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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, I would recommend NeoOffice Aqua, which is an OS X native port. In our tests, Word and Excel documents seem to open and work fine- and you can import and export in Office-compatible formats.
NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua …
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.
Gloodle is now available for free!…
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.
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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Blank Storyboard Download
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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 or OSEx 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/
For editing from a regular …
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 …
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 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… |
http://imageplay.sourceforge.net/
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 …
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 …
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