DJI Osmo Mobile Stabilizer
Want to learn how to use mobile stabilizer with your phone? Download the app here!
Education
LinkedIn Learning (Formerly Lynda): an absolutely amazing resource for learning any software. It normally costs money, but you can get it for free access through the Coquitlam library.
Crash Course Film History: the geniuses over at Crash Course and thought bubble have produced a short series on the history of film.
Crash Course Film Production: the geniuses over at Crash Course and thought bubble have produced a fifteen episode miniseries on every aspect of film production.
Rotoscoping Basics: Here is a simple tutorial on basic rotobrushing in After Effects.
Video Copilot: awesome After Effects tutorials that will help you make awesome effects.
Screenwriting
Google Docs Add-on: There’s an awesome add-on for Google Docs that allows you to format as a screenplay. Share your doc with your partner and work on it together! It can be a bit buggy at times but generally works well.
WriterDuet: Writer teaches you formatting as you go. Easy to use but sharing is a paid feature. A good, free workaround is to share the login and password so each person can easily access it. Just make sure it isn’t the same login and password as your district account, personal e-mail, bank account, etc.
WriterSolo: A variant of WriterDuet for offline use. Save the .wdz file to your OneDrive and share it with your peers. Just make sure you are backing it up, overwriting the latest version, and not working on it simultaniously with your partners.
CeltX: The most popular software with intuitive formatting controls and an active online community. Note there are both free and paid versions available.
Images
Free Images and Textures: over 45,000 free Hi-Res images and textures.
Pexels: Thousands of free, high resolution stock images.
Video
Indy Mogul: great site with tons of ideas, how to’s and shared expertise!
American Film Institute Portal: excellent learning resources for planning, shooting and editing!
Free Stock Footage: the Prelinger Archive.
Pexels Video: Pexels is awesome for photos and has a good collection of free b-roll video as well!
And even more Stock Footage: not always best quality, but lots of choices for for free stock film.
Beach Front B-Roll: community-generated contemporary b-roll footage.
Sound and Music
We have an amazing library of nearly 20,000 songs and sound effects available on the network. Go to the explorer and scroll down to My PC and select the “Public” drive. This is where you can find the project instructions and examples. You will navigate to Course Resources > Computers > Misc Resources > Audio Stuff. Hold the ALT key and drag the folder to your computer to create a shortcut (NOT A COPY). Parse through the many folders, and when you find a sound you’d like to use, copy it to the project folder on your computer’s hard drive (do not drag it directly into your project!). You can also pull sounds from Youtube and other streaming sites using a downloader like www.fastconverter.net (slow but full 1080p) or iyoutubetomp4.com (fast but only 720p), but be sure you are only doing so under Fair Use.
Youtube: Creative Commons library, easy to filter, requires Google login
Incompetech: royalty free audio by Kevin Macleod, the most popular producer on the internet
MobyGratis: Yes, Moby (that Moby) has created electronic music that is free for students to use!
Soundbible: more royalty free sounds
Free Music Archive: another Royalty Free music site
CC Mixter: All Creative Commons music site
Free Loops: Loops and samples
Free Soundtrack Music: Exactly what it sounds like
MusOpen: Yes, another one!