OpenShot Video Editor

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OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux licensed under the GPL version 3.0. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.

Drag & Drop:

• Adding new files to your OpenShot video project is easy. Just drag and drop audio, video, or image files into your project from your Gnome desktop.

Video & Audio Effects:

• To add awesome video and audio effects to your clips, just switch to the effects tab, and drag the effect onto a clip. It's just that easy!

Project Settings:

• Choose your project settings, including the name, length, frames per second, height, width, aspect ratio, and other important settings for your video project.

Effect Settings:

• Each video and audio effect has settings that control its behavior. Using the clip properties window, you can easily change the settings of any effect.

Rotate Settings:

• Rotating a video or image clip is easy. Just drag and drop the rotate effect, and then adjust a few settings. You can animate your video spinning around in circles, or just statically rotate your video.

Features:

• Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg )
• Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
• Unlimited tracks / layers
• Clip re-sizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting
• Video transitions with real-time previews
• Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
• Title templates, title creation, sub-titles
• 3D Animated Titles
• SVG friendly, to create and include vector titles and credits
• Scrolling motion picture credits
• Solid color clips (including alpha compositing )
• Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
• Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
• Frame stepping (key-mappings: J, K, and L keys)
• Video encoding (based on FFmpeg )
• Key Frame animation
• Digital zooming of video clips
• Speed changes on clips (slow motion etc)
• Custom transition lumas and masks
• Audio mixing and editing
• Presets for key frame animations and layout
• Ken Burns effect (artistic panning over an image)
• Digital video effects , including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen) , and over 20 other video effects
• OpenShot provides extensive editing and compositing features, and has been designed as a practical tool for working withhigh-definition video including HDV and AVCHD.

Pencil2D

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Pencil2D is a cross-platform animation/drawing application. Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Pencil is a cross-platform open-source 2D animation software. Its first aim is to make traditional animations (cel, cartoons, etc). It features bitmap and vector drawing tools, layers, cameras. Animations made with Pencil can be exported as QuickTime. Pencil is written in C++ and is Qt-based.

Cheese

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Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others.

Features :

Cheese!

• Cheese is a program for the GNOME Desktop which allows you to take photos, videos, and anything else you can think of with your webcam.Just start it up and shoot! Gather all of your friends around, have some fun! When you're done, share your photos and videos with 'em!

3... 2... 1... Cheese!

• The countdown widget will let you get into position, or wreck everything, before the photo is taken. The visual countdown will appear at the bottom of the image, and willgive you time to press the "Take photo" button, and get ready! So if you need to put on your eye makeup or fix your hair, do it fast! You only have 3 seconds!

Add Cheesy Effects

• Sick and tired of looking at the same face over and over again? Want it to be something else? Cheese allows you to add many different effects to photos, even several at a time! There are heaps of effect combinations to choose from that will keep you smiling. Morph yourself into Hulkor a nice pink alien, or even pile up effects in order to obtain the most amazing results!

Bu-bu-bu-burst Mode!

• Cheese has got a new feature: burst mode! From now on you can watch foxes walking in your garden, people getting drunk over time at your party or have many photos to laugh at afterwards. Just set the amount of photos you want to be taken and the time delay and Cheese will take them.

Go to Hollywood

• Not only does Cheese allow you to take great photos, but it also allows you to take videos. Effects, sharing, and everything thatyou can do with photos you can do with videos as well. Instead of preparing for thatone moment, invite some friends, record your session and laugh about it afterwards.So, go ahead and present us your new Hollywood-movie! Or do you want to be a music star and record the video to your new song?

Grin widely

• We have optimized our User Interface especially for Netbook users in order to create an awesome experience on small displays too. You can try Cheese out sitting in a cafe with your friends, travelling in a train or just sitting in a hotel lobby. There are no excuses anymore, as most netbookscome with an integrated webcam.

Kiosk/Fullscreen mode

• Have you ever wanted to set up Cheese in the lobby of your office? Or to have it running at a party with a lot of people? This and much more is just a click away: enter the fullscreen mode and enjoy Cheese on the whole display! Attention: This can lead to Cheese-affection, which means that everybody will be standing in front of your webcam and not drinking your beer anymore.

1. Addicted to webcams?

• You have several webcams? You can't stop taking photos of yourself and your friends?The only reason you have USB-Ports is to attach Webcams?With Cheese, you now can switch between your installed webcams with just one click! Just open the shiny new preference dialog and choose your favored webcam. You can also set theresolution of your webcam there! But there is more! You can also configure webcam settings, such as the brightness, contrast and much more! Now get all your webcams out of your locker, attach them to your computer and play with them!

Share your Photos and Videos

• Finished taking photos and movies? Then go ahead and share your files with your friends and family! You can export them toF-Spot, put them on Flickr, mail them or use them as your account photo in GNOME. You can also save them to your disk to do anything you want with them... the possibilities are endless! With nautilus-sendto installed, you even have further possibilities to share your photos and movies! Cheese makes it super easy to share your photos and videos.

OpenFX

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OpenFX is an Open-Source 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite. It is completely compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

What can OpenFX do?

A powerful feature-set includes a full renderer and raytrace engine, NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, and an extensive plugin API.

Plugin capabilities include :

• Image Post Processor Effects :

• Blur: Blurs the screen to simulate Motion Blur.
• Depth of Field: Simulates photographic depth of field.
• Filter: Changes the color of all pixels after the rendering is complete.
• Lens Flare: Simulates the effects of lights flaring in the lens of a camera.
• Fog: Simulates fog and haze.
• Glow: Adds a glow to any pixels with a key color.
• Halo: Adds a halo around lights.
• Hilite: Adds a hilite for lights.
• Lasers: Simulates the appearance of a laser beam.
• Starfield: Generates a scrolling starfield.
• Stars: Creates the effect of a starfield in an animation.
• SuperNova: Simulates the effect of a star going supernova.
• Trails: Leaves a trail behind for all models that move in a animation.
• Video: Offers 24 different video effects.
• Xvideo: Offers 26 additional different video effects.

• There are also two special image processors.

• Fireballs: This plugin XFX image processor adds the capability to generate fractal fireballs and explosions. This is an animated XFX image processor and its appearance changes over a range of frames. Therefore, although it can be added as a global effect, it is best used as an Image Effects (F/X) object (Actor).
• Atmospherics: Allows you to create atmospheric effects such as volumetric lighting, shadowing and fog using a number of configuration options.

• Animation Physical Effects :

• Build Effect: Builds a model towards the camera over a range of frames.
• Buildto Effect: Builds a model face by face from thin air and builds it towards the camera.
• Dissolve Effect: Makes a model become transparent gradually, until it disappears.
• Explode Effect: As you might expect, makes a model explode! You can set the center of the detonation, decide whether the pieces should fall under gravity or not, whether they should tumble, and more.
• Fall Effect: Makes a model fall down under the force of gravity. Thebouncing behavior and elasticity are fully adjustable.
• Flap Effect: A simultaneous combination of the Wave and Modulate effects.
• Modulate Effect: Passes a wave through the specified axis of the model and moves the vertices radially outward.
• Shake Effect: Makes the model shake from its bottom to its top.
• Spring Effect: Makes an actor with a costume compress inward upon itself and then fling off at high speed.
• Squash Effect: Compresses or expands an actor's costume in a specified direction. Unlike a simple scaling motion, the Squash effect causes the model to bulge outward, like a rubber ball.
• Twist Effect: Twists or untwists an actor's costume around the specified axis.
• Unbuild Effect: Takes the model apart face-by-face until nothing remains.
• Warp Effect: Makes a model warp out of view or into view.
• Wave Effect: Makes a model undulate under the force of a wave.

Adobe SWF Investigator

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Adobe® SWF Investigator is the only comprehensive, cross-platform, GUI-based set of tools, which enables quality engineers, developers and security researchers to quickly analyze SWF files to improve the quality and security of their applications. With SWF Investigator, we can perform both static and dynamic analysis of SWF applications with just one toolset. SWF Investigator lets you quickly inspect every aspect of a SWF file from viewing the individual bits all the way through to dynamically interacting with a running SWF.

Features : 

• From a static perspective, we can disassemble ActionScript 2 (AS2) and ActionScript 3 (AS3) SWFs, view SWF tags and make binary changes to SWF files. SWF Investigator also lets you view associated information, including local shared objects (LSOs) and per site settings.
• From a dynamic perspective, we can call functions within the SWF, load the SWF in various contexts, communicate via local connections and send messages to Action Message Format (AMF) endpoints in order to test more effectively.
• SWF Investigator contains an extensible fuzzer for SWF applications and AMF services, so you can search for common Web application attacks. This toolset also provides a variety of utilities including encoders and decoders for SWF data, as well as a basic compiler for testing small pieces of Action-Script code.

Additional Benefits :

• SWF Investigator is the only application of its kind that's built on Adobe AIR – a versatile runtime that supports ActionScript, the language used tocreate SWF applications.  This allows for native interaction between the SWF Investigator and the SWF application. Using ActionScript also makes the source code of the tool more intuitive for SWF developers.
• SWF Investigator has the ability toauto-update, so you don't need toworry about whether or not you have the most current version.
• Since it's an open source AIR application, SWF Investigator can be modified to fit your environment, and it is cross-platform.

Rhythmbox

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Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple'siTunes. It isfree software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework, or the Xine framework.

Rhythmbox has a number of features, including :

• Easy to use music browser
• Searching and sorting
• Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
• Internet Radio support
• Playlists

Plugins :

Rhythmbox plugins are external pieces of code that can be loaded to provide extra functionality that is not found in the normal "vanilla" Rhythmbox. Plugins can do basically everything that Rhythmbox itself could do, and in fact some "core" features like Audio CD support and Internet Radio are actually plugins (although not displayed to users as such).

Flex SDK

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Flex is a highly productive,open source application framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and devices. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns suitable for developers from many backgrounds.Flex applications run in the ubiquitous Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe® AIR™. We can use the Flex SDK to create a wide range of highly interactive, expressive applications.

Audacity

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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages. We can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Features :

Recording :

• Device Toolbar manages multiple input and output devices.
• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during and after recording. Clipping can be displayed in the waveform or in a label track.
• Record from microphone, line input, USB/Firewire devices and others.
• Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by choosing "Windows WASAPI" host in Device Toolbar then a "loopback" input.
• Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording features.
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
• Record at very low latencies on supported devices on Linux by using Audacity with JACK.
• Record at sample rates up to 192,000 Hz (subject to appropriate hardware and host selection). Up to 384,000 Hz is supported for appropriate high-resolution devices on Mac OS X and Linux.
• Record at 24-bit depth on Windows (using Windows WASAPI host), Mac OS X or Linux (using ALSA or JACK host).
• Record multiple channels at once (subject to appropriate hardware).
• Import and Export
• Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Fast "On-Demand" import of WAV or AIFF files (letting you start work with the files almost immediately) if read directly from source.
• Import and export all formats supported by libsndfile such as GSM 6.10, 32-bit and 64-bit float WAV and U/A-Law.
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) using libmad.
• Import raw (headerless) audio files using the "Import Raw" command.
• Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to audio CD.
• Export MP3 files with the optional LAME encoder library.
• Import and export AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC) and WMA with the optional FFmpeg library (this also supports import of audio from video files).

Sound Quality :

• Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit (floating point) samples (the latter preserves samples in excess of full scale).
• Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
• Tracks with different sample rates or formats are converted automatically in real time.

Editing :

• Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete.
• Unlimited sequential Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
• Edit and mix large numbers of tracks.
• Multiple clips are allowed per track.
• Label tracks with selectable Sync-Lock Tracks feature for keeping tracks and labels synchronized.
• Draw Tool to alter individual sample points.
• Envelope Tool to fade the volume up or down smoothly.
• Automatic Crash Recovery in the event of abnormal program termination.

Accessibility :

• Tracks and selections can be fully manipulated using the keyboard.
• Large range of keyboard shortcuts.
• Excellent support for JAWS, NVDA and other screen readers on Windows, and for VoiceOver on Mac.

Effects :

• Change the pitch without altering the tempo (or vice-versa).
• Remove static, hiss, hum or other constant background noises.
• Alter frequencies with Equalization, Bass and Treble, High/Low Pass and Notch Filter effects.
• Adjust volume with Compressor, Amplify, Normalize, Fade In/Fade Out and Adjustable Fade effects.
• Remove Vocals from suitable stereo tracks.
• Create voice-overs for podcasts or DJ sets using Auto Duck effect.
• Other built-in effects include:
  • Echo
  • Paul-stretch(extreme stretch)
  • Phaser
  • Reverb
  • Reverse
  • Truncate Silence
  • Wahwah
• Run "Chains" of effects on a project or multiple files in Batch Processing mode.

Plug-ins :

• Support for LADSPA, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit effect plug-ins.
• Effects written in the Nyquist programming language can be easily modified in a text editor - or you can even write your own plug-in.

Analysis :

• Spectrogram view modes for visualizing frequencies.
• "Plot Spectrum" command for detailed frequency analysis.
• "Sample Data Export" for exporting a file containing amplitude values for each sample in the selection.
• Contrast Analysis for analyzing average rms volume differences between foreground speech and background music.
• Support for adding VAMP analysis plug-ins.