Table of Contents
As always, I’m mostly a video guy, but there’s some stuff on other types of freeware as well.
Free Stuff: Making your Dream Movie for Practically Nothing
By chrisColorado
Reviews of Internet Freeware by a Professional Filmmaker, Graphics Designer and 3D Animator
Introduction: Why this Book was Written, How this Book Works and What is GNU GPL?
Non-Freeware of Interest (suggested by readers)
Links – Find Freeware on your own!
SECTION 1 – VIDEO EDITING AND COMPOSITING
Chap 1 – Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker – Good for Beginners!
Chap 3 – Pinnacle VideoSpin – Good for Beginners!
Chap 6 – Thugs at Bay’s Zwei-Stein and ZS4
Summary and Other Video Freeware of Interest
SECTION 2 – AUDIO EDITING AND MIXING
Chap 1 – Audacity - Good for Beginners!
Chap 2 – Reaper - NOT FREEWARE!
Chap 3 – Sony’s ACID Xpress – Good for Beginners!
Summary and Other Audio Freeware of Interest
SECTION 3 – 3D MODELING AND ANIMATION
Chap 1 – Anim8or – Good for Beginners!
Chap 3 – Autodesk’s Maya PLE – Good for Beginners!
Summary and Other 3D Freeware of Interest
SECTION 4 -PHOTO RETOUCHING AND DIGITAL IMAGING
Chap 1 – Microsoft Photo Editor – Good for Beginners!
Summary and Other Photo Freeware of Interest
SECTION 5 - VECTOR DRAWING, DESKTOP PUBLISHING, ETC
Chap 1 – Inkscape - Vector Drawing
Chap 2 – Scribus - Desktop Publishing
Chap 3 – Serif DrawPlus 4 - Vector Drawing
Chap 4 – Serif PagePlus SE - Desktop Publishing
Summary and Other Graphics Freeware of Interest
SECTION 6 - CONVERTERS AND “CONVEDITORS”
Audio Encoders and Converters
Chap 1 – BonkEnc – Good for Beginners!
Chap 2 – NCH Switch – Good for Beginners!
Video Encoders and Converters
Chap 6 – Any Video Converter (free version)
Video “Conveditors”
Chap 7 – VirtualDub (and it’s variants) - Good for Beginners!
Summary and Other Format-related Freeware of Interest
SECTION 7 – DISK BURNING AND DISTRIBUTION
Chap 5 – DanDans Totally Free Burner
Summary and Other Disk Burning Freeware of Interest
SECTION 8 – PREPRODUCTION AND BUSINESS/MARKETING
Chap 3 – Atomic Learning’s Storyboard Pro
Chap 4 – Google Documents (and Gmail)
SECTION 9 – MISCELLANEOUS FREE PROGRAMS
Chap 2 – HyperNext Studio (Creator, Developer and Player)
Chap 3 – Synfig Animation Studio
Chap 4 – A few well known, never thought of programs
THE LAST CHAPTER: FINAL SUMMARY OF THIS BLOG
