Software

Aquafadus (Mac)

Several utilities for creating animated slideshows, flash banners, etc.

DivX & AVI Files (Mac)

Links to software for playing AVIs on Mac OS X.

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.

Movie Montage(Mac/Win)

Cataloguing application, similar to iPhoto, but just for QT movies.

 

 

Movist (Mac)

Lots of options for palying various formats, aspect ratio, cropping, stretching, etc. Free.

MPEG StreamClip (Mac/Win)

Converts a wide variety of formats, including QT to DV.

Perian (Mac)

A free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

SimpleMovieX (Mac)

A lightweight video editor for Macs.

VideoLan Client - VLC (Mac/Win)

VLC is a free cross-platform media player which supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs. Free.

See also:

Video Screen Capture

Wazza's screen-capture software pages include applications for capturing screen and audio to a movie file for instructional videos.

Create your own Wallace & Grommet extravaganza!

AnimAide XT (Mac)
FrameByFrame (Mac - Donate)
Frames (Mac, Win)
Framethief (Mac)
iMovie (Mac)
iStopMotion (Mac)
MonkeyJam (Win - Donate)
MovieMaker (Win)
QuickTime Pro (Mac, Win)
QuickTime Sequencer (Mac)
SAM Animation (Mac, Win- Free vers)
SingleFramer (Mac) 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.

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.

Flash movie downloader

Firefox add-on to download and convert embedded flash movies (eg YouTube) from a toolbar button.

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 (usually the giggest one!) and double-click it to download it.

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.

PCcables.com

Need an extra long Firewire cable? Or maybe an unusual video cable, switchbox, or adaptor? These guys will have it!

AnyClip

Search for scenes, quotes, etc, from any movie in the site's database.

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.

Movie Fonts

100 free fonts used in movie titles.

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.

Photo to Movie (Mac, Win)

Creates slide show with motion effects, music, and captions. Burn your movies to DVD or publish to the web.