Tools, Aggregates + Resources

Aggregates, archives, technical tips, support for artistic confidence, and more.

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Prelinger Archive

public domain footage

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The Public Domain Project

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Moving Image Archive

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National Archives

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Library of Congress

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NASA Videos

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Hubble Space Telescope

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Freesound

Sound files search

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SoundBible.com

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Ubu

Film and video art archive

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Rutgers Libraries

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Kanopy

While you're in school you get free access to many award winning films + historical art videos.

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Academic Videos Online: Premium (AVON)

Collection of more than 50,000 videos (ranging from the beginnings of cinema to the current day). While most support instruction in a wide range of disciplines, there is a significant number of dramas, comedies, and documentaries

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Asian Film Online

An online streaming video collection of more than 600 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. It offers a view of contemporary Asian culture and society as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Twenty-six countries across the region are represented, with a strong concentration on China, India, Iran, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.

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Archival footage

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savemedia.website

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Linkedin Learning (formerly known as Lynda.com)

Provided by Rutgers

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Leil Lowndes

Good for confidence as a director/behind the recording device- helps overcome social anxiety associated with approaching people for art-based research in order to become a better interviewer and more confident researcher.

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Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens (an excerpt)

When you need to remember that your urge to create is part of who you are and you're not alone.

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Save the Cat

Story structure, screenwriting and script resources

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Artlist

Royalty Free Music + sfx Licensing For Videos

Reading Technique Resources

Notes

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Overdrive

Free ebooks and audio books with library card

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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

Google Chrome extension that reads browser pages to you with the click of a button in your top bar.

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Speechify

Import any text file, pasted copy or URL to audio on phone or desktop browser for free.

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Voice Dream

$14.99 but allows highlighting, bookmarking + annotating.

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Audible (student discount)

Monthly audiobook subscription or buy by book. No wait time. Allows Clip selection, bookmarking + annotating.

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Rutgers Speed Reading and Study Skills program

Premiere Tip

Specs

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Screen Sizes

Standard Definition (square-looking format) 724 x 420

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Widescreen 1920 x 1080

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DV 720 x 480

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DV 24 fps (frames per second)

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DV PAL (25 fps)

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kilohertz

refers to sample rates (48 kilohertz = general sound choice)

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Adobe Media Encoder

Change formatting of all footage at once

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All fx can be copy + pasted to other clips

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Scale, Position, Rotation

controlled in the Video fx Motion module

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Anchor Point

Only relevant for animating the video file's position movement within the composition

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transparency (same fx as Photoshop and Masks)

controlled in the Opacity fx Motion module

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Window (dropdown menu)

Effect Controls is the master control area for all fx being used.

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Effects window is different [color, filters, transitions, Transform (Horizontal Flip, etc.)]

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Color Key

For Chroma-keying out a specific hue and the texture associated with it. Found under the effects menu under “Video Effects” and “Keying.” To do so, use the eyedropper tool next to “Key Color” and select a color from the video clip.

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Ultra Key

For Chroma-keying out a specific hue (but not the texture). Value remains.

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Edge feather

Smoothing out the edge of a keyed Chroma-keyed object. Feathering reduced noise.

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Mask feather

The amount of blur at the edges of a mask

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Tolerance

In relation to Chroma-keying: tolerance = the amount being deleted

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Pedestal

Adjusts all color but not the value or shadows.