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- Adobe Design Center
Articles, advice, and tutorials on creating digital video, focused on Adobe products.
- Celtx
Celtx supplies tools for the media pre-production process, from creating a storyline through script editing, storyboarding, and scheduling.
- Creating Video for iPod
How to use QuickTime 7 Pro to create digital movies for the iPod, or translate videos into a format the iPod can show.
- Digital Kids Club
Resource-rich site for video production teachers from Adobe.
- Hitchcock: Basic Film Techniques
"How to turn your boring movie into a Hitchcock thriller... We've put together a list of the most significant film techniques that were used by Alfred Hitchcock."
- How To Make Videos For The Web
Very nice introduction specifically taking into account the limitations of web video. Another how-to by the same author explores How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great.
- Kids'Vid.org
"Kids'Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning.
- Lifehacker: Digital Video
An irregular blog with lessons, tips, and reviews of software for creating and editing digital video.
- Make Internet TV
"This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and publishing online videos that can be watched and subscribed to by millions of people."
- The Playwriting Seminars
Playwriting and screenwriting resources and tips.
- ShortCourses.com: The On-line Library of Digital Photography
Illustrated guide on all steps from choosing a camera to sharing your completed project.
- Streaming Video
"Here are some tips, tutorials, and software recommendations to help you produce streaming video." Nicely organized site from the University of Wisconsin.
- Streaming Video Tutorial
"By clicking on the links above you can be taken to a tutorial for how to use a digital video camera, MovieMaker2, Discreet Cleaner XL, and/or putting the video on the server." Pretty basic.
- Television Production Manual
Online version of short handbook for tv video production
- Traditional Film Camera Techniques
Describes basic techniques, camera angles, focal lengths to use, movement, etc.
- Video Editing
A Thinkquest project on the basics of video editing.
- Video Toolbox
"Online video is a huge trend - so huge that’s it’s proving hard to keep track. From video sharing sites to video mixers, mashups and converters, we’ve brought together more than 150 of our favorite sites in this category."
- Videography.com
Professional site with news and information for working digital cinematographers.
- Web Video Cheat Sheet
A helpful chart listing web video services and such features as video editing, file size limits, cost, and other pertinent information.
- aniboom
"aniBoom is a cross-media, cross-platform animation content project". Home of the Shapeshifter free animation tool.
- Animoto
Online program for creating high-quality short videos for free or longer videos for a small price.
- Blender
"Free open source 3D content creation suite [animation program], available for all major operating systems."
- Devolver Movie Maker
For making quick and easy cartoons online.
- Debut
Free video and screen capture program.
- Jumpcut
Free online tool for video editing.
- Motionbox
Free online tool for video editing.
- One True Media
Free online tool for video editing.
- Pencil
"Pencil is an animation/drawing software... [which] lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. (Free.)"
- Top 16 Flash Animation Creators
From the review site Techlicious, a run-down of Flash creators "to help you design stunning intros & text effects".
