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Mitch Martinez has provided free 4K stock footage (primarily intended for independent productions). The clips are royalty free. Files are h264 encoded mp4 format. For most purposes, users are able to utilize the footage with little to no restrictions. For commercial and projects/productions, a simple release form is provided.
Natron as a compositing tool
Liking the first looks of Natron (open-source nodal compositing software) which seems to be styled after Nuke and from some of the videos I've seen looks like it integrates quite nicely with Blender.
Blender 3D Camera Tracking and After Effects
So... Cinema 4D Lite has been added to After Effects in the Adobe creative cloud, but I'm sticking with version 5 for as long as I can.
Element 3D from video copilot looks really awesome but falls into the want (rather than need) category for now. Hopefully I'll come up with a good justification to get this soon.
Blender is pretty damn powerful tool, is priced appropriately for my current needs and has plenty of people willing to provide help and support BUT doesn't play nearly as nicely with Adobe's tools.
Fortunately, Bartek Skorupa has created some fantastic tutorials on camera tracking in Blender as well (four of them) as well as a tutorial for exporting from Blender into After Effects which was just what I was looking for. Dude rocks!
Storyboarding Links
Most of these lifted from Purge Theory, but including them here as I like them and want to be able to find them again easily in the event my current RSS reader does a google-reader on me.
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels
Toby Shelton: stuff I did
Rad's blog
Neumann Films
Neumann Films has a selection of free scores as well as *very* reasonably priced music scores. On top of this, tips and tutorials have been thrown in as well. Makes my bookmark list easily based on the high quality of the music tacks offered. The site currently is selling Horror Movie Music for $20 and Trailer Toolbag for $40. He is also posting a free music track each day in July project - all are "royalty free and ready to use in any commercial/non commercial work as long as credit is given."
Source Filmmaker
Got to think there is potential for using Source Filmmaker in planning shoots/ running though a rough draft of a script before spending time/ money on equipment and actors. Will take a look - think it is dependent on the learning curve in becoming proficient in a new tool and how quickly that could pay me back...
Design Goodies
Not strictly film related, but have found these super useful:
960 Grid System - layout design of websites - templates for almost every design/ photo/ illustration software out there.
Teehann + Lax - in the downloads section they have photoshop and illustrator templates/ assets for all the iPhones/ iPads (and andriod phones) - perfect for getting the app design perfected before firing up the dreaded X-Code
Sounding Good
For the most part, I can get by using sounds I've recorded or stock sounds and scores in Adobe Soundbooth's library. Otherwise, with a fair amount of time and patience, Freesound often has what I'm looking for - especially for flushing out concepts in the initial stages of production.
What looks like a far better quality (and reasonably priced) royalty free collection of music and sound effects is Sound Scalpel.
Old software revisited thanks to a new plugin
What now seems like (and is) an age ago - September '93 to be precise, I picked up a copy of Digit magazine that had a free version of Particle Illusion SE as a cover CD.
The version is limited in the size it will render to and has no alpha layer but is great at what it does and is easy to use, so I've kept it around.
It's now being used more than ever as Red Giant's free Knoll Unmult plugin, creates an alpha channel from any image shot on black and works far better at removing a black background than I was ever able to get using AE's keying functions.
While I was on the Red Giant Software page downloading this, I also picked up a copy of Magic Bullet Mojo which thanks to a 75% off coupon from NoFilmSchool only set me back $25. I'm sure I could do the same quality color grading with various free tools available but, with the skin-tone grid and only having to deal with a few sliders, this is just so much quicker (and less time tweaking leads to more time doing)...
Useful AE Scripts
Stu Maschwitz who wrote The DV Rebels Guide has posted a bunch of useful scripts referred to in this book on his blog.
From his post:
"These scripts create a tool palette that turns Adobe After Effects into a full-featured onlining tool. Add color correction effects to clips easily (including Colorista II if you have it installed), and check your grading continuity with a powerful thumbnail view that updates live as you work".
While on the topic of AE scripts, Dan Ebbert's motionscript.com should not be overlooked, neither should Adobe's AE exchange. Andrew Kramer has recently posted a trim compose script and has linked to some other workflow scripts. Finally, if none of these free options work out, Aescripts.com has a large number of reasonable priced (and a few free) scripts and plugins that could help save a significant amount of time...
Music and Sound Effects
Virtually no production done in the last week but all is not lost as I have improved my Halo Reach ranking slightly over this period.
I did manage to spend time with a MIDI keyboard and music software. Sadly, composing a film score is well above my most optimistic ability level. Despite that, I get the feeling from watching youtube that title sequences have become more important than film content anyway, so there is some hope for me: my competence stretches to creating music and sound effects for title sequences ...
Reaper is my DAW of choice, and I *think* I found a relatively good bargain in buying the latest Computer Music magazine. $15 gets a magazine that's a pretty quick read, but far more importantly has a DVD containing hundreds of sound loops, samples, VST instruments/ effects for both Mac and PC (including U-He's ZebraCM which is seems perfect for me as a simple Mac & PC synth). Sony provide another source of free quality sound loops via their acidplanet site - a new set of loops/ samples is released here each week.
Film Resources
I keep on going back to Andrew Kramer's VideoCopilot, Ryan Connolly's FilmRiot and the folks at CreativeCow, but there are many other excellent resources I want to keep track of.
All this small corner of the web is meant to do is keep track of the tutorials, assets, websites and other goodies I'm finding useful in helping me improve my short videos/ movies.