Color in Motion - Color Theory Website

Color in Motion is the website of Claudia Cortes. She has created an "interactive experience of communication and color symbolism." It is a fun Flash animated site that can painlessly expose students to the communicative power of color. It is available in either an English or Spanish version.

Alex Gollner's Final Cut Plugins - Free

Alex Gollner has a number of free Final Cut plugins. Some of these include:

Lower Third
This generator provides extra text and positioning options for labelling people and places.

Repeat
This filter surrounds a scaled down version of a clip with copies.

Wave Transition
A transition plugin that produces a variety of wave transition effects.

He also has a number of Final Cut tips and tutorials on the same page.

Free Final Cut Express Plugins

Larry Jordan's latest (free) Final Cut Pro Newsletter mentions a tip from Tom Wolsky:

Piero Fiorani has created a series of free plugins. He's primarily an FCE user and some of them are really for that application, but he has a Quarter PIP filter as well as an easy-to-use motion control (Ken Burns-like) filter.

SONY XDCAM EX Tutorials

Sony has a series of short work flow tutorials for the XDCAM EX format.

The XDCAM EX format's revolutionary file-based workflow allows the user to ingest, edit, and export high quality content exclusively as data files, greatly enhancing the speed and flexibility of the editing process.

View brief tutorials of the XDCAM EX editing process with the following non-linear editors: Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, Thomson EDIUS and Adobe Premier Pro. Registration (at no cost) is required.

Edit Hyundai Commercial Online

Hyundai is promoting their Genesis Coupe with an opportunity to edit your own 30 second commercial with the footage, graphics, effects, and music that they provide.

They are using a web-based version of Adobe Premiere Elements. It might make a nice extra credit assignment.

Find it at www.EditYourOwn.com

Car Dash Camera Mount

Instructables.com has a lot of short tutorials on how to build stuff items for the low-budget filmmaker.

Check out this this clever solution for a cheap camera mount for a small camcorder.

Film4prizes.com Video Contest Listings

Films4prizes.com is one of several websites that lists online video contests.