Application Stacks / Application Packages

A note to myself about software packages that work together well. Last update: 2017-09-30

Automated Image Processing & Video Generation

(e.g. used for my image_analytics project)

• (XnView)
• ImageMagick
• EasyBMPtoAVI
• VirtualDub

Video Editing

• CorelVideoStudio (I bought a license...)
• ShotCut
• VSDC Free Video Editor (recent versions, well, rather not)
• XMedia Recode / FormatFactory (no longer, suspicious because of AdWare)

Screen Recording / Screen Casting

• Open Broadcaster (OBS)
• Electa Screen Recorder (with audio)

3D Photo Processing

(e.g. used with my self-made 3D camera set from 2004 and with the Fuji W3 Real 3D camera)

• StereoPhotoMaker / StereoMovieMaker
• EXIFTool / EXIFToolGUI
• XnView

Sheet Music and MIDI

• LilyPond
  • Frescobaldi on ubuntu Linux (desktop)
• MuseScore
• Linux MIDI to audio/WAV tool chain:
  • Timidity
  • mp3enc
• Windows MIDI to audio/WAV tool chain:
  • SyFonOne
  • LoopBe1
  • PLUS Giga Piano SOFT.sf2
• MAM (Music Animation Machine MIDI Player)

Audio / Music

• Melodyne Essential
• Audacity
• MP3 Tag Editor
• Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 legacy; still present on an old WinXP laptop of mine...
• Virtual Audio Cable (re-wire audio output as input)
• Web publishing of audio tracks: Wavesurfer.js

Linux & Windows integration

• VirtualBox (using a bridged network mode, so both the host and client live in the same sub-network)
• Ubuntu server / desktop
• WinSSHFS - https://code.google.com/p/win-sshfs/ (seems to have problems with newer SSH server set ups)
• SFTP NetDrive 2017 for newer SSH server setups

To be continued!