Multimedia software tools
- 1. Overview of multimedia software tools By N.Sasikala
- 2. The categories of software tools • Music sequencing and notation • Digital audio • Graphics and image editing • Video editing • e Animation • Multimedia authoring
- 3. Music sequencing and notation • Cakewalk (audio-pro meant for sequencing and editing software)- over the Internet for a low price as Cakewalk Express s/w • Cubase =cakewalk (includes some digital audio editing tools ) • Macromedia Sound-edit (A mature program for creating audio for multimedia projects)- integrates with Flash and Director
- 4. Digital audio Accessing and editing the actual sampled sounds to audio • Cool Edit (Cool Edit is a powerful toolkit- multitask productions and sound file editing, with DSP effects) • Sound Forge (Sophisticated PC-based program for editing files & adding complex special effects) • Pro Tools(High-end integrated audio production and editing environment offers easy MIDI creation )
- 5. Graphics and image editing • Adobe Illustrator (illustrator is a powerful publishing tool for creating and editing vector graphics)web • Adobe Photoshop(Photoshop is the standard in a tool for graphics, image processing, and image manipulation) • Macromedia Fireworks(It includes a bitmap editor, a vector graphics editor, and a JavaScript generator for buttons and rellovers) web • Macromedia Freehand(Free-handis a text and web graphics editing tool that supports many bitmap formats, such as GIF, PNG, and JPEG)
- 6. Video editing • Adobe Premiere (It provides a large number of video and audio tracks, superimpositions, and virtual clips) non linear • Adobe After Effects (It also allows layers, as in Photoshop, to permit manipulating objects independently) lighting, shadows, and motionblurring • Final Cut Pro (It allows the capture of video and audio from numerous sources, such as film and DV)
- 7. e Animation • Multimedia APIs Java3D: An abstraction layer built on top of Open GL or Direct-X DirectX: A Windows API that supports video, images, audio, and 3D animation OpenGL: Highly portable and will run on all popular modern operating systems, such as UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Macintosh • Rendering Tools 3D Studio Max: A number of high-end professional tools for character animation, game development, and visual effects production Softimage XSI: special effects in films and games Maya: a competing product to Softimage, is a complete modeling package Render Man: a rendering package created by Pixar • GIF Animation Packages: quick development of effective small animations for the web
- 8. Multimedia authoring • Macromedia Flash : • Macromedia Director • Authorware • Quest