Published by Josh at January 7, 2008
Boris Continuum Complete’s Snow filter is an auto-animated snow generator. The filter offers extensive options and allows you to create drifts or make flakes pile up along the edges of an alpha channel.
Download the Free Snow Filter for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion
Download the Free Snow Filter for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
The free …
Published by Josh at November 3, 2006
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If you ever need to watch a series of video clips and take notes, or if you need to get dailies or raw footage to clients or collaborators for comments, you know what a huge hassle it can be- doing window burns, waiting …
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Published by Josh at September 22, 2006
Open Office is a wonderful (and free!) suite of apps similar to Microsoft Office. There are several features I like better than Office, simple things like dragging a group of cells in a spreadsheet.
Windows users: - Download Open Office
Mac Users: - Although there is an X11-compatible version of Open Office for Mac, …
Published by Josh at April 7, 2006
ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with a mouse, but works better if you have a graphics tablet, or even better on a Tablet PC …
Published by Josh at April 7, 2006
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Published by Josh at March 29, 2006
Windows-only free app:
Gloodle is "doodle with globs" — drawing using 3D shapes to create 2D images with a lot of richness, complexity, and depth.
Gloodle is a simple app that shows some hint of the immediate feedback that makes particleIllusion so fun and useable: in Gloodle you just …
Published by Josh at March 7, 2006
Ardour is a professional hard disk recorder and digital audio editor application released under the GNU General Public License as Free Software.
Published by Josh at March 7, 2006
Maya Personal Learning Edition is a special version of Maya® software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. It gives 3D graphics and animation students, industry professionals, and those interested in breaking into the world of computer graphics (CG) an opportunity to explore all aspects of the award-winning Maya Complete software in a non-commercial capacity.
Published by Josh at February 19, 2006
Here’s a list of several sites and direct download links (.pdf format). The first two links also have tips and techniques for storyboarding your own movie or video project:
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Published by Josh at January 24, 2006
FFmpeg is a cross-platform, open source audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/ ffmpegX is the OS X version.
Published by Josh at January 24, 2006
It seems more and more common that editors are being asked to use content from a DVD- perhaps the client has provided you with last years annual report DVD… and wants you to redit it. (Remember, ripping off copyrighted content is a Federal offense with imprisonment and large fines possible!)
You can use MacTheRipper or OSEx …
Published by Josh at January 24, 2006
Photoshop is the old standby, but I don’t like it for video graphics. Someone as simple as grabbing an element and moving it is problematic. I much prefer FireWorks, or even Motion for still graphics, which has some nice layout functions.
Flash is also an option for "PowerPoint" type slides, as …
Published by Josh at January 18, 2006
ImagePlay - Easy Image Effects
See the Project Page for REALbasic Source Code
Description:
Run a series of effects on an image; tweak them, rearrange them, remove them, all without messing up the source image.
Features:
?Ä¢ Image Layers (and Masks)
?Ä¢ Effects Layers
?Ä¢ Live Rendering of effects as you change them
?Ä¢ Masks can have effects sepperate …
Published by Josh at January 17, 2006
Celtx is the first comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the Pre-Production of Film, TV, Theatre and New Media. It provides all of the tools you need under one application and works on all platforms.
Story Development Tools
Celtx includes Scene and Character Development tools that help spur creativity. …
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