EDIT: PLEASE PROVIDE SOME BASIC INFO ON THE SOFTWARE YOU RECCOMEND

Some people, I have noticed, have some money too spend on brickfilming, but don't know what to spend it on. This thread should help those people. I have a bit of expensive software, but I don't know a lot about ones that I haven't got, so please tell me about any good ones you know of.

Frame capture
possibly the most important part of brickfilming
Stop Motion Pro-Extremely useful software for frame capture. One of the best.
Animoto-I had never heard of this until ggo2000 told me, which is why I have no info on it.
iStopmotion-Useful frame capture software for Mac.

Movie editing
For editing the actual movie, not special effects
Final Cut Pro-Very popular editor for mac.
Adobe Premier-Very similar too After Effects, only focuses more on just compiling clips.
Sony Vegas Movie Studio-Easy to use, professional movie editor. Lots of versions out there.
Ulead Video Studio-Relatively popular editor
Adobe Encore-For editing and making DVD menu screens.
Sony DVD Archive-The title suggests that it might be used for editing DVDs. Not flying to the moon.
Pinnacle studio-Very good for enhancing a movie.
Apple Aperture-For converting videos to HD. Mac only.
Adobe photoshop-Very useful for editing frame by frame.
Quicktime pro-For compressing videos.
Final cut express/pro-Useful editors for Macs.
Corel VideoStudio Pro X2-Not very popular, but possibly still quite good.
Corel Ulead VideoStudio-For converting videos to HD.
PhotoStudio-For frame by frame effects/editing.
Adobe photoshop-Quite probably the best photo editor out there, if you know how to use it.

Special Effects
A big part of movie making is special effects. These include explosions, lasers, etc.
Adobe After Effects-Very good, but quite hard to use. Not recommended for amateur film makers, like most of us, but still quite useful.
Wondertouch ParticleIllusion-Very popular, relatively easy to use special effects software by wondertouch.
FXHome Effectslab Pro-Useful for just about everything you can think of to do with special effects. Also, at only $90 Approx. it's one of the cheapest on this list.

Audio
What's the good in a silent brickfilm?
Sony Vegas Audio Studio-It is a little known fact that this exists, but it does. I have it.
Adobe Soundbooth-A proffesional sound recorder. Adobe have covered all areas, it seems.
Soundtrack pro-Very good recording software, not sure of its capabilities.
Goldwave-Useful for modifying pitch and speed.
Magix Music Editor-For editing...well...music, I guess...
Garritan Personal Orchestra-For composing music.

CGI
How did I miss this out before?
Autodesk Maya-Pixar use it, so it must be good!
Autodesk 3DS Max-A slightly cheaper CGI program from Autodesk.
Daz Carrara Studio-Very good, and relatively cheap, as far as they go.

I will welcome all contributions not on this list.

If you need links to the sites, michaelsmovies supplied all these links. He rocks! Thank you, Michael!
Stop Motion Pro
Sony Vegas
Adobe After Effects
Adobe photoshop
Adobe premiere pro
Carrara studio
Photo studio
Magix movie edit pro
Effects lab pro)
Corel VideoStudio Pro X2
Pinnacle)
Maya
Goldwave
Final cut pro
Adobe after effects
Quicktime pro
Adobe photoshop
iStopmotion
Final cut express
Apple Aperture
Effects lab pro
iMovie
Soundtrack pro
Goldwave
Maya

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Last edited by Dog (March 6, 2010 (12:23am))

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