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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!

7/24/08  
kuler Get help with colors for your web site. How colors go together.
Top 10 Video Lists The best lists, brought to you in video
NewBlueFX Check out AVCHD UpShift if you want to edit AVCHD in Premiere Pro CS3
lmrser Tutorials on After Effects, Encore and Photoshop
CoreMelt Collection of plugins with Free trial, and two free plugins for AE and FCP
The Levelator

Adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file

6/30/08  
Adobe Ultra Tutorials Ultra tutorials from Serious Magic, now on the Adobe site
Training Connection Chicago based training, with training at your site anywhere in the USA.
Layers Magazine The How-To magazine for everything Adobe
Chad and Todd Podcast All things Adobe Podcast on Youtube

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

From the DVInfo forum. If this link dies, I have a copy on my hard drive I can substitute.

Fly through the clouds

 Very cool - move the mouse to change directions and speed

Free File Hosting

A list of 50+ free file hosting sites

CD/DVD packaging templates

Front panel and tray cards, inserts and sleeves

Q-Music

Royalty Free Production Music

Crazy Talk

Create virtual animated actors from digital photos

Canon XL H1 site

Download the manual and more

SendMeFile

the fastest and most reliable way of hosting files for free (they say)

Poynton's Gamma FAQ

In video, computer graphics and image processing the "gamma" symbol represents a numerical parameter that describes the nonlinearity of intensity reproduction. Want to know more? Look here!

The Magnoli Collection

Prop replicas from the Indiana Jones series, Lord of the Rings,  The X Files, and more

fxhome

Sound Effect Downloads

Interactive Depth of Field Tutorial

Learn all about Depth of Field

Ko's After Effects Tutorials

Tutorials by Ko Maruyama

VideoGears.com

Your place for DVD menus, buttons, plug-ins, presets, and other helper files

AdobeFX

The big collection of plug-in modules for Adobe(R) company products

Audio Network PLC

Award winning production music

beWebmaster.com

Check out the free Photoshop CS tutorials

Canaca.com

Web Hosting with big bandwidth allowances - they even have a toll free (USA) number

CGSociety

44 Photoshop tips for as long as the post remains active

Cinematography.com

Professional Motion Picture Camera People, News and Resources

Colorvision

Calibrate your PC monitor

DesignsByMark

Photoshop Video tutorials

freshloops.com

Download Royalty Free loops - priced reasonably

Type1 and Type2 AVI

Read what Microsoft has to say about them.

Plasma Window

Make money with your HDV camera

Embedded Media HTML Generator

Ease the burden of inserting video and animations into web pages

Top 10 DVD authoring nightmares

How to avoid DVD authoring problems

DVD Demystified

DVD Frequently Asked Questions

10/17/05

 

Spotkit

Check out the freebies first. Then keep them in mind if you need to buy something special.

Artworld

Photoshop tutorials

What is Deinterlacing?

What is Deinterlacing? Facts, solutions, examples.

10/11/05

 

Canaca.com

Inexpensive web hosting with lots of bandwidth per month

Audio Network PLC

Award winning production music library & Hollywood sound effects archive for the media professional

ColorVision

Calibrate your monitors - and more

Frame Shots

Video Frame Capture Software

HDV@Work

Optimal Exposure - first of four parts.

DesignsByMark

Photoshop Tutorials on DVD

Cinematography.com

Professional Motion Picture Camera people, news and resources

BeWebMaster.com

Photoshop tutorials and tips

TutorialFinder.com

DMO tutorial finder portal

Type 1 and Type 2 AVI explanation

Learn the difference between AVI Type 1 and AVI Type 2

Premiere Pro Wiki

Answers to many Premiere Pro questions

The Ningaloo Reef

HDV shots and picture gallery. Articles and loads of cool shots

The Vinci Shot

Sony Vegas Tutorials for beginners

ProductionTrax.com

Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects

8/14/05

 

Nine Inch Nails Videos

Lots of music videos for your enjoyment

Cinema and its Ancestors

The origins of film - a quick video, but very interesting

8/02/05

 

Zero to HD in Sixty Seconds

Ben Waggoner discusses encoding to WM9

RoyaltyFreeHD.com

High Definition, royalty-free footage. Digitally mastered from exceptional sources: 35 mm film, high-def video, or sophisticated computer renderings.

Broadband Reports

Check out the Speed Tests - How fast is your connection?

Absolutely Andy

Some of Andy's favorite UK television commercials

Carlton Draught Big Ad

It is OK to accept the security question. This is a great ad.

Titling Tip for DV

From GreatDV.com, why you need fuzzy titles and a good codec

LookAtEntertainment.com

Really bad videos, lots of them

Cinesaddle

The Cinesaddle  is an innovating camera support system designed by cameraman Mike Young

7/16/05

 

Video Copilot

A resource for visual effects artists and talented visionary's seeking all the benefits of digital post production. After Effects Tutorials, resources, and helpful products.

The Freesound Project

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License.

7/9/05

 

Russell Brown

Adobe Photoshop Tips and Techniques - Video tutorials and more

Ascend Training

Hands on training in the Chicago area for Adobe Macromedia, Flash, Photoshop, Avid & Quark

Hyperbolic Films

Shot on HDV.

Resellerrattings.com

Compare prices and see the reseller ratings. B&H Video is almost a 9 out of 10, and Broadway Photo is under a 2. Which one do you want to do business with?

Send Help Productions

Send Help is a two man comedy show where reality takes a half-hour hiatus.

Pure Motion

The Pure Motion Noise Reduction Plugin is a perfect tool for the video user who wishes to produce movies of the highest technical quality. Available for Editstudio 5, Adobe Premiere Pro and Premiere Elements

Unique Tracks

Royalty Free Music - improves communication with your target audience by strengthening the emotional impact of your production

Grocery Store Wars

Join the Organic Rebellion

Darcy's Journal

Darcy used to moderate the Adobe Premiere forum. Ever wonder what happened to him?

I-O-Data Forum

For the owners of the AVeL Linkplayer

High Def Forum

Get the Latest High Definition News & Informative Articles

Model Releases

All bout Model Releases for your videos

Plasma Window

Sell your HDV footage!

HP TV ads

Innovative stuff. Take a look.

5/31/05

 

Ryan-W.com

Special Effects tutorials and more. Read "The chronological Ryan story".

Mapie's Funny Movies

A collection of funny stuff. Includes the ping pong guys.

Designer Drugs

Photoshop tutorials

DV Date / DV Subtitles

DV Date is getting good reviews on the Adobe forums.

Twixtor Tutorials

They are 217MB, but worth downloading if you use Twixtor.

Epic Camera Housings

Underwater casing at a reasonable price

AE Enhancers

A forum for AE Scripts, Expressions and Presets

GiftSongs.com

Need a song for a personal video. With personal information in it?

5/15/05

 

Scotch Productions

Need a voiceover done? Want to learn more about doing your own? Need to make a demo? Let Gordon help you.

5/08/05

 

Sony Picture Profiles for the FX1/Z1

A page dedicated to Picture Profile Settings. Send me yours with an explanation of why they are set like they are.

HDV Uncovered Tour

Adobe Presents: The HDV Uncovered Tour - May 17 through June 9 - FREE!

4/30/05

 

Stock Video Page

I added a new page for Stock Footage and moved all of the Stock Footage links to that page. Then I added a bunch of new ones taken from the April issue of Videography magazine.

4/24/05

 

HighDef Information Library

From HighDef magazine. Subscribe (for free) while you are there.

4:2:2, 4:4:4 and 4:4:4:4 Video Explained

From the Support library of Blackmagic Design

Straight Advice on Loop-Based Music

From Chris Meyer of http://www.cybmotion.com/ - the After Effects gurus.

Star Wars Fan Film

Panic Struck Productions did a GREAT job on this one. Huge download, but worth every bit of it. George Lucas could turn the franchise over to these folks and we would get great episodes 7 through 9!

4/20/05

 

Computer Training Software

These folks have a large selection of training courses for Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Lightwave, you name it. Of course my Premiere Pro tutorials are better, and more up to date, but check out the rest of their materials. And check out the free samples.

4/16/05

 

Anime Spoof Productions

Lots of spoofs, music videos and general teenage goofing around. No actual Anime though.

Lady X

A cooperative global indie film project

4/13/05

 

Topaz Labs

Topaz Moment V2.0,  inexpensive video frame capture and enhancement software. Take a look at what it can do for you.

8nero

Free and Original Photoshop brushes - 209 of them at last count. And a tutorial on how to make your own.

Dropload

Send a large (up to 100MB) file to their server for someone else to pick up. Useful when YouSendIt isn't working right.

DV / Photo Time Stamp

Visual DV Time Stamp and Visual Photo Time Stamp are tools to add date and/or time stamp to the captured DV AVI files or JPG files. Very affordable.

4/4/05

 

Sony HDR-FX1 Manual online

The FX1 manual in PDF format

Sony HVR-Z1U Manual Online

The Z1U manual in PDF format

The Project Studio Handbook

The web's largest directory of recording-related articles and links 

Mastering with Ozone

Related to some of the VSTs in Audition, only more so. Good reference material.

4/1/05

 

Microphones for Post

A new page listing some popular microphones. Gleaned from an article on www.postmagazine.com

3/30/05

 

A Luna Blue

Stock Footage and Image Library. A Luna Blue provides highly creative royalty-free stock footage and photography.  Digitally produced for broadcast, desktop video and all new media.

Discount available to my visitors until June 30, 2005. 10% off on all purchases. Enter the coupon code PREMPRO

Adobe Desktop DV

From uncompressed HD video on the high end to the increasingly popular and economical HDV format, Adobe provides a tightly integrated, comprehensive workflow solution with virtually everything you need to excel in HD video production.

3/29/05

 

HDV Cafe

Lots of HDV links. If I don't have it yet, they might. I decided not to copy all of their links. Just consider the HDV Cafe links page to be sort of an extension of mine - or the other way around.

3/28/05

 

Audio Masters Forum

The Original Cool Edit & Adobe Audition Community

Color In Motion

An Interactive Experience of Color Communication and Color Symbolism

Art of Foley

A Foley artists talks about Foley effects. What it is and how it is done.

Amazon Theater

Short Film Competition

3/19/05

 

Royalty Free HDTV

Being on location to shoot is difficult, costly, and time consuming. They will travel to those sites or events, climb those mountains, camp out in freezing rain, and lug the equipment to deliver to your door those broadcast quality Royalty Free HDTV shots you need to complete your project AND at one affordable price.

The Recordist

The Recordist presents a collection of free sound effects in MP3 format

Seacam

Underwater housing for the Sony HDR-FX1

Markertek.com

This tripod fascinates me.

HDV@Work

Steve Mullen - an introduction to 1080i postproduction.

Depth of Field

An interactive tutorial - free

Footage Firm

Royalty Free Stock Footage - check out the free samples.

Amphibico

A PDF showing off a new, full-featured marine housing for the Sony FX1 and Z1.

Experience Pro Tools

Crazy Adobe Photoshop Plugins + Free Filters - 7 & CS

3/4/05

 

Automatic Duck is pleased to announce Pro Import PPro a powerful add-on for Adobe® Premiere® Pro 1.5 that allows for exciting translation from Avid® and Final Cut® editing systems.

3/2/05

 

Footage Bakery

Affordable - video clips are well photographed and supplied in generous portions. None of those teenie, tiny snippets you'll find on other sites

3/1/05

 

Editors Keys

Increase productivity, discover all the tools and give your keyboard the professional work station look with Editors Keys for Avid Xpress, Apple Final Cut, Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop!

2/28/05

 

The upgrade for Premiere Pro 1.5 to Premiere Pro 1.5.1 is now available: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform=Windows

2/27/05

 

Canopus HDV Education Site

Read all about HDV. You might even decide to buy some Canopus tools.

2/20/05

 

OptikVerve Labs

virtualPhotographer. A free plugin for Photoshop.

2/13/05

 

Par-T-Com

The thrift store of video production - check out the projects area for videos

Putfile.com

A free video and image hosting site. I am trying it out for my personal videos to save bandwidth.

2/11/05

 

undergroundfilm.org

Undergroundfilm.org is dedicated to using digital distribution to bring filmed entertainment to audiences throughout the world.

The Window Channel

New video image company that deals exclusively in long-play, native high definition, ambient scenic footage. Sell your HDV or HD footage.

Digital Director

A series of guides to demonstrate the ease with which footage can be transferred from your DV video camera to a CD or website.

Buena Software

Camera Flash Plugin (free) for After Effects (purchased by toolfarm - no longer free)

Le Repaire

Tutorials in French - Many products including Premiere Pro, Vegas, Encore, Edition, etc. toute l'information sur la réalisation vidéo numérique

BBC Motion Gallery

Easy access to thousands of shots from the vast and diverse archives of the BBC and CBS News.

Hypereye

Royalty Free Animation and FX for broadcast production. Loops and other backgrounds.

2/6/05

 

IPhotoVideo

Chromakey Studio Backgrounds, Virtual Sets, Lower third Animations, 3D Animations etc.

2/3/05

 

Sony HDR-FX1 Review

HEXUS.NET has a review from the DV Doctor

2/2/05

 

Post Production Humor

Very funny stuff. Check it out.

1/28/05

 

Article - Cycore FX in After Effects 6.5

DV.com article - Written by Trish and Chris Meyer

1/27/05

 

Backstories

Editing a Feature-Length Film on a PC. Post-production of the documentary film "Dust to Glory"

Edit This

Article: Dust to Glory redefines desktop HD editing

1/24/05

 

New HDV Page

Check out my new HDV page!

I-O Data Linkplayer Review

Review on my Linkplayer. Decent review, and well worth reading if you are looking at a HD DVD player for only $249.

The Link TV Network

Various videos

The Film Link

Online resources for the film industry. Links to online films, and more.

Chuck's Films

Films by Chuck Brownley

12/10/04

 

Digital Media Training Series

The award-winning Digital Media Training Series offers a fast, easy way to master creative software. Take a look at their offerings for the Video Collection as well as training for the Canon GL2 and Panasonic AG-DVX100

12/05/04

 

-18dB Reference Tone

Craig Howard supplied an -18dB 1KHz tone for use in Premiere Pro projects

Sony HDV Info

Discussion forum for the Sony HDV camcorder

Oculart

Amazing Flash site. Not video exactly, but certainly interesting

Larry Carlson

Flash Animation. Some material for mature audiences only.

Videogears.com

Encore DVD templates. Some free, others just very inexpensive. Contribute for credit towards purchases.

CineForm

Real-time, online  editing workflow for HDV within Adobe Premiere Pro

Cycore FX

The creators of Final Effects and Cult Effects are back!

11/30/04

 

After Effects Paint Tutorial

Artbeats sponsors an After Effects Paint Tutorial

AE Flame

Free After Effects plugin for making animated flame fractals.

Smiley-Smuggz Productions

Videos. Lots of videos.

The MANN Project

Somewhere between Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, Mann is the epitome of the common man struggling to do that which is set out before him.

Scott Spears

Indie film tech tips (video) and articles. Some articles from Sonnyboo as well.

Sonnyboo's online movies

Comedy, drama, all kinds of stuff. Also check out his Movimaker Downloads.

EventDV.net

Lots of articles to read.

11/26/04

 

Royalty Free Music - Beatsuite

Royalty Free Production Music and Sound Effects. Check out the free samples. Buy just what you need. Get out of copyright danger and use Royalty Free music.

11/24/04

 

Doog's Tutorials

Free Adobe Encore tutorials. He is a wee bit Scottish, but you can understand him.

Tutorialized

Lots of free tutorials. Photoshop, Maya, HTML, and some old Premiere 6.x.

Pixelcorps Free Training

A great Photoshop tutorial. One hour of free training on alpha channels and selections. Huge file - but worth it.

KnowItAllVideo

Put your videos online - for FREE. Do you know something? Make an instructional video about it. Join the community of self helpers. Also has room for vacation vids and more.

Notebook9

Every adventure starts with an idea. Need help with a project? Check out his reel. Dave attends the Dallas Motion Graphics meetings.

DigitalTelevision.com

Want to know what's happening in the HDTV production and broadcasting field. Read about it here.

DVD Video Bit Budget Calculator

Free - When planning your DVD project, you need to know the optimum bitrate for your MPEG-2 video encoding

ObviousFX

Free After Effects Plug-in. A simple utility that copies the current composition image to the Windows Clipboard, allowing easy pasting into other image applications (such as Photoshop). It bypasses the task of saving the current frame to an image file and then reopening.

Hesido.com

Free Photoshop tutorials

Terragen

Terragen™ is a work-in-progress scenery generator for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage of its development, Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use.

Absolute Sound Effects Archive

Largest collection of free sound effects on the Internet

Tools for Television

Automate Photoshop for a video design environment like never before. The premiere tool for video professionals working in Photoshop.

Dependant Films Tools and Utilities for Filmmakers

Script formatting, Call sheets, Release forms, Continuity Synopsis sheets, Storyboard tools and much more.

Learner.org

American Cinema, a video instructional series on film history for college and high school classrooms and adult learners

NOT5150

Pictures and videos. Check out the one from November 15th, 2004 - Serious stuff from Iraq.

SiteSled

Free web hosting. Lots of space and lots of bandwidth. What's the catch? I can't find one.

11/9/04

 

Outerspace Software

A place to buy BluffTitler, a cool, inexpensive 3D title program. Their home page is here.

Photospin.com

Thousands of photos

Easy Estimates at Sizzling Web Design

Enable visitors to quickly and easily create an estimate of the cost of services that you provide

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

Not video related exactly, but a cool site

Historical Nuclear Weapons Test Films

Movies of various nuclear explosions

CinemaNow

Watch movies online

Sticky Pod

Stick your camcorder to the outside of a car - safely!

CatDV Pro

Media asset database and clip logging utility from Square Box Systems Ltd.

Virtual Photographer

Free Photoshop Plugin

Graphicxtras.com

Free Plugins for Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator and more

Little Ink Pot

Free Photoshop Plugins

Reindeer Graphics

Free Photoshop Plugins

Richard Rosenman

Free Photoshop Plugins

Nikonians

Free Photoshop Plugins

Jordi Gonzalez Boada

Free Photoshop Plugins

www.slosh.net

The Photo Killer - also available as a Photoshop plugin

Acro PDF

Photoshop Speedup - why run plugins you don't need?

Cybia

Plugin Switch - organize your Photoshop plugins

Art Rage

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.

Matton.com

Provider of Royalty Free Music Clips, Royalty Free Songs and Royalty Free Sounds. From techno and hip hop beats to classical and Hawaiian music, as well as Royalty Free SFX (sound effects). All available for immediate purchase and download. Also, Hi-Res images, footage, fonts, maps and clip-art.

GSpot

FREE  --  Codec information appliance. Establishes what video codecs (audio and video) are required to play an AVI file. And it determines whether these codecs are installed on your system.

11/6/04

 

My Tutorials

Premiere Pro 1.5 as explained and demonstrated by me!  Check it out! The first chapter is free.

10/8/2004

 

Focal Press

A great Premiere Pro book by Tim Kolb, and so much more.

Wicked Wavs

Royalty free music, sounds & voice for multimedia

9/26/2004

 

Scripts

After Effects Scripts Page - donations accepted

Gak Pak

Effects for animated background and structural elements. From Profound Effects

CameraPOV

Through-the-lens photo and video camera simulation effects. From Profound Effects

9/17/2004

 

Digital Media Net - After Effects

News, features, reviews, techniques, and forums

Digital Media Net - Digital Video Editing

News, features, reviews, techniques, and forums

Digital Media Net - Premiere

News, features, reviews, techniques, and forums

9/7/2004

 

Grinner Hester's Pearls of Wisdom

He writes it in a forum, I put it on my page. Read this stuff. It is quite interesting.

9/5/2004

 

Cult Effects Tutorials

These are old tutorials, but if you believe that they have value, please use them.

8/26/04

 

The Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman

Outstanding live action and animation done in Flash

The Burly Group

Photoshop and Premiere Pro tutorials

8/24/04

 

Gradware.com

Academic Software & Student Discount Software. The guaranteed low price leader for academic software and student discount software.

Prior to 8/13/04

 

Tutorial Collection

Tutorials for Photoshop, 3ds Max and Flash - Hundreds of tutorials

Bluff Titler

BluffTitler is the easiest way to add 3D text animations to your digital photos and videos. Note: Yes, I get a commision if you buy it. But I use it, so I don't feel it is wrong to recommend it.

freeimages.co.uk

Free stock photos

Post Magazine

I enjoy reading this every month. Check it out.

DV Time Stamp

Add a Date / Time stamp to your videos

Detonation Films

Free explosions, muzzle flashes, fire, and other useful stuff

DebugMode

Freeware - Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software.

Lynda.com

Learning at your own pace - take the tutorials online or buy the CD/DVD

Keying and Mattes

An article by Alan Steward

Making Digital Home Movies Part 1

Part One of a series

Making Digital Home Movies Part 2

Part Two of a series

Sonnyboo

Free downloads, paperwork, screenwriting and video/film tools. Lots of resources.

Dan Ebberts' Expressions Lab

The master of After Effects Expressions shows you how it is done

Digital Producer

A review of Particle Illusion 3.0 from Stephen Schleicher

Kodak Glossary

Kodak's Glossary of Film and Video terms

AudioVideo101

Features an AudiVideo dictionary

Adobe Premiere Pro FAQ

From the Adobe Premiere Pro forum

Links to making video look like film

Mike Gunter collected a whole lot of links on this very popular subject

MPEG Encoder Bitrate Table

Mike Velte put together a table to help you determine how much video you can put on a DVD, and at what data rate.

Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing

Ever wonder why is is called an "Alpha Channel"?

Scenalyzer

You want to edit video. Why do you waste so much time capturing it?

The Link TV Network

Music, Comedy, Film, Dance, Travel, Theater, How-To & More ... 

After Effects - Effects Documentation

This is a direct link to a 3.2MB PDF file.  It is for AE5.5 but still applies to all of the AE6 effects.

 

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