Montag, 1. Dezember 2008

Freie Software für Film & Co.


  • Free Film Project - This project main purpose is to produce a complete software suite capable of acting as a virtual, distributed movie studio. Everything from conception, pre to post-production & distributing the final work into a format that can be shown, will be covered.


  • Film Gimp is a motion picture editing tool primarily used for painting and retouching of movies.




  • MoviePaint is an open source paint program, based on Film Gimp, targeted specifically toward the image painting and retouching needs of digital effects and animation studios for use in feature films.


  • Portable Celtx is a free, open source software tool for writing and formatting a screenplay to meet the exacting screenplay submission standards set by the theater and film industries.


  • Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.




  • Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality 2D animation with fewer people and resources.


  • Real Subtitler eases the process of creating subtitles for Real Video files. It allows to insert begin and end time while watching the film. It generates RealText (*.rt)file as well as the SMIL descriptor.


  • A fancy multi-countdowns timer program suitable for black and white film processing, from developpement to final rinsing. Includes internet browsing of processing datas. Local recording of personal datas via SQL soon.


  • A comprehensive commercial film budgeting spreadsheet designed to help service companies budget accurately and easily. It currently runs in excel with plans to port it to OpenOffice.org Calc.


  • theGrindHouse is a frame based film or image filter rendering engine. A filter chain is constructed from available filters then applied to each frame. Written in C with GTK+2.


  • Exhibitionist is a PHP/MySQL CMS for film festival and non-profit event management. Specific modules include an Event management and publishing system, Resource Scheduling and management/publishing system, and a film festival "Web site in a box."


  • IGE is a pre-visualization ("previs") tool for film directors.


  • Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.




  • iPod Movie Maker is a CLI bash script which allows you to hardcode subtitles directly in movie and converts it to iPod movie format. Very easy to use.


  • movie thumbnailer (mtn) -- saves thumbnails (screenshots) of movie or video files to jpeg files. it uses libavcodec as its engine, so all popular codecs, eg. divx h264 mpeg1 mpeg2 mp4 vc1 wmv xvid, and formats, eg. .3gp .avi .dat .mkv .wmv are supported.


  • Quake 3 Movie Maker's Edition is a special version of Quake 3 engine that aids the creation of game movies, making it possible to simplify required tasks and adds new features to the engine that are related to the movie making.


  • A graphical editor for Windows Media (.wmv), MPEG files and FLV movies. Select or delete multiple portions from a video file. The system lets you copy, paste and fine tune the selections. Also supports joining and splitting of video/movie files.


  • A Flash-like movie editor. Uses Java 2D API. Users create and edit animated vector graphics, images, sound. Rich GUI, can export animation. Main page http://gazelle.dev.java.net. This SF site now mirror.


  • The Open Movie Editor is a project that aims to create an easy to use Video Editing Application intended for, but not limited to Free Operating Systems.




  • EasyBMPtoAVI is a cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OSX, Solaris..), easy-to-use application to convert a series of BMP images of any bit depth to an AVI movie file. EasyBMPtoAVI supports both command-line and interactive use, and a GUI version is planned.


  • NOC is a open source development toolkit and a powerful molecular explorer for protein structure visualizing,analysis,crystallographic mapping, modeling, and refinement, Gromacs/Amber MD trajectories displaying,movie making...


  • Online video editor implemented in Adobe Flash 8. Provides client interface and simple API for server interactions. Supports sequencing, trimming, timeshifting, compositing and mixing. Interface can be reskinned and functionality extended with modules.


  • Fractice is a fractal explorer for Windows. It supports navigation, history, previews, antialiasing, bitmap export, printing, multi-threaded and multi-core rendering, movie recording, and RGB/HLS palette editing. Soon: deep zoom, distributed rendering.










  • displays a movie file as timeline of video-frames. gjvidtimeline can be synchronized to the J Audio Connection Kit transport mechanism.


  • myStudio is a open source, cross-platform 3D Modelling, Rendering, Animation Studio & Movie Editor.It can run on Windows, Linux & MacOS operation systems.


  • CMatrix simulates the display from "The Matrix" and is based on the screensaver from the movie's website. It can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined speed. It displays some txtz from "The Matrix" movie scenario.


  • RePix 2005 was originally started to create an image & movie 3D (anaglyph) creator program. Currently it's changed to a DirectShow Filter (.ax) to view all Your movies realtime(!) with effects. but! :) if You download it, please comment it! Tank You! :)


  • MASyV (Multi-Agent System Visualization) enables one to write agent-based models/cellular automata, eg. in C, visualize them in real time & capture to movie file with MASyVs GUI & message passing lib. Includes examples: Hello World, ants, viral infection


  • JFlash is a development tool for Java applications. It builds animated Panels or Applets. Visual objects can be placed on a movie scene and are animated by a script or by visual definition.




  • JAAMM: A good ASCII art animation editor and player.


  • This is a game of business management. Operate a movie theater, hire & promote employees, buy movies and sell tickets, make extra cash with concessions and coin op arcade games in your lobby. All math variables editable by the user in 1 config file.




  • A 3-D animation program that mimics the look of the movie TRON, and can render static scenes and motion animation. It is written entirely in C, and uses only the GL, GLU, and GLUT libraries to both draw scenes and provide a simple, easy-to-use UI.


  • Try it out : Jabotabek is a tool helping a manager planing shows in his/her cinema. Jabotabek consists of a planing perspectiv, a movie database and the ability to individualise schedules and prin


  • Tmatrix is a code emulator based on the movie "The Matrix". It works in text mode so it does not need any graphical interface.




  • A web-based image generator of MonoMyths. A MonoMyth is a ring shaped chart used by mythologists to show common stages in a myth/legend/story/movie/current story/book/one's psychological development. Written in Javascript and PHP.

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