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
Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos. It includes touch up and basic editing tools, geo-tagging to tie a picture to a location, facial recognition to categorize and catalog photos by the people in them, backup capabilities to safeguard your photos, and sharing capabilities to display your photos publicly or send them to targeted peers.
RenderMan is produced by Pixar and is used to render all of their in-house 3D animated movie productions. It is also available as a commercial product licensed to third parties. RenderMan has been used in creating digital visual effects for Hollywood blockbuster movies such as Titanic, the Star Wars prequels, and The Lord of the Rings.
On May 30, 2014, it was announced that Pixar would be offering a free non-commercial version of RenderMan that became available to download as of March 23, 2015.
Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff
Part of: Adobe Creative Cloud
Comparable: Final Cut Studio
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite and the Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes video editing, graphic design, and web development programs.
Premiere Pro is used by professional broadcasters, film producers, and live music venues. It supports high resolution video editing at up to 10,240 × 8,192 resolution, at up to 32-bits per channel color, in both RGB and YUV. Audio sample-level editing, VST audio plug-in support, and 5.1 surround sound mixing are available. Premiere Pro’s plug-in architecture enables it to import and export formats beyond those supported by QuickTime or DirectShow, supporting a wide variety of video and audio file formats and codecs on both MacOS and Windows. When used with Cineform’s Neo line of plug-ins, it supports 3D editing with the ability to view 3D material using 2D monitors, while making individual left and right eye adjustments.
Premiere Pro is not part of the CS6 Design and Web Premium package but is included in the university’s Creative Cloud package.
