openvideo
- resources for free
movie makers -
Meeting and sharing:
#openvideo on FreeNode - IRC channel for free open source video tools discussion
Linux sacred forest - Forum on Linux film making
Openvideo FOSS lists:
openmediaforge
openvideoalliance
wikipedia
linuxfilm - (work in progress)
Copyleft:
Creative Commons (CC)
CC Hosting sites for video:
Internet Archive - a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web and multimedia resources.
Ourmedia - a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely
hosts images, text, video and audio.
Blip.tv - a
video sharing service that offers free hosting, distribution and an opt-in advertising
program with a 50/50 revenue share.
Daily Motion - hosting site that is moving to OGG Theora and HTML5 tags. No Flash will be required (soon)
Revver - a
video sharing
website that attaches ads to videos and
shares all ad revenue 50/50 with the creators.
MOD Films -
produces remixable films and tools for film reuse.
Legal
Torrents
- a collection of
CC-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable files.
Vimeo - a
video-centric social network site catering to a high end, artistic
crowd because of its higher bitrate, resolution and HD support. Flash
Player required but HTML5 h264 option available. Creative Common licensing feature.
Hosting sites for short
films:
My
movie network - registered
members can upload videos, scout for talent, enter a forum of
independent film makers.
videoboom - (possibly) interesting page for Sweedish speaking
people
CC Video resources:
Prelinger Archives - public-domain
and Creative-Commons
licensed material on just about
any subject you can imagine
Wikimedia
Commons - Sister project of Wikipedia for CC, GFDL licenced and public domain videos
Vimeo
- hosts many Creative Commons videos
Other video resources:
Theora
videos - list of sites where you can download
videos encoded with Theora.
CC Audio resources:
Internet
archive Internet Archive's Open Source Audio collection
Jamendo -
creative commons licenced music you can download for free
The
freesound project - a collaborative database of Creative
Commons licensed sounds (only sound, not songs)
laptop.org
- a collection of sound samples for the OLPC
Magnatune -
non-evil on-line record label that has makes its artists' work
available as MP3 under a CC license for non commercial use
ccMixter
- a community music site for remixes licensed under Creative
Commons
On classical
- online boutique of classical music with CC MP3 sample files
Wikimedia
Commons - Sister project of Wikipedia for CC, GFDL licenced and public domain sounds
Beatpick
- Music available as OGG. WAV or MP3 under a CC license for
non commercial use (film festivals not included)
Anomolo - label for music with
originality, CC licensed for non commercial use
Homework records - electronic
music net label that offers CC licensed free music.
l.o.s.s.
- a music repository where people can post their
open source audio works
Dogmazic
- a web site with thousands of free oggs and mp3s to download
Free Music Archive
- an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.
Opsound
- website for Creative Commons sound and music.
Soundclick
- website with also CC music (and a CC search)
Other audio resources:
Royaltyfree
music - for buying royalty free music.
CC Image resources:
Flickr -
photosharing website with a CC section (nearly 40.000 photos free to
use for derivative works)
Wikimedia
Commons - Sister project of Wikipedia for CC, GFDL licenced and public domain images
Ourmedia
- a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, with a section
for public domain images
Tools for discovering CC-licensed content
Wikipedia
- lists
many CC sites
Search.creativecommons.org
- the search tool of the Creative Commons Home page.
CC Projects:
Open source
cinema - a collaborative documentary project to create a
feature film about copyright in the digital age
Vebfilm -
an open source film netlabel
Other interesting
projects:
Pangea Day -
changing the world by making films. Get involved! Submit your video!
Support and Promotion for
independent filmakers:
WGBH Lab
- public television and radio broadcast service that
founds and supports selected projects
CC Internet Radio:
radioINKORREKT.org
- a nice radio station that concentrates on playing creative commons
music.
CC Internet TV:
miro - the
free open-source video platform.
Internet TV:
vuze - an open
online entertainment platform (with some CC content)
Open classes:
Wikiversity
- Learning the Basics of Filmmaking
Tutorials:
Film
look effect -
Tips for shooting and editing
Sound
- Dialog and sound effects recording, music and score
DVD authoring
- a quick guide to DVD authoring workflow with free tools
linux.com
- Easy video creation using only FOSS software
dvinfo.net
- Command used to capture and/or monitor live video in Linux
DIY and no budget
Equipment:
Steadicam
Dolly
Scrim/Butterfly
Lighting
Camera
Jib Arm
Video editors:
avidemux
2.4.1 - a video editor designed for simple cutting, joining,
filtering
and encoding
tasks
Cinelerra
HV 4.1 - a powerful video editor and compositor
Cinelerra CV 2.1 - the Community Version
Jahshaka 2.0
- the worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects
system (sleeping project)
Kino
1.3.0 - a non-linear editor that allows you to
record, create,
edit,
and play movies recorded with DV camcorders
GOPchop 1.1.7
- a fast graphical editor for MPEG2 video files (lossless)
OpenVIP 1.1.1
- a free video-processing tool for Linux and Windows.
LiVES 1.0.0
- (LiVES is a Video Editing
System) a video
editing program and VJ tool
kdenlive 0.7
- Kdenlive is a non linear video editor for the KDE
environment
PiTiVi 0.11.1
- an audio/video editor based on GStreamer.
Lombard 0.1 - basic video editor for GNOME
OpenShot.0.9.22
- Video Editor for Linux, based on MLT.
Diva
0.0.2 - an easy to use, scalable, open-source video
editing software for the Gnome desktop (sleeping project)
Open
Movie Editor 0.0 - a simple tool for the amateur
movie artist. Powerful yet easy to use
lve -
a frame and GOP accurate editing of MPEG1/2 video files
(sleeping project)
vlmc - a free semi-professional video editing software, simple and user-friendly (to be pre-released soon)
Saya
- a simple and solid cross platform video editor (still in early stage
of development)
Lumiera - a
professional NLE (still in early stage of development)
melt - a powerful multitrack command line oriented video editor.
Realtime video editors:
Veejay 1.0 - a
visual instrument and realtime video sampler
gephex 0.4.4 -
a modular video jockey software
Freej - a
vision mixer: an instrument for real-time video manipulation
Bomb - a visual-musical instrument
EffecTV - a real-time video effector
Fluxus - a rapid prototyping, livecoding and playing/learning environment for 3D graphics, sound and games.
HasciiCam - makes it possible to have live ascii video on the web
LiVES - a video
editing program and VJ tool
PDP - (Pure Data Packet) an extension library for
Pure Data,
providing video and other media processing functionality.
PiDiP - Pure Data extension
Animation software:
GAP
- the GIMP Animation Package
Blender 2.46 - a program for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, editing.
Misfit Model 3D 1.3.8 - an easy to use OpenGL-based 3D
model editor that works with triangle-based models
DrawSWF 1.2.9 - a simple drawing application
that generates animated SWF Files (sleeping project?)
Ktoon 0.8.0 -
2D animation toolkit
Luciole 0.7.4
- stop-motion software
k-3d 0.7.10
- 3D modeling and animation software
Synfig 0.61.08
- film quality 2D vector animation program
Stopmotion
0.6.1 - a framegrabber for creating stop motion
animations
Myrtille 06.1
- graphic interface allowing of acquiring of picture sequences from
optic peripherics (sleeping project?)
See also (http://festival.inattendu.org/Myrtille-Linux#0.5-1)
Pencil
0.4.4b - a program for creating
traditional hand-drawn animations.
Frameworks
0.3.6 - framegrabber for creating stop motion
animations (sleeping project)
Real time animation software:
Toonloop - live stopmotion animation software
Transcoders:
HandBrake 0.9.3 -
multiplatform DVD to MPEG-4 converter
EKD -
post-production tool for video and images
Arista
- an easy to use multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop
Transmageddon
- a video transcoder built using GStreamer.
Other applications:
ramen - HDR node compositing
Evolvotron 0.5 - an interactive generative art application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations
yuvmotionfps 1.6 - Framerate converter (with interpolation)
Rotoscope 0.2 - a free software graphics program that can be used to give
photos a cartoon-like appearance
xjadeo - a program that displays a video clip in sync with an external time
source (great for working on soundtracks)
NWC dev 0.0.1 - a script for automatic slideshow creation (changing transitions included)
Vodoo - camera tracker (nearly free software)
Jubler - subtitle editor
Video downloading tools:
savetube - for saving YouTube videos
youtubedesktop - for downloading videos from YouTube.com
youtube-dl - a small command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube.com
UnPlug - a Firefox extension which lets you save video and
audio embedded on a webpage
clive - a video extraction tool for user-uploaded video hosts like Youtube and
Google Video
Raffaella Traniello - Last
update 17 Sept 2010