Multimedia

Applications for creating, designing, editing, converting, and producing multimedia content including sound, video, print media, presentation, animation, and modeling including applications used to play, edit, create, or record audio for purposes of dictation, music, broadcast, or otherwise and applications used to create, edit, or produce video content. Software ranges from simple clip editor tools, to professional video editing software, to DVD production tools. Finally, this category includes software for capturing. Capture software allows you to get a snapshot of something. For example, you could get a snapshot of your computer screen at a particular moment in time or for a period of time. This snapshot could be an image (screenshot) or video (screencast).

There is also capture software designed for capturing presentations, lectures and events

GarageBand

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Multimedia

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Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: Audacity, Audition

GarageBand is a Mac application that allows a user to record, edit, and write music. Users can plug a USB MIDI Keyboard into their computers and record with over 100 different types of instruments.  GarageBand offers a multi-track environment where you can align several tracks of audio from different clips, instruments, and instances into the desired layout and mix them into a single audio file at the conclusion of production.  Clips can also be processed with a variety of effects such as reverb, tremolo, distortion, echo, and simulators that emulate the qualities of popular keyboards, amplifiers, and other music equipment.

Here is a detailed comparison matrix of several DAW software pieces.

Tags: multitracktrm

GIMP

October 30, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

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Availability: Free Download
Comparable: Photoshop

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, re-sizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.  GIMP is commonly seen as a free competitor to Adobe Photoshop, part of the Adobe Creative Suite.  It carries much of the same functionality, but open source software is subject to less stability, less support, and erratic development cycles.  That being said GIMP is one of the most famous and popular open source replacements, and has been consistently in development for 18 years.

GIMP is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.  GIMP is also available on the Chrome App store and can be used within the Chrome browser to edit files from Dropbox and Google Drive.

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Google Drawing

February 26, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimediaProductivity & Utility

Availability: Faculty/Staff
Part of: Google Apps
Comparable: GIMP, OpenOffice

Google Drawing is a basic cloud-based paint/drawing application that can be accessed directly through any web browser.  Drawing is useful for making basic sketches, diagrams, and performing basic image editing.  Drawings are automatically saved to Google’s servers (Google Drive), and a revision history is automatically kept so past edits may be viewed (although this only works for adjacent revisions, and there is currently no way to find and isolate changes in long documents). Documents can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes.

Drawing also gives users the ability to share the document.  Typically when a normal document is shared the recipient accesses a copy from one point in time.  With a Google Drawing the document is shared in real-time, so recipients can always access the most recent version of the document.  Sheet owners can also grant permissions for the recipient to comment on the document, edit, or revision.  This introduces real-time collaboration, where multiple users can be editing the same document simultaneously, see each others’ edits, and even chat with each other in a sidebar.

Tags: cloud