Free Filmmaking Software - Photography, Editing, Compositing & Animation
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Budgets are always a concern, especially when you are first starting out. There's no real reason why your 'artwork' should suffer because you "don't have the money for software"; at times, you don't even need to buy the software. In this video, we show you some FREE alternatives to the filmmaking programs out there.
Celtx: http://bit.ly/SFTqQ1
Celtx is media pre-production software, designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos, stageplays, audio plays, documentaries, machinima, comics, games and podcasts.
Gimp: http://bit.ly/IL86rD
GIMP (an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
Hitfilm 3 Express: http://bit.ly/1S35fdR
Lightworks: http://bit.ly/1xGM1zP
Lightworks is a professional non-linear editing system (NLE) for editing and mastering digital video in various formats, including 2K and 4K resolutions, and television in PAL, NTSC, and high-definition formats. Lightworks was an early developer of computer-based non-linear editing systems, and has been in development since 1989.
Blackmagic Design Fusion: http://bit.ly/1EuL6oA
Blackmagic Fusion (formerly known as Maya Fusion when it was bundled for Windows with Alias-Wavefront Maya and later eyeon Fusion) is an image compositing software program created by eyeon Software Inc, now developed by Blackmagic Design. It is typically used to create visual effects and digital compositing for movies, TV-series and commercials. It employs a node-based interface in which complex processes are built up by connecting a flowchart or schematic of many nodes, each of which represents a simpler process, such as a blur or color correction.
The Foundry Nuke (Non-Commercial): http://bit.ly/1ziJVbQ
NUKE is a node-based digital compositing application developed by The Foundry, and used for film and television post-production. NUKE is available for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. NUKE's users include Digital Domain, Walt Disney Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, Framestore, Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic. NUKE has been used on productions such as Avatar, Mr. Nobody, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, King Kong, Jumper, I, Robot, Resident Evil: Extinction, Tron: Legacy, Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan and The Hobbit.
Blender: http://bit.ly/1eXcsGz
Blender is a professional free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, video editing and compositing. Alongside the modeling features it also has an integrated game engine.
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