Collaborative Video Editing

In the OSE case, these are the conditions that allow truly collaborative video editing and production:

1. Availability of video editing software to anyone without any access barriers. An open source, nonlinear video editing program that is cross-platform and free to download
2. Teaching program to provide basic video editing with about a 2 hour learning curve
3. Ability to share video edit files by anyone wishing to add value to an edit
4. Ability to uplaod a video library of raw footage to a common repository
5. Ability to develop the video editing software
6. Common repository of open-licensed supporting media assets, soundtracks, animations, templates, standard icons, and other supporting resources for video production
7. Ability to import and expert from and to a wide range of video formats
8. Common repository of work-in-progress edits, and a version-tracking repository for these video assets
9. Open source tools for creating animations, models, 3D designs; libraries for these tools to facilitate design
10. Open standards for producing videos (such as style guides, format standards)
11. Templates for instructional videos
12. A repository of comics to lighten up presentations
13. Usage of Open Source Codecs for video, audio, and subtitles
14. Usage of open source video encoders, such as Handbrake