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

Inkscape

October 30, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimediaProductivity & Utility

Availability: Free Download
Comparable: Illustrator

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software.

Inkscape has sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Xtreme. It can import and export various file formats, including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS and PNG. It has a comprehensive feature set, a simple interface, multi-lingual support and is designed to be extensible; users can customize Inkscape’s functionality with add-ons.

Tags: graphicsvector

iPhoto

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application for Mac OS which allows the user to import, organize, edit, print, and share digital photos.  iPhoto ships with all Mac computers and can also be downloaded in the Apple App Store.

While iPhoto serves as an easy to use editor and organizer, it also has several handy features.  Users can geotag photos that attach location metadata to the photo, documenting the location it was taken.  Another feature recognizes the faces of people in the photos, attaches metadata identifying the person, and offers searching and organization based on identities.  iPhoto can also organize slideshows based on event, date, person, or other metadata categories.  Users can also create books, calendars, or cards that Apple will professionally print and send to the user based on a fee.

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IrfanView

November 21, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

irfanview

Availability: Labs  |  Download
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IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. The software was first released in 1996. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use.

It supports viewing and saving of numerous file types including image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, JP2 & JPM (JPEG2000), PNG (includes the optimizer PNGOUT), TIFF, camera RAW, ECW (Enhanced Compressed Wavelet), EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile), FSH (EA Sports format), ICO (Windows icon), PCX (Zsoft Paintbrush), PBM (Portable bitmap), PDF (Portable Document Format), PGM (Portable graymap), PPM (Portable Pixelmap), TGA (Truevision Targa), WebP and viewing of media files such as Flash, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG, MP3, MIDI, and text files.

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