all articles tagged 'free Windows stuff'

Where can I find free fonts?

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html

http://www.grsites.com/fonts/

1001freefonts

http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts

fontfreak

downloadfreefonts

katsfunfonts

absolute fonts archive

reflectdesign

nicksfonts

fonthead

macfonts

fuelfonts

bvfonts

aenigmafonts

chank

a-t-i

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



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 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!



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

Our storyboard from Shooting Awesome Video

http://www.xinsight.ca/tools/storyboard.html

Blank Storyboard Download

Blank Storyboard Download layout 2



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 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 …



Where can I find stock photos for use in video projects?

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
USDA
NASA
NOAA
NPS