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IBC ( International Broadcasting Convention ) is an annual event for audiovisual professionals. This is the first year in which apertus° members will be present at this event. Whilst we will not be running our own booth, we have planned to meet up with business associates, colleagues and friends who shall also be in attendance. If you wish to meet us there on Saturday 14th September, please notify us quickly so that we may factor this into our schedule. » Read more

It's about time Today is a major milestone on our path to having a working Axiom Alpha prototype ! After months of designing, routing, checking, double-checking and then revising our designs, we have now placed an order for the final version of the printed circuit boards (PCBs) we will be implementing in our prototype. The Image Sensor Front End (SFE) PCB Top Side. PCB Bottom Side. This 4 layer PCB will act as the bridge between our image sensor: the CMV12000 (providing a native resolution of... » Read more

apertus° is opening up all the internal discussion about the Axiom Alpha prototype to the public and is currently seeking additional hardware developers. Read on to learn why and how. Release Early - or even before that On his blog, Philip Bloom recently wrote : “Please stop bringing out new cameras and stop announcing them. Just go back into your top secret bunkers and concentrate on refining and perfecting your current ones and ideas for your future ones. [...] I am a big fan of announcing... » Read more

We are toying with the idea of forming a team to develop and maintain a news website about open source film making related topics. Basically a website like nofilmschool.com or libregraphicsworld.org but with a focus on the free/libre/open source/DIY side of film making and media creation which is currently not being covered anywhere. Outline The idea is to create a news website and maintain it with content like news/blog posts and articles about open source film making, related current events/... » Read more

Every first week of the month, apertus° publishes a newsletter issue in English that is translated to several other languages - Spanish, French, Portuguese and Catalan. The bulletin is sent to around 600 subscribers worldwide and covers the most relevant activities of the apertus° association and apertus° company. How is the development of Axiom Alpha? What are the plans for the future? What are people digging up in their basements that can be helpful in the path to an Open Souce Cinema? And... » Read more

The apertus° project will be at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2013 , an international meeting gathering developers, builders and users of Free, Open Source and Open Hardware projects for Graphics. This year it will happen in Madrid, Spain from the 10th to the 14th of April. Moreover this years topic emphases on the evolution of our tools with a sub-title which fits the apertus° project perfectly — Future Tools . Most small and big projects in the Free/Libre Graphics world will be present: Synfig,... » Read more

The apertus° project will be present this weekend for the Digital Week at Bordeaux, France. Before the Digital Week kicks off there is the "Video with Free Software" day on the 23rd of March 2013. The event will last all afternoon (2 PM - 7 PM) with several interesting talks about independent cinemas, usage of Free Software for video production, movie production, Open-Hardware and a talk presenting the apertus° project. So if you are in France around Bordeaux do not hesitate to come! » Read more

After more than a year in development and several design approaches with a few damn-thats-not-good-enough-lets-start-from-scratch moments the new apertus° website is finished, online and awaiting to be discovered by you. It has more content, better readability, a new structure that should provide better overview and I hope you agree it just looks so damn much better - also optimized for viewing on mobile devices. I want to name a few of the people who this would not have been possible without:... » Read more