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working with media on GNU/Linux
imaging /graphics
- the gimp http://www.gimp.org
- k3studio http://k3studio.sf.net
- Image Magick http://www.imagemagick.org
- fontforge > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
- vectors with inkscape / Inkscape or http://www.inkscape.org/
- basic dtp with scribus > http://www.scribus.net/
- 3d stuff → http://www.linuxartist.org/3d.php
- blender (back from purgatory) http://www.blender.org/
- see also Blender Notes
photography & image cataloging
- darktable > http://www.darktable.org/
video software
- currently
- openshot
- shotcut
- natron
- previously (possibly ongoing?)
- pitivi http://www.pitivi.org/
- Kino, nonlinear video editing for GnuLinux http://kino.schirmacher.de/
- av file manipulation http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ (contains x86 assembly)
- dvd resources http://dvd.sourceforge.net/
- gstreamer media framework http://www.gstreamer.net/docs/faq.php
- discussion forum http://forums.projectmayo.com/
- video effects (intel only) http://effectv.sourceforge.net/index.html
- broadcast 2000 became cinelerra which branched a few times → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra
- freej video instrument (x86 only) http://freej.dyne.org/
- an overview of free media formats and tools (in french), with links to animation software (amongst others) http://www.lamenagerie.com/boite/
- lives (linux video editing system) for GNU Linux, BSD (maybe OS X ) http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/
visual effects
- Natron
sound software
- overview of sound software for gnu/liNux based on freshmeat.net categories http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/354/
- ecasound, recording + processing software http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/
- multitrack recording
- ardour. http://ardour.sourceforge.net/
- audacity. simple, yet multiplatform/multilingual http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- general links to linux sound software http://www.linuxsound.at/
streams of slight semantic madness
- streaming audio/video on linux http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6720
- icecast/shoutcast/darwin streming server/ etc+
sound programming + dev
- Supercollider, syntheis engine https://supercollider.github.io/ (previously http://www.audiosynth.com + sourceforge page) and various interfaces e.g. rsc, overtone, …
- Tidal / tidalcycles “live coding environment designed for musical improvisation. In particular, it is a domain-specific language embedded in Haskell, focused on the generation and manipulation of audible or visual patterns” > https://tidalcycles.org/
- PD (aka puredata) is a graphical programming environment (see Visual Programming) , often used for rapid the prototyping of sound synthesis. with GEM/Framestein/Gridflow it can also be used for graphics.
- jMax based on the ideas of pd, and it's commercial offshoot, Max/MSP
- quick reference http://artengine.ca/jmax/doc/jmax_reference.html
- most things are possible with perl. http://www.cpan.org
codecs
see: Open Codecs
- xvid, openDivX, 3ivx, Gstreamer etcX+ in ranges of openness/documentaiton
- vp3, thoera,, ogm containers..
source material
discussion / comments
a debian distribution dedicated to providing up-to-date multimedia tools is DeMuDi? (the Debian Multimedia Distribution) http://www.demudi.org
discussion site for artists using linux http://www.linuxartist.org/ which also maintains software lists. see also http://www.linart.net/
have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jahshakafx/ for video editing and effects
Libarynth > Libarynth Web > FreeMediaTools r32 - 24 Nov 2005 - 11:20