Infini-D 4.5 makes 3D animation feel like second nature, featuring the perfect balance of professional animation features, high-end special effects, and broadcast quality output, all within a celebrated, intuitive working environment.
Post (Editing/VFX)
iMovie
The revolutionary digital video application that helped Mac users create a million movies seen by their friends and relatives around the world now brings several dazzling new features to your screen.
EditDV
EditDV is pitching itself as an alternative to Adobe Premiere for desktop video. Not a bad package.
CinePaint
CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry — used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films….
Cinelerra
Cinelerra does primarily 3 main things: capturing, compositing , and editing audio and video. Compositing and editing with the kind of seemlessness Cinelerra gives you is a level of flexibility rarely experienced on a Linux box.
Blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. The interface is designed to be as efficient as possible. It has a large learning curve, but is well documented so overcoming that curve is not much of a problem. Thousands of users…
Avid FreeDV
Perfect for students, DV camera owners, video enthusiasts or anyone exploring video editing – Avid Free DV software is an easy, free way to join the Avid family and test-drive the industry-standard editing interface used by more professionals than any other video editing solution. Avid Free DV is feature-streamlined, standalone software which includes basic video…
Avid DNxHD
Avid DNxHD is an encoding technology, or codec, that is specifically designed for HD postproduction. Other codecs, which are developed by camera manufacturers, can lose image quality during the nonlinear editing and compositing process due to the vast number of times that media files are repeatedly uncompressed, manipulated, and recompressed. Developed by the leading nonlinear…
AVIcodec
Free multimeda files analyser : Gives detailed information on each AVI file, especially the codecs needed to play the file, and where to download those codecs if they are missing on your system. Essential tool!
Autodesk Smoke
Video Editing, Compositing and Finishing Application. The free fully functional trial is available until September 15th, 2012. Students and Faculty can download a free version of the software after that by going to http://students.autodesk.com