working with media on GNU/Linux
- list of lists…
- linux audio https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
imaging /graphics
- the gimp http://www.gimp.org
- vectors with inkscape / Inkscape or http://www.inkscape.org/
- DTP and layout with scribus > http://www.scribus.net/
- Image Magick http://www.imagemagick.org
- fontforge > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
- 3d stuff → http://www.linuxartist.org/3d.php
- blender (back from purgatory) http://www.blender.org/
- see also Blender Notes
photography & digital asset management (DAM)
- darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.
- RawTherapee is a free, cross-platform raw image processing program
video software
- currently
- openshot - https://www.openshot.org/
- shotcut - https://www.shotcut.org/
- natron - https://natrongithub.github.io/
- mltframework
- melt the “powerful, if somewhat obscure, multitrack command line oriented video editor”
- previously (possibly ongoing?)
- pitivi http://www.pitivi.org/
- Kino, nonlinear video editing for GnuLinux http://kino.schirmacher.de/
- av file manipulation http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ (contains x86 assembly)
- dvd resources http://dvd.sourceforge.net/
- gstreamer media framework http://www.gstreamer.net/docs/faq.php
- discussion forum http://forums.projectmayo.com/
- video effects (intel only) http://effectv.sourceforge.net/index.html
- broadcast 2000 became cinelerra which branched a few times → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra
- freej video instrument (x86 only) http://freej.dyne.org/
- an overview of free media formats and tools (in french), with links to animation software (amongst others) http://www.lamenagerie.com/boite/
- lives (linux video editing system) for GNU Linux, BSD (maybe OS X ) http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/
visual effects
- Natron
analog filmmaking
- free and open-source tools for analog filmmaking > https://sixteenmillimeter.com/
sound software
Multitrack recording / DAW
- ardour. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/
- audacity. simple, yet multiplatform/multilingual http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
synthesis
- supercollider, tidal, puredata, etc
various
- ecasound, recording + processing software http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/
- general links to linux sound software http://www.linuxsound.at/
streams of slight semantic madness
- streaming audio/video on linux http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6720
- icecast/shoutcast/darwin streming server/ etc+
sound programming + dev
- Supercollider, syntheis engine https://supercollider.github.io/ (previously http://www.audiosynth.com + sourceforge page) and various interfaces e.g. rsc, overtone, …
- Tidal / tidalcycles “live coding environment designed for musical improvisation. In particular, it is a domain-specific language embedded in Haskell, focused on the generation and manipulation of audible or visual patterns” > https://tidalcycles.org/
- PD (aka puredata) is a graphical programming environment (see Visual Programming) , often used for rapid the prototyping of sound synthesis. with GEM/Framestein/Gridflow it can also be used for graphics.
- jMax based on the ideas of pd, and it's commercial offshoot, Max/MSP
- quick reference http://artengine.ca/jmax/doc/jmax_reference.html
- most things are possible with perl. http://www.cpan.org
codecs
see: Open Codecs
source material
discussion / comments
a debian distribution dedicated to providing up-to-date multimedia tools is DeMuDi? (the Debian Multimedia Distribution) http://www.demudi.org
discussion site for artists using linux http://www.linuxartist.org/ which also maintains software lists. see also http://www.linart.net/
have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jahshakafx/ for video editing and effects
Libarynth > Libarynth Web > FreeMediaTools r32 - 24 Nov 2005 - 11:20