Alice

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Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behavior of objects in their animation. By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.

Wings 3D

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Wings 3D is an advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use. Wings 3D offers a wide range of modeling tools, a customizable interface, support for lights and materials, and a built-in AutoUV mapping facility. There is no support in Wings for animation. Wings 3D is open source and completely free for use in both personal and commercial projects.

Features:

Overview:

• Context sensitive interface
• Configurable interface and hotkeys
• Wide range of Selection and Mesh tools
• Exports to common 3d file formats like .obj
• UV mapper, Vertex Colors, Materials, and Lights

Intuitive Interface:

Wings has a simple interface. Right-click menus give you easy access to common commands. These menus are context sensitive, so depending on your selection, a different menu pops up.

Hovering over any menu item will display a brief description of the command in the Info Line at the bottom of the main window.

Variations to commands are listed in the Info Line. Many commands let you pick an extra vector or point that the command should operate upon. Command variations are initiated by selecting the command using the different mouse buttons. In the Info Line, the mouse buttons are abbreviated to L, M, and R.

Tools:

Wings 3D has a comprehensive set of mesh modeling and selection tools.

• Standard tools such as Move, Scale, Rotate, Extrude, Bevel, Bridge, Cut, and Weld.
• Advanced tools including: Sweep, Plane Cut, Circularise, Intersect, Bend, Shear, and Inset.
• Magnets and Magnet Masking
• Virtual Mirror for symmetrical modeling
• Tweak and Sculpt
• Edge Loop and Edge Ring selection and navigation tools
• Smooth Preview
• Much, MUCH more!

AutoUV:

Add textures to your model using the AutoUV facility. AutoUV helps you cut and unfold an image of your model’s surface, which you can then export for painting and texturing.

Interface Languages:

Wings is written in English but has been translated into various languages including:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Czech
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Swedish
• Turkish

HandBrake

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HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Reasons you’ll love HandBrake are: convert video from nearly any format, it is free and open source and also multi-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux).

Features:

Built-in Device Presets:

• Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.

Supported Input Sources:

• Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Outputs:

• File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
• Video Encoders: H.264(x264), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), and Theora(libtheora)
• Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
• Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks

Even more features:

• Title / Chapter selection
• Queue up multiple encodes
• Chapter Markers
• Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
• Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
• Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
• Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preview

Miro Video Converter

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Miro Video Converter provides a beautiful, simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and iPad. Batch conversion, custom sizing, and more! 100% Free and open-source.

Some of the most popular conversions:

Convert to MP4 Video

• Convert AVI to MP4
• Convert H264 to MP4
• Convert MOV to MP4
• Convert WMV to MP4
• Convert XVID to MP4
• Convert Theora to MP4
• Convert MKV to MP4
• Convert FLV to MP4

Convert to Ogg Theora Video

• Convert AVI to Ogg Theora
• Convert H264 to Ogg Theora
• Convert MOV to Ogg Theora
• Convert WMV to Ogg Theora
• Convert XVID to Ogg Theora
• Convert MP4 to Ogg Theora
• Convert MKV to Ogg Theora
• Convert FLV to Ogg Theora

Convert to WebM

• Convert AVI to WebM
• Convert H264 to WebM
• Convert MOV to WebM
• Convert WMV to WebM
• Convert XVID to WebM
• Convert Theora to WebM
• Convert MKV to WebM
• Convert FLV to WebM

Miro Video Player

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Miro is a beautiful, open-source music and video player. It is a free and open source software for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Features:

• Resume from Where You Stopped: Miro will remember where you stopped watching a video and will start at that point when you play it again.
• Play Almost Anything: Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.\264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.
• One After Another: Set your Miro preferences to either play videos one after another (in the order they appear) or to play a video then stop. If you have Miro set to play videos one after another, you can always right-click on an individual video and have it play then stop.
• Seamless BitTorrent: Miro can download individual BitTorrent files and torrents that are in feeds. When a video torrent is downloaded it will be in your channel and library ready to watch, just like any other video download.
• Video RSS: Video RSS feeds are at the core of our vision for internet TV. They provide a simple system that any publisher can use to distribute their content. Viewers can bring feeds from anywhere together into one place. Miro is compatible with more feeds than any other video app.
• Play in Separate Window: Miro now lets you watch any video in a separate window, so you can browse and download while you watch. You can play videos in a separate window individually or set a preference to always play videos in a separate window.
• Simple Disk Management: Simply tell Miro to reserve a certain amount of space on your hard drive and it will stop downloading new videos when it reaches that limit.
• Pause / Resume: Easily pause and resume any individual download, all downloads in one channel, or all Miro downloads.
• Mac, Windows, Linux: Miro works beautifully on all three major operating systems. We make this effort because a new model for internet television has to be accessible to everyone.
• Open Source: Miro is free, open-source software (licensed under the GPL). Anyone is free to change the source code, contribute bug fixes and features, and make new versions.