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Additional rights: QCTools GUI part and FFmpeg statistics filter are licensed under a Free BSD License.

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QCTools is an ongoing software development project led by the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities under Grant number PR-50188-13. The project initiated in January 2013 and will span 25 months, concluding on January 31, 2015 (full project description may be found here: http://www.bavc.org/qctools).

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### CONTRIBUTORS:

### Project Team 2018-2020

Dave Rice, Project Manager
Alexander Ivash, Programmer
Ashley Blewer, Programmer
Jérôme Martinez, Programmer and Technical Consultant

#### And thanks to

Eddy Colloton
Briana Feston-Brunet
Genevieve Havemayer-King
Ben Turkus

#### And support from

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Time-based media conservation department with support from the Smithsonian Collection Care Initiative
New York Public Library

### BAVC Project Team 2016-2017

Ben Turkus, Preservation Project Manager
Kelly Haydon, Preservationist

### BAVC Project Team 2014-2015

Sam Long, Director of Technology & Preservation
Ben Turkus, Preservation Project Manager

### BAVC Project Team 2013

Moriah Ulinskas, Preservation Program Director
Lauren Sorensen, Preservation Program Manager
Jennifer Brice, Preservation Program Coordinator

### Technical Team 2013-2015

Dave Rice, Senior Consultant
Devon Landes, Technical Consultant
Mark Heath, Programmer and Technical Consultant
Jérôme Martinez, Programmer and Technical Consultant
Clément Bœsch, libavfilter Advisor
Ashley Blewer, UX & Design
Erik Piil, Testing and Documentation

### Other Resources

Bay Area Video Coalition Project Site:
http://www.bavc.org/qctools
BSD 3-Clause License:
http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Page:
http://www.neh.gov
Knight Foundation Prototype Fund
http://www.knightfoundation.org/funding-initiatives/knight-prototype-fund/
GNU GPLv3:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
FFmpeg License Compliance:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Fabrice Bellard, FFmpeg owner:
http://www.bellard.org