The DV Filmmaker's Toolkit
References & Resources Links Page
Copyright 1998 Maxie D. Collier

Companies listed in this directory are to be utilized at your own discretion. A listing does not represent an endorsement. Research carefully prior to doing business.

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Acting & Casting
Audio Editing
Camera Support 
& Stabilization Systems 
Cinematography 
& Videography
Crew Sources
Desktop Video
Documentary Filmmaking
Digital Video
DV Cameras & Accessories
DVD Authoring
Editing
Entertainment Law 
& Insurance
Festivals & Markets
Film & Video Organizations
Filmmaking In General
Film Reviews & Databases
Financing
Firewire Cards
Graphics, Animation, Titles,  & Special Effects
Hard Drives, Backup Drives  & Controllers
 Independent Theaters 
Lighting Instruments 
& Kits
Mail Order 
Audio & Video Sales
Music & Sound Effects
Microphones & Audio Accessories
Nonlinear Editing Systems  & Information
Periodicals- 
Print & Electronic
Production Expendables
Production Sound Recording
Scripts & Script Writing
Television
Value Added Resellers
Video Editing 
& Support Software
Video Projection Systems
Video Streaming
Video Tape Stock
Video to Film Transfers
Video Treatment Services 
& Software
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Acting & Casting
Actor's Site                                             www.actorsite.com
Actor's Source                                        www.actorsource.com
Caryn.Com Actor's Area                         www.caryn.com/foractors.html 
Backstage Magazine                              www.backstage.com
Extracast.com                                        www.extracast.com
CastNet.com                                           www.castnet.com
Casting Net                                             www.castingnet.com
A-Z Fastcast                                            www.a-zfastcast.com
Cyber Showbiz                                       www.cybershowbiz.com
Hollywood Actors Network                     www.hollywoodnetwork.com/hn/acting/
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Audio Editing
Cool Edit- Software                                www.syntrillium.com
Samplitude Pro- Software                      www.soundspiration.com
Soundspirations
Sound Forge- Software                          www.sonicfoundry.com
Sonic Foundry
The Pan Handler                                    www.sbfilmaudio.com/audio.html
Surround sound plugin.
WAVES                                                   www.waves.com
Audio processing software.
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Camera Support & Stabilization Systems
Cinema Products                                www.steadicam.com
Steadicam Jr. & DV
Crane Construction Plans- Free            www.pacifier.com/~tmnathe/boom.html
Glidecam Industries                           www.glidecam.com
Camera stabilization system.
Jimmy Jib                                          www.jimmyjib.com
Skatebaord Dolly Plans- Free                www.inforamp.net/~bpaton/skateboard.htm
Steady Tracker                                  www.steadytracker.com
Cranes and stabilization systems
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Cinematography & Videography
Desktop Video Newsgroup              rec.video.desktop
Video Production Newsgroup          rec.video.production
Both accessible through                  www.dejanews.com
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Crew Sources
Crew Net                                        www.crewnet.com
Director's Net                                  www.directorsnet.com
Film & Movie Crew Job Board        members.aol.com/crewjobs/
Film Biz                                           www.filmbiz.com/crew/
Cineweb's Connections                   www.cineweb.com/connections/
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Desktop Video
Desktop Video                                 desktopvideo.miningco.com
Multimedia Tools                            multimediatools.com
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Documentary Filmmaking
DOX Documentary Film Magazine     www2.dox.dk/dox/
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Digital Video
DV Central                                          www.dvcentral.org
DV-L E-Mailing List                             www.dvcentral.org/thelist.html
Global DVC Group                              www.global-dvc.org
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DV Cameras & Accessories
Battery Tech. Inc                                www.batterytech.com
Batteries and power supplies.
Bogen                                                www.bogenphoto.com
Tripods and supports.
Canon USA                                        www.canondv.com
Century Optics                                   www.centuryoptics.com
Lenses and lens converters.
Hardigg's Cases                                www.hardigg.com
Camera cases.
JVC Electronics                                www.jvc-america.com
Markertek Video Supply                  www.markertek.com
NRG Research                                 www.nrgresearch.com
Batteries and power supplies. 
Panasonic                                       www.panasonic.com
Sony Electronics                             www.sel.sony.com
Sharp                                              www.sharpusa.com
Video Smith                                    www.videosmith.com
Wondercam shoulder mount.
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DVD Authoring
Advance Media Concepts                www.amcmedia.com
Digital Outpost                                 www.dop.com
Optibase                                          www.optibase.com
DVD authoring system.
Video Transfer Inc.                          www.vtiboston.com
Visible Light                                    www.visiblelight.com
Vision Wise Inc.                              www.visionwise.com
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Editing
Avideditor.com                                www.avideditor.com
Avid-L E-mail List                            www.itg.uiuc.edu/avid/mail-archive
Mac Digital Video Resources          www.postforum.pair.com
Nonlinear Editing Page                   www.nonlinear3.com
Runway Edit's Editor to Editor         www.runway.com/edtoed.html
Zerocut                                            www.zerocut.com
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Entertainment Law 
Harry Tulchin & Associates              www.medialawyer.com
Mark Litwak, Esq                              www.marklitwak.com
Features extensive legal articles.
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Festivals & Markets
American Film Market                    www.afma.com/afm.htm
Santa Monica, CA    Event: Late Feb.
Berlin Int. Film Festival                  www.berlinale.de
Berlin, Germany   Event: Feb.
Cannes International Film Festival www.festival-cannes.fr
Cannes, France  Event: May
D.DILM Digital Film Festival            www.dfilm.com
On going submissions.
Film Festivals Website                    www.filmfestivals.com
Independent Feature Film Market   www.ifp.org
New York, NY Event: Sept.
LA Independent Film Festival          www.laiff.com
Los Angeles, CA   Event: April
Rotterdam International Film Festival www.iffrotterdam.nl
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  Event: Late Jan.
Slamdance Film Festival                     www.slamdance.com
Salt Lake City, Utah     Event: Late Jan.
South by Southwest Film Festival        www.sxsw.com
Austin, TX    Event: March
Sundance Film Festival                      www.sundance.org
Salt Lake City, Utah Event: Late Jan.
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Film and Video Organizations
America Cinema Editors                  www.ace-filmeditors.org
American Film Market Association  www.afma.com
1394 Trade Association                    www.firewire.org
Independent Feature Project          www.ifp.org
Independent Feature Project West     www.ifpwest.org
Screen Actor's Guild                        www.sag.com
The Motion Picture  Editors Guild     www.editorsguild.com
The Producers Guild                        www.producersguild.com
Women In Film                                www.wif.org
Writer's Guild of America                 www.wga.org
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Filmmaking In General
Cyber Film School                              www.cyberfilmschool.com
Dov S-S Simens 2 Day Film School     www.HollywoodU.com
Film.com                                             www.film.com
Filmmaker Site                                   www.filmmaker.com
Movie Production Newsgroup            rec.arts.movies.production
Accessible from                                  www.dejanews.com
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Film Reviews & Databases
The Internet Movie Database              www.imdb.com
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Financing
Next Wave Films                                www.nextwavefilms.com
Completion funds for indie films        paradigm@earthlink.net
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Firewire Cards
Canopus Corporation                        www.canopuscorp.com
DVRex-M1, DVRaptor
Como USA                                        www.como-usa.com
DV Edit Factory
DPS                                                    www.dps.com
Spark Plus
Fast Electronics                                www.fastmultimedia.com
DV Master/DV Master Pro
Pinnacle Systems                            www.pinnaclesys.com
Miro DV300
Promax Technologies                    www.promax.com
FireMax Card
Radius Inc.                                     www.radius.com
MotoDV
Truevision                                     www.truevision.com
Bravado DV2000
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Graphics, Animation, Titles, & Special Effects
Adobe Systems                                www.adobe.com
After Effects Software
Alien Skin Software                        www.alienskin.com
Adobe Photoshop Filters
D ETITLE PRO                                www.drs-digitrax.com
Titling program.
DigiEffects                                    www.digieffects.com
Adobe After Effects plug-ins.
ICE (Intergrated Computing Engines)     www.iced.com
Effects.
Kinetix                                           www.ktx.com
Animation.
MetaCreations                                www.metacreations.com
Animation & effects.
Puffin Designs                                www.puffindesigns.com
Animation & effects.
Softimage                                    www.softimage.com
Effects and graphics.
Strata Inc.                                    www.strata.com
3D Graphics.
Technical Animations Inc.          www.techanim.com
Animation software dealer.
Terran                                         www.terran.com
Media Cleaner Pro
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Hard Drives, Backup Drives & Controllers
Adaptec                                        www.adaptec.com
SCSI Controllers
Glyph Technologies                     www.glyphtech.com
DigDAT Backup Tape Drive
Medea                                         www.medeacorp.com
VideoRaid systems.
Promise Technology                   www.promise.com
Fast Track Controller Cards
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Independent Theaters
The Independent Theater Search     www.dto.net/indieview/
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Lighting Instruments & Kits
Mole Richardson                              www.homemole.com
Frezzi Energy Systems                    www.frezzi.com
Kino Flo                                          www.kinoflo.com
NRG Research                                 www.nrgresearch.com
Lowel Lights                                   www.lowel.com
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Mail Order Audio & Video Sales
See also Value Added Resellers
ADORAMA                                  www.AdoramaCamera.com
B & H Photo/Video                     www.bhphotovideo.com
Berger Bros.                              www.berger-bros.com
Camera Sound                          www.camerasound.com
Digital Video Direct                   www.dvdirect.com
Electronic Mailbox                     www.videoguys.com
Vidicomp                                   www.vidicomp.com
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Music and Sound Effects
ASCAP                                        www.ascap.com
Music publishing.
BMI                                            www.bmi.com
Music publishing.   
Cakewalk                                  www.cakewalk.com
Music Production Software and Scorewriter
Cinematrax- Original Music      www.cinematrax.com
Creative Support Services         www.cssmusic.com
Buyout music & Effects
Ethnic & Folk MIDI Files              ingeb.org/home.html
House of Wave                            www.houseofwave.com
Buyout music.
Indie Film Composers                www.indifilm.com
Composers network.
Introduction to MIDI                  www.eeb.ele.tue.nl/midi/intro.html
MIDI Music                                midimusic.miningco.com
Musicopia                                www.musicopia.com
Buyout music.
Sonic Desktop                          www.smartsound.com
SmartSound Soundtrack Software
Sonic Foundry                        www.sonicfoundry.com
Acid Music Production Software
Soundtrack Studios                www.soundtrackgroup.com
Post sound services.
The 1997 Directory of Public Domain Music
Katzmarek Publishing    members.aol.com/Katzmarek/pdmusic.htm
The Classical Midi Archives          www.prs.net
The Music Bakery                        www.musicbakery.com
Buyout music.
The Public Domain Music Bible    D-Net Online
The Public Domain Report- Newsletter         www.pubdomain.com
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Microphones & Audio Accessories
Audio Technica                    www.audio-technica.com
Microphones.
Azden Corp.                        www.azden.com
Microphones.
Beachtek                            www.beachtek.com
Audio adapters.
Elite Video                        www.elitevideo.com
Adapters and accessories.
Letrosonic                            www.lectro.com
Microphones.
Roland Corp. US                www.rolandus.com
Music & recording instruments.
Samson Technologies        www.samsontech.com
Microphones.
Sennheiser Electronics       www.sennheiserusa.com
Microphones and headphones.
Studio1 Productions          www.studio1productions.com
Audio adapter box.
TASCAM                            www.tascam.com
Digital and analog audio equipment.
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Nonlinear Editing Systems & Information
see Also Firewire Cards
Avid Systems                               www.avid.com
Draco Systems                            www.draco.com
Casablanca Editing Machine
The Electronic Mailbox              www.videoguys.com
Matrox Video Product Group      www.matrox.com
DigiSuite & Digisuite LE
Media 100                                   www.media100.com
Truevision                                  www.truevision.com
Bravado 2000
Pinnacle Systems                        www.pinnaclesys.com
Miro DC30+, Miro DC50
Fast Electronics                          www.fastmultimedia.com
601 Six-O-One MPEG-2 System
DPS                                            www.dps.com
Perception PVR
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Periodicals- Print & Electronic
Backstage Magazine                www.backstage.com
Daily Variety                            www.variety.com
Digital Cinema                         www.tech-head.com
DV Magazine                            www.dv.com
DVEreview- Newsletter             www.dvereview.com
Filmmaker Magazine                www.filmmag.com
Film Score Monthly                  www.filmscoremonthly.com
Indiewire- Email Newsletter      www.indiewire.com
Interactivity Magazine              www.interactivity.com
Movie Maker Magazine          www.moviemaker.com
New Media Magazine              www.newmedia.com
Production Weekly                   www.productionweekly.com
The DV Filmmaker's Report- Email Newsletter     members.xoom.com/dvfilmmaker/
The DV Report- Email Newsletter         www.dvreport.com
The Hollywood Reporter          www.hollywoodreporter.com
Videography Magazine            www.videography.com
Videomaker Magazine            www.videomaker.com
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Production Expendables
Studio Depot                           www.homemole.com
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Production Sound Recording
Designing A Movie For Sound   filmsound.studienet.org/articles/designing_for_sound.htm
The Movie Sound FAQ              www.moviesoundpage.com
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Scripts & Script Writing
Screenwriter's and Playwright's Home Page   www.teleport.com/~cdeemer/scrwriter.html/
Drew's Script-O-Rama                                      www.script-o-rama.com/
Final Draft Script Software                              www.bcsoftware.com
New York Screenwriter                                    www.nyscreenwriter.com
Screenwriter's Utopia                                      www.screenwritersutopia.com/
Screenwriters.com                                           www.screenwriters.com
Script Format Style                                          www.panam.edu/scrnwrit/
The Copyright Website                                    www.benedict.com
The Craft of Screenwriting                              www.wga.org/craft/
The Megahits Page                                  www.mmsysgrp.com/megahits/
The Nine Act Structure Home Page             www.dsiegel.com/film/
The Screenwriter's Homepage                  home.earthlink.net/~scribbler/
The Script Doctor                                      www.scriptdoctor.qpg.com/
Script analyst.
The Writer's Computer Store                     writerscomputer.com
US Copyright Office                                  lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
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Television
Alliance For Community Media                www.alliancecm.org
History of TV Technology                 www.rcc.ryerson.ca/homepg/writings/
Public Access                                            www.modpro.com/ual/
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Value Added Resellers
Amigo Business Computers                      www.amigobc.com
Digital Video Equipment Co.                     www.stselec.com
Intelligent Media Inc.                          www.intelligentmedia.com
Ocean Systems                                       www.oceansystems.com
ProMax Technology                                  www.promax.com
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Video Duplication, Packaging, & Printing
Eastco Pro                                                 www.eastcopro.com
Karol Media                                               www.karolmedia.com
Professional Label                                    www.prolabel.com
VAV Fulfillment Service                            www.vfsfulfillment.com
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Video Editing & Support Software
Adobe Systems Inc.                                www.adobe.com
Adobe Premiere
In: Sync Corporation                             www.in-sync.com
Speed Razor DV
Radius Inc.-                                          www.radius.com
EditDV
Ulead                                                   www.ulead.com
Media Studio Pro
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Video Projection Systems
Digital Projection                                www.digitalprojection.com
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Video Streaming
Real Networks                                      www.realnetworks.com
Real Audio and Real Video
Emblaze                                              www.emblaze.com
GTS                                                     www.graham.com
Microsoft Media Player              www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer
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Video Tape Stock
American Video Tape Warehouse   www.americanvideotape.com
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Video to Film Transfers

Canadian National Film Board              www.nfb.ca
Cineric                                                  www.cineric.com
Duart Film Lab                                      www.duart.com
Duboi Digital Effects                              www.duboi.com
Film Team USA                                www.io.com/~mvb/filmteam/
Four Media Corp.                                  www.4mc.com
Sony High Definition Center         www.spe.sony.com/PICTURES/Hidef/

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Video Treatment Services & Software
DigiEffects                                        www.digieffects.com
Cinelook Software
Filmlook Inc.                                       www.filmlook.com
Roland House Video (Filmreel process.)
(703) 525-7000                                    www.rolandhouse.com
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