Free Stuff: Making Movies for Nothing

I just got back from a trip to L.A./Hollywood. The weather is hot down there, horrific traffic, tons of people. I really dislike California. I was even born there, but it’s a bad place to be, what with house and gas prices and crazy laws.

As part of my Hollywood “tour”, I went through Universal Studios. Great stuff! One big thing that surprised me was the amount of buildings/physical sets/hardware equipment that those crews have built for various westerns, the Princess Diaries, Big Fat Liar, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future and more. WOW. With all the strides in software, I never even thought about building stuff like that. I have built some props/sets for some of my short films, but the scale of all that was astounding! I have always figured on using chroma keying/green screen plus CG sets for complex stuff. WOW. And don’t forget the costumes! Big fancy wolfman suits and all that. Amazing!

I got back to Denver tonight. Yes! There’s snow on the ground, it’s cold outside, I love Colorado. It’s gotta be the best state in America! There are only thirteen states I haven’t been to, but of the ones I have been to, Colorado takes the cake.

Well, the 2nd round of Final Fixes is here! The converters and conveditors section is done, with updates for all the chapters and a bunch of new ones.

Especially check out MPEG Streamclip’s chapter at http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/freeware/mpeg-streamclip/ since it has recently won Best Free Software of 2008 from Videomaker Magazine!

And there’s updates for the video section, especially where Jahshaka is concerned. There’s also two new pages, one for the coming Jahshaka tutorials and one for Links/Finding Freeware on your own.

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