Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS5, is the fifteenth generation in the product line.

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The cross-platform Advene application allows users to easily create comments and analyses of video documents, through the definition of time-aligned annotations and their mobilisation into
automatically-generated or user-written comment views (HTML documents). Annotations can also be used to modify the rendition of the audiovisual document, thus providing virtual montage, captioning, navigation... capabilities. Users can exchange their comments/analyses in the form of Advene packages, independently from the video itself.

A digital asset management system for the storage, management and delivery of raster images, audiovisual content, documents and other resources. The software provides limited eCommerce functionality for use by institutions that wish to use the system to sell digital products. It may be installed in-house on a Windows/Linux/Unix system or hosted on a system operated by the developers.

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• Image versioning
• User-driven rating system
• Automatic generation of thumbnails and preview images

CamStudio is free and open source screencasting software that saves the video as AVI files, though a Flash converter is included.

Captivate is software for recording audio and video of a user's screen. Users can import PowerPoint slides and add rich media, simulations, and quizzes, and publish them to learning management systems that support the SCORM standard.

A digital repository software package that may be used to accept, manage and publish digital objects. It is widely used in academia as a system to manage academic research papers, electronic theses and other distinct digital resources. EPrints offers an extensible plug-in architecture, enabling data processing activities to be tailored to the requirements of the institution.

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HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder

Pro Tools is audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for pictures and video with out havingto use a variety of software.
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• over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins
• over 8 GB of audio loops
• view, edit, arrange and print MIDI data as music notation
• Supports files up to 4 GB

Snapz Pro X allows you to record anything on your computer screen. You can save audio or video as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot that can be shared.