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Video Utilities
Aquafadus (Mac) Several utilities for creating animated slideshows, flash banners, etc. Drive-in (Mac) Make images of your DVDs to store on a computer HD - to watch at any time direct from the image. Flip4Mac (Mac) A free plug-in that will play wma and wmv files in QuickTime Player and a web browser on your Mac. FunBooth (Mac) Apply various props with your iSight camera using some clever face-detection technology. iMovie 06 HD If you have installed iLife '08, and need the iMovie '06 features! Free for iLife '08 users. Perian (Mac) A free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.		VideoLan Client(Mac/Win) VLC is a free cross-platform media player which supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs. Movie Montage(Mac/Win) Cataloguing application, similar to iPhoto, but just for QT movies. MPEG StreamClip (Mac/Win) Converts a wide variety of formats, including QT to DV. DivX & AVI Files (Mac) Links to software for playing AVIs on Mac OS X. Video Screen Capture Wazza's screen-capture software pages include applications for capturing screen and audio to a movie file for instructional videos.
Stop Motion Software		iPod Video Utilities
Create your own Wallace & Grommet extravaganza! AnimAide XT (Mac) Frames (Mac, Win) Framethief (Mac) iMovie (Mac) iStopMotion (Mac) MonkeyJam (Win - donationware) MovieMaker (Win) QuickTime Pro (Mac, Win) QuickTime Sequencer (Mac) SAM Animation (Mac, Win) Free StopMoJo (Java - Mac, Win, Lin) StopMotion Maker (Win) StopMotion Pro (Win) See also: How to make a stop-motion animation Short video discussing basic stop-motion animation for students - planning, making sets and characters, and some useful tips and tricks.		iSquint (Mac) Convert videos to use on an iPod. VisualHub (Mac) Universal video converter. (This is the "full" version of iSquint above). Handbrake (Mac/Win) Open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter. Ideal for converting videos to use on your iPod. MoviePod (Mac/Win) Convert movies for your video-capable iPod super-easily. Reads files in MOV, MPG, AVI, ASF, WMV, VOB, DV, FLC and any format supported by a QuickTime plugin. Can do batch encoding so you can queue up videos to process overnight.
Format Converters		Tube Converters
MediaConverter Online conversion of a wide variety of online and local files. Visual Hub (Mac) Conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, Tivo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash. Vixy Online conversion of FLV videos (YouTube, etc) to MPEG4 AVI, MO, MP4 ,MP3, 3GP. Zamzar Online file converter - not just videos.		ClipNabber Online download and conversion of embedded flash videos. Convert Tube Online conversion of flash videos (YouTube, etc) to mpg, mov, mp4, etc. Cosmopod (Mac) A Safari add-on to download and convert flash videos from YouTube, etc. DownloadYouTubeVideos Online download and conversion of YouTube videos. SaveVid Online download and conversion of embedded flash videos. TubeTV (Mac) Search, save, and convert YouTube and other flash videos to a format suitable for playback on your favorite devices. Free. Vixy Online conversion of flash videos (YouTube, etc) to mpg, avi, etc. Safari (Apple's Web Browser) Select Window > Activity, locate the file and double-click it to download it, then add the appropriate flv suffix.
WebCam Software		DVD Ripping
A video camera can be used to setup a "live" Internet/Intranet webCam..... EvoCam (Mac) Upload locally or with FTP to a web server, update using "page refresh" or Java using the included templates. Also provides captions, picture badges, clocks and effect items, all floating on top of live video from your camera. WebCamXP (Win) Popular webcam software. Lets you broadcast / manage your video sources with up to 5 video sources per computer. Other webcam software..... Macam (Mac) Software for USB webcams on Mac OS X. Allows hundreds of USB webcams to be used by many Mac OS X applications. Webcam Timershot (Win) Windows Powertoys software includes free webcam timer software.		Drive-in (Mac) Make images of your DVDs to store on a computer HD - to watch at any time direct from the image. DVD2one (Mac/Win) Choose which parts of a DVD to image. Compress 7.4G DVDs to one DVD. Shareware. DVDBackup (Mac) Copies DVD to HD. Free. DVDImager (Mac) Make a DVD disk image. Free. DVD FAQ All your questions answered! FastDVDCopy (Mac) One-click copying, compressing, unencoding of any DVD. Handbrake (Mac/Win) Open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter. Ideal for converting videos to use on your iPod.
Cables		Copyright-Friendly Clips & Archives
PCcables.com Need an extra long Firewire cable? Or maybe an unusual video cable, switchbox, or adaptor? These guys will have it!		AustralianScreen Developed by Curriculum Corporation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. National Film & Sound Archive The video clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers’ notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Stock.XCHNG Free gallery containing over 250.000 quality stock photos by more than 25.000 photographers. YoToPhoto Index of images in the public domain or available for free usage under various forms of copyleft licensing.
Other Stuff
Photo to Movie (Mac, Win) Creates slide show with motion effects, music, and captions. Burn your movies to DVD or publish to the web.

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