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
