DIGITAL TOOLS

PRE-PRODUCTION

Adobe Story software has powerful screenwriting, reporting, and scheduling tools. Share projects and collaborate online.

Celtx, software for scriptwriting, storyboards, breakdowns, schedules, budgets, and cast & crew reports (Cloud-based, subscription model).

Director's Notebook is digital "project notebook" software that organizes pre-production, production, and post information television commercial directors need.

Fade In, professional screenwriting software with formatting and editing, organization and revision tools.

Final Draft, professional scriptwriting software for film, television and theatre.

Frame Forge, pre-visualization and storyboarding softwawre.

Movie Magic scheduling and budgeting software.

Movie Outline, professional screenwriting software for the Mac.

PAID, a FileMaker Pro-based tool for the film and television industry to easily track job invoices, clients, crew members, billing items and project estimates.

Panavision's PANASCOUT during a location scout, simulates the cinematographer`s viewpoint from a professional cinema camera on your iPhone.

Shot Designer Pro, a shot-planning tool for Mac & iOS that creates animated camera diagrams with shot lists, storyboards and director's viewfinder.





PRODUCTION

Arriflex digital cameras, with a Super 35mm-sized sensors and Arriraw format. Alexa and Amira camera.

Atomos merges recording, monitoring, playback & editing into a single touchscreen uniit for video production.

CamCushions, viewfinder cushions for your camera eyepiece.

Canon video cameras for professionals and amateurs. [and custom-made XL accessories by Birns and Sawyer.]

Grass Valley cameras for digital cinematography.

iSeek4k, an iPod app for determining field-of-view, lens comparisons, digital storage requirements among Red and also film cameras.

iStopMotion is a software tool for Stop Motion Animation and Time Lapse Recording control.

JVC video cameras for professionals and amateurs.

Marshall – professional camera-mount field monitors.

Media by Sony, a one-stop resource for choosing any of Sony's professional or personal use recording/storage media.

NewTek, live mutli-camera video production and streaming.

Panavision, with a Super 35mm-sized sensors, 4:4:4 RGB 10-bit and using all existing 35mm Panavision spherical lenses.

pCAM and pCINE, calculator software for iPhone/iPod Touch, helps determine technical information for exposure, lens, etc.

QuickTime Broadcaster is Apple’s live encoding software for streaming audio and video over the Internet (the single-stream configuration is free).

Red cameras, a breakthrough ultra high-resolution digital cinema camera, using a super 35mm sized sensor and P/L mount lenses.

RedrockMicro, revolutionaly cinema accessories for the digital filmmaker.

Shot Logger from Production Magic, inc. was a Newton-based wireless time code / shot logging system for non linear editing.

Sony video cameras for professionals and amateurs.

Tascam DR-60D 4-channel digital audio mixer/recorder, camera-mountable.

Zacuto, maker of filmmaker rigs & viewfinders for any camera.

POST-PRODUCTION

Cleaner, (was) an industry standard for dynamic video and audio media compression to multiple release formats.

Convert analog video formats to digital video:

Blackmagic Design makes video interface solutions for Mac/PC: from Multibridge professional converters using PCI, to home video converters using USB 2.0
DataVideo's DAC-100, and former DAC-2 DV/YUV component converter
Easy VHS to DVD from Roxio: a USB adapter to composite and S-Video breakout connections
Formac's former FireWire DV converter
Grass Valley video converters for pros and consumers (acquired Canopus)
Pinnacle offers several types of video converter and adapters for PC/Mac
Sony's formerly made DVMC-DA2 Media DV converter
Video Capture by Elegato transfers video to your Mac from a VCR, DVR, camcorder as an H.264 file
Vydeo video converters



Cult Effects Plug-Ins for After Effects: packed with indispensable tools to give you creative freedom and almost endless possibilities to deliver high-quality effects.

DVD Studio Pro, Apple's Professional DVD authoring suite.

DigiEffects software, allows you to take any video footage and can emulate popular film-stocks and advanced color correction when used with After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, or Avid. Convert 30fps footage to 24fps for 35mm and 16mm film, and 12fps for 8mm film.

Final Cut Pro, professional multi-format nonlinear editing software from Apple. (7toX for Final Cut Pro brings Final Cut Pro 7 projects forward to into Final Cut Pro X for further editing older projects.)

HandBrake is a free video transcoder, often used for ripping discs to devices for playback.

iDVD, Apple's basic DVD authoring made simple.

iMovie, consumer nonlinear DV editing software from Apple.

Matrox makes professional high def, standard def, digital and analog input/ouput devices for Mac.

Media 100: integrate DV media with footage from analog sources for your Media 100 system in real time.

Mokey is industrial-strength advanced keying software, and can be bought or rented daily, weekly, monthly.

MPEG Streamclip provides high-quality conversion of video files into several useful formats.

Perian was the free “Swiss-army knife” for QuickTime that enables support for many popular video formats.

Pinnacle Systems' line of pro-sumer video editing software.

Pro Player is a professional QuickTime player for video content creators and motion graphics designers.

Producer's Best Friend exports every report you need from Final Cut Pro X, as a formatted spreadsheet.

QuickTime, enabling digital video creation/playback on Macs and PCs.

RipIt, the simple DVD ripper for Macs; watch your movies anywhere.

Sonic has solutions for preparing, encoding, authoring, and formatting content for DVD.

VisualHub was a universal video converter utility software for Mac, bridging the gap between numerous video formatting standards (discontinued).

WonderShare. Convert, edit, burn and share your digital media content.