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Adobe Prelude works in conjunction with Adobe Premier Pro and allows users to add metadata to their video files. Prelude can be used to add markers and comments to video clips, as well as ingesting tapeless video footage.
Availability: Download for iOS
Adobe Prelude Live Logger CC is used during video production and post-production to log notes and events, and mark good or bad takes in video content. The metadata can be imported and attached to file-based footage in Adobe Prelude CC. The software works on the iOS platform.
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Adobe Scout is a SWF profiling tool designed for Adobe Flash game developers. SWF files on either mobile devices or in the browser can be profiled with no change to the code, and performance problems can be detected.
Availability: Online
Adobe Spark is a web application used to create professional-looking social posts, webpages, and presentations. Spark is free and can be accessed at spark.adobe.com.
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Adobe SpeedGrade CC allows high-end video editors, film producers, and filmmakers perform professional video footage color correcting. SpeedGrade is typically used at the beginning and end of a workflow.
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Adobe Story CC Plus allows users to write screenplays and scripts, use scripts to generate schedules and production reports, and collaborate online.
Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics, visual effects and compositing app developed by Adobe Systems used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. After Effects can also be used as a basic non-linear editor and a media transcoder.
Adobe After Effects is primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. After Effects allows users to animate, alter and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation.
After Effects and some non-linear editing systems (NLEs) are layer-oriented, meaning that each individual media object (video clip, audio clip, still image, etc.) occupies its own track. In contrast, other NLEs use a system where individual media objects can occupy the same track as long as they do not overlap in time. This track-oriented system is more suited for editing and can keep project files much more concise. The layer-oriented system that After Effects adopts is suited for extensive effects work and keyframing. Although other compositing packages, especially ones that employ tree or node workflows, such as Nukeand eyeon Fusion are better suited to manage large volumes of objects within a composite, After Effects is able to counter the clutter somewhat by selectively hiding layers (using the Shy switch) or by grouping them into pre-compositions.
The main interface consists of several panels (windows in versions prior to After Effects 7.0). Three of the most commonly used panels are the Project panel, the Composition panel, and the Timeline panel. The Project panel acts as a bin to import stills, video, and audio footage items. Footage items in the Project panel are used in the Timeline panel, where layer order and timing can be adjusted. The items visible at the current time marker are displayed in the Composition panel.
After Effects shares many features with other Adobe programs, such as creating circles, squares and free form shapes that are defined by bezier curves. Like Photoshop and Illustrator, After Effects can import and manipulate many image formats, and filters and adjustments can be added.
After Effects integrates with other Adobe software titles such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Encore, Flash, and third-party 3D programs like Cinema 4D, Lightwave 3D, and Autodesk 3ds Max.
ALEKS (Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces) is an Internet based tutoring and assessment program that includes course material in mathematics, chemistry, introductory statistics, and business
Rather than being based on numerical test scores, ALEKS uses the theory of knowledge spaces to develop a combinatorial understanding of the set of topics a student does or doesn’t understand from the answers to its test questions. Based on this assessment, it determines the topics that the student is ready to learn and allows the student to choose from interactive learning modules for these topics.
ALOHA (Area Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres) is a software program designed to model chemical releases for emergency responders and planners. With help from ALOHA, users can calculate how quickly chemicals are escaping from various locations. The program also allows users to model hazardous scenarios.
With the help of ALOHA, you can calculate how quickly chemicals are escaping from tanks, puddles (on both land and water), and gas pipelines and predict how that release rate changes over time.
The program generates a variety of scenario-specific outputs, including threat zone plots, threats at specific locations, and source strength graphs. You can then display threat zones on MARPLOT maps (and on ArcView and ArcMap with the Arc Tool extensions).
Aperture is a photo editing and management computer program developed by Apple Inc. for the OS X operating system, first released in 2005, and currently available in its App Store. The software handles a number of tasks common in post-production work such as importing and organizing image files, applying corrective adjustments, displaying slideshows, and printing photographs.
Features of Aperture include non-destructive editing, organization of photographs by keyword, faces (using face detection and recognition), and places (using GPS metadata embedded in image files), brushes for applying effects (such as dodge and burn, skin smoothing, and polarization), and exporting to several popular websites, including Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug, and Apple’s iCloud. The program has been widely reviewed by independent parties.
Apple discontinued listing Aperture in the Mac App Store on April 8, 2015. Aperture is being replaced with Photos for OS X.
Atlas Ti is a program used for qualitative research or qualitative data analysis. The software is used to uncover and analyze complex phenomena hidden in unstructured data. Users can extract, categorize, and interlink data segments from multiple source documents, audio clips or photos.
Audacity is an open source, free-to-download software program. It allows users to record,
edit, import, and export audio. It also supports a multi-track environment that enables a user to blend together multiple audio files or overdub a file. In addition to cutting and splicing audio files, effects such as reverb, compression, echo, limiting, equalization, fade, delay, tremolo, and much more are available. Additional effects can be added using the open VST plugin standard, which range from free open source to expensive professional grade. Audacity can also be used to display numerical and visual analyses of audio files, enabling more precise editing.
Downloads are available for both Mac, PC, Linux, and other operating systems at no cost.
Here is a detailed comparison matrix of several DAW software pieces.
Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a digital audio workstation from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.
Audition allows a user to record or import multiple sound files and mix them together with effects to produce one sound. This multitrack environment can be used for creating music, radio ads, podcasts, soundtracks, voiceovers, and just about anything audio related. Audition is particularly popular in the radio and broadcast world while musicians still largely prefer other packages such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, and Ableton. Audition offers a full suite of built-in effects and analytic tools to polish sounds to professional quality. While MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) integration is not Audition’s strength, some MIDI options do exist. Audition also allows for VST plugins, which range in price and quality from being free and home-grown to thousands of dollars and professional quality.
Here is a detailed comparison matrix of several DAW software pieces.
AutoCAD is a commercial software application for 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting — available since 1982 as a desktop application and since 2010 as a mobile web- and cloud-based app marketed as AutoCAD 360.
AutoCAD is used across a wide range of industries, by architects, project managers, engineers, designers, and other professionals. It is supported by 750 training centers worldwide as of 1994.
The native file format of AutoCAD is .dwg. This and, to a lesser extent, its interchange file format DXF, have become de facto, if proprietary, standards for CAD data interoperability.[citation needed] AutoCAD has included support for .dwf, a format developed and promoted by Autodesk, for publishing CAD data.
BB FlashBack Pro is a Windows screen recording program that allows the user to record a window, region, or their full screen. Keystrokes are also recorded and displayed.
The recording can then be annotated with text effects, drawings, highlights, interactive buttons, arrows, and transitions. Editing options include frame-by-frame video editing, multi-track audio editing, and the ability to even out volume in a movie.
Available effects are start and end titles, magnifying a part of the movie, localization, support for multiple languages in movies, and export/import translations or translated text.
Movies can be exported to Flash, AVI, MPEG4, WMV, GIF, QuickTime (H264), PPT or EXE file formats.
BB FlashBack Pro is only for the Windows platform.
Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.
Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. To confirm specific compatibility, the list of supported platformsindicates those regularly tested by the development team.
As a community-driven project under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the public is empowered to make small and large changes to the code base, which leads to new features, responsive bug fixes, and better usability. Blender has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: Blender is your own 3D software.
BlueGriffon takes a straightforward WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) approach to web editing, but also manages to include plenty of more powerful features. It is based on the rendering engine of Mozilla Firefox.
You could just use it to type text, insert images, tables, audio files, videos and so on. But there’s also an SVG editor, form design tools, some CSS support, an accessibility checker, DOM Explorer, and more.
BlueGriffon is free but does utilize commercial plugins, so you may find that some features link you to a web store to purchase these plugins.
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is both a repository and a validated and curated resource for the three-dimensional structural data of molecules generally containing at least carbon and hydrogen, comprising a wide range of organic, metal-organic and organometallic molecules. The specific entries are complementary to the other crystallographic databases such as the PDB, ICSD and PDF. The data, typically obtained by X-ray crystallography and less frequently by neutron diffraction, and submitted by crystallographers and chemists from around the world, are freely accessible (as deposited by authors) on the Internet via the CSD’s parent organization’s website (CCDC,Repository). The CSD is overseen by the not-for-profit incorporated company called the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, CCDC.Read more…
Camtasia Studio and Camtasia for Mac are software suites, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint. The screen area to be recorded can be chosen freely, and microphone, audio, or other multimedia recordings may be recorded at the same time or added separately from any other source and integrated in the Camtasia Studio component of the product.
Camtasia Studio v8 for Microsoft Windows consists of two major components:
