There is a variety of multimedia software available for free for the use of the public in general and the professionals as well. While some of these multimedia software that can be used in your phones as well in the form of apps, whereas some other software is only limited to your laptops.
Media Players
A media player is a software application for playing back multimedia files, including audio and/or video. Most media players can play both audio only and video (with sound), although there are a small number of players that focus one type, known as audio players or video players.
Media players typically use icons, which have their origin in tape recorders and disk players. Typical control buttons include Play, Pause, Stop, Fast Forward, Rewind, and others. Now add in options to control volume, and you have a very intuitive interface that is easy to use.
Most operating systems have a default multimedia player built in. For example, Windows includes Windows Media Player and Mac OS includes QuickTime and iTunes. However, there are many other types of media players. A recent trend is for media players to be integrated with services that provide content.
For example, you can use the media player to connect to online stores for music, movies and TV shows, or you can connect to streaming services. iTunes is one of the most popular of these types of media players, but numerous others have emerged as online media consumption has increased.
AudioSoftware
The software to record and edit audio is often referred to as a digital audio editor. High-end systems for professionals are also called digital audio workstations.
Audio can consist of only spoken text, such as the narration of this video, or include music and other sound effects. A digital audio editor typically contains functions for the following tasks:
• Record audio from a variety of different input sources
• Mix multiple tracks into one output track
• Apply effects, such as noise reduction and equalization, for quality improvement.
• Edit sound clips by cutting out certain parts, switching the order of clips, etc.
• Converting between a variety of different formats
Some of the most widely used audio software applications include Audacity by the Audacity Team, Audition by Adobe, GarageBand by Apple and ProTools by Avid,but there are many others.
VideoSoftware
Video editing software consists of software for the post-production of video editing. The source material is collected by digital video cameras, and this is imported into the software for editing. Most modern video editing software uses a technique known as non-linear editing (NLE).
Before digital video, traditional editing tools for celluloid film consist of cutting and pasting film segments in the linear sequence in which the materials were recorded. In a digital workflow, the raw video material can be imported and broken up in sections known as clips.
These clips can be modified by trimming, splicing and cutting, and then arranged in a new sequence. Typically, a series of clips is laid out in a work area and then dragged into a timeline representing a draft of the final video. Once the editor is happy with result, the series of clips is exported to a new video file.
Video editing is fairly demanded on computer system, video takes up a lot of storage and processing video file takes up a lot of processing power and memory.
Video editing software used to be the domain of professionals on dedicated system, but advances in computer hardware has made video editing much more accessible.
Software specifically aimed at regular consumers now makes it relatively easy to produce professional looking videos.
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