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Digital Storytelling: Tools Page Course Homepage - DS Schedule + Assignment Links - FJ Contact/Home A Longer (Not Always Up to Date) Tools Page Link Directly to a Section: Audio
and Podcasting
Comics Creative Commons/Public Domain Searches Image Capture and Creation Slideware/Presentation Tools and Hosting Video/Motion Picture Tools Website Creation MS Word and MS Office Note for the Adventurous: Discover new tools (and reviews of tools) at VersionTracker.com. Follow Lifehacker.com for links to standout tools. Audio Recording Audacity Help (for PC users):
LAME
mp3 Encoder for Audacity (Export mp3 Files)
Official Manual Jason Van Orden's Video Tutorials (Start Here) Basic Editing Tutorial by Dan Eliot A Text-Based Tutorial GarageBand Help (for Mac Users): GarageBand
Tutorial (Official)
Podcasting Online Comics Creation Sites Pixton.com (Limited
without Membership)
ToonDoo.com Toonlet.com (Some Tutorials) StripGenerator.com Simple Creator from Read-Write-Think (NCTE) Go! Animate (Animated Cartoons) Long, Annotated List of Other Possibilities (downthetubes) Free Stuff CreativeCommons
Search
Archive.org OverClocked Remix (Music) Icon Archive (Free Icons) Google Advanced Image Search (Filter by License Type) Licensible Stuff iStockhoto
SpiderPic (Comparison Shop for Stock Images) More Sources for Legit Images (from Garr Reynolds) Understanding Copyright and Public Domain CreativeCommons.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation Public Domain Sherpa Negativland.com (Copyright-Bashin' Radicals) Screen Image Capture Wikipedia's Really Useful "Screenshot" Article
SnapNDrag for Mac Jing Screengrab Extension for Firefox (It may be worthwhile to search for Screencapture addons for your browser.) Image Editing Picnik
Picnik Extension for Firefox Adobe Photoshop Express Aviary (Untested by FJ but Promising) Other possibilities include Pixlr, Sumo, FotoFlexer, Pixenate, Snipshot, Wiredness, and Pixer.us. Hosting Slideware Online Help Converting Videos (From One Format to Another) Movie Making Windows
Movie Maker (Windows XP)
Windows Live Movie Maker (Vista, Windows 7) iMovie iMovie
09 Tutorials
iMovie 08 (Is Not a Great Editor; Try iMovieHD6) iMovie HD (Recommended for Mac Users with iLife 08; Ask FJ) iMovie HD Tutorials See Also (Other Free Software for Editing) Free-Video-Editing.com
(Annotated Links to Free Tools)
HyperEngine AV (Mac-Only iMove Alternative) Cinefx (Open Source Video Editor/Compositor) VideoLan Movie Creator (In-Development Video Editor) Wax (Basic Video Editor, Slightly Dated Style) ZS4 (Zwei-Stein Video Editor) Online Video Editing Stop Motion Video Capture JPGVideo
(Simple PC-Only Stop Motion Tool)
Frame by Frame (Mac-Only Stop Motion Tool) Photolapse (Creates Time-Lapse Videos from Still Images) MonkeyJam (Another PC-Only Program) Stop Motion Works (Comprehensive List of Software) Making a Stop Motion Video with Windows Movie Maker Online Animation Creation Grab YouTube Clips in Editable Form DVD Clips (For Educational/Classroom/Personal Purposes) Handbrake for Windows
Handbrake for Mac
Storyboarding (See links on
schedule page.)
Kinetic Typography (These Programs Demand a
Commitment to Learn)
Processing Blender It's Complicated, But Here's a "How To" (Most kinetic typography is done in Adobe After Effects, which is expensive.) Web Comics Developing...
WYSIWYG Website Editors iWeb (Apple) (Official
iWeb Tutorial)
iWebsites
(for Creating Multiple iWeb Sites)
KompoZer (Formerly NVU) About.com's
KompoZer "Walkthrough"
Robert Sigler's NVU Video/Text Tutorials Keller Tech's NVU Tutorial Wiki Text-Based KompoZer Tutorial Slideshows (Online, Share-able) Easy Template-Based Site Creation Blogs Tables in MS Word (These are for Word 03, but the advice holds.) Creating Tables in MS Word (Rick Castellini): Creating Tables in MS Word (Short About.com Video) Word MVP Table Basics (Word MVP) MS Official Training Site for Word 2007 About.com's MS Word Help Links WordMVP Drawing and Graphics Help Bend Word to Your Will If You're Trying to View MS Office 2007 Files on a 2003 App. Email Dr. Johnson Simple Site Menu Appendix/Bonus/Developing--> Other Tools to Investigate Inkscape:
Open Source, Adobe Illustrator-like Vector Graphics Tool
Blender: Open Source 3D Content Creation Suite Synfig: Open Source 2d Animation Creator (Linux or Windows) Gimp: Open Source PhotoShop Rosegarden: Advanced Music Creator/Editor (Linux Only) Cinepaint Project Celtx The Tarquin Engine: (20$) for creating web comics with Flash Photobucket for image hosting. Blurb: Make Your Own Book MagCloud: Make Your Own Magazine Open Source Tools from Indiana Filmmakers Network | ||