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Movie Trailers Download – http://www.movie-list.com/

Most sites today do now allow you to download movie trailers. This site does. Why do you want to download movie trailers? You may be wanting to create a video for your home theatre!

Free Movies – http://emol.org/movies/

Many different Free Public Domain and "B" movies and cartoons you can download from the 1920's through the 1990's. (Download in mp4 format for ipod or on your computer using Apple Quicktime.)

Free Movies – http://imovies.blogspot.com/

Many different Free Public Domain and "B" movies and cartoons you can download from the 1920's through the 1990's. (Some movies are in mp4 format for use on your ipod or on your computer using Apple Quicktime, others are in WMV format, some are in FLV format. Many you can watch as streaming videos.)

Free Movies – http://www.archive.org/

The Internet Archive (movie page). The Internet Archive's movie section contains tons of full length Public Domain movies along with many extras such as educational films, News footage, cultural films, and much more. Make sure you surf with your children as this is an archive site which contains many good items, but also contains items you will not want your children to see. (Movies are in mp4 format for use on your ipod or on your computer using Apple Quicktime.)

Free TV Shows and Movies – http://www.fancast.com/

Watch full length episodes of your favorite TV shows (old and current shows) along with full length movies for Free! Uses Media Player. Video is streamed. Site does not require any additional software nor does the site require you to create an account. Simply connect and enjoy! (Note that hulu.com has more than this site and some of the content is streamed from hulu.com).

Free TV Shows and Movies – http://www.hulu.com/

Watch full length episodes of your favorite TV shows (old and current shows) along with full length movies for Free! Uses Media Player. Video is streamed. Site does not require any additional software nor does the site require you to create an account. Simply connect and enjoy! A truly great site!

Freeware - Audio / Video

Audio

WinAmp - http://www.winamp.com/

WinAmp is a free media player which also supports streaming audio and video.

Real Alternative – http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

Play RealMedia files without the spyware that is installed using Real Player or RealOne Player.

Audacity® – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. This is a very good free program!

MP3Gain – http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding. You can adjust multiple mp3 files at one time. Very simple to use and helpful program!

Floola -http://www.floola.com/

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported). Floola supports all most common used features including podcasts!

Any Audio Converter - http://www.any-audio-converter.com/

Extract Audio from Video, Convert Unprotected Audio. Any Audio Converter is designed for extracting audio from video and converting audio between popular formats, such as WMV, MP4, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP3, M4A, MP2, etc.
With Any Audio Converter, you can convert audio between MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC and OGG as well as video files including AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, ASF, etc to popular audio files, e.g. convert MP4 to MP3. The user-friendly interface of Any Audio Converter lets you add and convert any unprotected audios and videos to MP3, WMA, AAC and OGG easily. Most work can be done automatically with a few mouse clicks.
Works on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Free Sound Recorder - http://www.sound-recorder.biz/freesoundrecorder.html

Free Sound Recorder is a very easy to use perfect audio recorder to record your own voice, music or any other sound by working directly with your sound card. It supports the record input/source from a microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, external input devices (e.g. CDs, LP, music cassettes, phone line etc.) as well as other applications like Winamp, Media Player, etc. With built-in advanced audio record engine, the recorder produces high quality recordings and saves the output as an MP3 file.
Suggested by Shimon Lebowitz of Yerushalayim, Israel.

Video

VLC Media Player (VideoLAN Client) – http://www.videolan.org/

VideoLAN is a complete software solution for video streaming and playback. VLC is for use on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, and more. VLC allows you to view DVDs, VCDs, Audio CDs, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Quicktime, and more. It supports several types of network stream and best of all it is completely free!

Wax -http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects so that you can compose your video sequence with ease everytime.

AviTricks Classic -http://www.bobyte.com/

An excellent free Video editor. A range of powerful features make it a serious alternative to expensive editing suites.

Cinefx -http://www.cinefx.org/

Welcome to the Cinefx Project! Cinefx is a suite of open source, cross platform digital content creation tools. High-end visual effects tools.

WheresJames Webcam Publisher -http://www.wheresjames.com/

WheresJames Webcam Publisher makes it easy for you to publish images to the web. Overlay text of any font, color, size, and position. Images, watetermarks, time date stamps, and more. Apply transparency or translucency to your images. Chroma-key effects, motion detection, HTML publisher generator, and much more!

Pencil - http://www.pencil-animation.org/

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux using a more traditional animation technology. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is intended to be a simple program enabling anyone to make 2D animation.

DVD Flick -http://www.dvdflick.net/

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.
DVD Flick will create ISO files or will burn directly to your DVD burner. An excellent application! Supports over 45 file formats, over 60 video codecs, and over 40 audio codecs. Adds a menu if desired. Easy to use interface.

HandBrake -http://handbrake.fr/

Want to back up all those DVDs you own before they get scratched? This open-source tool does full DVD-to-MPEG-4 conversion, which you can play back later on media centers, even the Apple TV.

Avidemux -http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

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. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always welcome.