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To carry out a machinima it is necessary to pass by several stages which are rather long.

1 - The scenario

Here two free software which will help you has to carry out one of the crucial steps of N imports which machinimas:

Celtx (Mac/PC/Linux): To carry out a film, Celtx is the most complete free software. In a collaborative way, Celtex makes it possible to work and organize its ideas, to write a story-board, to plan its turning, etc

StoryBoard Pro Software (Mac/PC): The company Atomic Learning offers this software free. It is intended the general public, to professors and to pupils who want to have a simple software to carry out a story-board.

Once this stage carried out one can pass has L following stage

2 - The video capture

Certain software which I will quote request a PC enough strapping man

- Shareware (you have access has part of the software to have access has all the options which proposes the software it will be necessary you to pay)

FRAPS: there exists a free version limited has 30 im/s, there is L ’ one of best the software to safeguard its exploits of gamer in .avi without compression certainly the software has uses to have best quality D image but envisage much D spaces on your hard drive



Gamecam: there exists a free version which imposes a large logo, N does not record the sound and your video is records with the format 512 * 384 at the most if not it S acts of the largest rival of fraps to the difference of that Ci the video one is encodé in format .avi thus they are much less heavy



mygamerscam: it S acts of gamecam with same the advantages and disadvantages except that L interface is in French.



zd software range to re-code: software you excel have your vidéos directly encodées with the codec (provided that Ci either install on your computer) which you want it exists a free version but if you choose the free version you cannot make qu one minute of video capture. I m explain if you play has your favorite play with the end D one minute of capture range to retie points out qu to you it S acts of the free version, if you want to continue to you summers to oblige to remake another one minute capture, i.e. that can have five minutes of video capture into five file whereas for the other software would have had you of it that only one and single file rather aggravating but one S made there.

L editor allows same the luxury to be compared has fraps and gamecam of which here the bond.

- Growler Guncam is a tool of capture of recorder and video of play which makes it possible users to create it video of the plays and other programs. Guncam can still transform this video into files of AVI, animated files of GIF, and even projectiles of JPEG

- The free ones

- Car Screen Recorder it allows you in a way very simple to record a part or totality of what is posted with the screen.

- wegame.com rather little known in France and yet this site, in addition to you proposing a place or lodging your vidéos, offers a software for Windows to you which will allow you D ’ to record vidéos of your plays.

- wipido rather little known in France and yet this site, in addition to you proposing a place or lodging your vidéos, offers a software for Windows to you which will allow you D ’ to record vidéos of your plays.

- Taski similar to FRAPS but open source and free. Only difficulty, that N ’ does not record the sound of your video games but unfortunately it N is updated.

- xfire software enough known to be the messenger video game. He proposes L option D to record videos of your plays provided that is recognized by xfire and the result is enough surprising, in more D to lodge your videos, xfire enables you to make broadcast you can show your parts on line and N imports which in the world can look at your part here the bond.

- Webinaria is an easy to use tool which makes it possible to create animated presentations or demonstrations of software, called commonly tutoriaux. It is compatible with all versions of Windows since Windows 98.

- Wink is a tool to create the tutoriaux ones or presentations in Flash starting from captures of screen. To carry out an animation with Wink, you must create a project then to take some photographs of screen in a zone of which you determine the size (full screen, cuts predetermined or personalized).

- Jing Project is a software suggested free by Techsmith, the originators of Camtasia Studio.

- Didapages is a software entirely built in flash and which makes it possible to create very simply books multimedia and interactives. These books could be the support simple presentations multimedia (albums, tales… , of plays or exercises, “lessons”, guides, tutoriaux, etc…

- Free Screen Recorder is a program easy to use to record all the activities visible with the screen (as well as the audio) with format AVI. That is to move the cursor, to launch a program, to write a text, etc, in short, all that is visible with the screen, Free Screen Recorder will record it, just as the audio via your microphone.

- Freez Screen Video Capture makes it possible to record in a video file (with format AVI) all that occurs to the screen, as well as the audio. You can record any part of the activities of the screen and the movements of the cursor, to use a microphone to comment on your recordings of screen.

- Pointofix does not make it possible to create vidéos but it makes it possible to draw and write on the screen, which can prove to be useful to create the tutoriaux ones or presentations. Via a floating pallet, several tools are at your disposal: drawing free, right-angled, circle, line, arrows with one way or double direction or even writing are accessible.

- Screencast-o-matic is an application in line (under Java) which does not require any installation and which makes it possible to capture all that occurs on your screen (one calls that a screencast), audio and video included/understood.

- Krut Computer To retie is a free program which can record all that is reproduced on your screen of computer (video and audio) to format MOV (for the video) and to format WAV (for the audio). It can be employed to create demonstrations, presentations or tutoriaux or to capture parts of plays as well as the stream of Internet.

- oRipa Screen Recorder is a simple and handy application to record your activity on the computer in real-time and to safeguard the result in video. oRipa Screen To also retie capture all that you can hear on your PC, like the music or the microphone of the PC.

- SCREEN2EXE is a tool easy to use to capture the activity of your office and to safeguard the whole in an autonomous achievable file. The program captures the movements of the mouse, the clicks and even the comments via a microphone.

- vTute Recorder is a very small portable software (hardly 53 KB!) who allows to capture your screen and to also record the audio to produce a video with the format Flash (FLV). This tool was especially created to make it possible no matter whom to easily create his clean video tutoriel with the format flash (FLV) and to divide it with other users on line (on the site vTute Recorder for example).

- AviScreen Classic makes it possible to capture the screen (still images or video) with formats BMP and AVI. In addition to the usual options of definition of the zone of capture, AviScreen comprises a function called “to follow the cursor”. Thanks to this function, you can create a low-size video but which will follow all the movements of the mouse on the whole of the zone.

- SpeedyVideoCapture makes it possible to capture any video sequence posted on the screen of your PC This video sequence can come from a navigation on Internet, the reading of a DVD, a software of video reading or any other source.

- E-Anim is a free program to create animations in Flash.

- CamStudio allows you D ’ to record in a video file in the format avi (but also Flash) skeletal all that occurs to L ’ screen from L ’ computer (full screen, fenestrates or definite zone) during a given time.

3 - To give a voice to the characters

this N is not an obligatory stage but for those which want software here are some:

No23 Recorder is a software which plays the part of a tape recorder since it makes it possible to record any audio source coming from your PC in the formats mp3, waw or ogg. The software is in easy to use German but

VoiceSFX will enable you to transform sounds thanks to various effects suggested.

AV Voice Changer Software is usable in the living rooms of discussions in vocal mode, but also on your instant message software equipped with this function (MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, etc). You L ’ will have included/understood, it is practically usable with all the VoIP software. Concerning the functionalities, you will have the possibility D ’ of refining the adjustments so D ’ to have the more natural air, but also the reverse to make undoubtedly laugh your correspondent.

Audacity is an exceptional and easy to use free editor audio for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and many other operating systems.

4 - Music

This is not an obligatory stage but that can contribute has certain scenes

I go you of the sites or one can recover music in a legal and free way

- Jamendo

- Revolution sound record

- boxson

- dogmazic

Without forgetting the sound effects:

http://www.findsounds.com/types.html

http://www.brandens.net/

http://bruitages.free.fr/

http://wav.bruitages.net/

http://www.ilovewavs.com/

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm

5 - Software D ’ edition of video

it will be necessary all well to assemble, the software that I to quote to you are free

- JahShaka (Mac/PC/Linux): C ’ is certainly the free software D ’ video edition most complete. Version 3 left last January and benefits fully from the last material projections.

- Viva (Mac/PC): C ’ is an editor of video which offers functions D ’ edition easy to use for the vidéos with format FD.

- HyperEngine-AV (Mac): Known in the past under the name of Assembly, this software proposes a line D ’ audio edition and video complete.

Cinelerra (Linux): This software is reserved for the linuxiens. Effective, it requires a rather powerful machine however.

KDEnLive (Linux): The first three letters of this software give an index on the platform which L ’ point of disjunction. Framasoft indicates qu ’ it S ’ acts D ’ an excellent compromise for those which would not like to become complicated the life with Cinelerra.

Avidemux (Mac/PC/Linux): Like Jashaka, this software is multiplateforme. On the other hand, its functionalities are reduced to the strict minimum.

LiVES (Linux): LIVES is a video editor also being able to serve D ’ tool for evenings VJ puisqu ’ he includes/understands a mixor of vidéos in real-time.

iMovie Apple (Mac): This software N ’ is not free, but it is provided free for any purchase D ’ Mac. It will make very well L ’ business for the video of every day. The last version with L ’ favours to recognize all formats the HD, even most recent, like L ’ AVCHD and its derivatives.

Windows Movie Maker Microsoft (PC): Another free software, but provided with Windows. Its functions are very limited and it does not manage qu ’ only one format (Windows Media) what forces us to disadvise it for any professional use and any publication on line.

- videospin (PC) which is an alternative to Windows Movie Maker for the users wishing to assemble their vidéos free.

(if you want more D option turn towards the paying software)

6 - For very special video effects

Blender: C ’ is the reference as regards creation 3D. It is ideal to put a little volume in your productions.

Wax (PC): It can carry out special effects in 2D and 3D. It will not displease to the beginners. It to perhaps integrate like plugin into the software D ’ video edition Sony Vegas, Pure EditStudio Motion and Adobe First.

7 - To convert and video encoder it with the good format

MPEGStreamClip (Mac/PC): It is particularly easy to apprehend and has very rich options. To have absolutely!

Virtualdub (PC): It can serve D ’ video editor, but I find it more useful for the capture and the transformation of video. Contrary to MPEGStreamClip, it is a little complicated to handle.

t@b Media Converter (Mac/PC/Linux): C ’ is the only converter really multiplateforme. It has L ’ favours to produce of Real Media for those which that still interests.

FFmpeg (Mac/PC/Linux): FFmpeg is a collection of free software dedicated to the treatment D ’ a numerical flow. L ’ installation of this software is more delicate than that of these fellow-members, puisqu ’ it obliges to install 3 external components (mpeg2enc, mencoder and mplayer).

FLV Encoder (PC) rivetted: As its name L ’ indicates, FLV Encoder RIVETTED is used to prepare vidéos with format FLV (Flash), L ’ ideal for the Web diffusion.

SUPER (PC): SUPER is super (!), but he recognizes especially a great number of video and audio formats. As FLV Encoder Rivetted, it has L ’ favours D ’ encoder in FLV.

8 - Analyzer of video files

VideoSpec (Mac): C ’ is a software conceived under AppleScript Studio using achievable the open Unix source MPlayer, FFmpeg and MediaInfo CLI.

MediaInfo (Mac/PC/Linux): I can read a pleiad of audio and video file, with the characteristic to present L ’ information under various formats (text, table, HTML, etc)

MPEGStreamClip (Mac/PC): In addition to converting vidéos, MPEGStreamClip gives many details on the composition of file (format, flow, size, etc).

GSpot (PC): Small useful software to recover the specifications D ’ an audio or video file.

9 - Various useful software for the video

aspecRatio (Mac): One cannot make simpler to change the size D ’ a video (4/3 or 16/9, 1080i/p, 720i/p, etc)

QT Sync (Mac): Reader QuickTime, this software offers functions similar to aspectRatio, plus some more detailed parameter settings like Re-synchronization D ’ a video (thank you Julien for the 2 references).

DVDStyler (PC): free software of production of DVD. As Egroc underlines it, “ it constitutes in fact the finality of the chain “.

10 - Complementary resources

Video heading of Framasoft

List software to publish it video

If you want to produce Spielberg minis here a bond to help you

and to finish three here youtube like specialized in the video game:

1 - wegame

2 - gametv

3 - gametube



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