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MULTIMEDIA & VIDEO SHAREWARE / FREEWARE : ANIMATION AND MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE SOFTWARE

360 Pano Viewer (Free to try, $50 to buy - Windows) - is a gripping new panoramic viewer which allows web surfers to view panoramas over the internet without requiring the use of plug-ins which take forever to download.

Action! (Free to Try, $22 to Buy, Windows) - can capture the action from any part of the Windows desktop and sound from a microphone ar an audio cd and save to standard AVI/MPEG movie file format.

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Adventure Maker (Free to try, $29 to buy - Windows) - is a revolutionary, easy to use, powerful, and inexpensive toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes.

Antechinus Media Editor (Free to try, $35 to buy - Windows) - Antechinus Media Editor is a superb collection of utilities enabling you to quickly create and manipulate movies and sound files. Produce animated movies in just minutes and incorporate them in your web pages or e-mails, along with MP3 sound files and much more.

AVD Graphic Studio (Free to try, $25 to buy - Windows) - is the powerful editor for graphics, animation and video. The program allows you easily to edit, view and print your images, using painting tools, drawing tools and various effects. You can import multiframes files (AVI and animated GIF) for editing, easily receive separate frames and create your animated GIF and AVI.

AutoPlay Media Studio (Free to try, $395 to buy - Windows) - AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0 is a sophisticated software creation suite that specializes in creating AutoPlay CD-ROMs.

Autorun CD Studio (Free to try, $50 to buy - Windows) - is the software to create 32 bit programs that will be automatically executed to display a splash screen when a CD/DVD is inserted into the CD/DVD drive.

AVD Video Processor (Free to try, $20 to buy - Windows) - This is a video file convertor that exports AVI files to create animated GIF files and can receive separate frames from a video file. When creating animated GIFs, this provides the choice of frame range, frame size and sample by certain steps.

AVIedit (Free to try, $25 to buy - Windows) - It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing.

BoardMaster Storyboard and Timing Software(Free to Try - Windows) - is designed specifically for the development of storyboards.

Camtasia Studio (Free to try, $349 to buy - Windows) - is software that captures the screen activity and sounds of any Windows desktop for a defined time and produces videos to be streamed or emailed to others.

CINEMA 4D's (Free to try, $595 to buy - Mac/Windows) - outstanding price and performance make it the tool of choice for broadcast animation, motion-picture special effects, medical illustration, classroom instruction and almost any other 3D modeling and animation application.

Cortona Movie Maker (Free to try, $300 to buy - Windows) - a brand-new tool for creating video spots or high-resolution screenshots from interactive animated VRML models without any loss in quality or dropped frames.

CRE8 (Free to try, $199 to buy - Windows) - The Easiest, Most Cost Effective Way to Create Multimedia in the World!

Debabelizer (Free to try, $450 to buy - Mac) - The Most Powerful Software for Automated Media Production!

Designer Studio (Free - Windows) - create your own enhanced mp3 files

DeskTop Author Version 3 (Free to try, $195 to buy - Windows) - NOW delivers the world's first internal calculation engine for ebooks. Not only can you create eBrochures, eBooks and other ePresentations now you can also create quizzes, exams, tests, forms and surveys in minutes. No need for HTML, ASP or other programming knowledge.

Drakkon Script Creator (Free to try, $79 to buy - Windows) - Create scripts for movies or television and manage characters, scenes, and more.

DVD Complete™ (Free to try, $100 to buy - Windows) - it’s easy to make DVDs like the ones designed in Hollywood movie studios. DVD Complete’s project wizard guides you through the steps to go from camcorder to DVD.

EvoCam (Free to Try, $20 to buy, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Internet webcam application for putting a live webcam image on your site

eZediaMX (Free to try, $169 to buy - Mac OS 9.2 | Mac OS X | Windows 98 SE/Me/2000/XP) - is multimedia authoring software which revolutionizes media integration and editing.

EZ-ROM (Free to try, $40 to buy - Windows) - Presentation Pro Edition is an easy-to-use CD-ROM and Presentation development tool that allows you to create customized auto-launch CDs and slide show presentations.

Formula Graphics (Free to try, $30 to buy - Windows) - has long been one of the world's most advanced shareware multimedia systems. This outstanding software package has been used by developers around the world to create a stunning array of presentations, software titles, and even games.

FvReader (Free to try, $30 to buy - Windows) - It's a tool for generating electronic brochures, business presentations and school projects in the Shockwave Flash (SWF) file format.

Helix™ Producer (Free to try, $200 to buy - Windows) - from RealNetworks is the next generation digital media production tool for broadcast streaming and download.

Hypnotizer.Editor (Free to try, French Currency - Windows) - Enhance your videos on the Web with a single software offering multiple applications: rich media presentations, interactive advertising, e-learning, live events, games, etc

HOTShow (Free to try, $40 to buy - Windows) - Create interactive multimedia applications such as presentations, kiosks, photo albums, educational materials (CBT) and catalogs without any complicated programming. HOTShow is the perfect solution for multimedia applications in several segments!!!

HyperPublish (Free to try, $149 to buy - Windows) - Creating a professional catalog, a Web site, a multimedia / hypermedia autorun CD or a manual with HyperPublish is really a snap!

ImageDV (Free to try, $30 to buy - Mac) -is a utility which allows you to easily extract digital images from DV video on a FireWire DV camera or from previously captured DV video clips.

ImageZoom 2.0 (Free to try, $349 to buy - Mac / Windows) - Bring life to your images, fast and easily. The professional tool for adding interactivity to images. You can create zoom and transition effects, edit interactive texts and publish the created image objects on the web.

InstaPlay (Free to try - Windows) - InstaPlay renders 3D graphics scenes authored in Insta3D in real-time and outputs broadcast quality video. In addition, InstaPlay can pre-render the scenes and output video by user's prompt.

Isadora® (Free to try, $300 to buy - Mac) - Isadora is a graphic programming environment that provides interactive control over digital media, with special emphasis on the real-time manipulation of digital video.

iShell (Free to try, $1350 to buy - Mac / PC) - is a professional rich-media authoring tool, ideal for building custom Internet applications, advanced CD-ROM-Internet hybrids and Internet kiosks.

Kalescop (Free to try, $59 to buy - Windows) allows users to present digital images in an easy way, in order to, for example, attach several audio tracks to a sequence, or an attractive text layout with visual effects and videos.

LiveStage Professional (Try for Free, $850 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - is the world's leading QuickTime authoring application with the ability to converge more than 200 media types to create the most powerful and engaging interactive digital presentations.

m2CD™ Pro (Try for Free, $69.95 to Buy, Windows) - will take your existing video clips & multimedia content and create a professional CD-ROM in as little as three easy steps!

Magenta (Free to try, $149 to buy - Windows) is a development environment for creating multimedia, eLearning, eBusiness and Internet applications.

MakeCDROM (Free to try, $20 to buy - Windows) - is a full-featured visual authoring package for creating interactive multimedia (autorun) menus for presentations that appear automatically when your CD-ROM gets inserted into a drive.

MediaEdit (Free to try, $60 to buy - Mac) - is a premiere movie and graphic editing tool that lets you add stunning effects and transitions to your movies.

Media Editor (Free to try, $35 to buy - Windows) - Animator's big brother with more capabilities in making animations, videos and sound.

Motion Studio 3.0 (Free to try, $40 to buy - Windows) - All-in-one multimedia authoring tool to create interactive animation EXE's and publish to the Web.

MediaMixer 2 (Free to try, $58 to buy - Windows) - Without any programming skills, produce and distribute interactives multimedia presentations (or animations).

Mediator 7 Pro (Try for Free, $950 to Buy, Windows) - Create Flash®, HTML & CD-ROM Presentations.

Motion Studio 3.0 (Try for Free, $40 to Buy, Windows) - All-in-one multimedia authoring tool to create interactive animation EXE's and publish to the Web.

Multimedia Imaging Suite™ (Try for Free, $599 to Buy, Windows)- Offering unlimited visual special effects, scrollable hypertext, support for over 20 image formats, video capture and playback, MIDI and WAVE playback, 3D fonts and borders, over 70 image processing functions, the ability to create custom user interfaces, acquire images from scanners and digital cameras, and more.

NeoBook (Try for Free, $200 to Buy, Windows) - Create Your Own Windows-Based Multimedia Applications in a Few Easy Steps

Norpath Elements Studio (Try for Free, $500 to Buy, Mac/Windows) - is a new generation, multipurpose authoring system ideal for creating a wide range of interactive solutions including learning applications, rich multimedia presentations, web, interactive kiosks, and simulations.

Openworld Learning's (Try for Free, $69 to Buy, Windows) - family of authoring tools makes it faster, simpler and more affordable than before to create advanced rich media presentations.

Opus (Try for Free, $138 to Buy, Windows) - is the one stop introduction, providing all the functionality you need for a wide range of multimedia creations including rich-media presentations, internet training, CD-rom business cards, photographic slideshows and screensavers and much more.

Opus Pro (Try for Free, $344 to Buy, Windows) - provides the power and versatility for professional multimedia development while retaining the ease of use for a quick and cost effective development solution

Opus Pro XE (Try for Free, $550 to Buy, Windows) - Heavy weight development tool designed especially for high-end multimedia professional users. Existing Opus Pro features, and even more additional functionality.

PhotoVista (Try for Free, $250 to Buy, Windows) - Create Immersive Virtual Tours For The Web In Minutes!

PluginPac (Free - Windows) - is a free suite of special effects video plug-ins for video editors/NLEs like Vegas Video, Adobe Premiere, Wax etc. Currently 3 plugins have been completed and made available for public download.

Presentation Maker (Try for Free, $1995 to Buy, Windows) - This media creation software, allows you to simply create Internet media presentations which are synchronized with PowerPoint slides.

proFACE[video] (Try for Free, $1995 to Buy, Windows) - proFACE[video], when combined with the included vTracker program, provides an intuitive interface for animating faces by converting your camcorder into a facial motion system. Using a set of markers applied to the performer's face, you can track the movement

PTViewer Scripter (Try for Free, $50 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - is an easy-to-use virtual tour creating tool by linking the panoramas together and customizing virtual tour style for PTViewer users.

RadLight (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - is your ticket to entertainment ! RadLight is an application developed to offer you blazing fast and high quality playback of DivX™ and other multimedia content.

Sassonic! (Free to Try, $28 to Buy, Windows) - With Sassonic!, you can turn your data, music, movies, and photos into professional-quality CD's and webpages quickly and easily, and in a variety of formats.

Screenblast® SIREN™ Jukebox (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Windows) - Need more control over your music and video collection? Build and organize your own multimedia library with Screenblast SIREN Jukebox.

Screenblast® SoundForge® (Free to Try, $69 to Buy, Windows) - Create, record and edit audio files easily with Screenblast Sound Forge.

ScreenFlash (Free to Try, $80 to Buy, Windows) - If you want to build animated, interactive software tutorials in the shortest time, ScreenFlash is your best choice! It is the easiest and most effective tool for demonstrating your software product, adding animations to your application's Help system, or training novices.

ShowAndTell (Try for Free, $299 to Buy, Windows) - This easy-to-use desktop authoring tool allows non-technical people to record presentations by synchronizing PowerPoint slides with audio voice narration and automatically publish these to a web site in minutes.

Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - is a tool to browse, view and parse Shockwave Flash movies (.swf files). It can extract sounds, images, movie clips from a Flash movies.

swfXXL (Free to Try, $90 to Buy, Windows) - will turn any Flash™ (swf) file into a fullscreen sized application that will run without any loss of speed!

TimeBrush Studios (Quote) is the world's premiere facility for motion video and film colorization - specializing in the revival of monochromatic classics, such as black & white movies, sitcoms, sport/ news documentaries, and music videos - or color restoration and editing in poor quality/ damaged recordings of yester-years.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory (Try for Free, $45 to Buy, Windows) - Easily Make DVDs Just Like the Pros

Ulead DVD Workshop (Try for Free, $479 to Buy, Windows) - The complete professional DVD authoring package

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7 (Try for Free, $475 to Buy, Windows) - Advancing the Art of Digital Video

Ulead VideoStudio 7 (Try for Free, $90 to Buy, Windows) - Movie Making for Everyone

Video Capturix (Try for Free, $29 to Buy, Windows) - is a powerful non linear video capture application. It lets you capture movies (in AVI format) from any Video for Windows video source.

VideoClix (Try for Free, $399 to Buy, Mac) - Combine the power of the Internet with the simplicity of television to add interactivity to video.

VideoScope (Try for Free, $30 to Buy, Mac OS 9 / Mac OS X) Real-time video analyzer with waveform/vector scope

Virtual Tour EXE (Try for Free, $200 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - provides an easy way to create standalone executable virtual tours. Standalone executable virtual tour may be burned in a CD or embedded in a multimedia system in real estate exhibition, tourism show, publishing, education, travel, entertainment, GIS and virtual exhibition etc., also it can be emailed to your friends as an interactive and immersive E-Card.

Wax (Free - Windows) - is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software.

xboosta (Free - Windows) - The Smart Multimedia Engine. Update and enhance your multimedia CD-ROM or DVD-ROM applications without technical skills. No (re)programming required.

Xing MPEG Encoder (Try for Free, $250 to Buy, Windows) - is an advanced software application that creates custom digital audio and video files. With its pre-defined file formats and comprehensive user interface, the XingMPEG Encoder easily produces MPEG audio and video files for playback for both file-based and network environments.


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