Core Idea

FilmForge is a distribution (or profile) of the Free/Libre Open Source Softare content management system Drupal, tailored to the needs of videomaking communities. FilmForge makes it simple to install and run your own video sharing site.

FilmForge should have a publicly viewable beta version by July 1 2007. You will be able to see a test 'clean' install at http://filmforge.koumbit.net.

At the moment there is also a running list of To Do items here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/ToDo.

Finally, we are developing the drupal installation profile here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/DrupalProfile

Functionality

This list was seeded from http://plumi.org (thanks, http://engagemedia.org !).

Out of the box FilmForge currently has the following features:

• Playback of multiple formats within the browser (List of supported formats TBA)
• Video uploading in any format
• Point to video on other services (YouTube, Google, Revver, etc.)
• Automatic server-side flash transcoding and embedded playback
• Automatic thumbnail generation
• Video downloading in several formats
• Customizable video metadata
• Free Tagging
• RSS2 feeds with media enclosures (or "vodcasts") created automatically from tags or users
• Open Content Licensing (creative commons)
• Rating / voting system (fivestar module)

Future Possible Functionality (to be prioritized)

• Transcription / subtitling tool
• Automatic creation and seeding of BitTorrent files upon video upload, and integration with other P2P networks.
• Custom profile page for site members with personal latest videos vodcast feed
• Other content licensing options (the GNU Free Documentation License and the ability to add your own custom licenses)
• Donations system for contributors and online purchasing
• Mobile phone uploads and downloads
• Browser based editing
• Wiki
• Collaborative film production tools (browser based editing tools are postponed, but see the virtual cutter)

Demos

A demo of the current state of the out-of-the-box package is live at http://filmforge.koumbit.net

How to get involved

You can get involved in FilmForge development by:

• going to #filmforge at irc.freenode.net
• emailing filmforge AT koumbit.net
• joining the discussion list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/filmforge-discuss
• contributing to the wiki at http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge

Download

You will be able to download FilmForge for free from (TBD: a Drupal.org page? sourceforge? koumbit?)

Development

In the future we would like to develop some interesting new advanced functionality, for example:

• script tool
• storyboard tool
• logging tool
• editing tool
• transcript and subtitling tool
• distribution tool

Thanks for checking out FilmForge!