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Chapter 25 ✦ Understanding Multimedia ✦ Corel KPT Collection is a suite of products you can use to work with photos, edit them, distort them, and so on. This software costs around 90. ✦ Microsoft Picture It is another photo-editing program you can use to organize and print photos fast. Picture It costs around 50. ✦ ScanSoft’s SuperGoo cost around 25 and enables you to stretch, warp, smear, and oth- erwise distort images. ✦ MGI PhotoSuite, Ulead Photo Impact, Corel Photobook, and Ulead Pick-a-Photo are all picture-editing tools you can try with your images. Creating 3D animations and movies You can subscribe to many Web sites that supply you with animations for your Web site or for other purposes. You can also create your own 3D animations and even more complex ani- mations for playing on your PC, over the network, or on your own Web page by using a pro- gram for 3D animations. ✦ www.newcreations.net supplies click-here icons, zooming cars, animated musical notes, spinning cubes, spinning stars, and many more animations. ✦ www.3dlinks.com is another supplier of animations, and it also features an artist’s gallery of animations where you can show your creations and view others’. If you want to use shareware, there are many programs available for animations. Go to www.shareware.com for information on freeware and shareware programs. ✦ Animated Screen enables you to create 3D objects and manage their behavior, size, and appearance. You can mirror, rotate, change colors, and otherwise edit the objects. ✦ SWiSH is another shareware program that enables you to create Flash animations for a Web site. You can create shapes, text, buttons, and motion paths. You can also use over 150 premade animated effects, such as explosions, 3D spins, waves, and such. ✦ If you want to professionally produce movies and animations, Animation Master is a program that enables you to create characters by using image mapping and modeling for complex organic or mechanical objects. You can make scenery, characters, and various props. You can build libraries of characters and actions that you can reuse over and over. You make movies, design characters, enhance business presentations, and even create 3D storyboards. For information about Animation Master, go to www.hash.com. ✦ GenArts produces Sapphire plug-ins for Discreet Burn. Discreet manufactures a Linux- based background rendering software in which you can use the Sapphire plug-ins. Other professional programs you can use for 3D animation include Strata’s 3Dpro, SoftImage’s XSI, and Curious Labs’ Poser 5 for Mac OS X. Exploring multimedia videos and video editors When you create your own multimedia, you take digital photographs, record videos, and so on. If you want to retouch some photographs or add to your images and sounds, you can use a program to do that. A video editor lets you edit the film you take in ways that are similar to how a professional filmmaker might edit his or her films. You can add animation and sub- titles, cut the frames differently so the focus is on another subject, and more. Many multi- media editors are available in both shareware and full versions. Part VII ✦ Adding to Your Home Network You can start with taking a video yourself. Sony, Ricoh, Panasonic, and many others make dig- ital video records you can connect to your computer and transfer the digital video for editing. ✦ Adobe has many professional video production products, such as Premiere Pro and Encore, for editing videos and DVDs. DVStorm 2 by Canopus is a program that provides real-time editing of video in conjunc- tion with Adobe video production software, such as Premiere Pro and Encore. ✦ 2d3 makes SteadyMove Pro, a plug-in that provides a range of features for stabilizing film and video footage. Exploring music and sound editors In addition to video, your multimedia work might be with music or other recorded sounds. You can find editors to enhance, modify, and otherwise edit the sounds you record or that have been recorded by others. ✦ Kazaa Media Desktop is a workgroup file sharing software application. Kazaa features the ability to search for and download music, playlists, software, video files, docu- ments, and images. You can also use Kazaa to set up and manage music and video playlists. ✦ Morpheus is a file sharing program that is freeware. Morpheus includes enhanced pri- vacy and security to protect your network. It also automatically scans downloaded files with antivirus software to make sure you are protected when downloading digital media, including music, audio, video, films, games, photos, software, and documents. ✦ iMesh is another workgroup file sharing program that enables you to find, download, share, and publish audio and video files, computer games, images, and other docu- ments and files. It is another shareware program that is free for trial and then asks for a small fee if you buy the program. To locate any of the shareware mentioned here, go to www.shareware.com. ✦ Cakewalk Music Software offers Cakewalk Pro Audio for the serious musician. Cakewalk is a Musical Instrument Device Interface MIDI sequencer and digital audio worksta- tion. You can record, edit, process, and mix multitrack audio projects. Cakewalk can record up to 128 tracks of digital audio with up to 256 real-time effects. Depending on your interest in making music, you can spend anywhere from a couple of hun- dred dollars to thousands of dollars on this type of equipment. Examining CDDVD burning If you have a CD-RW or a CD-R drive, you can create your own music, image, or text CDs. You might want to record some favorite tunes on a CD, for example, or store all your family pho- tos on CD. Many applications can help you accomplish your goal. Be careful when recording other people’s music. Most CDs and other recorded music are copyrighted and cannot be recorded legally. Note Note