All style code is now open

We're now opening up the code for ALL muvee Reveal styles. If you have a style - free or purchased - you can get the unencrypted data.scm for them by re-downloading the respective style installers from your Self Serve account, as of today.

We see style authoring as more like film-making than rocket science. You can usually tell how a style is built by watching the muvees it makes, but unencrypting all of our styles gives you the equivalent of a detailed "making of" DVD that you can learn from. It also makes it clear that you too can create styles using the same effects and composition framework that we use to make our shipping styles. Taking that further, if you find that we haven't documented something you see us using in the muSE code, just let us know and we'll fill the gap.

In line with the new license terms, we've posted a complete list of open styles for immediate access to all their code on muvee-style-authoring.googlecode.com. Just point your muveeStyleBrowser to http://muvee-style-authoring.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/styles/. Those styles for which only the code (i.e. the data.scm file) has been posted there will appear in the muveeStyleBrowser with "[code only]" in their names.

Have fun!

[see original posting on muveeManiacs]

More open and clearer license terms

Based on questions that some of you asked, we figured we needed to clarify the license terms under which our toolkit is published. Here's a summary of what's new on that front -

1. We've lifted the "non-commercial" constraint on the usage. So go ahead and make money creating muvee Reveal styles.
2. All the stuff on muvee-style-authoring.googlecode.com (and only the stuff there) is made available under the posted license terms. Specifically ...
   1. All code posted there continues to be available under the same liberal New BSD License.
   2. All content (i.e. style art work) posted there is free for re-use in your work as long as you give us attribution.

For a more precise description of the new license terms, see License.

[see original posting on muveeManiacs]