8 Must have apps for beginner film makers

8 Must have PC/MAC apps for beginner film makers

Softwares are Sooo important when we are making a short film, we apps for editing, sound mixing, poster designing etc. Im writing this article because, many of newbie film makers make mistakes in choosing these kind of softwares. First of all, this is mainly for beginners and short film makers who is making their first venture. But I'll note professional apps too, so let's get started.

ADOBE PREMIER PRO or FINAL CUT PRO

These two apps are editing platforms, I personally prefer Premiere Pro, because its extremely user friendly, for any one who have used pinnacle studio, Vegas pro, or even windows movie maker it will seem to be familiar l, and it have same capability as Final cut pro. Final cut pro is more professional, it is used in film industry, You can also use Pinnacle studio, Sony Vegas pro, Corel video studio etc. But Premier pro and Final cut pro the mainly used and, it will guarantee you standard results.

ADOBE AUDITION

I personally prefer this for sound editing and mixing, it is not so much professional but still full fills an beginner's needs, its very user friendly, There is professional app like Pro Tools, But it is so advanced and needs good knowledge about Musical stuff, Audition is a powerful app to make effects and edit audio.

ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS

This is a must have app. I didn't find any appropriate 'or' version for this software, This is a very powerful and user friendly app for generating visual effects, title sequences etc. It can also be used for kind of advanced stuff like colour grading.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

It feels like an Adobe Store right??? But I promise you I'm not an Adobe agent! But these guys are making excellent apps for multimedia production. Photoshop is an famous software, No app gives you more than Photoshop for photo editing. I love this app because it is extremely built for newbies and it is damn professional. You can also try GIMP which is an free software.

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

This is one of my favorites. This is used for making logos, title design font design etc. I didn't find any other apps useful as this one. If you are to make your own font, or logo for your movie, this is the perfect app to use. Again trust me I'm not a adobe agent.

ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER

This is for advanced guys, this is used for converting the output for different media streams. This is the perfect and powerful one. It allows us to change very minute settings before encoding. I've used MOVAVI VIDEO CONVERTER, its also useful, but it is very basic.

VIRTUAL DUB

Oh my god, first non-Adobe app in the list, I thing no you believe me. Virtual Dub is a useful and simple app which can used as your dubbing screen. It allows you to synchronise your video and audio frame by frame. It is a light and useful app.

SUBTITLE WORKSHOP

As the name suggests its for making subtitles, you can make, edit, synch. Subtitles simply. This is basic software needed in a editing PC. If you are upto make a non-english film, so that if you are uploading it for competitions, film fests you will need subtitles. So go grab it



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