Audio & Video

Applications to edit, enhance and play your movies & music

Audacity - Freeware

Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.

by: The Audacity Developer Team
http://audacity.sourceforge.net

CatDV - Demo

CatDV is a clip logging and cataloging application designed to enhance the productivity of video editors using an existing NLE application.

by: Square Box Systems, Ltd.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk/catdv.html

Handbrake - Freeware

HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.

by: Eric Petit
http://handbrake.m0k.org/

Senuti - Freeware

Senuti is a simple utility that makes transferring songs from an iPod to your computer quick and easy. It reads information from the iTunesDB file located on your iPod in order to quickly retrieve information on all of the songs on your iPod.

by: Whitney Young
http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/

Slick Plugins for iMovie - Free Sampler

Slick Transitions & Effects are the premier plug-ins available for iMovie. This suite of plug-ins provide you with dozens of new tools to spice up your iMovies, while preserving iMovie's simplicity and ease of use

by: Gee Three
http://www.geethree.com/slick/

VLC Media Player - Freeware

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc.) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

by: The VideoLAN Project
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/