Equipment / Software:

• Cinelerra: The Movie Studio in a Linux Box
  It's not Final Cut Pro, but it is close and it is free.
• Contour ShuttlePro2
  To make editing on a computer more like using an old-fashioned edit bay. It doesn't work out of the box with Linux or Cinelerra, but is configurable.
• cshuttle.c: Use Contour ShuttlePro with Cinelerra
  This is a single purpose tool that I wrote based on Arendt David's cshuttle.c program to map the Contour device to my needs. I fixed a serious bug in the way it handles the centering shuttle wheel and switched to a table driven output for the buttons. I also made it grab exclusive access to the USB device to avoid any problems with the HID interface.
• Gizmod: Input device mapping
  Remap user interface devices to work with any program, especially Cinelerra. You will need this patch for gizmod-2.2 to use the ShuttlePro 2 with it and this gizmod configuration file for Cinelerra. The recent 2.2 branch has moved to using Python for everything and is beyond complicated to configure, so instead I'm using the single purpose tool.
• XL1-S forums
• LaTeX Film document class
  I tried using tools like Celtx and Storyboard, but found them too jaring from the text-only world in which I am accustomed to working. By using LaTeX as a typesetter, I can continue to use my favorite text editor and CVS to track changes.

Tips:

• Render with Quicktime for Linux, video compression MPEG-4 and audio compression MPEG-4. Roughly 10 MB/minute for a 480P video.
• Editing with Cinelerra

Shorts:

• 2006 Smithsonian Kite Festival
• Tandem bike test
  We tried shooting a bunch of shots from a tandem bike. They seemed to work fairly well, although we would probably remove the stoker's pedals next time.

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