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

Snagit

August 03, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: MultimediaProductivity & Utility

Availability: Contact CLAS IT
Comparable: Snipping Tool, Grab

SnagitSnagit is an image and video capture tool. Users can capture screenshots of their entire desktop, a region, window, or scrolling webpage. The dynamic editor allows users to comment over screenshots using textboxes, arrows, and shapes. Snagit also has video recording and editing capabilities. Audio is recorded by the microphone or the computer’s system audio.

The software runs on the Windows and Mac platform. The University owns licenses for this software, contact CLAS IT to request.

Snipping Tool

September 04, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: MultimediaProductivity & Utility

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Availability: Labs  |  Built in to Windows
Comparable: Grab

Snipping Tool is a screenshooting utility included in Windows Vista, 7 and 8. It can take screenshots of an open window, rectangular areas, a free-form area, or the entire screen. Snips can then be annotated using a mouse or a tablet, stored as an image file (PNG, GIF, or JPEG file) or an MHTML file, or e-mailed. Snipping Tool allows for basic image editing of the snapshot, with different colored pens, an eraser, and a highlighter.

To access the Snipping Tool, click the start menu and type “snip.”  The search should find the utility and you can press enter to launch.  If it does not find anything you can launch a file browser and navigate to C:\windows\system32 and double click on the SnippingTool.exe file.

VLC Media Player

March 18, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Multimedia

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Availability: Free Download
Comparable: Quicktime

VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and to transcode multimedia files.

The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins.  It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and OS X.

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