Training

Making It Look Great - www.makingitlookgreat.com

The popular and proven Making It Look Great™ video workshop series has been designed to answer that question. Throughout these in-depth DVD workshops, professional motion graphics designers demonstrate techniques essential to their daily work and give the design decisions and rationale that support them. Design and production tricks for integrating logos and text using effects such as Trapcode Shine, Starglow, Knoll Light Factory and more.

Ripple Training - www.rippletraining.com

Ripple Training has been one of the premiere training destination for users of Apple's Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro and LiveType. Training is offered in both short-form, pay-per-download QuickTime movies as well as long-form DVD-based tutorials.

Video Copilot - www.videocopilot.net

A collection of After Effects templates and tutorial. A great spot to get your creative juices flowing.

Miscellaneous

Civilian Lab - www.civilianlab.com

Personal equipment development for all aspects of life, military, professional and rescue work cross-pollinated with unique functional features with the latest materials and styles from the world of extreme sports and lifestyle.

Rust Boy - www.rustboy.com

Rustboy is a short film project which uses off the shelf desktop computer graphics applications to create a visually stunning 3D production.

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Post Production Tools

Ambrosia Software Snapz Pro X - www.ambrosiasw.com

Snapz Pro X allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime movie or screenshot that can be emailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you please. Mac Only.

Andersson Technologies LLC SynthEyes - www.ssontech.com

SynthEyes is an automatic and supervised 3-D tracking/match-moving system offering high performance and a wealth of features. SynthEyes offers a complete high-end feature set, including camera tracking, object tracking, camera+object tracking, multiple-shot tracking, tripod (2.5-D) tracking, zooms, lens distortion, light solving, RAM playback, rotoscoped object separation and more.

Aquafadas iDive - www.aquafadas.com

Your tapes, CDs, hard drives and iMovie projects are here with their gems...but you don't know where to start. iDive will do it all for you, displaying automatically a thumbnail +one or more samples for each clip. Just click on that thumbnail to see instantly the content of a whole clip.

Digital Rebellion Preference Manager - www.digitalrebellion.com

This tool allows you to manage preference files for Final Cut Studio. Preference files store information about user preferences, window and toolbar placements, and launch settings. Sometimes these can become corrupted, causing problems. Preference Manager allows you to trash corrupted preferences and keep backups of working preference files in order to quickly restore your settings.

EditShare - www.editshare.com

SAN technology - From field to finish – offline to uncompressed HD - EditShare products are designed to maximize media sharing and storage for multi-user editing environments. Leveraging the power and cost effectiveness of Gigabit Ethernet, EditShare technology enables users to easily and economically share media and work collaboratively.

GridIron X-Factor - www.gridironxfactor.com

X-Factor enhances the performance of Adobe After Effects Professional 6.5 by distributing the work ordinarily performed on a single workstation computer over several computers in your network to improve the speed of previewing and rendering.

LlamaLog - www.llamalog.com

LlamaLog is a flexible asset management suite, designed from the ground up for use in production editing environments. It aids in collaboration between editors, loggers, producers, and archivists. It is not solely a list of clips, but an entire workflow, highly integrated with Final Cut Pro and AVID.

Maxon Cinema 4D - www.maxon.net

MAXON Computer is the developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions. Its award-winning products have been used extensively in the film, television, science, architecture, engineering and other industries. Cinema 4D is their 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering application.

The Pixel Farm PFHoe - www.thepixelfarm.co.uk

PFHoe is designed to work with standard resolution QuickTime and AVI movies and allow you to quickly track them to produce 3D camera information that can be exported to your favourite 3D system or effects package.

syncVUE - www.syncvue.com

syncVUE makes the review and approval process easier than ever before. Multiple persons can simultaneously view and annotate local copies of the same media files in perfect sync from different locations — whether separated by cubicles, city blocks, or continents

TechSmith Camtasia Studio - www.techsmith.com

Camtasia Studio is a complete solution for quickly creating professional-looking videos of your PC desktop activity. Anyone can Record and create a full-motion video tutorial or presentation, in real-time, and publish it in the format of their choice. No multimedia or programming experience necessary!

xm|Edit Traffic - www.xmedit.com

Traffic is a node-based non-linear editor. It is a new kind of software which allows you do all sorts of things which are tedious or impossible in the traditional timeline interface, like control the rate of every dissolve within a sequence, or loop sequences like a musician.

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Web Tools

Apple - Remote Desktop - www.apple.com

Desktop management solution for Mac OS X. You can distribute software, configure systems, offer real-time online help and create detailed hardware and software reports — for all of your Mac systems in your organisation, all from your own Mac.

ARD uses TCP and UDP ports 3283 and 5900. You must open and forward these ports on your Internet Gateway to connect to your Mac if it is behind a NAT

Annodex - www.annodex.net

The Annodex technology extends the World Wide Web's hyperlinking, searching, and compositing infrastructure to time-continuous data, enabling e.g. video surfing, searching for clips of audio and video files using ordinary Web search engines, or on-the-fly composition of a video on a Web server from previously annodexed clips. Developed by the team at CSIRO is Australia.

Cyberduck - cyberduck.ch

Cyberduck is a open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL for Mac OS X with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

DNS report - www.dnsreport.com

This site will provide you with a DNS report for your domain. A very large percentage of domains have DNS problems; this site will help you find those problems and fix them. Also, the "Mail Test" tool will help find mail delivery problems for your domain.

DNS check - www.checkdns.net

Similar to DNS Report, this site will provide you with a DNS report for your domain. A great to check if your public DNS records are working.

WideMail - www.daneharnett.com

This plug-in for Apple Mail app lets you have a wide column view similar to Microsoft Outlook and Entourage.

Xtralean Software - ShutterBug - www.xtralean.com

Easy to use web building application, great for photo galleries. Details: with ShutterBug your content comes first. These are your pictures and stories, and we make it easy for you to focus on what is important. Drag and drop your photos, easily add text, bold, italicize or add links - there is no HTML or any of that other technical stuff.

Zone Edit - www.zoneedit.com

Managed DNS Service - ZoneEdit.com provides DNS, with an easy front end. Just type in a domain name and an IP address on a web page, then browse to the domain you've created, instantly. Great tool to use in conjunction with DNS report and for managing your DNS entries.

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Utilities

Richard McDonald's - AppStartSaver - www.themcdonalds.net

This is a simple screen saver for Mac OS X version 10.3 and above, that launches a regular Mac application, or a Unix executable, of your choice when the screen saver starts. I've found it great to use with Cinema 4D render clients.

Paul Mison's - Blue Coconut - www.husk.org

Ever found that your iTunes music library wasn't quite as shared as you wanted? Annoyed that you can't copy a song from your server to your laptop quickly and easily, from within everyone's favourite music jukebox application? Want to make a playlist with shared tracks? Blue Coconut is for you.

Cutedge - Postfix Enabler - www.cutedgesystems.com

Postfix Enabler helps Mac users set up a totally-functional buzzword-compliant mail server in less than a minute, the Mac Way. All within Mac OS X client software. In my opinion the best feature is the ability to set up a roving SMTP server for PowerBook users to send mail wherever they are, whenever they want, so long as they have an Internet connection. Fantastic!

objectpark software - RAID Alert - www.objectpark.net

RAID Alert is a unique application that continuously monitors attached RAID systems based on the free (Mac OS X built-in) RAID software. It will inform you about any RAID systems' status changes (esp. failures) via email, a notification dialog and an alert sound.

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844/X Compatible Plug-ins

Boris FX – Continuum – www.borisfx.com

Boris Continuum unlocks the power of your NLE or compositor with an expansive plug-in filter set. Over 150 filters include advanced keying, matting, compositing, image processing, distortion, temporal effects and motion tracking. These filters provide the creative freedom to animate your graphical elements or video at any speed, acceleration, or position you want. A note of caution, some users have reported issues with some of these plug-in, best to use the trial version to determine if all will work in your system.

Digital Film Tools – 55mm – www.digitalfilmtools.com

55mm is the definitive set of digital optical filters meant to simulate popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, matte generation, exacting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects--all in a controlled digital environment with either 8 or 16 bits per channel processing.

GenArts – Sapphire – www.genarts.com

Sapphire Plug-ins from GenArts, provide digital artists with a collection of over 175 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects. They fully and seamlessly integrate into a number of editing and compositing systems including 844/x.

Pixelan – SpiceMASTER – www.pixelan.com

SpiceMASTER, video visual effects plug-in for custom SOFT/ORGANIC transitions and effects, greatly enhancing your creative flexibility while editing. Great for 844/X systems for expanded transition effects.

StageTools – MovingPicture – www.stagetools.com

MovingPicture is a tool for producers and editors to pan and zoom on high-resolution still images. It takes scanned images up to 8,000 pixels and allows for perfectly repeatable pans and zooms directly from a Windows or Macintosh computer or as a plug-in to most nonlinear editors such as 844/x. Great for oversized (larger than video resolution) image support in 844/x.

Trapcode – Shine – www.trapcode.com

Shine is a fast light effect plug-in. The effect looks very much like volumetric light, but is actually a 2D effect. There are special controls to make shimmering lights and numerous coloring modes. This is an effect that you see everyday on TV and in many movie titles.

Trapcode – Starglow – www.trapcode.com

Starglow is a fast-rendering glow effect. It creates a star-shaped glow around the highlights of the source. The star shape consists of eight directions, and each direction can be assigned an individual colormap and streak length.

Ultimatte – AdvantEdge – www.ultimatte.com

AdvantEdge allows you can combine (key) multiple frame images in just minutes on a Windows-based PC. Fine hair detail, water, shadows, smoke, glass and reflections, even blurred edges -- all composited flawlessly and automatically. 844/X users please note: This has been reported to run a little slower in 844/X compaired to After Effects or Combustion.

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Compression Tools

Autodesk Media and Entertainment Cleaner XL - www.discreet.com

Autodesk Cleaner XL software for Microsoft Windows. High quality filters and total control of the industry's leading encoders let you create stunning Windows Media and QuickTime video. Use MPEG-4 and Kinoma to master video for handheld PDAs and cell phones and high quality MPEG2 for DVD Authoring.

HandBrake - handbrake.m0k.org

HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper / converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.

Innobits BitVice - www.innobits.se

Written by a few top of the world MPEG engineers, BitVice is the best real-world solution to produce high-end MPEG2 videos, suitable for DVD products, commercial spots or wherever you need an MPEG2 video encoding of the highest quality per bitrate available today. Mac Only.

Telestream Flip4Mac - www.flip4mac.com

Flip4Mac lets you export Windows Media files directly from within your favorite Macintosh QuickTime-based applications, including Final Cut Pro HD, Final Cut Express HD, QuickTime Pro, iMovie, Sorenson Media Squeeze 4, Discreet Cleaner 6, and more. From low resolution to high definition, for everyone from novices to experts.

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Design Resources

Free Fonts - 1001 Free Fonts - www.1001freefonts.com

A quick note of warning about this site, it's a great site for 100's of free fonts, the only problem is there's heaps of pop-up windows. If you can't stand pop-ups, make sure you have your browsers block pop-up windows turned on.

Free Fonts - High Fonts - www.highfonts.com

Another great free font site, this one has around 3000 fonts for free

Inscriber - Animated Layouts - www.inscriber.com

Free Animated Layouts from Inscriber to use in your own projects. Samples include, Text rotating around the circumference of a sphere. Animated typewriter layout. Animated Bar Chart. Animated light flare. To name a few.

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