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About Steven Gotz

What's New on www.stevengotz.com

My Tutorials

Premiere Pro 1.5 as explained and demonstrated by me!  Check it out!

2/24/08

 
Jeff Schell Premiere Pro Podcast Take a look at Jeff's tutorials. Really great stuff. For free.
My Music Source Buy and Sell music - where producers, bands and fans connect
Magnatune Royalty Free music - a slightly different concept
Soundsnap Free sound effects and loops
After Effects Scripts

Tips, tricks and tinkering in After Effects CS3.

Adobe Scripting Blog about everything Adobe Scripting
Little Men Entertainment Tools and Resources for Animators and Broadcast Designers
Zacuto

Lightweight Support (LWS) System for Attaching Accessories to High-Definition Video Cameras

FXHome After Effects plug-ins. Check out MuzzlePlug and PowerPlug.
Royalty Free Classical Music

For use in Podcasts, Multimedia Web Design and background music for film and TV.

Loopsound

Royalty Free Music Loops, Classical Music Library and Background Sound Effects for Flash Multimedia Web Design, Game Developement and Broadcast Professionals

8/14/07

 
Camera Farm

Australian company that specialises in digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, video cameras and their accessories

Whitebeetle

Royalty Free Music - The ultimate source for maximum impact, cutting edge royalty free music. Available for instant download.

7/23/07

 
Media College Time Remapping in Adobe Premiere Pro. Nice and simple.
Lead Codecs MJPEG (Motion JPEG) codec at half the price of some others.
jamendo Creative Commons (free) music for your videos

DAV's TechTable

A discussion with Dave Helmly on Digital Audio Video hardware solutions for Adobe's video and audio applications.

2Writers Eddie Lotter's utilities (free)
Instant HD Red Giant Software designed to up-convert DV to HD
ReSizer

Digital Anarchy software designed to up-convert DV to HD

Elecard

Movie file conversion from AVCHD to MPEG-2 HDV and MPEG-2 DVD compatible formats

LoveToVoice Trish Bell.  A very talented and very professional female voiceover artist.  
Pixel2Life Tutorials Site. Learning made Simple.

5/03/07

 
Erik Haddad Production Music

Unique instrumental production music and flash music loops!  Erik Haddad is a Chicago area musician, teacher, and composer. His music is available at a very low price for Non-Profit and Non-Commercial use, and isn't expensive at all for commercial use.  Check it out.  I use his music for my UWOL Challenges.

Music Tracks Library

They offer a high quality library of royalty free music suitable for films, video, multimedia, Web, etc.

Reality Sets The next step in chromakey backgrounds. Volume 3 puts your talent in the set, not on it.

4/14/07

 
Scopes Tutorial How to use Scopes in a NLE
Maltaannon Tutorials After Effects, Photoshop and Audition Tutorials
Music for Video a different step in library music

3/4/07

 
Plug-in Pavilion One-stop source for all of your favorite plug-ins
Conoa Plug-ins for After Effects, Premiere Pro and FCP
2b-royaltyfree Home to the hottest Royalty Free Production Music on the web
Studio Monthly Tutorials

Check out Making Old Plug-ins Work in Premiere Pro 2.0

GoToAndLearn Cool Flash tutorials and more
GeoVid PowerPoint Presentation to Video Converter

2/7/07

 

RevoStock Stock footage - SD, HDV, HD as well as Music and Sound FX.  Check out the freebies
Student Filmmakers Check out these forums. There are some discussions that seldom take place elsewhere.
EFP/ENG Lighting Tutorials

Free instructional web site dedicated entirely to fundamental lighting techniques.

Make an inexpensive Light Tent

Tutorial on constructing an Inexpensive Light Tent

12/25/06

 
XSPro Free Movie Looks. Actually projects with clips that you can copy from then paste the attributes. Very clever.
Alpha Plugins Photoshop and After Effects plugins. Check out the free ones and then see if you need any they charge for.
Future Design Stock Animated Video Backgrounds - SD and HD
Free Photoshop Textures Useful texture library
Brushes.net.tc Free Photoshop Brushes
Google Video Videos of all types
Yahoo Video Videos of all types
YouTube Videos of all types. I recommend clicking on the button that sets the size back to the original size to keep the quality at it's best.
KnuckleHead Video A National Lampoon video site. You must be 18 years old. Or lie.
Feedback Video Looping Animated Stock Footage - check out the flags.
LearnPhotoShopNow

Master all the basic functions of Photoshop in just 2 hours

ClearCutPro UK based equipment suppier. Mostly Mac but lots of useful items for UK customers
SmartFlix How-To Videos Are you smart enough to create product for them?
Bohoc Productions

A Guide for Indie Filmmakers Who Know Nothing About Indie Filmmaking

Digital Media ME Adobe User Group for the UAE and Middle East
Adobe HD Primer Understanding and Using High-Definition Video (PDF file)
iPowerWeb Web Hosting with lots of bandwidth allowance

Andreas Wannerstedt

Inspiration site by a freelance artist
Sound Loop Studio Royalty-free Music Loops for Multimedia Projects
KeyText Shareware for repetitive typing tasks. Great for frequent forum posters.
EventDV Tutorials Tutorial on using SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 and more.
bobyte The home for freeware AviTricks, AviScreen, AviSplit, and more. Sometimes a professional NLE is overkill.
Alpha Plugins Filters and plug-ins for Photoshop and After Effects

9/27/06

 

Max Tutorial

Photoshop and Flash tutorials

HDV underwater footage

Great underwater HDV footage

Bali Diving Videos

Cool videos

9/24/06

 

Royalty Free Store

Royalty-free stock footage collections for video professionals

Ousted Productions

Royalty Free Loops. Check out the free ones.

9/17/06

 

DJTV

Tutorials from Digital Juice covering many topics, not just their products.

DVFilm Raylight

RAYLIGHT is an HD codec for Windows that is compatible with the Panasonic HVX200 camera

HandsOnHDV

Instructional videos for Sony HDV camcorders

Trapcode People

The natural place for motion graphics and vfx people to meet and share tips, ideas and resources.

Cineform Unplugged

This is the place where some of the technical goings-on at CineForm will be uncovered. It will have a particular focus on some of the film projects that are taking CineForm Intermediate to some interesting places.

Groovy Loops

High quality fresh sounding royalty free music tracks, music loops and Sound Effects

6/22/06

 

Foto Search

Stock Photography and Footage. Huge collection of stock photo and footage libraries.

6/06/06

 

Sony M10U with Adobe Premiere Pro

Using the Sony M10U HDV Deck with Adobe Premiere Pro

5/22/06

 

The Anvel

After Effects tutorials, AEP files and training

5/10/06

 

Ants.tv

Motion Graphics for the Spanish speaking market

5/3/06

 

Gray Machine

After Effects and Maya tutorials by a professional animator for NBC

Stock20

Royalty Free Music for Media Professionals at a price it is hard to pass up.

4/21/06

 

CameraStore.com

A camera store down under. Australian owned and operated.

It's Jerry Time

2006 Emmy Award Nominee for “original entertainment programming created specifically for non-traditional viewing platforms”

4/9/06

 

Bert Monroy

Digital Photo-Realist Artist - these are not photos!

Creative Cow Podcasts

After Effects Podcasts hosted by Aharon Rabinowitz

Creative Cow Podcasts

Premiere Pro Podcasts hosted by Aanarav Sareen

Photoshop Tips

30 free Photoshop lessons. Lots more on his DVD.

Clip Shack

A place to view and post videos. Free.

Dubtastic Design Labs

Free Photoshop Brushes and more

Candlelight Stories

Some interesting movies

SendSpace

"SendSpace - The Best Free File Sharing Service!" (so they say) Works fine as far as I can tell.

Chris Watson

Supercharge Your Raw Footage - Microsoft Word doc. Great reading.

Adobe Production Studio Resource Center

New features, free tutorials, Podcast.

Updates for Premiere Pro 2.0

Get the updates if you are going to use Clipnotes.

Manuals Paradise

Need to buy a manual? These people probably have it. Even the service manuals!

Moviola Digital Education Center

The entertainment industry's premiere resource for post-production, motion graphics and digital arts training.

Lobo

Flash Inspiration as well as 3D and After Effects. Check out the reel.

Opuzz

100% Royalty free music. Immediate downloads, CDs, DVDs and Loop Collections. From $0.40

The Timewarp

Stephen Schleicher's tutorial on After Effects 7.0 Timewarp.

What's My IP

I always need to know my address as the rest of the world sees it to use NetMeeting.

Microsoft  KB 885222

Performance of 1394 devices may decrease after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2

Multimedia Wiki

This Wiki is a collaborative effort to document as much information about multimedia technology as possible

Sony HDR-FX1 broken down into parts

This page shows the FX1 broken down into the servicable parts.

In the Can Pictures

MySpace for Chris Thompson, Filmmaker.

The Premiere Pro Collective

A place where Premiere Pro editors can get together to discuss issues and workarounds, share tips and other advice, or network, or whatever..

Digital Content Producer

Film and Video in a Multi-Platform World

Chromakey Setup & Lighting Tips

Some great Chromakey (Bluescreen) tips.

Fresh Music Library

Quality Royalty Free Music at a great price

Fresh Loops

Not the same as Fresh Music. These are loops for a generation different than my own.

Graphic Xtras

After Effects Plugins

MassiveTracks

Royalty Free Music and Loops for Immediate Download

1/10/06

 

Sterling Ledet & Associates

Invest in your future. Insure your success. They say "We Teach The Cool Stuff!"

VFX Talk

Interviews, tutorials, forums - all VFX, all the time!

1/1/06

Note: Today's additions are only on this page. They never made it to the individual pages they are supposed to be on. There are just too many this time. Another day perhaps...

EventDV.net

The Event Videographer's Resource

Frameshots

Video Frame Capture Software

Sony FX1 Under Water

Check out "The Ningaloo Reef"

Good-Tutorials.com

Photoshop Tutorials

HDV Underwater

Great underwater clips

Maintaining a Healthy System

An article by Aanarav Sareen, an Adobe Certified Expert in Premiere Pro.

Global-DVC.org

HDV Stock Shots (accepting submissions)

Art World

Photoshop Tutorials

Neo Sounds

Royalty Free Music tracks, Music Loops, Production Music and Sound Effects

Comprehensive WM9 HDTV Encoding Guide

This guide only concerns itself with encoding HDTV sources to Windows Media 9 format.

Deinterlacing

Facts, solutions, examples

12/31/05

Note: Today's additions are only on this page. They never made it to the individual pages they are supposed to be on. There are just too many this time. Another day perhaps...

Popcast

Internet TV made by you

Urban Fox

One-to-one camera training and some online manuals

Thunderstruck

A collection of Sound Effects from a member of the WrigleyVideo forum

Photoshop TV

Featuring "The Photoshop Guys" - watch the videos and learn

HandsOnHDV

Instructional videos for Sony HDV camcorders - HC1, Z1U and FX1

EliteVideo

Instructional videos for Sony HDV camcorders - HC1, Z1U and FX1 as well as other camcorders

ShowMePhotoshop

Photoshop Tutorials

In-D-TV Network

A source of networking for independent producers and industry professionals.

How to set up a Matrox Parhelia APVe