Do you ever feel like your Zooppa ads would be perfect if only they had that little extra something? Ever have a great idea for an ad that you just don’t have the tools to realize? Well, listen… It happens to everyone sometimes. That’s why we put together this collection of links.
Here, you’ll find some educational materials and free editing tools to help you get your concepts off the ground, and lots of copyright free music and sound effects to help you put those finishing touches on your videos.
It’s especially important that none of your Zooppa ads contain any copyrighted material. Below are resources for free content. However, it’s important to note that just because content is free, doesn’t make it legal to use in a winning Zooppa submission.
In order to ensure that you can use a piece of music, an image, or video footage, you must make sure that you have proper legal permission to use the content in a commercial venture. After all, if you end up winning, you are in fact selling your content to the client.
Keep an eye on this space. We’ll be adding more free resources as we discover them. And, if you know about a good resource that isn’t included here, please email a link to zooppa.usa@zooppa.com.
Here’s the list:
Mashable’s Video Toolbox offers over 150 ways to make, polish and share videos, plus a bunch of other cool stuff.
Aviary.com offers a free trial version of their image editor, filter editor, color manager, and vector editor.
YouTube has a bunch of video editing tutorials. Here’s a couple of our favorites:
YouTube also has some great Photoshop tutorials.
Here are a bunch of links for copyright free music and sound effects:
ccmixter — This site makes it easy to remix, mash-up and sample all kinds of music licensed under Creative Commons.
(Lot’s of entries in our UW Pocket Media Competition have used music from incompetech… In fact, the music we used in our video brief for the UW Pocket Media competition was created by incompetech’s own Kevin MacLeod, and licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″)
And here are some links for royalty free photos and graphic design:
