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

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