24p.com is a consulting service for film and HD based productions for
television and theatrical release. 24p.com is also a resource for content
creators looking for tools and solutions for post production processes
using film, 1080p/24, or 720p/24 HD sources. This is a great resource
for information on producing video in HD formats, with lots of resources
listed on the site.
Adam Wilt maintains a very informative website with an excellent DV
FAQ, video tidbits and more. Adam’s both knowledgeble and very
readable.
AE Freemart is a terrific resource for users of Adobe After Effects.
Tutorials, hacks, samples, and a comprehensive list of plug-ins, including
some that are available free! All in all, a very cool site.
This is a terrific resource for everything related to
shooting moving images. The web site is a repository of discussions
that have been archived in a very nicely organized fashion by topic
and sub-topic. It also serves as the jumping-in point for the mailing
list. This is why we’re also listing it on the Lists page.
The Creative Cow (Communities of the World) was
established by Ron and Kathlyn Lindeboom, who were the original founders
of the WWUG (see below). To put it simply, the Cow is indispensible.
You’ll find forums and articles focused on virtually and and every
production and post production system on the market today, with forum
moderators who’re tops in their fields. To put it simply, if you’re
in the video industry, you owe it to yourself to bookmark the Cow, and
to visit it regularly.
Trish and Chris Meyer’s web site offers tons of information, education
and entertainment, including brief samples of their music (hey-just
like this site!). They’re probably the foremost experts on Adobe
After Effects, in addition to being one of the hottest motion graphics
design shops in the country, and they’ve written books and dozens
of articles, many of the latter of which are available through links
on their site. Well worth a visit.
Digital Video Engineering Data
"This is an informational resource for people involved in or
curious about the standards, techniques, and technologies involved in
digital video engineering. It is constantly under construction and not
all links are complete."
There's a lot of information here on digital video, making this a
worthwhile bookmark for video professionals.
The DV Guys are Ron Margolis and Philip Hodgetts, an Aussie currently
living in Los Angeles. Together they put on an internet radio show every
Thursday evening. At the site, you can listen to the show live, or to
archives of past shows, plus there’s tons of information, including
Digitricks, which are mini-tutorials on how to (or as Philip puts it,
How2) do lots of cool things, mainly in Final Cut Pro. Philip is also
the guy behind the IntelligentAssistance products, about which you can
also find information. Dig around the site—there’s lots to
discover.
DV Magazine is the definitive source of information for digital video
creators. Digital video development tools and the techniques for using
them are the intruments of change in the Information Age. Only DV is
exclusively devoted to hands-on evaluation of digital video, authoring,
graphics and animation products and to the powerful ways to use them.
The Internation Media Users Group began its life as the International
Media 100 User Group, the web presence of an active mail list that averages
100 messages a day or more. As more and more members found themselves
switching to Final Cut Pro or in a few cases Avids or other systems,
the decision was made to change the name so as to include users of all
editing systems.
This is an incredibly helpful mail list, with a virtual “who’s
who” of Media 100, FCP and other systems users. Highly recommended.
If you want to know something, or more accurately, close to everything
there is to know about Final Cut Pro—and a whole lot of other production
and post production topics—this is the place to go. There are well
over a hundred articles, presented in a clean, elegant design. You could
spend days soaking up the knowledge presented here. And that’s
just the FCP side of his site. Don’t miss the photography side,
where he presents his gorgeous glamour photography.
Dan Ebberts has put together a great resource site for learning about
expressions in Adobe After Effects. It’s filled with
Pipeline Digital of Hawaii are the developers of AutoLog, which lets
you use your Mac to control video recorders and players to log tapes.
They also offer ProVTR and Studio Recorder, along with machine control
plug-ins for Adobe Premiere and Radius Edit.
Charles A. Poynton maintains a web site that's the virtual industry
reference on digital video. It ain't pretty, it ain't slick, but boy,
is there content here! Some of it is commercial, hyping his books, etc.,
but this still is a reference that belongs on every video professional's
bookmarks list.
Stephen Schleicher has put together a terrific site with articles,
reviews, plus tutorials on lighting, Final Cut Pro, After Effects (more
than 50 here alone!), Combustion, Photoshop and others, plus much, much
more. He updates the site twice weekly, which keeps the contents fresh.
You could spend days soaking up the knowledge and information this site
offers.
SoundDogs is an incredible resource for anyone who needs production
music and sound effects. They have over 140,000 sound files that are
all available for download 24/7. What makes them so great is that you
can find what you want with their excellent search engine, and then
download a preview of the clip. The previews are 8 kHz, 16-bit mono
wma or mp3 files, whereas the files you purchase are 44.1 kHz, 16 bit
stereo. And the prices are very reasonable, based on length and sound
quality. CD-quality files run from under $2.00 for a short effect to
around $8.00 for a 2-minute music clip. The clips are royalty-free and
include synchronization rights.
This is the place where video amateurs, hobbyists, prosumers and professionals
gather to research and discuss the latest trends in the world of videomaking.
From simple editing techniques to breakthroughs in digital video, you'll
find links to most every aspect of the world of the camcorder in this
web site.
Videomaker is a leading magazine devoted to video and desktop video
production. At their Web site, they offer lots of useful information
and links to other sites.
This is in part the site that Ron and Kathlyn Lindeboom originally
founded, but now encompasses a whole lot more. There are hundreds of
forums, lots of articles and other resources. The flashing ads make
it look a bit like the Ginza in Tokyo, but there’s lots of content,
and you could spend days wandering around collecting information.
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