Multimedia & Design
3D
Agisoft Lens
Agisoft Lens is an automatic lens calibration software, which uses LCD screen as a calibration target. It supports estimation of the full camera calibration matrix, including non-linear distortion coefficients. Estimated calibration parameters can be saved in human readable file format for subsequent use in the software, where precise camera calibration data is required.
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Agisoft StereoScan
Agisoft StereoScan is an easy to use 3D modeling tool for automatic generation of textured 3D models from individual stereo pairs. The stereo pairs are not required to be calibrated or aligned, and can be captured by hand from any generic positions. Based on the close-range photogrammetry methods, StereoScan automatically calibrates the images, including camera positions and lens distortions. Both image alignment and 3D model reconstruction is fully automated.
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Authoring Tools
Sigil
Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format. It is free and open source software under GPLv3. It provide full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16 and full EPUB spec support, WYSIWYG editing, support Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View, include Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each, table of contents editor, perform advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode.
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Ventuz Express
Ventuz Express includes Design, Authoring, Animation and Compositing tools to create state of the art interactive 2D/3D real-time visualizations, installations and presentations. With the Ventuz Express you enter the next level of interactive real-time presentations. This multipurpose design, authoring, and animation program lets you create and design cutting edge interactive 3D real time rendered visualizations without a single line of code.
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Burning
InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
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CAD
DipTrace Free
DipTrace is an affordable PCB design solution with easy-to-learn user interface. DipTrace Free has many features, such as: PCB Layout with powerful autorouter, Schematic Capture, Pattern Editor, Component Editor. DipTrace is the most user friendly software for PCB Designers.
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Codecs
x264 Video Codec
x264 Video Codec is a free library for encoding H264 or AVC video streams. Some key features include CAVLC or CABAC, Multi-references, Intra: all macroblock types (16x16, 8x8, and 4x4 with all predictions), Inter P: all partitions (from 16x16 down to 4x4), Inter B: partitions from 16x16 down to 8x8 (including skip or direct), Rate control: optional VBV, single or multipass ABR, constant quantizer, Scene cut detection, Adaptive B-frame placement, B-frames as references or arbitrary frame order, 8x8, and 4x4 adaptive spatial transform, loss-less mode, custom quantization matrices, parallel encoding of multiple slices, and interlacing.
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StarCodec
StarCodec is a codec pack, an installer of codecs for playing media files, which is distributed for free. You can change audio environment option, video quality option during installation. StarCodec x64 is a version for 64-bit Editions of Windows and include 64-bit codecs for 64-bit Media Players. StarCodec x64 can be installed and used with StarCodec 32-bit version. StarCodec x64 can be used in 64-bit Media Players such as Windows Media Player (x64) or Windows Media Center (x64).
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Windows Essentials Codec Pack
Windows Essentials Codec Pack, or WECP for short, is one of the most comprehensive collection of Media Codecs, Filters, Splitters and other tools that will enable you to play 99% of all the movies, music and flash files you download off the internet. WECP also includes a set of powerful filters that can enhance the video quality as well as audio quality and it comes complete with an automatic update service that will keep your computer up-to-date with the latest software upgrades as soon as they become available.
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MediaCoder
MediaCoder is a free universal media transcoder. It integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools in an elegant and transparent manner into an all-in-one transcoding solution.
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K-Lite Codec Pack 64-bit
This is a bundle of 64-bit DirectShow filters that can be used together with 64-bit players, such as Windows Media Center. This pack can co-exist without problems with the regular (32-bit) K-Lite Codec Pack.
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x64 Components
Windows 7 x64 Codecs. This release is designed to compliment the 32bit codec packages. The installation requires the 32bit codec release to be installed as a prerequisite.
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Fractals
Mandelbulber
Mandelbulber is an experimental application that helps to make rendering 3D Mandelbrot fractals much more accessible. A few of the supported 3D fractals: Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, BulbBox, JuliaBulb, Menger Sponge, Quaternion, Trigonometric, Hypercomplex, and Iterated Function Systems (IFS). All of these can be combined into infinite variations with the ability to hybridize different formulas together.
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Graphics
Picturenaut
Picturenaut is a HDR imaging software that enables you to create High Dynamic Range images from your bracketed exposures. Simply select the input images (at least 3) and the program will blend the exposures into a HDR image with automatic exposure correction, image alignment and optional color balancing. You can then further tweak the result by adjusting the tone mapping to create the effect you are looking for.
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Photivo
Photivo is a free and open source photo processor. It handles your RAW files as well as your bitmap files in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode.
Photivo tries to provide the best algorithms available; even if this implies some redundancy.
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ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
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HD View Utilities
The HD View Utilities are a set of tools that help you create stunning HD View images. This package includes a Photoshop plug-in that enables you to export an HD View Web page or a cross-platform Silverlight Deep Zoom page from within Photoshop. Also included is hdmake, which a simple command-line utility that provides the same function for users who don't own Photoshop.
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Blender
Blender is an open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
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GIMP
GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool, in addition to offering freeform drawing.
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Paint.NET
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows 7 (recommended), or Windows XP SP2, or Windows Vista.
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Digitzer
Digitizer will convert any image into a colorized textual representation of that image.
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Image Editors
Hugin
A powerful software package for creation and processing of panoramic images. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
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PngOptimizer
- Clean your PNG files of useless or wrong information.
- Make your PNG files smaller.
- Convert into PNG other lossless image formats (BMP, GIF, TGA).
- Create PNG screenshots and make them easily available.
- Perform all those tasks in the simpliest and most productive way.
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Image Composite Editor
MS Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats.
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XnConvert
XnConvert is an easy image converter for graphic files, photos and images available on Windows, MacOSX and Linux.
It supports more than 400 file formats (jpeg, tiff, png, gif, camera raw, jpeg2000, WebP, OpenEXR, ...). You can resize, add a watermark, change contrast, brightness or gamma, apply filters and many other things.
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ImageEnhancer
ImageEnhacer is a graphical browser and a simple image editor.
- Support BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, ICO
- Saving in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF
- SlideShow
- Histogram
- Color Correction (contrast, brightness, gamma, color expansion)
- Crop (auto trimming)
- Split
- Sharpen (Unsharp Mask ..)
- Noise reduction (several ways)
- Exif information (this is about expanding information about the origin of photography)
- Multithreads
- Use PFD Layers
- PFD Layers Editor
- And much more...
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ArtSage
ArtSage is a small graphics viewer. It displays the image files (JPG etc.) in a folder tree.
Features and Options:
- Slideshow (slideshow, timer, windowed/fullscreen/wallpaper, stay on top)
- Transparency (blend, opacity)
- Loop (loop/pause/exit, reshuffle)
- Sort (forward/reverse/random, tree/name/date, case sensitive)
- Navigate (next/previous w/gears, first, last, current, next/prev folder, mousewheel)
- Scroll (mouse, arrow keys w/ gears, autoscroll)
- View (exhibit/favorites/desktop/archive, image folder, link target)
- Exhibit (folder, refresh, subfolders, hidden folders, autorefresh)
- Formats (bmp, emf, gif, ico, jpg, png, tif)
- Find (find/filter/exclude, find next, landscape/portrait, bookmark, goto)
- Favorites (send shortcut/copy, favorites folder, shortcut/copy to desktop)
- Archive (move to archive, confirm, archive folder, log)
- Catalog (thumbsize, hide viewer, show on launch)
- Standard Catalog (navigation, sort, find, block recycle/archive/favorite)...
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Image Composite Editor
MS Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution.
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Image Viewers
FSPViewer
FSPViewer is an easy-to-use viewer designed for equirectangular (spherical) panoramic images. The application also features a built-in speed tester. FSPViewer is designed for viewing local (hard-disk, network or CD) high resolution panoramic images at full screen and with very high image quality. It uses advanced interpolation algorithms to show you smooth images without losing sharpness. It supports hotspots so you can create virtual tours.
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ModernView
With ModernView watching or presenting images looks professional and is fun too thanks to a modern graphics card and a simple, consistent and efficient user interface. ModernView can zoom and scroll large images extremely softly and smoothly without delay or compromising image quality (e.g. by reducing resolution or skipping necessary on-the-fly image filtering). It opens all common Windows image formats, offers a full screen mode with full functionality and supports also dual monitors. 2D Scrollbar panning, selection zooming and a magnifier are nice-to-have features as well.
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FastPreview
FastPreview was created in need of a usable 'PicaView' replacement which was discontinued at the time.
It is now a pretty handy tool to display images in a fast manner and is an alternative to the functionality Windows has built-in.
Furthermore people that want to display metadata attached to images will love it.
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MicroDicom
MicroDicom is application for primary processing and preservation of medical images in DICOM format. It is equipped with most common tools for manipulation of DICOM images and it has an intuitive user interface. It also has the advantage of being free for use and accessible to everyone.
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RadiAnt Viewer
Simple, lightweight and efficient freeware DICOM medical image viewer.
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Image Resizers
FreeSizer
FreeSizer is an easy to use tool to quickly create resized copies of your pictures that can be sent by email or uploaded to the web. Simply drag and drop one or more photos into the list, select a resizing profile and click a button! No need to fiddle with height, width and compression settings - FreeSizer comes pre-configured for most popular uses.
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Image Resizer
This is a clone of the Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP - a PowerToy that allows you to right-click on one or more image files in Windows Explorer to resize them.
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Image Thumbnail Generator
SageThumbs
SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer by using Pierre-e Gougelet's GFL library (XnView's author).
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Mystic Thumbs 1.98 (last freeware version)
The definitive image thumbnail generator for Windows Explorer.
MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a seperate application to preview your images.
It is a native Windows Explorer plugin which means you don't have to do anything other than install it. This means you don't have any new interfaces to learn, think about or otherwise deal with.
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Movie Organizers
Double Feature
Double Feature is a simple movie organizer for Windows, designed for small and medium-sized collections. Features:
- Clean and simple interface
- Automatic info
- Search
- Lists and smartlists...
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Photo Albums
jAlbum
JAlbum is a long-time favorite Web album generator. There's no wizard to direct you through the process, but a quick look through the menus will be enough to get you started creating image collections online. To begin, specify the original image folder, set the album-destination folder, select the images, and generate the album - it's really not more complicated than that. Using the integrated FTP client, you can upload your album to your Web site or you can use the integrated Web server to serve your album from your computer.
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Photo Tools
delaboratory
delaboratory is a free software color correction utility. It allows you to modify color/contrast of your photo in a creative way - by peforming non-destructive operations in different colorspaces with floating-point precision per channel.
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AmoK Exif Sorter
AmoK Exif Sorter is the easy but powerful solution for renaming your photos. All pictures of a digital camera can be renamed by AmoK Exif Sorter based on the pictures' metadata (EXIF and IPTC). Meta data are stored in every picture automatically by the camera. The data include information about the date when the picture was taken (year, month, day, hour, second) but also information about camera model, aperture, exposure, picture's size, and many more.
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Video
MCEBuddy
MCEBuddy takes your LARGE Digital Video Recorder recording (and other video) files and makes them small saving you disk space. It also removes commercials and converts your recordings into formats that are usable on other systems and portable devices. It does all of this automatically in the background with a minimum of fuss and little technical knowledge required.
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Motion Man
Motion Man is an open-source video conversion tool that converts video between multiple file formats such as AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG, VOB, WMV, RM, MKV, etc.
Features:
- multiple video conversion (multi-threading)
- multiple video file formats supported (AVI/MOV/FLV/MPEG/VOB/WMV/RM/MKV/etc)
- multiple audio file formats supported (AAC/MP3/WAV/OGG/WMA)
- 25+ video presets for multiple devices
- burn to disc (CD/DVD)
- video playback.
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VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
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FAVC
FAVC is a GUI that enables you to easily make DVDs from video files. It takes one, or more, video files and produces a dvd folder ready to be burned to a dvd disc that should play in any regular dvd player. FAVC uses several pieces of free software to accomplish its task.
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Video Players
PotPlayer
PotPlayer is a comprehensive video and audio player. PotPlayer is a much improved/faster version of KMPlayer, including ffdshow and some other stuff to connect to a Korean-only video/chat network. It supports seamless playback (up to 1000 AVI/WMV/MKV/MPG files at once, mixed containers are allowed), auto-resume on the last 200 opened files, has fully configurable XML skin files and also a D3D exclusive mode.
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Fennec
Fennec is a high quality (64-bit) media player/converter. Now with batch converting, joining, ripping, tag editing + multichannel support, media library, skins, effects... It can play/convert nearly 100 media file formats (inc. ogg, mp3, mpc, mp4, flv..)
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Media Player Classic Home Cinema
Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a free audio and video player for Windows.
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Video Tools
Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
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MediaInfo
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
Information:
- General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
- Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
- Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
- Text: language of subtitle
- Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters.
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DP MediaInfo
Important information about your video and audio files.
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