Examples
- Twitter in Plain English - fun use of stop motion to explain Twitter
- Some really cool videos demonstrating a few different techniques
- The Wilderness Downtown, an interactive video by Chris Milk and Arcade Fire
- Polished Video blogging
Resources
- Library of Congress Online Collections (check the licenses)
Tools (alphabetical)
- 8mm Vintage Camera
- iPhone app
- Review by Samuel Lo
- Adobe Premier
- Another video editor is Adobe Premier. The difference between it and FinalCut Pro is that you must encode your video files prior to importation. The mechanics once you're into the working program are similar to FinalCut.
- Adobe Premier is also available on the computers in the ATEC labs.
- Review by Hetal Thakkar
- Adobe After Effects
- An Adobe software which is used to create graphics and visual effects in video during the post production process.
- Also perform non linear editing.
- After effects available at the ATEC labs.
- Adobe After Effects Review
- Adobe Character Animator (Francis Eyth)
A new plug-in for After Effects introduced this year that allows you to animate a 2D character, which is set up in Photoshop via layers, using mic and camera input from your computer's webcam. Your camera and mic basically automates your 2D character's mouth and facial expression animations!
Also there are many parameters that more advanced/technical animation or software practitioners can access to further polish an already quick and automated animation production process.
- Adobe Dynamic Link
- Quickly share assets between After Effects and Premiere Pro without rendering/exporting.
- Review by Jenna Lovato
- Adobe Flash
- Flash is a vector-based animation tool. It is also a very powerful tool. Vector-based means that you can enlarge your animations with losing any image quality.
- Also available on the computers in ATEC.
- Review
- Adobe SpeedGrade
- Color correction and color grading
- Adventure Game Studio
- Free tool for making your own adventure games.
- http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
- AndroMedia Video Editor
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catflow.andromedia
- Video editing app for Smartphones
- Review
-
Animation Desk for iPad
- Mobile application that allows users to create hand-drawn animations on iPad.
- Paid and free version.
- Review
- Review by Yidan
- Animoto
- Web site and mobile app for simple video creation.
- Review
- Anyclip
- www.anyclip.com
- Search engine for any clip of any film.
- Aurasma (may have use in text tools as well) Karyn
- www.aurasma.com
Aurasma is changing the way we interact with the world.
Turn everyday objects, images, and places into new opportunities for engagement
through striking augmented reality experiences.
- Blender
- Free 3D content creation
- www.blender.org
- Review
- Camtasia
- Screen capture and recording
- Review by Matt
- Camstudio
- CamStudio records all screen and audio activity on your computer and creates industry-standard AVI video files or bandwidth-friendly SWF videos.
- Free download link.
- Review by Matt.
- Cinefy
- "To take a personal video, an enhance it with Hollywood-caliber effects."
- www.cinefyapp.com
- Review
- Cinema 4D
- Modeling, animating, and rendering application.
- Cliplets
- interactive app that gives users the power to create "Cliplets" -- a type of imagery that mixes static and dynamic elements from a video clip.
- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/cliplets/
- Construct 2
- HTML5 game engine that supposedly requires no programming
- http://www.scirra.com/construct2
- Cute CUT
- A free iOS app that allows you to draw directly onto your video.
- Review by Cameron
- The Games Factory
- A game engine that doesn't require any familiarity with programming and comes with an image library.
- http://www.clickteam.com/website/world/the-games-factory-2
- DragOnTape
- mix videos into a 3 hour "mixtape"
- http://www.dragontape.com/
- DragonTape Tool Review
- Elite Prompter
- Great iPad app to access a tele-prompter
- http://www.eliteprompter.com/index.php
- Elite Prompter Tool Review
- Exaltive
- annotate videos
- http://www.exaltive.com/
- Flixel
- Flixel is an iPhone app that allows users to make animated GIFS by taking a video and selection part of it to move while the other part stays still.
- Flixel Tool Review
- FinalCut Express
- Final Cut Express is a now discontinued video editing software. It is based on Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Pro X, however it was created for consumers. Despite its discontinuation it is still used by amateur and professional video editors.
- FinalCut Pro
- FinalCut Pro is the industry standard for video editing. One of the great features is you don't have to encode your video footage prior to importing into the program. (Encoding takes a lot of extra time).
- FinalCut also has additional programs that work seamlessly with FinalCut, such as SoundtrackPro where you can tweak your audio to get it just the way you want it, and then re-import it into your working FinalCut file.
- You can purchase FinalCut Pro on campus with your student discount for $599. It is available on the computers in any of the ATEC computer labs.
- Review
- Frames
- Fraps
- HandBrake
- HighlightCam Social
- https://www.highlightcam.com/
- video editor with themes and an AI footage selector
- hitrecord
- Open, collaborative production company online (hitrecord.org)
- Review
-
iMovie
- Keep Vid
- IntervueMe
- allows you to conduct interviews with anyone who has a webcamera
- http://intervue.me/
- Review
- iStopMotion
- create stop motion videos from your mac.
- 5 day free trial
- http://boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/
- JayCut
- Free online video editing
- Review
- Jing
- http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
- Jing is a free screencast/screen shot program. You can easily make screencasts (under 5 minutes) and share or download them.
- Kaltura
- Lightworks
- Lightworks
- free, lightweight video editor
- LifeHacker Review of Lightworks
- Magisto
- "Magical video editing. In a click!"
- http://www.magisto.com/
- Review
- MixBit
- "The app lets you record, edit and publish videos as short as one second or as long as an hour—right from your mobile device. The MixBit site is also the first site that lets users collaborate with each other and remix videos uploaded by the community. "
- https://mixbit.com/
- MPEG Streamclip
- MPEG Streamclip is a freeware video editor/converter for MPEG-1/MPEG-2, and transport streams.
- http://www.squared5.com
- Montaj
- Simple and fun editing app for your iPhone
- Montaj Review by Ada
- http://montajapp.com/
- Movie Aid
- Android Compatable
- Google Aps
- Moviestorm
- 3D Animated movie making
- Moviestorm.co.uk
- Review
- Mozilla Popcorn Maker
- Video hypermediation tool
- Review
- OneTrueMedia
- OpenShot Video Editor
- Free, open source video editor for Linux
- http://www.openshot.org/
- PicPlayPost
- Paid app for iPhone that allows easy combination of pictures and videos for use on social media or personal use.
- More Info: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/picplaypost/id498127541?mt=8
- Review
- Phhhoto
- Gif maker/social media site for your Android or Apple smartphones
- http://phhhoto.com/
- Popcorn.js
- http://popcornjs.org/
- Popcorn.js is an HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript for filmmakers, web developers, and anyone who wants to create time-based interactive media on the web. Popcorn.js is part of Mozilla's Popcorn project
- PowToon
- Easily create animated videos and presentations
- Review
- Pinnacle Studio 12
- Video editing program that allows to edit clips by scenes.
- Review
- Prezi
- Online presentation tool that allows you to design and create your own visually creative presentations.
- Review
- Quicktime (Daniel Ramos)
- Qik Video
- A calling app created by the Skype team that allows you to directly record & trim footage (aka, private conversations) and add special tinting in addition to other basic effects.
- ReelDirector
- video editing on a mobile platform
- add music, text overlay, transitions, record voiceovers, etc. and then share it!
- http://www.nexvio.com/product/ReelDirector.aspx
- Review
- RPG Maker
- http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/
- Create your own role playing games.
- ScreenR
- Screencasting program (used by Howard Rheingold!)
- http://www.screenr.com/
- Screencast-o-matic
- Screen recording app
- Can be used to make tutorials or study videos
- Review
- SloPro - 1000fps Slow Motion Video
- Sencha Animator
- SnapChat
- Real-time picture/video service that lets the sender determine how long the receiver can view a picture or video. You can also draw and add captions to your messages.
- http://www.snapchat.com/
- Review
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Sony Vegas
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Sticker.fm
- upload videos and arrange them into "conversations"
- http://sticker.fm/
- Switchcam
- web app that automatically synchronizes footage of an event from multiple cameras and turns the footage into one interactive video
- uses sound-recognition algorithm to sync video
- can schedule geo-tagged events and people can become part of the camera crew
- http://make.switchcam.com/
- Review
- Toon Boom
- A global leader in 2-D animation software. Toon Boom is not as challenging as other programs to learn from
- Homepage
- Consumer Review
- Tumult Hype Karyn Narramore
- Create HTML5 web content, interactive web content, and animations. No code required.
- http://tumult.com/hype/
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Ustream
-
streaming video
- Video Grade
- iProduct compatable
- Downsized, portable version of AfterEffects
- VideoSpec
- About VideoSpec
AppleScript studio App (Xcode 3.0 on Leopard) making use of MediaInfo CLI, MPlayer, FFmpeg, qt_tools and AtomicParsley binaries to display detailed informations on video files. Compatibility of analyzed media file with QuickTime Player v.7.6 is provided with indication on the installation status of the displayed QuickTime Component and its download link as well as compatibility with iPod/iPhone/AppleTV. Suggestion on alternate movie player to QuickTime Player is proposed and preview of video files is available using mplayer binary tool. Furthermore, integration of Bitrate Pro adds calculation capacity with multimedia files. - http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/videospec.html
- Review
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Vimeo
-
Platform for uploading videos online.
-
Vimeo Enhancer
-
Review by Jenna Lovato
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Vimeo for iPhone
- Viddy
- Free. Compatible with Androids & iOS
- A basic app that lets you add customized soundtracks to your clips
- Easy sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr
- Review
- Video Pad
- Free Video Editing Software for Mac
- Similar to Final Cut in many ways, but free
- Video Pad Tool Review
- VideoToolbox
- (http://www.videotoolbox.com/)
- Video toolbox is a file managing site that allows for some edits on your uploaded movie files.
- Vine
- is a mobile-app owned by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips.
- Review
- Vyclone
- A social video platform that lets you co-create, sync and edit multiple views of a shared moment.
- Review
- Vyou
- Allows instant recording and posting of a video status online
- http://vyou.com/
- Review by Cathryn
- WeVideo
- Crowd-sourced videomaking
- http://www.wevideo.com/
- Review
- Windows Movie Maker 7 (Trevor Whalen)
- PC-based movie editing
- Review
- WonderShare Video Editor
- Easy to use video editing program which has over 300 effects, graphics, and texts available for free downloads.
- Free 30 day free trial
- Wondershare Video Studio Express Review
- YouTube Doubler
- layers YouTube videos (though maybe just the audio).
- http://www.youtubedoubler.com/
- Review
- YouTube Downloader
- download videos from youtube
- Review
- YouTube In-site Editor
- Edit videos after they are uploaded to YouTube
- Review
- Youtube
- Upload original content
- Review
- Wideo.co
- Animated digital videos
- http://wideo.co/en/