111 Free Filmmaking Tools. Last week we brought you 588 Free Film Contracts and Forms. In a effort to continue our “indie stimulus plan,” this week we’ve gathered together 111 free filmmaking software programs. Keep an eye out of upcoming features highlighting even more free stuff. And yes, we promise to never raise you taxes. Also check out these great feature articles: Pre-production Software Celtx Pretty much everything you need for preproduction, Celtx is the world’s first all-in-one media pre-production software. Directors Boards Free 2.0a Based on the popular professional director’s tool Directors NoteBook.
Scriptbuddy Web-based screenwriting Software StoryBoard Pro Atomic Learning’s FREE Video StoryBoard Pro is designed to give teachers, students, and home movie makers a tool to plan ahead when creating video projects. Audio Editors Ardour Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. Audacity Audacity A digital audio editor and recording application. Video Editing Plugins 3D Graphics. How many frames per second can the human eye see? Imagine yourself watching movie of an unbelievably slow fog. You don't see edges and sharp borders. Now play the movie with 10fps. It will look fluid. Why? Now take your hand and move it slowly in front of your face. Motion blur example1: Capture from a live performance of The Corrs "What can I do" at MTV Unpluged Motion blur example2: Capture from "Basic Instinct", where you see a woman plunging an ice pick into a man's body while sitting on him.
The fact is that the human eye perceives the typical cinema film motion as being fluid at about 18fps, because of its blurring. If you could see your moving hand very clear and crisp, then your eye needed to make more snapshots of it to make it look fluid. Also 25fps but without motion blur: Footage from BBC's story about Ed Gein, the murderer, who's case inspired Hitchcock to make "Psycho" and Jonathan Demme to make "Silence of the Lambs".
Just think of modern games: Have you ever played Quake with 18fps? Filmmaker Notes, How to make a movie?, Producing a Film, How to write a script? 51 After Effects Tutorials From Elsewhere! Wow, it really has been a while... What with NAB, and all the other crazyness going on in the After Effects world, I seemed to have forgotten about one of the most popular article subjects on this website... the tuts from elsewhere!
Video Copilot - Smoke TrailsThis is one of the first tutorials out showcasing Video Copilots new plugin, Optical Flares. This tutorial shows some cool uses for the plugin mixed up with Trapcode Particular.View TutorialVideo Copilot - 3D Ball DispersionUsing only built in plugins, and a handy sequencer script, create a cascading, awesome looking effect.View TutorialVideo Copilot - ShatterizeAnother tutorial using only the built in effects and the sequencer script, learn how to create a progressive shatter effect. View TutorialVideo Copilot - 3D LedgeSam Loya is back on the Video Copilot scene, and now he is contemplating suicide.
If you enjoyed this post, please give it a vote on Digg or a stumble to say thanks! The Essentials of Multicam Editing in Final Cut Pro. Five Free Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro : Apple Final Cut Pro. Too Much Too Soon’s Flashframe This plug-in is a sweet flash frame transition that creates eye candy that is never tiresome. This is a client pleaser that requires little effort on the user’s part. This is definitely a must have in any editor's bag of tricks. Final Cut does an awful job of reversing footage. Thankfully Graeme Nattress created G Reverse. Not only can your footage look seamless from forward to reverse, but Nattress also provides an explanation as to the cause of the problem. Your audience will notice when you don’t use it. (You can find Graeme in many forums around the Cow, including Final Cut Pro, Apple Color, and RED Camera.) CGM’s CGM Aged Film LE Creating an old film look in Final Cut is time consuming and space taxing .
Lyric’s Shadow-Highlight Working with footage that was under or overexposed? The first image is underexposed, whereas the second has been fixed by the Shadow-Highlight plug-in. CoreMelt’s VeeYou Simon Kirby’s Lunchtime Pro stib’s free Final Cut Pro plugins. 5 minute film school - The World Famous Guide to Filmmaking and Screenwriting. Lesson Index. How to Make Video Look like FilmThe Rev. John Jackman, The Rev. John Jackman, The Rev. John Jackman. Story Boards. HOW TO MAKE VIDEO LOOK LIKE FILM. Making A Science Fiction Movie On A Shoestring: Where Can You Cut Corners? I'm surprised that anybody would suggest shooting on film in an article on doing it on the cheap; film has so many hidden costs that digital lets you avoid ... the most significant of which is summed up in the term "Dailies".
With video, you can check what you're shooting *there*. On *set*. With low-cost film gear (meaning no video tap,) that's impossible to do ... which means that if something goes wrong and you don't notice it right then, you have to go back to the location, get your actors back, dress'em up again, and all that ... or forego the shot altogether. There's a reason why Red-grade cameras are getting more and more popular, even in Hollywood. Plus, there's the wacky, wacky fun of getting the film into the editing program - because you do NOT want to edit on a flatbed. @capnrob: She said if you can afford it. Film has it's advantages with regard to look but the economic solution is obviously some form of digital. @capnrob: I don't disagree. Oh and I checked out your blog.
Practical. The only film making advice you really need — Cinema Advanced Cinema Advanced. Yesterday, I told you how Listening to ’so called’ experts could destroy your film career before it even starts . Today I’m going to share with you the few principles you really need to know. If you’ve ever dreamed about being a director, then this post is a must read for you.
The 9 things you need to do if you really want to be a film maker. Shoot the damn thing – Stop obsessing over what gear you need, stop worrying about raising money, stop obsessing over every little detail. Tagged as: advice , film making , filmmaking advice , filmmaking for dummies. Tools & Utilities for filmmakers. You've now entered the Dependent Films Download Center. It's unbelievable 1) how much these files can help, and 2) how hard all of these tools are to find on the net. Thus, this is why we've assembled this compilation for all of you aspiring filmmakers out there. Best of all, they're all FREE (a favorite word for all independent filmmakers). These programs have really helped our productions, and hopefully they can help yours as well. Some of the following files are compressed in a .zip format. . ( * denotes new tool ) !
These zipped templates are in the .pdf file type. These templates are in the .xls file type. StoryBoard Tools *Windows based program with simplistic, yet effective tools.Downloadable in .zip format - (1Mb) Widescreen (16:9) - 15 frames (5K .gif) Standard Ratio (4:3) - 20 frames (7K .gif) Standard Ratio w/ Overhead Plan (4:3) - 8 frames (9K .gif)Standard Ratio w/ Detailed Angle * (4:3) - 4 frames (8K .pdf)Standard Ratio: Simplistic * (4:3) - 9 frames (8K .pdf) Visualfx. The man behind the sound.