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

Audacity

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Multimedia
Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
Comparable: Audition, GarageBand

Audacity is an open source, free-to-download software program. It allows users to record,

audacitylogo3edit, 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.

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Audition

November 20, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Multimedia

ADOBE AUDITION CS5 LOGO

Availability: Download
Comparable: Audacity, GarageBand

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.

BB FlashBack Pro

June 13, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Multimedia
Availability: Labs | Contact CLAS IT
Comparable: Camtasia Studio, Expression Encoder, Screencast-O-Matic, ScreenFlow

BB FlashbackBB 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.

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