2-pop, Launched in 1997 as one of the first online video production communities -- initially for the Final Cut Pro user -- 2-pop.com has evolved into the premier online destination for DV production. The site' includes a library of "how-to" articles and product reviews and its active discussion forums. The 30 discussion forums cover all aspects of video production -- from cameras to editing equipment to workstations. Through a partnership with DVCreators.net, 2-Pop will also be co-presenting tutorials, seminars and training sessions.
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MultiMedia, Stock Footage and Clip Art Sites
Artbeats is an award-winning provider of royalty-free stock footage and still imagery for broadcast, desktop video, multimedia, Internet and 3D texture mapping. The Artbeats Digital Film Library includes nature, special effects, scenics, aerials, lifestyles, backgrounds, and much more. The library includes over 200 titles, 36 of which are high-definition.
Foto Search Stock Photos allows users to search from more than fifty quality stock photo vendors at one site. They can find the perfect photo fast, and save a lot of time. They can also find clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery
SingingFish.com is the world leader in audio and video search featuring the world’s largest index of streaming media. Based in Seattle, Washington, Singingfish incorporates proprietary automation into its search solutions and offers a robust suite of easily adaptable multimedia search services that enable Internet users to quickly and easily locate popular streaming media content including entertainment, news and sports via any Internet-accessible PC or CE device. For more information: www.singingfish.com.
Global Cuts - Global Cuts delivers moving pictures as royalty-free QuickTime files. Use them with software such as Combustion, After Effects or Final Cut Pro to create your own layered compositions. Global Cuts deliveries the footage on tape or as QuickTime files on Apple DVD or Kodak CD-R disks. More than enough material to tell a story about your favorite topic. They have video clips of animals, buildings, cars, cities, sports, travel, - almost anything you can think of.
Ulead Pick A VideoUlead provides three collections of royalty free videos that you can use for your own projects. Each collection is composed of five CDs check full of high resolution, broadcast quality scenes and clips. Each 5 CD collection is $239. The associated Pick a Video Pro Titles provide CD collections of title backgrounds and opening sequences.
The TIME IMAGE library (on DV tape $195) contains hundreds of contemporary shots covering virtually every subject. World locations, time lapse, News and War, 3D Animations, Medicine, Studio Concepts, and so much more.
CamcorderInfo.com has a nice little selection of FREE downloadable stock footage clips. These mostly cover the areas of space flight and animals.
Stock Music
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com aka Award Winning Music, presents comprehensive Royalty Free Music packages, suited for every
musical need. Our Production Music library is available for every sound use: Multimedia - Industrial, Corporate,
Commercial and Personal Videos - Production Music - Documentaries, Film, and Television - Flash - Video - Buyout
Music - Background Music / Multimedia / CD-ROM Applications Looping - Power Point Presentations - Trade Show, Training
and Photographic Presentations - Broadcast Radio, Cable Networks and Music On Hold - Restaurant - all as royalty free music.
WorldWideOCR Helping writers, artists, photographers and inventors affordably protect and archive their copyrights and intellectual property online. In only 5 minutes, you can apply a SEAL™ file date-stamp to your scripts, songs, images and ideas in any digital file format. Save time and a lot of money!
Looking for more Internet movies and info - check out ZiggyWig - not only do they have tons of links to online video sites, Hollywood and movie news, film schools, how to sites, movie fan sites, etc., they also feature their own movies as well.
Hot for Movies? - check QE Movies - Your online resource for Movies!
Get Political - check out Morons.Org - we're thinkers and armchair philosophers. We want to be free to think and reason. We want to be
free to live our lives and make decisions as we see fit. We are tired of the interference we get from a variety of sources. We are angry at them for trying to block us from being happy because they cannot attain happiness for themselves.
WallyWood is a slightly different Hollywood fan site. Instead of just rhapsodizing about flicks, its members seek out and publicize goofs and errors. The name Wallywood is obviously derived from 2 words -
"wally" - meaning idiot, fool or stupid person "Hollywood" - The centre of the film and Movie industry Thus Wallywood implies fools within the movie industry
Learn more about shooting, editing and posting Internet Video and movies:
Adam Wilt's Web Guide to DV and Video:
www.adamwilt.com
About.com's Desktop Video section - hosted by David Simpson:
desktopvideo.about.com
Basic Web Resource Site - this site is great. Not only do they have extensive tutorials about the basics of video production and streaming media, the site also includes info and tutorials about how to create web pages using HTML, Frontpage Express and Composer for all levels of users. You can also learn about other web design skills such as streaming media, creating web videos, FTP, site hosting and promotion.
Digital video and television technology, techniques and products for the broadcaster:
www.digitaltelevision.com
DV Magazine: Lots of good reviews and how to articles
www.dv.com
DV.com discussion forums:
DV.com Discussion Forums
It all starts with a writer and good ideas. A free online book about screenwriting!
True Art of Screenwriting
Are you using iDVD? Check out Kent Tidwell's iDVD site - Great stuff. Everything you
need to know - from beginners to pros. Strongly recommended.
Cool video software, tips and links to other great stuff - beta test the new Fun Box
http://www.jellypie.co.uk/index.htm
Gary Bettan's Desktop Video Handbook:
www.videoguys.com/dtvhome.html
College Film.com provide a wonderful assortment of short films and videos for download and online viewing, it also functions as a resource center for the student filmmaker. This includes help with scripting, film festivals, financing, directing, cinematography, an assortment of other how to articles and lots of links to other sites of interest to moviemakers .
Magnet Media, creates and sells multimedia training tools for creative professionals working in film, television, print and web design. In its first two years, Magnet Media has produced and distributed an award-winning line of multimedia and online training products in the fast-growing digital media software training market. The Company has distributed its products with the strategic support of Apple Computer, Pearson Publishing, Discreet Logic / Autodesk, and Macromedia. The
Company's first series of products, the Digital Media Training Series (DMTS) enables its audience to master and remain on top of changing technology. Zoom In, is the company's newest training series and is the world's first DVD series for professionals in the production and post production industry.
Video Fizz: Video Editing Software, resources Tutorials and FAQ's - very comprehensive guide to the basics of video editing and production. This is a new site so the info is up to date.
Newsletters and SIGs
• Digital Media Net Newsletter
• WaveForm - Broadcast
• Levels - Game Development
• Loud! - Audio
• Mac Alert - Mac
•Pixels - Design/Publishing
• KNews - Presentation
• StreamLine - Streaming Media
• The CADlist - CAD
• TimeLine - Production
• Renders - Animationhttp
Email Lists
http://www.DVCentral.org/thelist.html - Digital Video list is the oldest and the most popular discussion forum about DV and FireWire technologies, since 1997
SydneyDV - http://www.sydneydv.com is meant primarily for people in Sydney who shoot digital video who are looking for crew for upcoming projects, projects to work on or want to discuss technical issues relating to digital filmmaking. Filmmakers using any acquisition format are welcome as are
international members and artists of any kind.
There is a Crew Database section at this website and anyone who is a member can have their own webpage featuring their photo or image of their choice and/or photographs from films they have been involved in.
Members can also have their CV posted or general blurb about themselves stating what sort of projects they would like to work on and in what capacity. Members are also encouraged to feature their "instant messaging" details if they'd like to talk with fellow members on-line.
Places to Post Your Videos
These sites are looking for your videos and animations - also check the Watch Video Guide - most of those sites are also looking for videos and films - (some will actually pay you!)
always i - non-refundable application fee of $50; a year's subscription to Unlimited Cinema Atom Bomb - DVD, DVC Pro, MiniDV Atom Films - must be narrative fiction(comedy, drama, thriller, or sci-fi); must be less than 20 minutes in length; must have been completed after 1999; must have all clearances and rights for music and talent Bijou Cafe - no restrictions on format or content; if selected your film is offered for free one-week viewing, afterwards, it becomes part of Bijou Cafe's on demand stream and BijouPass restricted areas The Bit Screen - Internet-based films, animations and episodics, 1 to 10 minutes long; send URL, or tape or CD-ROM in the mail; preferred file format is Quick Time 4.0, 320 x 240 dScoop - three minutes or less; submit by mail or online eveo films - four minutes or less preferred; MiniDV, DVCAM, SVHS, VHS, Beta, and Hi8 tapes in PAL, NTSC, and SECAM; mail with submission form film-411 - accepts short film submissions to be hosted and featured; must include submission release form with VHS copy filmfilm.com - must have a completed project; project must be funded and ready to go Free Speech TV - basic web hosting for streaming video; 7 day waiting period until account activation(subject to approval); no tech support; storage 25 megs; non commercial use only; premium(paid) hosting also available GreenLineTV.com - VHS, MiniDV, digital submissions (QuickTime using Photo JPEG compression with quality slider set to 90 or higher, 320x240 or 352x240 at 30 or 29.97 frames per second. Audio: 16bit/44.1Khz/Stereo or Mono, uncompressed. All digital submissions MUST be placed on your own http server or be delivered on CD-ROM by mail) Hypnotic - pays for exclusive distribution rights over the licensing period; VHS iCanStream.com free streaming service; allows you to upload your movies, seek advice from members, and show your work in a gallery iFilm - must own or hold the rights to the film and have all rights and clearance; if submission is not accepted paid exhibition packages available Indie DVD - free postage for submissions; profits shared; offers free space on discs for trailers; VHS iNetFilm.com - all types of formats including any film stock, video stock, Flash/Shockwave animations, QuickTime videos, 3d animations Media Trip - films (shorts or features) should be available for Internet broadcast; short films 60 min or less; VHS(NTSC format), CD-Rom, MiniDV or URL Movie Flix - movie or trailer; encoding, hosting and streaming is free; must grant movieflix worldwide non-exclusive royalty free license MP4 - associated with MP3.com, they are actively looking for cool hip videos and animations. The New Venue - 5MB max for streaming; 15 min max for downloading; Quicktime(Sorenson compression) or Flash Reel Mind - members receive free streaming for 35 min; films are archived for viewing Reel Screen - VHS(PAL or NTSC) Screen 47 - VHS (NTSC), Betacam SP, 3/4-inch tapes, MPEG, QuickTime Single Reel - free hosting for streaming video as well as video directory; viewers can post comments and rate clips; short films only; must be in Quicktime format Teenage Humor Movie Page - not only are they looking for short clips, they are looking for all kinds of fun and goofy stuff. The Sync - categories are animation, comedy, documentary, experimental, less than a minute and made for the net; must be shorter than 30 min; NTSC VHS or SVHS videotape; Real Media format for made for the net category; non-commercial KnowItAllVideo enables amateurs and professionals to upload short videos (files less than four megabytes in size) to find specialized audiences - without the complexity of setting up a video-capable Website - to make new friendships, share home videos, seek peer review, take a shot at fame, or communicate their skills and experience to a broader audience. more |
If you are an independent film and video maker, or are just interested in how videos and short films get made, you got to check out