Technologies for teaching, learning and research
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
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) … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more