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......3D Globes of the Earth and other novel animations are downloadable from this site (for a fee).
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......Adobe After Effects User's Group is a great forum for asking, "How do you do that?"
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......Stop Motion Pro is animation software that's firewire compatible. I haven't tried it yet, but presumably you connect your firewire-capable camera to your firewire-capable computer and you're now animation-capable! Cool stuff if it works, and no tape, no head wear, and no dropouts to worry about!
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......The Bluescreen Page is a great resource for information on how to do bluescreens.
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......If you need to do subtitling or open captioning on your production, this is da shizzle. Well-documented and intuitive interface, it's capable of accepting a wide variety of captioning files or you can generate them from scratch. Lots of flexibility, this is one of my favorite packages and I'm using it right now to place super-titles on a multi-cam opera production. This software runs on Windows XP (not 2000) and Macintosh OSX and OS9.
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......Field De-interlace methods is a good resource for editors wanting to de-interlace a still image captured from a video clip.
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......The Digital Video Editing site is a splashy resource for, you guessed it, digital editing. The Techniques section offers lots of good advice. I haven't had time to explore all the corners of this site, but it looks worthwhile cruise around it. I haven't seen where they are selling anything, but the style seems to suggest a commercial bias
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......DV and Firewire Central is another useful site for digital video news and information.
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......This is a hot topic these days and is covered in excellent detail in this article by Graeme Nattress. Summary: With the advent affordable SDI-equipped equipment, filmmakers are discovering an increase in quality when capturing DV via SDI instead of Firewire. Doesn't make sense at first, because digital is digital and you can't add to something that's not there, but the transfer smooths the 4:1:1 color space data. It's not as good as if you started with 4:2:2 capture but it's a good step up. Check out the article!
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......Photographer Ken Stone has a comprehensive site for Final Cut Pro tips and tricks and related resources. If you're cutting with FCP, you need to check out his site. It goes back to FCP2 but has FCP4 and hopefully some FCP5 once he's had a chance to work with it.
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......Readings on Visual Effects, Animation & Film Making is a webpage of several books on special effects with a short description of each
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......MPEG Pointers and Resources provides tutorials and resources on MPEG encoding
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......If you want to convert from PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL, you can check out Perry Mitchell's website (he uses frames - here is his home page) or camcorderinfo.com or buy software from RE:Vision Effects, Inc. or Focus Enhancements or DV Films.
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......The forum at grinnerHester.com has a community that is active but still small, so you can meet people who are doing editing and post-production. Looks like a great place to hang out.
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......Final Cut Pro users can find lots of useful information at Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro website, including reviews of tutorials, hardware, software, white papers, discussion groups, and articles.
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......VFXTalk.com is devoted to articles and offers for special effects, from desktop to major studios. New at the time I posted this link (Jan 2003), the website is being developed so check it out often.
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......The Official Alt.Movies.Visual-Effects FAQ Site from the alt.movies.visual-effects newsgroup. No, really!
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......If lightsabers (tm), ala StarWars (tm) is your thing, then you should check out this collection of tutorials on how to get that LucasFilms (tm) effect.
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......Ever wonder how they got that Matrix look? Well, wonder no more, here is the company that pioneered the technique and the equipment.
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......Visual Effects Headquarters is an archive and showcase for featured effects houses. A good place to go for information on major motion picture effects.
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......Holy Flickering Titles, Batman! How do you create titles in Premiere or any of the half dozen editing/titling software? Here's a great tutorial on why titles flicker and how you can reduce or eliminate it from your projects. Warning: It's not as easy as you might hope.
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......A page that takes the mystery out of video fields and frames. Great reference for understanding why your video looks the way it does.
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......Got an old set of 1" or 2" reel-to-reel videotape? Did you even know there's such a thing as 1 inch videotape? (I remember the stuff at my high school, the football department was using it to analyze plays.) Need to transfer PAL to NTSC? Here's a place that has a bunch of vintage video players and other cool stuff.
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