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Your webmaster is a Scot - with a frugal Scottish attitude to obtaining
tools and media.
So here is a collection of goodies which prove that sometimes you do get
more than you pay for ...
Video Editor | Sound Editor | Computer Tools | Music & Sound Effects | Natural Sounds | Fake & Make | DVD Burning | Special Effects & Stock Footage | Public Domain & Creative Commons Materials | Animation
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| In this video Kevin McLeod demonstrates how choice of music influences
the way audiences understand your movie.
Watch it, then visit his site http://incompetech.com to explore mountains of fine music. |
A favourite of your webmaster is Atmosphere ( Ambient Soundscape Generator ) which does just what its name suggests. It lets you generate all sorts of soundscapes which can run as long as you need - complete with random sounds to maintain variety. I use it as a relaxing background sound when working. The "Lite" version is free from www.vectormediasoftware.com - scroll to the foot of the download page to find it. If you enjoy it as much as I do you may even be tempted to buy one of the more fully featured versions. | ![]() |
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| Explore the link at
www.freebyte.com/music
to find material you can use.
It's not Apple's excellent freebie, Garage Band, but Sony's Acid XPress for Windows allows PC users to make decent music for movies. |
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Special Effects & Stock Footage
Want a shot of the presidential helicopter taking off from the White House? How about Niagara Falls? A Nantucket sunset or a Malibu one? Short full-sized clips to use as cutaways or background for green-screen trickery - requires signing up but costs nothing at - Stock Footage For Free. Give your video that "old, scratched film" look in Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express with the CGM Aged Film LE plug-in - totally free. |
Sound EditorAudacity offers complete control of sound recording and post-production control of sound ... totally free. It runs on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Video Editors
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Animation Software
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Making and Burning a DVDEditing systems produce an AVI or MOV file of your movie. You can burn those to a DVD but they will not run in a normal domestic DVD player. You need a DVD authoring program which will prepare the standard folder and files make your movie play on most set-top boxes. DVD Flick is simple to install and use as well as being very effective. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles and a menu. It is totally free. Or check out VideoDVD Maker where the free version offers all you may need. |
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A startling number of computers have little or no protection against computer viruses. Even Apple machines - long considered relatively immune - have become targets for the bad guys. In the past viruses might wipe files or corrupt your system. Now they are more likely to steal you identity, credit card and bank details - or to make your computer part of a worldwide network which can be used to send spam mail or carry out denial-of-service attacks on businesses. There are several good commercial packages to protect your system. There are also pretty good free tools.
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Public Domain/ Creative Commons MaterialsThese are libraries and links to all sorts of images, movies, music and material that is freely available for use in your projects. Sometimes a credit is required - check each site carefully.
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MeltMail
Free Email There are free web mail services available from Windows Live (formerly Hotmail), AOL, Yahoo, Google, GMX and others. |
PRE-PRODUCTIONProject Dragonfly - a web-based room design program intended to help people choose their furnishings. But it can also help you send details of a location to other people on the film team, help you plan lighting and camera angles etc. |
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