Royalty Free AV Data for Benchmarking? 24
Foredecker asks: "I'm developing some audio and video encoding benchmarks. (yes, they will be open source), and I need royalty free high quality audio and video. Unfortunately, I can't simply rip CD's and DVD's for distribution. I need to distribute the content with the benchmark to provide a consistent data set. I'd like both stereo and 5:1 audio and regular and high-def video. Anyone have any ideas where I can get such content?"
College student videos. (Score:5, Informative)
If you need some good cartoon footage I saw a link to a short with a little rodent scurrying about the house in a translucent ball around here somewhere....
Ask (Score:3, Insightful)
CGTalk.com (Score:5, Informative)
It's worth a shot.
ummm.... (Score:1, Informative)
Fair use (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Fair use (Score:2)
Re:Fair use (Score:2, Informative)
Fair Use: Overview and Meaning for Higher Education
Copyright law begins with the premise that the copyright owner has exclusive rights to many uses of a protected work, notably rights to reproduce, distribute, make derivative works, and publicly display or perform the work. But the Copyright Act also sets forth several important exceptions to those rights. Key statutes make specific allowance for concerns such as distance learning, backup cop
Re:Fair use (Score:3, Funny)
Plz tell me where I can download "THE MATRIX RELOADED". K. THX.
PS - I'm writing open source video and want to use it to benchmark
internet archives... (Score:2, Informative)
Archive.. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Archive.. (Score:2)
Yes I know there is some more modern stuff on archive.org... Its a fantastic resource.
Baz
HD-CAM (Score:3, Informative)
our solution to getting Hi-Def material? Sony's HD-CAM [sonyusacinealta.com] a little pricey, but damn, even george used it for a movie.
you just can't go wrong here.
Use with permission. (Score:2)
Try Ron Popeil (Score:2)
By high quality... (Score:3, Interesting)
Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Make your own (Score:2)
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Correct (Score:2)
Otherwise it would be wholly unsuitable for video editing.
As anyone who has seen the obscene size of DV files can attest, the compression is minimal. There is no visible quality loss in DV video. (Otherwise, why would it be the de facto standard in video production and editing for anything up to the highest-end Hollywood productions?)
HDTV camcorders are a different story - They do use MPEG-2 compression. But DV is sufficient for DVDs. (720x480 resolution, same as DVDs.
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Re:Correct (Score:2)
Unless you have extra CCD pixels (Chances are that unless you have a super-high-end camera you don't, most consumer DV camcorders are interpolating up to 720x480 from a lower res), your "anamorphic" widescreen is just ignoring part of the CCD and stretching the rest, reducing your effective resolution. FYI, I have a GR-DVL120U from the same manufacturer, same features. It's only the $2000+ cameras that offer true anamorphic recording where CCD resolution is equal to or greater than DV resolut
media.xiph.org (Score:5, Informative)
We've been collecting what freely-redistributable clips we can find at media.xiph.org [xiph.org]. There's not much there, but it's still worth a look. Particularly interesting for your case are some public domain HD test clips made available by TU München LDV [tu-muenchen.de]. Of course, they're quite short given the size of uncompressed HD frames.
Please let us know if you find anything else, that's exactly what the collection is for.
In general, the suggestions of contacting copyright holders for permission is the best one. There are various collections of test clips and movies online, but they're generally either small and without audio, or already compressed. Plus, the more content we get under free licenses, the better the world will be. :-)
The Internet Archive [archive.org] does have a collection of movies with contact information, so that might be an easy place to start.
Good luck!
Google to the rescue (Score:3)