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

Grab

August 21, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: MultimediaProductivity & Utility

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Availability: Mac Labs  |  Built in to Mac OS
Comparable: Snipping Tool

Grab is an application created by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X that is used to take screenshots.  It supports capturing a marquee selection, whole window, whole screen, and timed screen.

This application is pre-installed on all recent Macintosh systems.  It can be found using the Spotlight function (keyboard shortcut: CMD SPACE) or in the Utilities folder under Applications.  The Grab utility can also be found in the Finder as a menu item by selecting “Services”, then going to “Grab”.

The only image format for screenshots taken by Grab is TIFF.

Handbrake

February 19, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Multimedia

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Availability: Free Download
Comparable: Quicktime

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.  It is free and open source and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.  Handbrake offers a variety of device presets to convert media to suit your device needs.  For instance, if you had a very large video file you wanted to scale down for viewing on a phone without taking up too much space, you could use an easy filter to convert the media for that specific situation.  Handbrake can also convert DVDs to video files, encode chapter markers, subtitles, and menus.

Tags: multimedia

iDVD

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Multimedia
Availability: Labs  |  Discontinued
Comparable: 

iDVD was a DVD-creation application for OS X that allowed the user to burn QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD.  iDVD is no longer being developed by Apple and was withheld from new Macs as of July 2011.  Newer macs can only get iDVD by using old installation media.  It is unavailable in the Apple App Store.

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