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[Jason Gerard DeRose <jderose@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Novacut 12.08

Bit late on the release notes as we just got back from the GStreamer
conference <http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/>. Here are the slides
from my presentation<https://plus.google.com/u/0/114471118004229223857/posts/AnR93YfgWj3>.


Video of all the presentations will be available soon compliments of
UbiCast<http://www.ubicast.eu/>(and by the way, the UbiCast folks are
awesome).
Special Thanks

   - Thanks to Cameron Bashaw <https://twitter.com/CameronBashaw> for
   taking the time to join our first "Novacut Chats" hangout on
air<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8OgP9wDvWY>
   - Thanks to Angel Guzman
Maeso<https://plus.google.com/u/0/113590119529183456350/posts>for
building his FreeStation
   client<https://plus.google.com/u/0/113590119529183456350/posts/LdfWcEXHaa6>on
Novacut tech and for helping with this month's UserWebKit release
   - Thanks to Steve
Langasek<https://plus.google.com/104578446317453636168/posts>for
reviewing and merging my proposed CouchDB 1.2.0 package (which is now
   in Ubuntu Quantal <http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/couchdb>)
   - Thanks to Jakub Wilk for giving me several rounds of patient feedback
   on the PySkein Debian package
<http://mentors.debian.net/package/pyskein>I'm trying to get sponsored

What's New

We have a Novacut GStreamer 1.0
branch<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ejderose/novacut/gst-1.0>locked
and loaded, but we can't release it till there is a gnonlin package
for GStreamer 1.0 (which hasn't been released upstream yet), and there are
a few fixes we still need in GStreamer 1.0.

Thanks to help from David
Jordan<https://plus.google.com/u/0/101813889111560624054/posts>when he
was in Colorado for our Novacut hackfest, the gst-1.0
branch <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ejderose/novacut/gst-1.0> also
contains what I think is probably the final design for our relative
positioning schema. The new schema allows the Novacut edit description to
express what we need for multicam and for arbitrary multi-track audio.

In terms of new features in the released version of Novacut, we have a nice
keyboard shortcuts help compliments of Matteo
Ronchetti<https://plus.google.com/u/0/105618380002935245686/posts>.
Plus, Matteo has continued to produce great prototypes for organizing
slices within the
Doodle<https://plus.google.com/u/0/105618380002935245686/posts/5o2uGpfH3HT>(not
yet released).

This month I wrote initial documentation for
UserCouch<http://docs.novacut.com/usercouch/tutorial.html>,
the Python3 library we use for starting per-user CouchDB instances. And as
always, lots of work was done in
Dmedia.<https://launchpad.net/dmedia/trunk/12.08>Significantly, James
Raymond <https://plus.google.com/u/0/100070870253962033333/posts> merged
the stand-alone Dmedia browser into the main Dmedia app.
Install Novacut 12.08

Please follow these
instructions<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Novacut/HowToInstall>to install
Novacut on Ubuntu
12.04 LTS <http://www.ubuntu.com/>. Note that if you've already installed a
previous version of Novacut, you'll automatically get Novacut 12.08 the
next time the Ubuntu Update Manager runs.

However, you *will* have to reboot for the Novacut update to take effect.
We know this is annoying, and very un-Ubuntu like. But we fixed this
bug<https://bugs.launchpad.net/dmedia/+bug/902856>,
so this is the last month you'll have to do this!

If you're trying Novacut for the first time, you probably want to
start by watching
this <https://vimeo.com/groups/novacutartistdiaries/videos/41021506> so you
understand a bit about Dmedia, and then watch
this<https://vimeo.com/groups/novacutartistdiaries/videos/41021504>to
get a good tour of Novacut.
Source code

You can download the source code from each component's Launchpad project
page:

   - novacut <https://launchpad.net/novacut>
   - dmedia <https://launchpad.net/dmedia>
   - filestore <https://launchpad.net/filestore>
   - microfiber <https://launchpad.net/microfiber>
   - userwebkit <https://launchpad.net/userwebkit>
   - usercouch <https://launchpad.net/usercouch>
   - dc3 <https://launchpad.net/dc3>