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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 29, 2011.
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Half hour Skype/phone conversation with Novacut team. Want to talk about specific problems you want fixed in your storytelling workflow? Or talk about something else... either way, you've got us for half an hour.
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A ticket to see the future of editing. This gets you access to our collaborative cloud during our private beta period. You'll experience the future first, and your friends will be totally jealous.
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All of the above, plus a chance to meet the Novacut team for a day, have a BBQ and chat about filmmaking. Backer's travel to meet the team at own expense.
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Jason DeRose
Lead Developer, Project Visionary
Tara Oldfield
Artist Liaison, Community Manager, Photographer, & Filmmaker
Akshat Jain
Developer Outreach, Hyperactive Awesomeness
James Raymond
Designer, HTML5 Guru
Ok, that's great! :D Good luck!
Niklas, so weekly updates stopped in part because we've been deep in some tricky coding, so we've been very busy. We're also trying to avoid spamming Kickstarter to much with updates that are only interesting to developers.
But the next week we'll have some updates here (release day is tomorrow), including some new demos. But your "more updates!" request has been noted :^)
What happened to the weekly updates?
The article was just stating facts, not giving any judgement. The comments are mainly around "Why is an unknown project getting $20k out of the blue" and the usual skepticism around whether or not you can do it or if this is just another project that starts with the great intention of being a Final Cut Pro killer and may end up being something that cannot even compete with the first iMovie (I made up that comparison). At the end of the day, you are right: Comments are often like that, so I wouldn't take them too seriously and just build the product.
Interesting in that sense is this article: http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2011/07/novacut-not-just-vaporware.html
bronikkk, thanks for the link! Maybe Google translate is leading us astray, but that article didn't seem critical at all. Are we missing something?
If it was just in the comments (we didn't read all of them), well, comments are often like that. Thanks again!
Criticism about Novacut in German Linux community:
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/17314/video-editor-novacut-ruft-zu-spenden-auf.html
congrats!
Way to go guys, the best of luck on a brilliant project.
Thanks for starting this project :-) I'm definitely looking forward to it XD
Pfew... I'm thrilled you guys made it... Looking foward for my credit card debit of $300 ;-)
WOOOHOOOO, We did it!! I don't even do video, but I love the idea of having such an innovative an powerful tool for Linux. This surely will put Linux in the map for media creators, and then, open the gates for some other projects in different areas :)
I'm happy. Thank you, Novacut Team, for good idea.
Thanks for all the kind comments, everyone!
Congratulations. I'm excited and I hope you guys can prove the naysayers wrong.
Nice work, guys and gals! I was kind of thinking that you weren't going to make it, but OMG!Ubuntu kept pushing your project and everyone there was like "Alright, I'm in." I can't wait to have a stable version of this to start using. All of the video editing programs for Linux are barely usable rubbish and it's great to see a team not only commit to quality, but to truly innovate. I think that digital video editing has been stuck in the same paradigm for too long and I can't wait to try out this software!
Ah, that's better. We're at $25,350 now.
Thanks all, and ty team Novacut for developing the future!!!
Blast! Only three dollars to go! What happened?
down to $24,977 ???? who's taking their money back?
Congratulations from here as well.
Congrats.
I hope you get the funding secured for tomorrow.
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Congratulations! :D
In the past day or two, it's become very apparent that our project is among the few helping blaze the trail for crowdfunding FOSS projects. A quick look at the current numbers. As of today, successful Kickstarter projects in Film/Video number more than 3000, successful Kickstarter projects in Technology, less than 150.
Maybe the direct funding approach is more accessible or familiar to artists and their fans. A musician, instrument case open on the sidewalk, practicing their art, and taking donations directly is certainly no strange site. Whereas a Free Software hacker banging away on code, laptop case open for donations would certainly get some strange looks.
In that vein, I guess Novacut's visionary has always been an early adopter. I had to confirm it with him just to be sure, but during some particularly lean times (aka "college"), he did, in fact, stand on the sidewalk of a tech heavy suburb, holding a sign that said "Poor nerd needs laptop". He did pretty well too, even if he was a bit short for the hardware.
Long time crowdfunding trailblazers, that's us ;-)
Damn I wish I had a picture...
We did it!
Congrats :)
I'm very excited to see that this is going to happen. I'm happy for the Novacut team to see their efforts appreciated and supported by the community. But I'm equally excited to see what happens to this project in the future, because I see it as an example for crowdfunding of FOSS in general. I think there are many people like me, who choose to use open source software not because they couldn't afford proprietary one, but for ideological reasons. At the same time, I don't have a problem paying (or maybe "investing" is the better word) for the software I use - I just don't want the fruit of the price I pay to be in the possession of a company, but rather in the possession of humanity as a whole.
I was wondering whether other projects might adopt similar paths. The Gimp, Inkscape, and a number of other large FOSS projects fight with a constant shortage of developers, yet are key projects in the open source environment. They being competitive with respect to proprietary software makes the whole platform more interesting to many.
So is a system thinkable where donors pay money in a pot which is associated with a feature or improvement to a given software, and a freelance developer, after having implemented could receive the money? If such a system were to thrive, talented developers could, instead of spending their spare time on FOSS, afford to work full time on the projects they care about. Anyway, I think my phantasy has gone too far with me now... What do people think?
Baby we will make it baby :)
I hope my $300 will help you to reach the PRO-state!
Good Luck, Novacut!
Kicked up my donation to $25, first time my name will ever be included in software haha.
I don't even edit videos, I just love the ambition of the project. just over $1000 to go, and 45 hours? I think this is a success, I mean I'm sure we'd all be willing to contribute an extra $2.50 to see this thing happen!
I swear that I will learn to edit video just to have this kind of software being developed on a open source model!
1057 to go, seems possible within 45 hours :)
So close, lets make this a reality rock the social network to back them up and make this a reality!!!!!
only 2,198 more to go go go go
Best of luck -- I'm not even a video editing guy, and I pledged. I just want to see something good fill the void!
Fingers crossed. Just posted this to Twitter/identi.ca/Facebook/Google+ :)
Only 53 Hours left. Go go go!
This is not a "video editor", this is a revolution in collaborative video production. This won't add a new player to the video editing game, this will completely change the rules of the game!
Go Novacut Go!
I am so excited about this project!
@sergey It woul be, but I have not too
@Pak911 post on habrahabr.ru would be nice. But I need invite.
http://www.linux.org.ru/news/multimedia/6537213 works added $25.
Hope you will get all the money till the date
I can only pledge $25 (I'm just a student ;-) ), but I really would pledge a lot more if I could! This is such a great project with a very nice team behind it! I really hope we'll reach the goal!... This is great for the Open Source Community!! Thanks Novacut Team!
Joey, totally awesome, thanks!
I held out for as long as possible hoping i'd have even more cash to splash, but alas could only manage $100 =( Sorry guys
Someone make the Slashdot posting, post here, and we'll upvote the hell out of it.
added 25 go Novacut!
I don't think I will be using this software, as I don't work in that area. Linux has been my main OS for a few years now, but unfortunately my programming skills are not that great. So this is at least a way of giving back to the community! Good luck Novacut!
I don't even do any creative video work but it would be a waste of effort and real quality software to not back this.
Go for Goal!