Here are some links we’ve stumbled upon this week that we think might interest you. Click away, you might learn something cool! Slashdot asks: How to best record remote video interviews: Ask.slashdot.org Get ready for another season of stiff drinks and sharp suits with a Mad Men Choose Your Own Adventure game: BuzzFeed Netflix and […]
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Need that certain shot to improve your video project? Try Stockfootageforfree.com
Stock Footage for Free is a decent site that delivers exactly what it sounds like. Everything is royalty free and monetarily free (you do have to register, however). They have some stuff in HD, as well as a lot in SD. While the selection isn’t perfect, hey, it’s free. It’s great for certain cityscape or […]
Continue readingAre you working in After Effects? Check out Video Copilot
Video Copilot is an After Effects haven with lots of great ideas and plenty of free tutorials for both special effects and motion graphics. You can download the source files and follow along, or use them as stock footage and make your own changes. They also have a lot of great products for sale, such […]
Continue readingCheck out WeVideo, the collaborative online video editor in the cloud
WeVideoA free video editing and hosting site. Allows for social editing – a project can have content submitted by and be edited by multiple users. Simply shoot videos and photos with your mobile phone or camera. Then upload them to your personal or shared WeVideo media library. You can shape your story alone or together […]
Continue readingMultimedia Resources @ AU
Whether you are putting together a slide presentation, creating a video assignment, or working on your film thesis, there are a host of resources available at AU to both students and faculty. Unfortunately these are scattered all over campus – in the Library, in the New Media Center, in the School of Communication. Until now […]
Continue readingSoviet Communist Party saved 194 lost Hollywood silent films…
Pretty amazing stuff: In a large mahogany box embellished with silk pockets and Cyrillic lettering, 10 lost pieces of America’s cultural heritage recently landed in Culpeper, Va. – thanks, in a roundabout way, to the Soviet Union and a bureaucratic penchant for filing. The box, a gift from the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library to the […]
Continue readingI Am Jack’s Calvin And Hobbes
The internet has long been abuzz about the connections between “Calvin And Hobbes” and “Fight club,” but he’s a great video mash-up of the two.
Continue readingCheck out this 1922 time capsule…
This is a test of Kodachrome color motion picture film in 1922. Go here, for more information on this video.
Continue readingWatch full length episodes of the PBS series, “P.O.V.” for free.
“POV (a cinema term for “point of view”) is television’s longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 275 films to public television audiences across the country. POV films are known for their intimacy, their unforgettable […]
Continue readingWatch episodes of NOW, now.
“Hosted by veteran journalist David Brancaccio, NOW on PBS goes beyond the noisy churn of the news cycle to probe the most important issues facing democracy and give viewers the context to explore their relationship with the larger world.” –PBS website. First started by Bill Moyers back in 2002, this news program gave issues more […]
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