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SOFTWARE

    Digital Media Design

    Adobe
    Adobe Software Systems. The professional suite of tools for digital design: Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere, Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Acrobat, InDesign, and many others...

    Adobe typeface index, a complete alphabetical and graphical example listing of the on their site.

    Drop-Rename is a fast and powerful renaming tool. It allows you to rename files or folders with a variety of options. Helpful for automatically batch modifying file extensions when cross platform authoring.

    Free Ruler and Guidelines are horizontal and vertical screen ruler utility tools, helpful for media designers needing to take onscreen measurements.

    Font Pool, a massive collection of shareware, freeware and charityware Macintosh truetype and postscript fonts.

    TTConverter (download: 48k .hqx) is an indispensable shareware utility which allows you to convert PC TrueType fonts for use on the Mac.





    Flash and Director

    Director and Flash tools for dynamic interactive media.

    CineMac ScreenTime converts QuickTime, Director, Flash movies and many other source formats into screen savers.





    Photoshop

    Corel's KPT Collection the popular Kai's Power tools for Photoshop.

    Eye Candy from Alien Skin Software, plugin for creating dimensional effects.

    Flaming Pear (fomerly Furbo Filters) many organic filters and offers pre-made Action Sets.

    Mask Pro from onOne and Knock Out from Corel are each Plug-Ins to help remove subjects form their backgrounds in photographs.

    PhotoFrame, instantly create an unlimited variety of beautifully-rendered effects from high-quality frames designed by professional artists. Set the opacity, color, blend mode and blur separately for the matte and frame.

    PhotoMatix assists creating an photo with extended highlights and shows by combining photos or scans taken with different exposures into a single new image.

    Xaos Tools, exquisite Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filters.





    Digital Video/Audio

    ActionBacks is a collection of royalty free motion graphics video backgrounds and animations for video production and editing.

    After Effects Plug-Ins, a list of many assorted indispensable tools to give you creative freedom and almost endless possibilities to deliver high-quality effects.

    DigiEffects
    DigiEffects
    Plug-Ins for creating looks ranging from film or video noise to painterly effects for motion graphics in After Effects.

    DVD Studio Pro for professional-grade premastering software.

    Final Cut Pro suite, the first choice of professional film and video editors worldwide.

    GeeThree, makers of "nifty" video software and hardware accessories for the Mac.

    iDVD for average consumers and enthusiasts creating DVD's.

    iMedia Converter is an all-in-one converter that supports DVD ripping and video formats conversion.

    Indeo Video 5 CoDec extends QuickTime and enables playback of the latest AVI files.

    Cleaner and Cleaner XL are dedicated Mac QuickTime compression utilites to optimize many formats of video for offline or online delivery (formerly from Terran then Discreet Media Cleaner Pro, now from Autodesk).

    Media 100 video editing workstation solutions: for those who care to create video, motion graphics and interactive streaming media in a Mac-friendly and QuickTime-native environment.

    MPEG Streamclip provides high-quality conversion of video files into several useful formats for Mac OS X.

    Perian, the free “Swiss-army knife” for QuickTime that enables support for many popular video formats.

    QuickTime
    QuickTime, enables digital video creation / playback on Macs and PC's.

    QuickTime Broadcaster is Apple’s live encoding software for streaming audio and video over the Internet. (The single-stream configuration is free.)

    QuickTime Tools and utilities useful for Filters and Effects, Sprites, QuickTime VR, QuickDraw 3D, and web content creation.

    Rogue Amoeba Software makes Audio Hijack for Audio Capture and Enhancement, Nicecast your own Internet radio station, Detour is Volume Level and Output Control For Every App, SoundSource is a simple audio output selector, LineIn is an audio input with soft playthru.

    ScreenRecord allows capture of on-screen actions in OS X to create QuickTime movies.

    SnapFlow lets you select video frames from raw HDV or AVCHD footage and export them as high quality still images.

    Sorenson compression suites offer users and developers significantly higher video quality and increased flexibility for video and multimedia delivery with unprecedented speed and clarity.

    SoundApp utility can play or convert files dropped onto it in a variety of formats--think of it as the Graphic Convertor or MoviePlayer for sound.

    Sound Studio for recording editing, and adding effects to audio (a natural replacement for former SoundEdit 16 users).

    ToolFarm.com: follows, reviews and sells Plug-ins for tools such as After Effects, Commotion, Electric Image, FormZ and DVD authoring.

    VisualHub (was) a universal video converter utility bridging the gap between numerous video formatting standards.





    Virtual Reality Panoramas

    Apple QuickTime Virtual Reality Authoring Studio (QTVRAS) from Apple, (was) the original complete visual assembly workshop for making panorama and object movies.

    Apple QTVR tools [freeware]: QTVR PanoToThumbnail, QTVR Flattener, QTVR Converter, QTVR Make Panorama 2.

    Flash Panorama Player is a ready-to-use application. no Flash experience required.

    Kekus Digital software: Calico Panorama is an automatic multi-row stitcher for the casual photographer, PTMac is a robust front-end for creating panoramas, and XBlend for seamlessly blending already positioned images into a final panorama.

    Pangea Software for VR panoramas: PangeaVR for web browsers, and PanoPreviewer for Photoshop, and Bracketeer for Merging Bracketed Exposures.

    PiXiMation from Kaidan an application.

    QTVR tools from Apple [freeware]: QTVR PanoToThumbnail, QTVR Flattener, QTVR Converter, QTVR Make Panorama 2.

    QTVR Matte from ElectricFish is a plug-in for Adobe After Effects which allows you to manipulate QuickTime VR panoramas from within the After Effects, and add layers containing QTVR panoramas to a composition.

    Stitcher is a solution for creating high resolution full-spherical panoramas, create QuickTime "Cubic" panoramas.

    VR Toolbox, Inc., Industrial Strength Tools for QuickTime VR.






    Web Authoring

    BBEdit HTML markup / programming application.

    Blog (personal Web Log) software such as: Blogger (web-based, quasi-free) , LiveJournal (web-based, free), iBlog (application, purchase), Radio UserLand (application, purchase), Movable Type's Type pad (web-based, subscription), WordPress (web-based, free)

    Dreamweaver, professional-grade website authoring package from Adobe.

    eShox, is a simple yet advanced e-Commerce solution for small businesses.

    GIFBuilder, the easy to use, free utility for creating GIF animations.

    GoLive (was) the robust, complete site web design package that lets designers visually build what they envision for the Web. (discontinued 04/28/2008)

    GraphicConverter a great, pared-down but robust graphics utility.

    ImageReady was a companion to Photoshop, enabling web designers to create animations and optimize their graphics in real-time previews.

    Web Devil, a tool for downloading web pages and their associated images, textures, and links quickly and easily. Give it a URL and it will download all the items on the web page.





    DVD Authoring

    Apple iDVD, consumer level DVD authoring of homemade DVD-Video discs

    Apple DVD Studio Pro, Full-featured professional DVD authoring of DVD-Video discs

    Roxio Creator a consumer-grade solution for preparing, encoding, authoring, and formatting content for DVD.

    Roxio Toast allows writing DVD video and also data discs, and can encode digital video camera footage direct-to-disc.





    Macintosh Computing
    MacOS8
    Apple software updates, support and information. (Also MacOS 9, Mac OS 8.6 , OS 8.5, OS 8.1 support info.)

    download.com and shareware.com for lots of the latest Macintosh freeware / shareware.

    Font Examiner, a more full-featured Key Caps utility.

    icon factory
    Icon Factory shareware and instructions on creating Macintosh icons. (RIT alumni designers)

    MacUpdate Promo, a deal a day on Macintosh software.

    Mariner Write. Finally, a simplified word processing application with The Right Features...The Right Price.

    MisFox, allows editing of file mappings in Mac OS X, as was possible under MacOS 9.

    Natural Order is a simple freeware System Extension which gives you a filelist that sorts in a sensible fashion--with numbers in logical order.

    Snapz Pro, record anything on screen; an indispensable utility for taking screenshots and for recording QuickTime movies of on-screen actions.

    Software Surplus, unbelievable low prices on software.

    StuffIt Deluxe, industry standard compression / decompression utility software suite with StuffIt, Expander, DropStuff.

    Symantec, makers of Norton utilities. Use Norton to optimize, preserve file integrity or recover files.

    VersionTracker.com is a free Macintosh software download site for Mac OS X freeware, shareware, demos, screensavers, music, mp3, games, fonts, anti-virus and more.

    X-Assist, a free utility which returns the Mac Finder's Application Switcher to the upper right of the Menu again, and ability again to bring all the Finder windows to the front when clicking on the Desktop.





    Specialty Computing

    SketchUp - dream, design, communicate for film pre-viz, interior design, architecture or landscaping.

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