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.

Requirements: OS X 10.1 or later

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.

Requirements: OS X 10.4 or later

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

 

Handbrake - Freeware

HandBrake is a GPL'd multi-platform, multi-threaded 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.

Requirements: OS X 10.5 or later

by: Eric Petit
http://handbrake.fr/

 

Perian - Freeware

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

Requirements: OS X 10.4.7 or later

by: Perian Project
http://perian.org/

 

Periscope - Demo

Modern, simple OS X webcam software for security, fun, stop motion, or time lapse photography! The next generation of web cam software that lets you use your iSight to capture activity and then save or share that image simply and automatically.

Requirements: OS X 10.4.10 or later

by: Freeverse
http://freeverse.com/mac/product/?id=7002

 

Sound Studio 3 - Demo

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

Requirements: OS X 10.4 or later

by: Freeverse
http://freeverse.com/mac/product/?id=5012

 

TunesArt - Freeware

TunesArt offers new features for iTunes: display cover art and track information on your desktop (many themes available), get notification on track change, display bezel notifications on play/pause/next/prev, search your iTunes Library, scrobble to Last.fm, display/edit/download lyrics, and support for Growl notifications.

Requirements: OS X 10.5 or later

by: Jib
http://tunesart.airisgps.fr/index.php?lng=en

 

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.

Requirements: OS X 10.4 or later

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