Multimedia Software
This range of software allows you to capture and edit text, pictures, photos, sound and video.
Recommendations *** Must have ** good * OK
Animation
**Drawplus X2 - Free LLS for year 11 ICT students - Stopframe & Keyframe animation
*Pivot - Free - Stickfigure Animator
***Scratch - Free - programmable animations
**Stop Motion Pro - Stopframe Animation
www.gickr.com - (website)
(Blender - Free - 3D pixar style Animation)
Game-Making Software
Alice - Free - (3-D Authoring Software)
***Game Maker - Free - Gaming Software
MissionMaker - Free - Gaming Software
Images and Photos
**Adobe Photoshop Elements
**Gimp - Free - Photoshop equivalent
***Irfanview - Free - Photo Editor
**PaintNet - Free - Image Editor
***Paint Shop Pro - Free - Image Editor
**Pix-to-Exe - Photo Presenter
*Photo Story - Free
***SnagIt 7.25 - Free - Multifunction Screen Capture Software
other online editors here
Multimedia
***Matchware Mediator 9 - Free LLS - CD from LRC - Multimedia Authoring
Sound/Audio
*Anvil Studio - Free - Midi recording
***Audacity - Free - Sound editor
**Microsoft Sound Recorder - Free - already in windows
**MusicMatch Jukebox - Free - Plus costs money
**Newsgator - collects podcasts
**Super - Free - Multimedia encoder
*Switch - Free - Audio encoder
Text
***Cutepdf - Free - pdf creator
**Omnipage OCR - Free (with printer) - digital text convertor
***http://mediaconverter.org - Free - online video and sound file convertor
***Revelation Sight and Sound - Free LLS - CD from LRC - video editor
*Clone DVD2 - DVD copier
**Fair Use Wizard - Free - DVD clip editor
**Microsoft Moviemaker 2 - Free - video editor
**Real Player - Free - video player and downloader
***VLC Media Player - Free - Media Player
**Wink - Free - Screen recording software
**camstudio.org - Free - Screen recording software
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. How can I download embedded videos off YouTube or other sites and play them on my computer?
A1. Download Real Player - Free and install it. When installed, using any browser, you will be able to right click to download any embedded video you wish.
You can also try Easy YouTube Video Downloader as an add-on to Firefox…
When downloaded, you can play it back from your memory stick using VLC Media Player portable version - http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable
Or convert them to the required format using http://mediaconverter.org