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Novacut: Calendar, website, blog, Kickstarter, FAQ

Novacut Brand Identity (design by IZO): Final v1 Guidelines, First Draft

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• IRC: #novacut (freenode) - weekly IRC meeting Sunday 16:00 UTC

• Google+: +Novacut, +Dmedia

• Twitter: @novacut

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• Vimeo: Novacut Artist Diaries

• Mailing lists: novacut-community, novacut-prototypes

How to install

If you're running Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric or Ubuntu Precise (the devel version that will be released as 12.04 in April 2012), this is the easiest way to install Novacut:

Open a terminal (search for "terminal" in Dash), and then copy and paste these 3 commands:

• sudo apt-add-repository ppa:novacut/stable
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install novacut

PPAs

We build packages for Ubuntu Oneiric and Precise users:

• Novacut Stable Releases (for artists)

• Novacut Pre-Stable Releases (for adventurous folk helping with QA)

• Novacut Daily Builds (for developers)

For details, see our Release Process.

Code (and other stuff) in Launchpad projects

• novacut-artwork - various assets for the stunning Novacut brand identity design by IZO

• novacut-prototypes - where we rapidly prototype and measure time savings of UI variations before doing full implementations

• novacut - The main editor component (UI and renderer)

• dmedia - Dmedia, our anwser to media asset management

• filestore - hashing protocol and FileStore for Dmedia

• microfiber - lightweight, high-performance CouchDB adapter for Python3

• usercouch - Python3 library for starting per-user CouchDB instances

• userwebkit - Python3 library for building WebKitGtk apps that talk to CouchDB

• dc3 - a DBus service similar to desktopcouch (not that Dmedia now starts CouchDB itself, but we'll continue to maintain dc3 as a option for people migrating from desktopcouch)

UX designs

• Pro file import workflow UX design

• Novacut editor UX design

• Workflow UX distillation

• Workflow UX notes

Software architecture

• CouchDB is Magic

• Talk first to the little cloud on localhost

• Signal propagation with CouchDB