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
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Adobe Animate CC is an animation tool within Adobe Creative Cloud that replaces Adobe Flash Professional. Users can create advertisements, multimedia content, vector animations, and games in a timeline-based authoring environment. Animate incorporates native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. Projects published in HTML5 canvas support HiDPI and Retina displays.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Bridge helps organize files and assets for creative projects. Files can be renamed, color coded or assigned star ratings through batch processing. Users can also locate assets by file type, ratings, or camera type.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of software for graphic design, photography, web development, video editing, and cloud services. Software is downloaded and installed on the local machine and can be used as long as the subscription remains valid. Software upgrades are available immediately and includes saving to the cloud.
A list of software included in the university license of Creative Cloud can be viewed here. Mobile apps are available from the App Store. The university has an agreement with Adobe that allows Adobe Creative Cloud to be installed on university owned computers and on faculty and staff personal computers.
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Adobe Fuse CC (Preview) is a 3D modeling app that allows users to create human characters for use in Adobe Photoshop CC images, designs and prototypes. 3D characters can be built using a library of customizable faces, bodies, clothing, and textures. The character’s size and proportions can be changed via slider and other attributes will adjust accordingly.
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Vector graphics is a technology that allows objects to be infinitely scalable to either very large or very tiny sizes without degradation in quality. Often when an image is expanded to a large size the image distorts with rough squares and sharp edges, known as pixels. This is a raster image which is based with a particular size in mind. Vector images are based on geometry and relative location and angles, so its proportions can be scaled in any direction without pixelation or distortion. Illustrator also includes 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple 3D objects.
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats.
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Adobe Media Encoder CC is a media processor that integrates with Adobe Premier Pro CC, After Effects CC, and other applications. The application ingests, transcodes, creates proxies, and outputs media in multiple formats.
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Adobe Muse is a website builder that allows user to create websites without writing any code. Websites created in Muse dynamically scale to any screen size, browser, or device. Designers can choose breakpoints that control how the website appears on different size browsers. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files from Illustrator can be placed directly into Adobe Muse layouts.
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.
Photoshop has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the terms “photoshopping” and “photoshop contest” were born. It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, Lab color space (with capital L), spot color and duotone. Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop’s featureset can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.
Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff
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.
Availability: Download
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.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
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.
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.