Magic HDR - High Dynamic Range Effects Tool - for Mac

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Adobe After Effects

Adobe Systems Inc. (Free)

Aurora HDR

Aurora HDR is an impressive app that is an excellent option for photographers who are looking to make better HDR images or get started with the process. Aurora HDR’s user interface is crisp and very clean. You can choose from four background colours to work from (the default is the darkest), and the overall learning curve for the app is quite shallow. The histogram that hovers in the top right corner of the user interface is particularly helpful, especially so when making your adjustments. Along with being visually informative, you can also easily create luminosity masks based on the zone system by simply hovering over the histogram and clicking on a zone. As you may be aware, Luminosity masks are useful for making selective edits to your images, which is based around brightness rather than colours, or painted masks. Key Features include: Batch image processing. Advanced HDR tone-mapping adjustments. Tone-mapping technology. Automatic RAW colour noise reduction. Polarizing filter. DNG file support. Radial masking tool. Advanced top and bottom adjustment panel. Zone system for luminosity masks. HSL:Hue-saturation-luminosity tool. Feather and density parameters for layer masks. Image resize and sharpen on export. Blend modes for layers HSL panel. The app runs smoothly and doesn't consume excessive system resources. When working with large RAW files, the image processing is fast, and Aurora HDR runs quite well, handling tone mapping quickly and effectively. Overall, Aurora HDR is a joy to work with for anyone who has the slightest interest in HDR photography. It has a stack of cool features and is not difficult to get to grips with. In fact, within a short period of time you should be able to produce stunning HDR images. Looking for the Windows version of Aurora HDR? Download Here

Keynote

Keynote is an easy to use and yet very powerful presentation software, designed by Apple. The Keynote software provides you with a massive array of tools and effects to ensure your presentations stand out from the crowd. It can be used for home, academic and business presentations. There are over 30 Apple-designed themes to choose from. The visual effects are simply stunning to use. When combined with graphics, transitions and images, you can create high quality presentations with a fresh look. Using Keynote you can create amazing presentations both quickly and easily. The software uses a simple drag and drop interface with a clean and well designed format panel and toolbar. Keynote automatically saves your presentation as you make changes and with iCloud you can access and edit your work from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and iCloud.com. You can import a varied range of media types including; JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, EPS, PDF, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and MOV. When you have created you masterpiece, you can export your presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, QuickTime, HTML and image files. You can then share as Movie to Facebook, Vimeo, and YouTube. Main Features: Get Started Quickly Easy To Use Graphics Tools Cinema Quality Animations Share Your Work Easily As Apple says: Keynote. Your presentation. Totally decked out.

VLC media player

VLC Media Player is the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. Its popularity has been aided by compatibility and codec issues which render competitor media players like QuickTime, itunes and RealPlayer useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy, basic UI and huge array of customization options mean few free media players can match VLC. Flexibility VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other media file formats. For a full list of compatible file formats please click here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads before they finish. Easy to Use VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format. The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player. Advanced Options Don’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. Summary VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org.

iTunes for Mac

iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7. Organize your music into playlists Edit file information Record compact discs Copy files to an iPod or other digital audio player Purchase music and videos on the Internet through the built-in iTunes store Run a visualizer to display graphical effects in time to the music Encode music into a number of different audio formats.

ManyCam

Use your webcam with many applications simultaneously. Use Skype, MSN, Ustream, and many other webcam and audio applications at the same time. You can also do the same with virtual audio sound driver. Add amazing microphone audio effects to your broadcast. Use voice changer technology to disguise your voice for a screencast voice over, make people laugh, or use it to trick your friends and family. ManyCam is also able to make your microphone & headset audio quality sound better than most normal audio drivers. Draw over your video window. Use built in image editing software to draw over or add text to your live video broadcast. Draw over your video while in Skype, Youtube, or any other video software. Just add ManyCam as your video source for any app! Screencast your desktop Record your desktop and save the video to your hard drive. You can also screencast live to live video chat services like Ustream, Justin.tv, Skype, and more. Use ManyCam as your video source on Youtube to record a video of your desktop. Picture in Picture Broadcast "pnp" or picture in picture video with ManyCam. Screencast your desktop while showing yourself in a smaller video window within that window. Picture in picture is useful for video demonstrations on webcam and live shows. Turn your computer into live news studio with ManyCam's pnp feature. Switch between different video sources. Go to the ManyCam Studio Pro tab to quickly switch between video sources. ManyCam Studio Pro allows up to 6 video sources and the ability to cut or slowly transition between different sources. Use the ManyCam pull-down menu in the source window to add another camera, still image, photo snapshot, a pre-recorded video, and even a desktop screencast as your video source. Turn your computer into a Pro live video production studio with ManyCam. Create your own custom webcam effects. Make custom webcam face effects, eye effects, mouth effects, hair effects and any other type of webcam graphic. Share the custom effect with the rest of the ManyCam community or keep it for yourself.

iMovie

Apple iMovie allows you to create stunning HD movies and Hollywood-style trailers. You can browse your video library and easily share your favourite videos. Videos can be imported from external devices and then easily tweaked, re-arranged and edited before you share them or burn them to a DVD. Features include: Option to sort events in the sidebar by date Change the font, size, and color of new titles Double-click a transition in the timeline to adjust its duration Crop and rotate clips in events Add speed effects using the Adjustments Bar Option to smoothly transition in and out of speed effects

DxO Nik Collection for Mac

The Nik Collection for Mac is an array of desktop image editing plug-ins that are now being offered from DxO for free! Nik's Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine apps are all available as a free download. This is a massive saving on the previous $150 price tag. DxO's Nik Collection for Mac focusses on accessibility and ease of use; it is fully compatible with image editing suites such as Aperture, Photoshop, and Lightroom. The Nik Collection for Mac comprises of seven desktop plug-ins, which provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities, ranging from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, through to image sharpening tools that bring out the hidden details in your images. You can also make adjustments to the color and tonality of your images. HDR Efex Pro enables you to create HDR images from a sequence of images or a single shot; Sharpener Pro allows selective sharpening; Dfine allows selective noise reduction; and Color Efex Pro allows colour adjustments, including monochrome conversions and film effects to be applied. Silver Efex Pro is for making black-and-white conversions and Viveza allows you to make selective brightness, contrast and white balance adjustments. This collection is a must for any photographers that need to get their hands on some high quality tools to improve the look and feel of their images, and since DxO are offering The Nik Collection for Mac free, what’s not to like? Looking for the Windows version of DxO Nik Collection for Mac? Download Here

Adobe Flash Player for Mac

Adobe Flash Player for Mac is the high performance, lightweight, highly expressive component that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across various versions of the Mac OS, different browsers, and countless mobile devices. Adobe Flash Player for Mac is an essential component for watching video on the Mac platform. Flash has many new features and continues to be the ubiquitous Web standard; this software is included with all major Web browsers. Adobe Flash Player for Mac supports several data formats including AMF, SWF, XML and JSON. The multimedia formats which are supported by Flash Player include .MP3, .FLV, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG and .RTMP. Other supported features include accelerated graphics rendering, multi-thread video decoding and webcam support for StageVideo. Adobe Flash Player also enables greater privacy controls, utilizing protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS). Key features include: Advanced compression technology and multi-threaded video decoding provides High-quality, Low bandwidth video. Crisp artistic text, utilising an advanced text rendering engine. Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering. Engaging Flash video, content and applications with full screen mode. Real-time dynamic effects consisting of numerous filters for Bevel, Glow, DropShadow, Blur, Displacement Map, Color Matrix, Convolution, Gradient Glow and Gradient Bevel. Blend modes, stroke enhancement and radial gradient. The versatility of Adobe Flash player for Mac is second to none, with animations that can incorporate both text and vector graphics. These animations typically do not take up large amounts of disk space and the contents of Flash animations can also be compressed to reduce their file sizes further. Adobe Flash Player for Mac is available across all major operating systems, tablets, smart phones and browsers, and it can deliver high quality digital content via a powerhouse package.

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Camtasia for Mac

Camtasia Studio for Mac is an all-in-one software solution for screen recording and video editing. It provides a range of powerful tools, so you can create professional, high-quality videos easily. Camtasia Studio for Mac is a fully comprehensive tool that provides everything you need to make professional videos. The interface is very user-friendly, which you'll find easy to navigate, and powerful tools are designed with both beginners and advanced users in mind. Key features include: Screen recorder and webcam. Import images, audio and video files. Multi-track timeline. Transition effects and animations. Voice narration. Add audio and visual effects. Green screen feature. Add interactive elements. Share directly to popular websites. 30-day satisfaction guarantee. With Camtasia Studio for Mac, you can record high-quality screen captures or import image, audio and video files to create professional videos in a few clicks. Reuse transitions, zooms and other effects by simply copying and pasting where you want them on the timeline, or add pre-sets to the library for future use. you can also make use of the powerful editing features including keystroke, enhanced and sketch motion callouts, and a huge range of other effects. The 2018 edition of Camtasia Studio for Mac includes brand new features and performance improvements. This includes customisable intros, outros and lower thirds. It allows you to create multiple themes to keep different styles organised and ready to use on each of your projects. The 2018 edition has also been improved to provide up to 50% faster rendering times, for a smoother experience all around. Overall, Camtasia Studio for Mac is a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for screen recording and video editing. It boasts a userbase of over 14 million users, including some high-profile businesses such as eBay and the American Cancer Society. Join them and try Camtasia Studio for Mac today with a free 30-day trial or buy now for a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. Find the Windows version of Camtasia Studio here.