I just came across Philipp Spoeth’s website, and he has a handful of FREE After Effects plugins. http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/aftereffects/sinedots.php     http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/aftereffects/sinedots2.php   http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/aftereffects/shear.php http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/aftereffects/retrodots.php I haven’t had a chance to try them yet, but they should be compatible with Adobe After Effects CS5 (64-bit). Also, if you’re Photoshop user, he has some plugins for that [...]

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Here’s a cool tool whether you’re into still or moving images. I’m not a big fan of 3D in movies because I haven’t seen many films where the 3D is anything but a gimmick, but the idea is cool, and this program gives you the ability to take a 2D image or sequence of images, [...]

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Well, technically you can use it for anything you want, but I’m a filmmaker, so that’s what comes to mind Freesound.org is a very widely used site, presently with 117653 files in total, and counting. This is an open site where people from all over the world upload and download sounds… and you can make [...]

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This is a bit of a teaser because it’s not out yet, and it looks like it’s only for Mac OS X, but it’s worth to note that Blackmagic Designs, the makers of the high-end color correction suite Da Vinci, which sells their software for $$995, and sells their workstation for $29,995 (and a linux [...]

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I’m not a film critic, nor do I want to be! Actually, having just attended Master Pancake Theater for Twilight New Moon at the Alamo Drafthouse recently, it changed my perspective on film critics, and I never liked them much. As a filmmaker, films are what I produce, and I honestly hope people will like [...]

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OK, so this isn’t a freebie, but it’s still a good deal, and I just paid $26 for another Xpansion Tank pack to add to my collection. I think it was last year that IK Multimedia had a really cool Group-Buy and by purchasing a single Xpansion Tank pack, I ended up with 7 This [...]

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ACIDPlanet.com is a site that sells loops for anything from Cinematic Sound Design to Hip Hop, to Metal. Although their main target is Sony’s Acid Xpress (of which you can download a free lite version), you can use their loops in any program that can read .WAV files. What’s best, is that they give away [...]

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This was my first time trying out any of MeldaProduction plugins, of which they have a nice handful for free, including a cool little auto-tune plugin. I haven’t had a lot of time to try it out extensively, but so far so good… I’m digging it, as I can get a bunch of different grooves [...]

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This is a quick and dirty post, so sorry about that. These are websites I frequent and follow. Here are a couple of links I’ve found which host free stock footage, or give away free clips periodically. http://vimeo.com/groups/freehd http://www.stockfootageforfree.com/ http://www.archive.org/index.php http://www.detonationfilms.com/ http://www.publicdomainflicks.com/ http://umesh3d.blogspot.com/ http://www.revostock.com/ http://www.istockphoto.com/video http://www.timelinegfx.com/freemotiongraphics.html Feel free to collaborate and give back — upload [...]

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If you’ve never heard about VideoBlocks, you won’t know they’re offering 7 days of complimentary downloads – and there’s some really decent ones. They are a website offering royalty-free (meaning you don’t have to keep paying to use their footage) stock footage. What’s setting them apart from most other stock footage sites, is that they [...]

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