Apertus Digital Cinema Camera

We intend on creating a community driven open source cinematic HD camera for a professional environment. The image is provided by an Elphel camera (elphel.com, open source camera). A beagle board is connected to an elphel camera using ethernet. The beagle board runs a lightweight UI that allows user to view the live feed from the camera on an external display. It also allows to trigger recording and change camera settings using a user interface. The user interface is software based (on screen) + hardware based using buttons and knobs if possible (I2C interface of the beagle board would be used)