Free Sound Effects, Music, Software, Where?

1. jburkhart
   

   
   Hey VM readers,
   
   We're re-working our downloads section, where we link to various free resources for video production you can find on the net. Be it software, sound effects, royalty free music, test charts, backgrounds etc. As long as it's free!
   
   Do you have a favorite free application you use? A great site to download sound effects? an out of copyright music collection?
   
   Please share it in the thread below. Our editors will take a look through all the suggestions and add them to our soon to be updated and re-organized downloads section.
   
   Thanks,
   
   JB

   John Burkhart
   Editor-in-Chief
   Videomaker

   Posted 4 years ago #

2. mmontgomery
   Inactive

   
   Flip Flop
   http://web.mac.com/mark.burton/iWeb/Site/FlipFlop.html
   
   Turns your Mac laptop or desktop into an on-set video monitor. It'll even flip your image if you're using a 35mm adapter.
   
   Enjoy!
   Mark

   Posted 4 years ago #

3. jweston
   Member

   
   There are lots of free sound effects at
   Pacific Digital Video
   http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
   All free. Hope it helps
   
   ~j

   Posted 4 years ago #

4. birdcat
   Moderator

   
   Free video of older and historical stuff: The Prelinger Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
   
   Free Stock Video clips: FootageFirm: http://www.footagefirm.com/freeclips.asp
   
   Free Stock Photos: http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml
   
   Free Stock Photos: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/index.php
   
   Free Sound Effects: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
   
   Got more at home - will add later.....

   Bruce Paul
   7Squared Productions
   http://www.7squared.com

   Posted 4 years ago #

5. Andrew Burke
   Member

   
   I use Nattress's free plugins on a regular basis. They also make more robust plugins for a price, one of them is a good "smart de-interlacer" filter .
   
   http://www.nattress.com/Free/freeFCP.htm
   
   And I found Stib's filters to be useful too:
   
   http://www.fxscript.org/plugins.html

   Posted 4 years ago #

6. Ken
   Member

   
   Blender is a free cross-platform 3D animation creation application. Surprisingly powerful.
   Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and others. Extensive on-line docs.
   
   http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
   
   Enjoy! :)
   Ken Hull

   Posted 4 years ago #

7. compusolver
   Member

   
   This may not seem to fit because I'm addressing a couple of posts that I've had to remove..
   
   "Royalty free" music does not mean it is public domain and can be passed around freely. What it means is that you pay for the right to use it in your videos, but you do not have the right to sell, lend or give it to others to use in their videos. The same goes for royalty free stock video, etc.

   Posted 4 years ago #

8. birdcat
   Moderator

   

   compusolver Wrote:

   
   "Royalty free" music does not mean it is public domain and can be passed around freely. What it means is that you pay for the right to use it in your videos, but you do not have the right to sell, lend or give it to others to use in their videos. The same goes for royalty free stock video, etc.

   
   
   Hi Hank -
   
   Very true - I have searched vigorously and all the sites I have posted have at least claimed that they are both free to use (for the assets listed) and royalty free. Of course, each person needs to determine whether the claims satisfies their own level of comfort as I've said before I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV.
   
   Bruce

   Posted 4 years ago #

9. compusolver
   Member

   
   Not to worry, Bruce - we all appreciate your posts and my post had nothing to do with yours.
   
   I was addressing a couple of posts (since removed) that were asking people to give or sell copies of music they'd obtained. It is fine for the creator/copyright holder to sell or give away his work for use by others, but that (unless specifically stated in the rights) does not give those others the right to give or sell copies.

   Posted 4 years ago #

10. ;0)
    Member

    
    Anybody have any luck mixing up a soundtrack using Garageband from Apple?
    I like it.

    Posted 4 years ago #

11. gerard
    Member

    

     4 free tracks available on http://www.musicmediatracks.com. Get a license for your project for free.

    Posted 3 years ago #

12. gerard
    Member

    
    
    

    Posted 3 years ago #

13. chrisColorado
    Member

    

    Go look at my blog, Videomaker! It's called "Free Stuff: Making Movies for Nothing" and there will be tons of chapters about free software. The chapters already up include Blender, suggested above by Ken Hull.

    There's an appendix coming this weekend which will have a bunch of websites with stock footage, etc. Also coming this weekend are at least 10 new chapters of video, audio, 3D, photo and graphic design software to add to the 11 already up, which will also be updated.

    I'm willing to make a deal with you. ultimatemediaman@gmail.com

    jburkhart and mmontgomery, i'm talking to you!

    Posted 3 years ago #

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