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Cartoonr, A Free Video Editing Plugin from NewBlue

I am sure you will be familiar with NewBlue, a company that has produced many of the best plugins for videographers.
This time NewBlue has released a free plugin called NewBlue Cartoonr. This plug-in can work with Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut, Apple Motion, AVID Liquid, AVID Media Composer, Pinnacle Studio, Sony VEGAS, Thomson GV EDIUS, and COREL VideoStudio. It’s also compatible on Windows and Mac OS.

NewBlue Cartoonr gives an edge to make your video look like a hand-drawn cartoon. Cartoonr plugin has 32 preset cartoon styles are very helpful for videographers to create video effects as needed. I’ve tried this plugin in SONY Vegas Pro 9, and the results are very impressive.

You can download this free plugin through this link. I recommend when installing computer must be connected to the Internet because this installation process you must enter your name and email to get the activation code.

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Editing a Short Film

It is hard to editing a short film as well as it can be a good manner to swiftly and concisely exhibit your abilities as an editor. With 5 or 10 minutes of editing, what you will be able to accomplish can say in excess of a footage of two hours since the canvas is so much smaller for storytelling and good editing. Not just for directors but editors also, short film works extremely well as an excellent calling card for anyone who wants to break into the film industry. As such, you should consider any project for editing a short film as a type of job application. It is a showcase of your work and something you can use to show producers or directors how skillfully you understand the medium of film, and make them want to see what you could do with a larger canvas.

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Video Editing Software for Linux

Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. It is referred to as the closest thing to VirtualDubMod there is for linux.

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Blender
Blender is an open source software 3D animation program. It can be used for modelling, uv unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing, composition, and creating interactive 3D applications. Blender is available for several operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, FreeBSD, SkyOS, MorphOS and Pocket PC. Blender has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to another high-end 3D software such as Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max and Maya. These features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid body dynamics, fluid dynamics, and softbody dynamics. Modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools. A node based material and composition system and an embedded scripting engine based on Python.

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