Do you ever feel like your Zooppa work 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.

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It’s especially important that none of your Zooppa ads contain any copyrighted material. Below are resources for inexpensive/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 use a piece of music, an image, or video footage, you must have proper legal permission to use the content in a commercial venture. Please check your license terms very carefully. After all, if you submit, you are in fact transferring copyright of your content to the client.

Online Creative Resources List

Filmmaking Tools and Training:

• Mashable’s Video Toolbox offers over 150 ways to make, polish and share videos.
• 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:
  • Editing 101, Part One
  • Editing 101, Part Two

Stock Music resources

• Museopen
• stockmusic
• ccmixter
• RoyaltyFreeMusic
• shockwave-sound
• freeplaymusic
• Partners In Rhyme
• Productiontrax
• Incompetech

Photos and Graphic Design Training resources:

• YouTube has some great Photoshop tutorials.
• iStockphoto
• Stock.XCHNG
• Unprofound.com
• Image*After
• Vecteezy
• Inmagine
• FreeFoto.com

Did we miss a good resource? Let us know at [email protected].

Now get out there and start creating!