User:Hannah
MEDIA PRODUCTION
The following is a list of mostly open source tools culled from the 3/15/08 NYLUG Meeting, http://www.nylug.org/meetings/index.shtml?20080300 .
TOOLS & SOFTWARE -- VIDEO
(1) SKYPE - http://www.skype.com/ Free calls over the Inteernet.
(2) SKRBL - www.skrbl.com (This is not open source) Easy shared online Whiteboard.
(3) CELTX - http://www.celtx.com/ Integrated media pre production.
(4) RetroShare - http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/downloads.html A private and secure decentralised commmunication platform. Offering secure file sending and IM.
(5) Xdrive - http://www.xdrive.com/ 5GB of free online storage.
(6) Google Calendar - www.google.com/calendar Manage schedules and calendars.
(7) Google Docs - docs.google.com Free web-based word processor & spreadsheet, which allow you to share & collaborate online.
(8) Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/ Organize & edit photos.
(9) Google Translate - translate.google.com/ Free online language translation service instantly translate text and web pages. Use for subtitles.
(10) Gmail - mail.google.com Webmail.
(11) KDENLIVE - www.kdenlive.org Video effects.
(12) gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Used for credits, but no scrolling.
(13) Cinderella www.cinderella.de Visual modeling tool Lets you create and manipulate visualizations.
(14) Ming - http://www.libming.org/ Library for generating Macromedia Flash files written in C.
(15) Miro - www.getmiro.com TV & video player that can download videos from RSS-based channels.
TOOLS & SOFTWARE -- AUDIO
(1) Audacity - audacity.sourceforge.net/ Record & edit sounds.
(2) FLAC - flac.sourceforge.net/ Free Lossless Audio Codec.
GENERAL INFORMATION & STANDARDS
(1) FireWire - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire IEEE 1394 interface.
(2) General Info on File systems: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/File_storage Article from Myth TV on file systems for large files.
(3) MPEG4 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG Standard for audio & visual compression.
(4) Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org A group of liscenses.
(5) BitTorrent - www.bittorrent.com/ Access rich media content over the Internet.