9 Mindblowing Tools for Filmmakers
1. EbSynth
EbSynth lets you create breathtaking visuals by animating your paintings.
By painting over the first frame of your video clip, EbSynth can then use that to apply the same style across the remaining frames in the clip.
This basically gives you infinite options of visual styles to apply to your films and videos.
In addition to the handmade touch lost in a lot of modern A.I. applications.
2. Beatoven
Beatoven is an AI-powered music generation website.
You can select everything from the duration, tempo and genre, to the vibe, emotion and mood of the track.
Then Beatoven will generate an original music track for you to use in your films and videos.
You can then edit your track endlessly, silence individual instruments, and even generate variations of the track to get exactly what you want.
3. ShotDeck
ShotDeck is the ultimate visual library of searchable film stills.
Beautifully captured stills from thousands and thousands of films, all available for research, reference, inspiration and education.
You can browse by keyword, title, movie name, shot and more.
In addition to color palettes for each shot, they include extremely detailed information including the director, cinematographer, crew, and even the camera and lens it was shot on.
4. Adobe Podcast
Adobe Podcast is web-based, AI-powered audio recording and editing tool.
It allows you to easily create professional audio for videos and podcasts without the need for professional equipment.
It helps you effortlessly set up your mic with their amazing ‘Mic Check’ feature.
When you record, it transcribes your audio so you can edit it just by editing the text.
It cleans up your audio and removes background noise with their AI-powered enhanced speech feature.
And you can record with other people simultaneously, just by sending them a link.
5. Rotato
Rotato is a drag-and-drop 3D mockup generator.
It features tons of beautiful 3D mockups you can edit and animate with ease.
Just select the template you want to use, and drop in your photos and videos. It’s that simple.
Best of all, they have an intuitive keyframe animation system to easily animate your 3D mockups any way you want.
6. TurboRender
TurboRender is a cloud-rendering service that renders your projects for you.
Instead rendering everything yourself, just upload your projects to their cloud, and have them render it for you.
It’s compatible with every major software like Blender, Houdini, 3ds Max, After Effects, Cinema 4D and Maya.
And you can even fee up more time and computer resources with the ability to batch render multiple projects.
7. Runway
Runway is a web-based, A.I. video editing and creation program.
Runway is the pinnacle of A.I. apps.
From their unbelievable green screen feature which allows you to easily rotoscope in seconds.
To the ability to easily paint out objects in your videos, and realtime collaboration on projects.
Even text-to-video editing, where you can generate and change the actual contents of your video, just by typing.
8. Metahuman Creator
Metahuman Creator allows you to easily create hyperrealistic 3D characters.
Just choose a base character to begin building your digital human from, and start editing everything you can imagine.
From body type and skin tones, to hair and facial styles, even down to the exact color of their teeth.
It even has a facial blending option with simple sliders that let you blend between different face types.
Best of all, Metahuman Creator is free to use as long as you use them in Unreal Engine.
9. Move.ai
Move.ai allows you to use a mobile phone to get high quality motion capture.
Gone are the days of needing a mocap suit just to realistically animate 3D characters.
It uses AI to interpret high quality motion capture data from video, for easy use in 3D animation and VFX.
