Tag: MULTIMEDIA

MediaInfo Mac is a Mac utility for displaying information about audio and video files. Similar to GSpot for Windows, MediaInfo can provide codec information, bit rate, resolution, frame rate, and aspect ratio. The program displays a URL to the codec used (in case you don't have a capable player), and you can export all of the information to a text file. If you open a file in VLC and press Apple+I ...

Getty, the stock image company, has launched a music extension to their popular photo placement products called Soundtrack. Soundtrack, the new Getty music licensing service was developed to give multimedia producers the ability to quickly drop songs in to projects. The service blossomed through the acquisition of a leader in music licensing, Pump Audio, in June and will start things off with ...

An Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed for creative types has been released. Ubuntu Studio was originally due out last month, but some last minute glitches caused the developers to delay the release date by a few weeks. Ubuntu Studio is designed to prove that Linux is just as good as OS X or Windows for creating and manipulating media files. Of course, if you're not an ubergeek, installing ...

The team from Scrapblog is hanging out at the Web 2.0 expo this week, and has some exciting news. Scrapblog, who officially announced their availability on April 2nd, is a way for people to aggregate social media into an online scrapbook. It's a simple drag and drop way to combine photos, videos, audio and text to create really cool multimedia pages, or online scrapbooks. Material can be ...

In just over one week, on March 27th at 3:30 p.m. EST, Adobe will be hosting their special Creative Suite 3 launch event in New York City, and the entire event will be webcast from their website for all the world to see. Alls you got to do is tune into their website at the prescribed time, and then you too will witness firsthand the launch of "the largest software release in Adobe's 25-year ...

While Mac users have iMovie, Windows folks have a less straightforward choice when it comes to novice video editing software. That's the gap Movavi hopes to fill, with its promise of an all-in-one video post-production suite for capturing, converting, editing, and distributing video over the web or for your iPod. Broken up into six miniature applications for each step of the post-production ...

CoreCodec's The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) has long been regarded as one of the best multimedia players for Palm and Windows Mobile devices. But what started off as a free and open source program called BetaPlayer eventually ran into some problems. For example, TCPMP had a reputation for being able to handle pretty much any video you could throw at it, no matter what codecs it used. Of ...

Yes you read that right. Free. DAZ Productions is giving away Bryce 5 for free. (The newest version, Bryce 5.5, still goes for around $100.) Eagle117 tipped us off to this amazing offer from DAZ Productions, and its no hoax. Simply visit the DAZ Bryce special offers page, and visit the corresponding link to securely download the application on Download.com in either Mac or PC format. After ...

One of the only things that keeps some people using a Mac, or even buying Macs for their business, is the whole "Macs are better for graphics/multimedia" mantra. I'll leave that debate for the Digg Holy Wars, but it is definitely interesting to see someone ditch OS X for Linux in an art/design class. Linux is not typically considered tops in this area, and I don't think anyone ...