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Boris offers free snow filter


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 …


How do I batch convert audio in Windows XP for my editing software?


  1. Download iTunes from Apple
  2. Double click iTunes Setup.exe to install
  3. Launch iTunes
  4. Go to the Edit Menu > then click Preferences
  5. Click on the Advanced tab
  6. Then click on the Importing tab
  7. Now, in the “Import Using” dialog box, choose .WAV Encoder.
  8. Then in the “Setting” dialog box, choose “Custom”
  9. For “Sample Rate” choose 48 kHz.
  10. For “Sample Size” choose 16-bit.
  11. For “Channels” choose Stereo.
  12. Then click OK.
  13. Then OK again,


QT Movie NoteTaker .5 RELEASED! (free)


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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 …


NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta 3 is now available for download!


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, …


ArtRage


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 …


Audacity


Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.


Gloodle


Windows-only free app:

sampe imagesGloodle 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 …


Ardour


Ardour is a professional hard disk recorder and digital audio editor application released under the GNU General Public License as Free Software.


Maya


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.


Where can I download blank storyboards to use in my own projects?


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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Where can I get royalty-free music for my projects?


Wikipedia Commons

http://www.archive.org/details/audio

http://ccmixter.org/

http://www.icompositions.com/tools/category.php?cid=9

www.stock20.com

www.musicbakery.com

www.studiocutz.com

www.smartsound.com


ffmpeg


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.


    How do I edit content from a DVD?


    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


    How can I create graphics for video?


    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 …


    ImagePlay- free image effects software


    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 …


    Celtx software for film and video producers


    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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