Related Resources - Software

What are DMS-Related Software Resources?

DMS-related software resources are applications that can assist with digital media-related goals such as computer screen capture, audio editing, network troubleshooting, and video conferencing.

Capture Software

• Camtasia Studio - Captures all screen activity and audio on a PC. Version 4 allows production directly to iPod formats.
• FreeConferenceCall.com - Capture your audio phone conferences as WAV files, free of charge.
• FreeConferencing - Another service for free phone conferencing, plus capture of audio files.
• Microsoft Producer - Free to powerpoint users, this PowerPoint add-on lets you synchronize audio, slides, images, and video.
• MixCast Live - Use this software with Skype to record a Skype call. Price: $12.
• ProfCast - Record enhance podcasts and more.
• Snapz Pro X - Captures all screen activity and audio on a Mac.
  

Digital Media Editing Software

• Audacity - Great free software for audio editing.
• Final Cut Pro - Professional grade software for editing video.
• The Levelator - A great free tool for quickly and easily adjusting levels in your audio files. Must create login for first time users of site.
• Super - A windows GUI for popular converter and encoder suites that will convert from almost any audio/video formats to almost any other audio/video formats.
• Video to Flash - Converts a few of the bigger video formats to flash video. Creates a player and web page to help you post it.

IP Video Conferencing Software

• Polycom PVX - PC
• VCON vPoint HD - PC
• XMeeting - Mac OS X

Networking

• Wireshark - A network protocol analyzer useful for: 1) troubleshooting network problems, including VTC connections, 2) verifying software security, 3) learn about or debug protocols.

Streaming

• Quicktime Broadcaster - Apple's free live streaming application:
  http://www.apple.com/quicktime/broadcaster/
• RealProducer - RealMedia's free application for RealMedia encoding and for the generation of live streams via the Helix Universal Server:
  http://forms.real.com/rnforms/products/tools/producerbasic/index.html
  
• Windows Media Encoder - Microsoft's free utility for encoding files in Windows Media formats and for generating live Windows Media streams:
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

Other

• Audio TX Communicator - Software that allows for high quality transmission of audio over IP or ISDN. Ideal for radio applications.
• Embedded Media HTML Generator - A generator created by the University of California, San Francisco Center for Instructional Technology that will create cut-and-paste-able HTML for media on a web server or streaming server. The generated HTML "embeds" the video into your web page.
• http://www.mediafire.com/ - A large-file drop box like yousendit.com with an unlimited filesize drop and retrieval by URL, web download. Great for sending very large media files.