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DIGITAL TOOLS


    PRE-PRODUCTION

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

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

    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.





    PRODUCTION

    Alexa camera from Arri Digital, with a Super 35mm-sized sensor,16-bit, Arriraw format.

    Genesis® camera from Panavision, with a Super 35mm-sized sensor, 4:4:4 RGB 10-bit and uses all existing 35mm Panavision spherical lenses.

    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.

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

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

    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.

    Viper FilmStream™ camera delivers uncompromising 4:4:4 RGB 10-bit output for digital cinematography.

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






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    POST-PRODUCTION

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

    Convert video signals (such as analog SD) to a digital video signal (such as DV or HD):

    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.

    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.

    Neo Scene uniquely extracts 24p / 25p progressive frames from all your HDV or AVCHD material and converts HDV or AVCHD camera footage to CineForm MOV (and AVI) files for editing in your favorite NLE.

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

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

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

    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).




    WEBCASTING

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







:::::: freshness date: Friday, September 23, 2011 ::::::