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working with media on GNU/Linux
imaging /graphics
- the gimp http://www.gimp.org
- k3studio http://k3studio.sf.net
- Image Magick http://www.imagemagick.org
- fontforge > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
- vectors with inkscape / Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ * basic dtp with scribus > http://www.scribus.net/ * 3d stuff → http://www.linuxartist.org/3d.php * blender (back from purgatory) http://www.blender.org/ * see also Blender Notes ==== photography & image cataloging ==== * http://www.ubuntuproductivity.com/journal/ubuntu/07/2008/ubuntu-photo-manager-experiment/ ==== video software ==== * Cinelerra, http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 * 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 * what happened to broadcast 2000 ?!(well, it became http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 ) http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3 (source available → http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/broadcast2000/ ) * 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/ ==== sound software ==== * overview of sound software for gnu/liNux based on freshmeat.net categories http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/354/ * ecasound, recording + processing software http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/ * multitrack recording * ardour. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ * audacity. simple, yet multiplatform/multilingual http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ * 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+ ==== programming + dev ==== * 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 * http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel/jmax/en/index.php3 * quick reference http://artengine.ca/jmax/doc/jmax_reference.html * Supercollider, recently 'opened'-up for MacOS 9 + OsX / linux http://www.audiosynth.com + sourceforge page * most things are possible with perl. http://www.cpan.org ==== codecs ==== see: Open Codecs * ogg http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/docs.html * xvid, openDivX, 3ivx, Gstreamer etcX+ in ranges of openness/documentaiton * vp3, thoera,, ogm containers.. ==== source material ==== * see Free Media Matter ===== 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 http://www.pawfal.org/
Libarynth > Libarynth Web > FreeMediaTools r32 - 24 Nov 2005 - 11:20
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