"Perhaps because of the noisy nature of the production process they are located in the south side of the encircling ring architecture." (Bakersmith Report, 2015, p.37)
This comparison table covers four major categories of digital video software tools. The first categories represent a form of video creation or input: webcam, video-conferencing over the Internet and screen movie recorders (making a digital movie of actions and events on the computer screen). For manipulation, video editors serve as means of already recorded video, allowing the composer to delete, cut, copy and paste. Software for output provides different forms of video-streaming over the Internet, DVD and systems for automated archiving and retrieval.
| Title/Description | Downloadable Demo's | WCU Labs | Tutorials | Reviews | Examples | Books/Etc. | Company | List Cost | Educ. Cost |
Video Camera Sources for Webcam and Microscope Uses |
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| X-Cam from X-10 wireless versions (new frame from every 10 seconds to 2 minutes), 100 foot range | PC World Review | ||||||||
| Irez Video Camcorders (including firewire) | |||||||||
| Scalar Scopes Scope on a Rope and High Resolution digital microscopes, 30x, 50x, 200x, 750x (Mac) | |||||||||
| QX3 - Computer microscope 10x, 60x, 200x power (Win) | |||||||||
| Wireless Videocameras | |||||||||
| Interactive (remote control) webcams | |||||||||
| VideoComm Technologies | |||||||||
| Madspy | |||||||||
Video-ConferencingVideo-conferencing includes software that can manage both the formats of point-to-point and/or more than two participants. |
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| Netmeeting (win) | built-in to Windows 2000 | Office 2000 | features | Reviews | Netmeeting Zone | see bib. | Microsoft | bundled | |
| iVisit peer-to-peer, multiple users without reflector server (Mac/Win) | free download | none |
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none | ICUII | $29 | |
| CUSeeMe and more (Mac/Win) | demos | none | help |
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Successes | none | White Pines |
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| Clearphone connects Mac to Mac, Mac to Win, Win to Win (Mac/Win) | free version | none | manual | Version tracker reviews | none | none | Clearphone | $40 | |
| VideoLink Pro Video conferencing based on H.323v3 standards | see download link | none | none | Version tracker reviews | none | none | Smith Micro Software | $60 | |
Screen Movie Recorders |
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| Cameraman This company appears to have gone under. (Mac/Win) | Yes, see site | Yes/Demo | Training: Cameraman | Macworld, Jan.97 | WebTV | none | Motion Works Group | $69 | |
| Snapz Pro 2 (Mac) | 15 day demo | no | none |
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sample | none | Ambrosia | $40 | |
| Camtasia (Win) | Yes | none | download demo |
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none | none | TechSmith | $149 | |
| ScreenCam (Win) | Yes | none |
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Testimonials | none | none | Lotus | $93 | |
| ScreenWatch (Win) | Yes | none | none | none | none | none | ScreenWatch | $245 | |
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Video Editors |
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| Avid Cinema (Win/Mac) | none | none | Avid's Tutorials |
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Avid's Gallery | none | Avid | $99
$279 w. USB digitizer |
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| VideoShop (Mac) | Download VideoShop v4.5 Demo (Power Mac; 5.36 MB) | Yes v1.0 |
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DV Alternative | Strata's Gallery | STRATAuser Magazine (print) | Strata | $249 | $120 |
| Premiere 5.1 (Win/Mac) | (Version 5.0 available at WCU's Killian 268, Hunter and Belk Labs). | Yes 5.0 |
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Adobe's Gallery |
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Adobe | $600 | |
| After Effects (Win/Mac) | free demo | CATA Lab #3, #4, #5 | Tips |
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Effects Gallery | Adobe | $649 | ||
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none | not in public labs (Comm.Arts Dept.) | Training:
Media 100 Video Editor
Media 100 Worldwide - step-by-step techniques for imagery and animations from a world wide user group. |
Testimonials |
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none | Media 100 by Data Translations | $2000 | |
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K268 Mac/Win |
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Newsgroups which discuss quicktime issues:
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QVT Channels | see bib.
QuickTime Gazette |
Apple | $29.00 | |
| Media Cleaner EZ and Pro (Mac/Win) allows you to easily produce QuickTime, RealSystem G2, Windows Media, still images and audio-only files. | Pro Demo | CATA Lab | EZ Manual | Samples | Terran | ||||
| MovieWorks (Mac)"includes any number of text, picture, graphic, video, voice, music, VR, 3D, button and animation objects. | MovieWorks 4.6 Demo | none |
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Samples | MovieWorks | $99 | ||
| iMovie (Mac) | none | CATA Lab | Title tutorial | Simpson's Review with list of others | iMovie Theater | see bib. | Apple | bundled with iMacDV | |
| CineKit (cross-platform Java tool) CineKit is an integrated set of tools for script writing, visualizing, recording and editing audio and video, creating special effects, adding titles, and presenting movies. | none | none | |||||||
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| Final Cut Pro (Mac) | none |
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FCP Theater | see bib. | Apple | $999 | |
| EditDV, a range of video editors from Digital Origin (Mac/Win) |
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| Visual Communicator Pro (includes step-by-step wizards, templates, royalty-free graphics and music, transitions, a teleprompter, a microphone, and a green backdrop for virtual background replacement effects) | Real | ||||||||
Video-StreamingStreaming media provides a way to send in real-time, audio, video and other multimedia, with no download wait, over the Internet or corporate intranets. Older web server still allows this multimedia to be sent as files which can be played over and over, just like web pages with images, but the entire multimedia file must have been transmitted before it could be used. |
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| Live Channel "a quarter of a million dollar broadcasting system sitting on your desktop" | |||||||||
| Media Site Live | Sonic Foundry Sets Sites | ||||||||
| Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images | |||||||||
| Quicktime TV Player and Server | none | CATA Lab | Developer
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OS-X tutorial |
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The Channels | see bib. | Apple | $499, unlimited # of users; no server licensing fee | |
| Clipstream "the leader in playerless streaming" | |||||||||
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none | none | Real Buyer's Guide | Poll Results 9/99 |
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| Media Player and Server | demo download | none |
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Win-Media | none | Microsoft | ||
| Emblaze OnDemand | none | none | none | PC Week 2/97 | none | none | Geo Interactive | ||
| Sorenson Compressor Site | |||||||||
Video ArchivingVideo archiving began as a simple database with fields that could contain digital video files. Current offerings provide numerous automated services. For example, as the video is played into the system, it breaks the audio into separate files for each clip or scene, digitizes the audio associated with the video for that clip and converts it to text and associates the pieces so that a search of the text with find the video. An editor can then reassemble these pieces to create additional video works that are also stored. Viewers will be able to search the entire video archive which will automatically play the low-quality web at different transmission rates or use the video for high quality professional broadcast. |
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| CONTENTdm handles storage and display of nearly all media types | |||||||||
| SceneCabinet automatically generates video catalogs from a video and more | |||||||||
| Optibase | |||||||||
| Virage, | |||||||||
| Dremedia | |||||||||
| Convera | USGS to offer video archive on the Web | ||||||||
| Grass Valley Group | |||||||||
| Leitch Technology | |||||||||
| Google's Index to Media Servers | |||||||||
| Mediasite Publisher | SonicFoundry.com | ||||||||
DVD AuthoringDigital video can also be stored on DVDs (digital versatile discs or digital video discs). Specialized software converts the digital video into DVD format for use in DVD players. A specialized form is called WebDVD or Enhanced DVD which take advantage of the high speed access to video on DVD from a web page and access to the rest of the Internet within the same window. |
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| iDVD | tutorial search | reviews | examples | books | www.apple.com | iDVD | Froogle | ||
| iDVD Studio Pro (includes Web DVD capacity) | |||||||||
| MyDVD Studio Deluxe | |||||||||
| uLead's DVD authoring products | |||||||||
| DVD Producer | www.sonic.com | ||||||||
| eDVD 3 | PR announcement | ||||||||
| other DVD authoring tools | |||||||||
Video Editor Info
Video tutorials - generic, from Digital Video Live Magazine Videography Online- for video production professionals (searchable back issues) Digital Video Editor Digital Video Magazine ; Search their back issues and site Video and the Moving Image - A CROP resource Digital Video Storage at $3 a blank for 640 MB. Hard to beat. The Movie Makers: Sony PC vs. Apple iMac, PC World List of Demo version video editors for download. Desktop Video from About.com Decoding the Codecs - a need for speed Video Conferencing
Whiteboard netconferencing tool - free; Mac only Internet Conferencing, from About.com List of Videoconferencing software programs Video Streaming
Guide to Streaming Media. Streaming media resources maintained by UNC Center for Instrucational Technology See also the MicroCinema page for "micro-film" that is "now at a desktop near you". QuickTime Webmasters page, advice on posting QuickTime movies to your Web site. To find Internet broadcast of both streaming audio and video in radio and television formats and more, visit the database QuickFlicks, or the broader Yahoo's Index to Internet Broadcasts. Screen Movie Editors
- Screen Movie Capture from About.com
Linux Multimedia
- The Helix community. https://helixcommunity.org/ The Helix community is a collaborative effort among Real, independent developers, and leading companies to extend the Helix DNA™ platform, the first open multi-format platform for digital media creation, delivery and playback.
SMIL
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/ The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for "rich media"/multimedia presentations which integrate streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media type. SMIL is an easy-to-learn HTML-like language, and many SMIL presentations are written using a simple text-editor.
Examples:
DVD
Some 37 different companies offer DVD authoring software programs.
WebDVD
In January, 1999, Microsoft released the WebDVD interface which provides for interconnected between web pages and DVD. It has gone through several updates since this time.
- How do I play DVD video in HTML, PowerPoint, Director, VB, etc.?
- InterActual Technologies www.interactual.com
- SpinWare www.spinware.net
- Microsoft WebDVD Sample
- http://www.stargazedvd.com/webdvd.htm
- OnStage DVD http://www.visiblelight.com/onstage/products/activex/dvd/webdvd.asp
Laserdiscs
Laserdisc production, 30 to 60 minutes on a large format disc, ceased in 1999 in the U.S. and ended completely in 2001 in Japan. Some titles have become collector items and others have been very cheap as DVDs have replaced most titles. DVD generally is a better way to go than laserdiscs.
Laser disc database http://japanld.free.fr/
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