• 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

• darktable > http://www.darktable.org/
• http://www.ubuntuproductivity.com/journal/ubuntu/07/2008/ubuntu-photo-manager-experiment/
• http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/

• http://www.pitivi.org/
• Cinelerra, http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
• 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
• what happened to broadcast 2000 ?!(well, it became http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 ) http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3 (source available → http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/broadcast2000/ )
• 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/

• http://opensourcevfx.org/

• 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/

• streaming audio/video on linux http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6720
• icecast/shoutcast/darwin streming server/ etc+

• 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
• http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel/jmax/en/index.php3
• quick reference http://artengine.ca/jmax/doc/jmax_reference.html
• Supercollider, recently 'opened'-up for MacOS 9 + OsX / linux http://www.audiosynth.com + sourceforge page
• most things are possible with perl. http://www.cpan.org

see: Open Codecs

• ogg http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/docs.html
• xvid, openDivX, 3ivx, Gstreamer etcX+ in ranges of openness/documentaiton
• vp3, thoera,, ogm containers..

• see Free Media Matter

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

http://www.pawfal.org/

Libarynth > Libarynth Web > FreeMediaTools r32 - 24 Nov 2005 - 11:20