew is enormously helpful in making sure that all your open source software stays up to date, and that you can always access the new versions quickly and easily. I recommend installing a package manager called homebrew. There’s a few things you’ll need to do to get set up to easily use and update these technologies. To begin, you’ll want to open the terminal application on your computer, and if you aren’t familiar with that, here are a few resources you might want to look at first: The Command Line crash course or Code Academy’s command line course. By using open source software, audiovisual archivists can retain more control over their workflows, save money, and participate within a larger context of the creation of tools that serve the needs of the community.Īll of these tutorials (and homebrew) are for Mac OS X… Sorry Windows and Linux users! Second, video editing software, and the software and hardware used to capture analog video signals during digitization is often costly, on top of the technological needs necessary for working with large video files like significant storage and computer processing power. This is fine until the software is updated and changes in functionality, often not in favor of the work archivists do. First, much of the software typically used to work with audio visual materials is proprietary which leaves archivists at the whim of the software company. Open source software has particular importance in the context of audio visual archiving and preservation workflows for a few reasons. Personally, I’ve felt really excited about open source software since beginning my residency, but open source software isn’t for everyone, and that’s cool too. This offers an alternative to proprietary software that you have to license to use, and whose source code you don’t have access to. So first, what is open source software and why is it important to have and use? The Open Source Initiative defines it as “software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified and unmodified form) by anyone.” In my personal experience using it, open source software is accessible free of charge and findable on a code repository such as GitHub. The tutorials won’t be comprehensive, but I hope they provide an entryway into using open source software for working with audio visual materials. In this post, I’ll talk briefly about why open source tools are important in audio visual workflows, and then get right to the tutorials. ✨?Open source software for AV processing?✨įor my blog post this week, I decided to make a derivative of my upcoming code4lib talk with Ashley Blewer, and write some mini-tutorials for using some of the open source audio visual processing software that we will discuss in our talk.
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