Useful Online Resources For Creative People
This list will be accumulated and updated as new resource comes out daily, I promise I’ll share with you once I find them. If you have other great resources and you want me to share right here, you can leave a message on my blog, I will update the list as soon as I can.
Free audio and video resources
Keep in mind, unless otherwise specified, all resources below are in Creative Commons licenses or in public domain, so there’s no copyright issue at all.
Audio / Music
1) Creative Commons – Legal Music For Videos
2) Internet Archive – Public Domain Music & Audio
3) Jamendo – Royalty Free Music Downloads
4) Classic Cat – Free Classical Music Directory
5) CCMixter – Download & Remix CC Licensed Music
6) Free Music Archive – Another great resource to find public domain music
7) Royalty Free Music & Songs From Danosongs.com
Video
1) Internet Archive – Public Domain Movies & Videos
2) Youtube – tips: type your keywords follow by “creativecommons”
3) Vimeo – Search For Creative Commons License Works
5) Blip.tv
6) OurMedia.org
7) Revver.com
8 Flickr – Creative Commons Licensed Photos & Videos
Digital Video Effects / Motion Graphics
5) Studio 1 ProductionsUseful After Effects Resources
2) AE Basics
10) fxguide
11) Ko’s AE Tuts
16) Steve S. AE Tuts
20) TutsPlus (AE)
Useful Final Cut Pro Resources
1) 2Pop
7) FCP @ DMN
8 FCPWorld
12) Kenstone.net
14) LAFCPUG
19) YouTube FCP
Useful links for video / film production students
2) San Francisco Green Film Festival
3) Video Forms, Templates & Resources
6) IDTV Video Production – Another IDTV Blog
8 IDTV on Facebook (Needs a FB account)
10) IDTV on Tumblr
11) Digital Video Effects Blog
Local TV stations websites
13) Link TV
14) Mosaic
TV / Video Jobs:
1) BAVC
4) FAF Jobs
6) Jobs & Degrees in TV / Radio
9) Medialine
10) MediaMatch
11) ProductionHUB
12) StudioDaily Jobs
13) TV Jobs
14) TV / Video Jobs at Cragslist
Recommended websites, blogs and resources:
2) AE Tuts
3) Mograph.net
4) AE Scripts
5) Creative Cow
10) Adobe TV
11) SF Cutters
12) SuperMeet.com
13) Bay Area STAR
14) Cyber College
15) Digital Video Effects Blog
20) ICOM
21) Jobs & Degrees in TV/ Radio
22) NATAS
23) Schooltube
26) Adobe TV After Effects Videos
27) After Effects Basics by Video Copilot
28 After Effects tutorials for Windows users
31) DMTS Tuts
32) FXGuide
33) Ko’s AE Tuts
34) Kurt Murphy’s AE Tutorials
37) Steve S. AE Tuts
38 Trish & Chris Meyer After Effects Blog
41) 2Pop
42) Atomic Learning
45) Digital Media Net Editing Tips
47) FCP World
49) Genius DV
51) KenStone.net
52) LAFCPUG (Los Angeles FCP User Group) Tutorials
53) OpenCut.org
54) Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) FCP Tutorials
More great motion graphics resources available! Download the Digital Video Effects and Motion Graphics Resources List here!
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
1) Final Cut Pro 7 Shortcut Guide
2) Media Composer 5 Shortcut Guide
3) Soundtrack Pro 3 Shortcut Guide
5) After Effects CS 5 Shortcut Guide
User Manuals & Documentation
Other useful resources
Jan 29, 2012 @ 23:14:43
Hi Victor,
You should check out a site I helped launch recently called neongrid.com. It’s free no upgrades and let’s creatives maintain a profile, custom cover page, and host works in a variety of media types. It also let’s them define their skills and puts them in an advanced search index.
Andrew