Media Production

MEDIA PRODUCTION

The following is a list of mostly open source tools culled from the 3/15/08 NYLUG Meeting

TOOLS & SOFTWARE -- VIDEO

• SKYPE - http://www.skype.com/ Free calls over the Inteernet.

• SKRBL -http://www.skrbl.com (This is not open source) Easy shared online Whiteboard.

• CELTX - http://www.celtx.com/ Integrated media pre production.

• RetroShare - http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/downloads.html A private and secure decentralised commmunication platform. Offering secure file sending and IM.

• Xdrive - http://www.xdrive.com/ 5GB of free online storage.

• Google Calendar - http://www.google.com/calendar Manage schedules and calendars.

• Google Docs - http://docs.google.com Free web-based word processor & spreadsheet, which allow you to share & collaborate online.

• Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/ Organize & edit photos.

• Google Translate - http://translate.google.com/ Free online language translation service instantly translate text and web pages. Use for subtitles.

• Gmail - http://mail.google.com Webmail.

• KDENLIVE - http://www.kdenlive.org Video effects.

• gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Used for credits, but no scrolling.

• Cinderella http://www.cinderella.de Visual modeling tool Lets you create and manipulate visualizations.

• Ming - http://www.libming.org/ Library for generating Macromedia Flash files written in C.

• Miro - http://www.getmiro.com TV & video player that can download videos from RSS-based channels.

• Format Factory - http://www.formatoz.com Free video converter.

• Videoredo - http://www.videoredo.com - dvd mpeg editor (free trial)

TOOLS & SOFTWARE -- AUDIO

• Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Record & edit sounds.

• FLAC - http://flac.sourceforge.net/ Free Lossless Audio Codec.

GENERAL INFORMATION & STANDARDS

• FireWire - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire IEEE 1394 interface.

• General Info on File systems: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/File_storage Article from Myth TV on file systems for large files.

• MPEG4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG Standard for audio & visual compression.

• Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org A group of licenses.

• BitTorrent - http://www.bittorrent.com/ Access rich media content over the Internet.