Saharanturtle
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So you bought your first camera, now what? Fret not young spielberg, listed below are free quality software for the indie film maker to make his or her film without spending thousands on the big brand software
Script writing software
http://celtx.com/
Celtx is free media pre-production oftware designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos, stageplays, audio plays, documentaries, machinima, comics, games and podcasts. The client-server application gives independent filmmakers and media creators an integrated and non-linear approach to the pre-production work phase, providing support for industry standard scriptwriting, story development, storyboarding, script breakdowns, production scheduling and reports.
Editing software:
http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
Lightworks is an Oscar and Emmy award winning professional NLE ystem for editing and mastering of movies in 2K and 4K as well as television productions in PAL, NTSC and HD. Numerous internationally renowned and Oscar award-winning feature films, including The Kings Speech, Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart and Batman were edited on Lightworks.
Image manipulation:
http://www.gimp.org/
GIMP 2.6 has been reviewed twice by ARS Technica. In the first review, Ryan Paul noted that GIMP provides "Photoshop-like capabilities and offers a broad feature set that has made it popular with amateur artists and open source fans. Although GIMP is generally not regarded as a sufficient replacement for high-end commercial tools, it is beginning to gain some acceptance in the pro market."
Audio editor
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free software, cross platform digital audio editor and recording application. Audacity can also be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity has also been used to record and mix entire albums, such as by tUnE-yArDs.
Video conversion:
http://www.squared5.com/
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.
3D graphics
http://www.blender.org/
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games.
Word Processor
http://www.OpenOffice.org
Everyone needs a good word processor and a spreadsheet comes in awfully handy; OpenOffice is a free alternative to Microsoft Office.
If you know of any others post them below and I'll add them to the list
Script writing software
http://celtx.com/
Celtx is free media pre-production oftware designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos, stageplays, audio plays, documentaries, machinima, comics, games and podcasts. The client-server application gives independent filmmakers and media creators an integrated and non-linear approach to the pre-production work phase, providing support for industry standard scriptwriting, story development, storyboarding, script breakdowns, production scheduling and reports.
Editing software:
http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
Lightworks is an Oscar and Emmy award winning professional NLE ystem for editing and mastering of movies in 2K and 4K as well as television productions in PAL, NTSC and HD. Numerous internationally renowned and Oscar award-winning feature films, including The Kings Speech, Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart and Batman were edited on Lightworks.
Image manipulation:
http://www.gimp.org/
GIMP 2.6 has been reviewed twice by ARS Technica. In the first review, Ryan Paul noted that GIMP provides "Photoshop-like capabilities and offers a broad feature set that has made it popular with amateur artists and open source fans. Although GIMP is generally not regarded as a sufficient replacement for high-end commercial tools, it is beginning to gain some acceptance in the pro market."
Audio editor
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free software, cross platform digital audio editor and recording application. Audacity can also be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity has also been used to record and mix entire albums, such as by tUnE-yArDs.
Video conversion:
http://www.squared5.com/
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.
3D graphics
http://www.blender.org/
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games.
Word Processor
http://www.OpenOffice.org
Everyone needs a good word processor and a spreadsheet comes in awfully handy; OpenOffice is a free alternative to Microsoft Office.
If you know of any others post them below and I'll add them to the list
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