http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
fontfreak
This article lists others
WARNING: Do not go crazy and download every free font, then spend days organizing them and printing sample sheets. You will become obsessed with your font collection rather than getting work done. Instead just grab a font when you need it for a project!
Search for fonts here: typeindex
If you’d like to batch convert audio files on OSX, click here!
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.
download | features | FAQ | future | version history
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 hours for renders, making DVDs, spending hours encoding, and then there’s the hassle of the review process- having to continually hit pause on a DVD remote and write down the timecode you see on the screen.
Problem solved!
Now, there’s QT Movie NoteTaker!
This is a free, easy-to-use program from DVcreators.net that simplifies the process of taking movie notes. This application lets you load a Quicktime movie, then click a button to stop the movie, enters the movie time into your notes automatically, then waits for you to write a brief or lengthy comment.
You can load a series of movies and each movie will automatically have a header with the movie name, length, and a place to write overall comments. When you’re finished, click a button to save your notes as a text file, or another button to email your notes to someone.
.5 is the current release, we have plans for future versions, feel free to add your comments with requests.
DOWNLOAD
download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for OS X (3.5 MB)
download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for WinXP (5.9 MB)
FAQ
How do I fit QT Movie NoteTaker into my workflow?
Situation #1: Your client, assistant, boss or collaborator needs to watch raw captured footage and take notes
Situation #2: Your client, assistant, boss or collaborator needs to watch edits and take notes
Features:
Version History
Future plans:
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 where ArtRage takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
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 draw on the window and cool things happen. Not much thinking required. There are plenty of controls to experiment with, and (like particleIllusion) a lot of power hidden under simple controls.
Impulse and wondertouch have now released Gloodle version 1.03 for free! This is not a demo or a restricted version, it is the complete version that was released in 1998.
Click here to download Gloodle v 1.03 (Windows)
The system requirements are quite minimal — if you’re running Windows 95 or newer, and your computer was built in 1997 or later you’ll have no problems running Gloodle.
Sorry Mac users, but Gloodle is available for Windows only.
If you can’t get the installer to work, download this version which does not include an installer.
If you’ve previously installed Gloodle 1.02 and you are unable to save images or movies, download this file and unzip it into the folder where Gloodle is installed. This will update you to 1.03, which is the latest version.
You can create many interesting and organic images with Gloodle, with powerful features including:
Sample drawings that are included with Gloodle — click for larger versions.
download here
Ardour is a professional hard disk recorder and digital audio editor application released under the GNU General Public License as Free Software.
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.
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.
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 to get the content from a DVD on your hard drive (OS X only)
MPEG Streamclip is an application that converts MPEG files (including transport streams) into muxed, demuxed, QuickTime, AVI and DV files. http://www.squared5.com/
Here is a tutorial on extracting content with MPEG Streamclip, but it specifies DV codec, which you will in most cases want to avoid – use Pro Res, PJPEG or other higher quality codec instead.
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/11/25/converting-and-editing-dvd-footage-with-mpeg-streamclip/
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 well as Keynote.
GIMP is a free, open source graphics program very similar to Photoshop. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
On OS X, check out GIMP SHOP (Gimpshop 2.2.11 Universal App for OS X 10.3/10.4 Tiger (Intel & PPC now available) GIMP on Windows
See the Project Page for REALbasic Source Code
Run a series of effects on an image; tweak them, rearrange them, remove them, all without messing up the source image.
| ?Ä¢ Image Layers (and Masks) ?Ä¢ Effects Layers ?Ä¢ Live Rendering of effects as you change them |
| ?Ä¢ Masks can have effects sepperate from those of the layer surface ?Ä¢ Auto-Masks keep in sync with the layer surface ?Ä¢ Drag&Drop to start new projects or add layers ?Ä¢ Export preview estimates file size ?Ä¢ And more… |
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. Use the customizable forms to build out the story line of your project. Any information will be added to your project database and automatically pre-populate your script and reports.
Professional Script Writing
Import, write and edit movie scripts using industry standard formatting. Celtx uses intuitive writing and all the features expected in a professional application – like Spellchecking, Find and Replace, and auto completion of Character Names and Scene Headings.
Project Schedule
Keep track of all your project dates in a shareable calendar.
Media Rich Breakdowns
Celtx is the first application that allows creative people to perform media rich breakdowns in order to help pre-visualize and plan their project. Users can complete media rich breakdowns by associating sound files, video clips and digital pictures to their script all of which is auto-saved in a shareable database.
Customized Production Reports
Generate customizable Production Reports to help plan and organize your film project.
Collaboration
Collaborate with team members by securely sharing your project using the built in Celtx server.
Check it out here:
And a review here:
Imagine if you could…
Edit with flexibility and speed
Create Effects in real time
Animate with unlimited features
Paint and design on moving video
Create music with all the tools the pros use
Work in any format at any resolution
…all while sharing files, projects and clips with users on your network or around the world
All using a single, open source application where the code is yours?Ķ that runs on practically any workstation?Ķ
Jahshaka v3.0 will let you do this, and much more. Jahshaka was written from the ground-up to work in different environments, and lets you use the tools you need to get the job done in real time. Thanks to the power of OpenGl and OpenMl you can do this on anything from PC’s to Mac’s to high-powered Sgi workstations and not have to worry about mixing video, audio and graphics card, installing custom hardware and drivers, or spending millions of dollars for high end speed, power and functionality?Ķ
Jahshaka uses todays next-generation hardware to do everything in real time, regardless of what box you are running on. Thanks to the power and economics of mass markets, todays pc’s come with everything you need to create any kind of media you want. Todays graphics cards would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars just a few years ago?Ķ and deliver an unbelievable level of power and speed into your hands. This is the power that drives jahshaka.
Jahshaka’s morphing interface allows you to work as a editor when you are editing, to work as a compositor when you are creating effects, as a audio enginer when you are mixing, and as a animator when you are doing 3d. It will even allow you to create your own hybrid interfaces to match your workflow.
This power and flexability has been unheard of, but its coming your way soon. Imagine a system simple enough to edit home videos and mix audio tracks, but powerful enough to edit HDTV, create film effects or animate a flock of seagulls.
Footage Firm is offering free stock footage clips that are also royalty-free, and some very nice stuff:
http://www.footagefirm.com/free-footage
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos
http://www.archive.org/details/stock_footage
http://worldclips.tv/
http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp
http://www.resolume.com/footage/archive.php
When moving footage is not available, don’t forget about still photos! You can animate still photos with motion and scale, crop them, apply filters (like sepia, B & W, color tint) and sometimes stills can fill empty spots in your timeline as well or even better than a video clip. Also, many stock photos are automatically HD res!
http://tutorialblog.org/25-places-to-find-awesome-stock-photos-%E2%80%94-free-and-cheap/
Here is a monster list of sites with free photos:
Wikipedia Commons
Stock Exchange
Morguefile
Image After
Free Photos Bank
OpenPhoto
BigFoto
NASA
NOAA
NPS
Earth from Space
FWS1
FWS2
Picture Station
Geek Philosopher
Free Images
Pixel Perfect Digital
FreeFoto
Image Base
Cepolina
Amazing Textures
Texture Warehouse
PDPhoto
Fotogenica
Mayang
Free Photo Station
Cromavista
Creativity 103
The Photo Repository
Aarin Free Photo
Stockvault
Designpacks
Unprofound
Four Bees
Insect Images
Free media Goo
Burning Well
A digital Dreamer
Freestockphotos.com
Freewebpics
Lightmatter
Majestic Imagery
Triparalbum
AboutPixel
Woophy
Pixelquelle
PIX
tOfz
Fontplay
ImageTemple
LogoDesignweb
Fotodatebank
Bajstock
PhotoCase
Gimp-Savy
DeviantArt
Public_domain_image_resources @ wikipedia.org
Long page of links to websites hosting public domain images.
pixelquelle.de
Some 20,000 free images. You are not allowed to build (commercial) online databases or galleries.
Photoshop Tutorials Blog
An extensive list of over 50 free stock photos resources.
Yoto Photo
yotophoto is a search engine for finding free photos. The nice thing about it is that it searches multiple photo collection sites, so it may make a good starting point when you’re looking for something specific.
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Stock.XCHNG
Self-proclaimed leading FREE stock photo site
morgue file
This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
Pixel Perfect
PixelPerfect Digital is an image archive with over 4,000 images sorted in 146 categories free for commercial and non-commercial use. The newest files appear on the gallery home page and randomly selected images on the bottom of the page. You can stay on top of the newest files by subscribing to the RSS feed.
Open Photo
The Open Photo Project is a stock photo community and framework devised, implemented and supervised by Michael Jastremski. Its purpose is to allow photographers to share and protect their works through Creative Commons licensing where you can view photo thumbnails by license.
Image After
Image*After is a free online photo collection. Download and use any image or texture from the site to use in person or commercial work per the terms of use. At the top is a drop-down list for browsing images and textures by category or you can use the search box. This well-organized library can be sorted in different ways and the thumbnail pages include the image’s dimensions, number of hits and file size. Plus, you can select how many images to display on each page and even make the thumbnails larger by clicking on the magnifying glass.
PDPhoto.org
PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. It contains about 2,000 photographs under a many categories. One person has taken most of the photos.
StockVault
Stockvault is a stock photo resource which offers medium-sized images for personal and non-commercial use. Stockvault has evolved from stock.b-man.dk and features images from various photographers, both professional and amateur.
Buzznet
Buzznet.com is an online photo-sharing community that allows its members (registration free) to upload images from mobile phones, and post, syndicate and republish digital photos in their blogs. For RSS feeds, look at the bottom of each user page, gallery, community gallery and friends listing.
Flickr.com
Flickr.com, bought by Yahoo, is one of the best ways to store, search, sort and share your photos. This online software application and image resource has super features and a community of world contributors, plus it’s s easy to use. Each person publishing images on Flickr can select and specify the type of licensing to be applied to those pictures — from fully reserved copyright to any of the Creative Commons licenses. So look carefully for the explicit author permissions specified on each individual photo page.
Ourmedia.org
Ourmedia is a (still in alpha) non-commercial free clearinghouse for all rich-media content for sharing, re-use and enjoyed by as many people as possible.
Freefotos
Self-proclaimed largest collection of free photographs for private non commercial use.
Creative Commons Search
The Creative Commons Search engine specializes in finding different content on the Web, which have been published with a Creative Commons license allowing re-use, and in some cases even modifying the work.
Gimp Savvy photo archive
The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com contains over 27,000 free photos and images. The images come from three sources: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Though the photos are copyright free, be aware some restrictions apply.
DHD Multimedia Gallery
This isn’t a fancy site, but its photos are free for personal and commercial use. However, be sure to read its terms and conditions. You can browse collections by category, new entries and best photos. Each photo includes information on the date added to the collection, size, image type and rating. Also, the photo details page has the photo’s copyright information.
Free Photographs Network
Free Photographs Network is a resource for royalty-free stock photographs available for non-commercial use. If you use any of the photographs from the site, you’re agreeing to abide by international copyright law. Its terms of service outlines the rules for using the photos from the site. You can browse collections by category or use the search tool.
Free Stock Photos
FreeStockPhotos.com is a resource for free photography for personal or commercial use. There are some restrictions in using photos from the site such as retaining the domain name when using the photo on the Internet, in a Web page, in printed publications or in any product, advertising or packaging. Categories include animals, Christian, Egypt, Israel, Near East, Rome, scenery, sky/weather and wildflower/plants.
Free Images UK
FreeImages.co.uk has over 2500 stock photos. To ensure following the Web site’s rules for using its images, read the terms and conditions to ensure following the Web site’s rules for using its images. The home page lists the top three galleries, which is currently the home, financial, and flora.
Free Images.com
FreeImages.com has over 2300 stock photos. Note this one is FreeImages.com and it’s not the same site as the one from the UK. You can read the terms and conditions to verify the rules for using the site’s photos.
Big Foto
bigfoto.com is a repository of photos organized by categories and sub-categories. Each sub-category has a brief description about the category. The main categories are America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Pacific, Themes and Miscellaneous.
Geek Philosopher
Geek Philosopher has a collection of photos, backgrounds and wallpaper organized in nine main categories with subcategories. If you use an image, the site requires you to include a link to GeekPhilosopher. According to the site, you are free to do whatever you want with these photos except redistribute them.
Barry’s free photos
Barry’s Free Photos has over 2300 free and royalty-free stock photos organized by many categories and subcategories.
Holyland photos
Holy Land Photos has over 2400 photos related to the holy lands. The photos represent a diversity of religions with photos sorted into three categories: daily life and artifacts, people and region. Regions cover Jordan, Lebanon, Italy, Israel, Turkey and Greece.
Aar In Free Photo
Aarin Free Photo and Digital Images offers over 950 free photos and images for personal and commercial use. You may download and use the images on your Web site, print ads, brochures or any other end products as long as you display the copyright information per the Web site.
Photo Rogue
Photo Rogue has a unique concept — if you can’t find a picture you need, submit a request to Photo Rogue and you might see your request fulfilled. The site relies on volunteer photographers. Before submitting a request, review the Guidelines. While the service is free, there are no terms on the site regarding the use of photos.
Free Photos
FreePhotos.com offers over 1000 royalty free photos with no usage restrictions for Web site or print work use. The site doesn’t ask for reciprocal links or credits.
Free Stock Photos
Free-StockPhotos.com is a collection of (what else?) free stock photos available for use in personal and commercial design projects as long as the terms of use are followed.
tOfz.org
tOfz dot org is one photographer’s collection of everyday urban life. Jeremie Zimmerman, the person behind the site, sorts his photos by location and categories. He shares his favorites. The site uses the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Creative Commons license and free art license (Copyleft Attitude) from License Art Libre. This site is available in English and French. A small, but respectable collection.
Free Media goo
FreeMediaGOO has a collection of royalty free images, audio, textures, and Flash available for commercial and private user free of charge except for propaganda, adult or suggestive materials. Credit for the images is not necessary.
AMG Media Works, Inc. Free Photos
AMG Media Works Inc. is a design and photography service company that offers free stock photos for your use as long as you give credit to the photographer, Ernest von Rosen.
US Agricultural Research Service
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) image gallery is a complimentary collection of over 2,000 high quality digital photographs related to agriculture.
Creating Online
Creating Online Stock Photos Gallery is a free stock photo gallery of over 500 photos, most of which have been taken by Pamela Auer Roth. Photos are free for personal or commercial use as explained in the Terms of Use.
Woophy.com
Woophy has a collection of over 23,000 photos from around the world and over 4300 cities are represented. You can search by city, country, category keywords or member to find photos. The categories are animals, culture, landmarks & buildings, objects and people.
Image Base
ImageBase is a collection of over a few hundred photos on nature, people, city, and objects taken by presumably one person, David Niblack. Though a small database in comparison to others, you can expect to find quality photos here. The site clearly states that “all images are 100% free to use.”
Free Stock Photos from Cepolina Photos
Free Stock Photos from Cepolina Photos contains over 1900 photos by three photographers covering mostly nature and geography.The photos are free (see FAQs for details) as long as the site is credited and that you don’t link directly to the images of the web site as that’s stealing bandwidth.
From Old Books
Pictures from Old Books is a unique collection of over 800 images scanned from old books that are public domain (copyright-free or out of copyright) unless otherwise noted. The site has many pictures of castles, abbeys and old houses.
Majestic Imagery
Majestic Imagery has a collection of over 400 royalty free photos organized by categories. The terms of use require that those who use photos give proper credit with a link back to the site.
Photocase
Photocase contains a repository of photos and a community that includes forums, polls, buddy lists and user profiles. Photos from this site may be used for commercial and noncommercial self-contained original work. You can download up to three photos per day.
Visipix
Visipix is an art museum, clip art, and photo gallery with around 100,000 exhibits. If you publish the photos, the site requires crediting the authors and Vispix.com somewhere near the pictures. Per the copyright page, all copyrights are free. However, they can’t be used in the sex industry or in the promotion of tobacco and alcohol.
BurningWell.org
BurningWell.org is a repository of over 1400 public domain images for your use. You’re allowed to download, copy and use the photos for any purpose. Photos from from photographers around the world. The site has eight top-level albums (categories) and 27 in total ranging from activities to textures.
Art Favor.com
ArtFavor has a collection of vector and flash clipart, sounds, fonts, photos, pictures and images that the site indicates, “All artwork and sounds are absolutely free and you can use them in commercial applications.” You can download files in their original or zipped format.
freedigitalphotos.net
Freedigitalphotos.net has over 2000 free images for use in commercial and non-commercial work so long as you don’t claim the works as your own, redistribute them or offer them for sale.
Ixuz.com
Travel the world in pajamas with Ixuz Travel, which is dedicated to collecting photos from around the world. The site has a Korean version of its pages. Currently, the collection has over 2700 pictures sorted in 85 albums and 18 categories.
Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
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| Free Images – Free Stock Photos More than 2500 original stock photos all for free. Image categories include technology & transport, backdrop photos, objects, lights, seasonal, medical, home, building and travel, space, planets & stars, sport and games, workplace, and food & cooking. |
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| PacHD Free Images Free images and pictures for multimedia productions. Categories include abstract, food, flowers, miscellaneous, nature and scenic, household, technology and world travel images. |
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| Stock.XCHNG Free Image Site SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their images to the public free of charge. Image categories include abstract, architecture, business, computers, concepts, food, objects, people, places, seasonal and events, signs, streets and cityscapes, transportation, and world. |
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| Morguefile.com All images are free and they can be used in your commercial projects without permission or credit from the photographer (although selling prints, selling the images directly or claiming the photo is yours is prohibited). |
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| PD Photo PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for such use are higher. Specifically, you should assume no model release was obtained. And images featuring products or property should be used with care. |
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| BigFoto – Pictures Free Download Images from all around the world: America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Pacific. Themes category includes human, background, aviation, close up, fountains, sculptures, graffiti, fireworks, amusement, christmas, garbage, architecture, food, railway, and ships. |
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| Image After A large online free image collection. You can download and use any image or texture from their site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial. Image categories include architecture, art, blurs, industry, mechanics, (animals, insects, land, sea, humanoids, human parts, elements, extinct, food, landscapes, minerals, plants, trees, underwater), objects, scripts, vehicles. |
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| Phototakeout.com Free digital stock photographs and reference pictures for business or public use on your website or any printed material. You may use the images for free but you must have a link back to their site and if used in printed version a mention of phototakeout.com as source is required. |
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| Pixel Perfect Digital Offers free high resolution images, textures, backgrounds, illustrations, digital art and stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects. |
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| Free Photo Archive: Public Domain Photos and Images Copyright-free image archive containing the largest community-indexed collection of free, public domain images and photos. It has more than 27,000 free photos and images from three main sources NASA, NOAA, and FWS. |
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| Free Foto You can use any of the images on the site if you are a private individual and your use is not commercial. You must credit the FreeFoto.com web site on your home page. Read the conditions of free use. Categories include business, transport, europe, cities in UK and USA. |
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| Free Stock Photos Free Photography for personal or commercial use. Read the restrictions on the main page. |
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| Pics4Learning Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Categories include animals, architecture, art, countries, dinosaurs, flags, food, geography, history, holidays, literature, living, maps, monuments, national parks, music, objects, oceans, plants, science, signs, space, toys, transportation, and weather. |
If you aren’t using Google maps, you are missing out. They are awesome!!!
Here’s a map of DVcreators.net training location in Santa Monica.
Click and drag in the map. Zoom in and out. Try driving directions from your house…
If that wasn’t cool enough, click the “satellite” view in the upper right hand corner.
But for WinXP, and now for Mac OS X, Google Earth adds the third dimension- allowing you to fly in 3D over terrain-accurate satellite pix of the earth, many areas in very high detail.
Must be seen to be believed! Google Earth is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet… (and I first logged on Compuserve in the mid 80′s!)
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