SOFTWARES AND HARDWARES USED IN MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTIONS

  Assignment in Multimedia Arts                     September 16, 2021

3 SOFTWARES AND HARDWARES USED IN MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTIONS

SOFTWARE/HARDWARE USED IN GRAPHIC DESIGNING:

Adobe Photoshop is synonymous with photo editing for graphic designers. It is one of the most popular photo editing software tools in the market in a robust package that offers excellent graphic design capabilities.

Key Features:

• Design Tools: Offers a lot of design tools for both mobile apps and web
• Creative Cloud: Its active synchronization with Adobe Creative Cloud offers a lot of unique features, including Content-Aware Crop, Face-Aware Liquify, Artboards, the Design Space view, synced libraries, a glyph panel, Cloud Documents, touch, and stylus input support, among others.
• User Interface: Adobe is continuously working on delivering a more customizable user interface. It offers several targeted workspace layouts, including Graphic and Web, Motion, 3D, Painting, and Photography, Designer can also create your own custom layout of panels and windows.

Inkscape is a capable free graphic design software that can help designers create scalable graphic designs that won’t stretch or blur during resizing. It’s a user-friendly option for hobbyists or beginners interested in vector drawing.

Features:

• User Experience: For free vector software, the user experience is quite impressive. Designers who are familiar with Adobe tools can efficiently operate Inkscape.
• Regular Updates: Inscape has a robust community of developers that enables it to provide updates and new features regularly. Its latest update has got mesh gradients, a checkerboard background to view transparency more comfortably, improved spray, and measurement tools.
• Free of Cost: It is one of the most robust and capable alternatives to Adobe Illustrator that is available as a free tool.
• Manual Improvement: Users can leverage the open-source code to change the lines of code and enhance or personalize the software as per the requirement.

Adobe Illustrator is more than just a graphic design tool that is perfect for illustrative artwork, page layouts, corporate logos, website mockups, and almost anything else as per the requirement. Moreover, it’s an industry benchmark in vector creation tools.

Features:

• High-customizability: Adobe Illustrator is highly customizable through multiple preset layouts along with other customizability options. Users can leverage the drag and drop feature to move panels anywhere on the screen.
• In-Panel Editing: Its in-panel editing feature allows designers to edit multiple artboards simultaneously to help designers work with more efficiency.
• Highly Compatible: It is highly compatible with numerous devices that have different configurations from Mac and Windows.
• User Interface: Its user interface is highly accessible and customizable. It offers custom viewing and space-saving features to help you work on any machine.

    

SOFTWARE/HARDWARE USED IN ANIMATION:

Visme is a cloud-based, online design tool that lets anyone create animated social media images, infographics, presentations, ads, banners and other visuals.

Features:

• Friendly and intuitive drag-and-drop editor.
• Thousands of animated templates in various categories.
• Customizable pre-animated assets: Characters, illustrations and gestures.
• Animation timeline feature to customize scenes and sync audio.
• 14+ different types of animated charts, graphs and maps.
• Advanced custom animation that can be applied to any object.
• Interactive links, call-to-action buttons and hover effects.

Adobe Animate is a new and improved version of Adobe Flash Professional. The software lets you create interactive vector graphics and 2D animations for videos, ads, games, television and more. You can animate characters, avatars, shapes and other assets using timeline controls.

Features:

• Vector brushes with size, smoothness, pressure and velocity settings.
• Intuitive timeline controls with advanced animation settings.
• Virtual camera feature that lets you add pan, zoom and other effects.
• Synchronize audio with your animations and create audio loops.
• Typekit integration gives you access to premium web fonts.
• Export in Flash, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, SVG and more.

Adobe Character Animator is another one of Adobe’s animation software stack. But unlike Adobe Animate, Character Animator lets you use motion capture to create live animations of your 2D characters. For example, you can create a character in Illustrator or Photoshop, import it into Character Animator, set it up with tags and then animate it using your own facial movements using your webcam.

Features:

• Real-time motion capture and automatic facial tracking.
• Download characters from Creative Cloud Market.
• Integration with Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Move the character’s limbs with your mouse.
• Timeline panel for recording and editing scenes.

SOFTWARE/HARDWARE USED IN FILM PRODUCTIONS:

   

StudioBinder offers diverse, fully integrated and cloud-based film production management tools. Because it’s cloud and todo-based, the features load fast, with collaboration UI built into each tool. It also means no installs, no loading times, and no runtime updates.In this way, it combines the collaborative efficiency of top project management apps (like Basecamp or Asana) with linear, in tool pre-production tasks.

 

Celtx started as a desktop screenwriting tool. But it has since gone online and collected production manager tools like scheduling, budgeting, script breakdown, and shot lists. Celtx generates project documents within the tool. It also includes client approvals, and shareable links to production documents. It’s good for building documents, but its collaboration and sharing functionality are limited.

Dramatify is a web and mobile-based production management solution.

It includes a Facebook-inspired messaging system UI that connects to an email and contact management system.

Its feature set also includes script breakdowns, stripboards, production reports, payroll tools (including time sheets), location management, and more. There are many pricing options that are broken into Pay As You Go and Fixed plans. The pricing depends on how many users you include in each project.