Camtasia Studio is a complete application suite to record, edit and share your videos online, on CD or with a portable player. This highly-acclaimed program allows you to create screencasts or video tutorials, and can also be used to prepare presentations. Let’s get a run-down of all the things you can do with Camtasia Studio.

Thanks to the Camtasia Recorder, you can record and save screen captures or webcam broadcasts. We enjoyed playing around with it, adjusting the region size, highlighting cursor movement and setting elements such as time stamps and captions. Depending on what you need to record, you can also choose to hide or show the cursor and disable audio recording.

The production studio is the central piece of the application, from where you’ll be doing your editing. Drag and drop your recorded videos onto the timeline at the bottom of the interface. Camtasia embeds a player in the studio interface and you can constantly replay your production. From the menu on the left side you can choose from a selection of 18 different transitions, many call-outs (effectively bubbles to insert text into your video) or captions. The Zoom-n-Pan feature can be used to focus in on one part of the video in particular and teachers can use the Flash Quiz Survey feature to prepare multiple choice tests for their students. Camtasia Studio also includes an audio editor to simply record a voiceover directly to your video or tweak the audio in your production. Use Menu Maker and Theater to create full table of contents and credits pages.

Once you’re happy with your editing and have everything in place, you can go on to produce. Camtasia will guide you through what codecs to choose or what format to set according to your output, whether for the web, for CD, DVD or a portable player. The output format will also depend on whether your video only consists of slides and screen recordings or if you also have digital footage. Camtasia lets you choose among the industry standards like AVI, Quicktime, Real Media or Windows Media. You’ll be able to batch produce your videos and select smooth scaling to lessen quality loss while resizing videos. Production preview is a great feature to take a quick look at your video and correct mistakes before actually producing it. Finally, Camtasia integrates with Screencast.com, meaning you can post your best videos online and share them with others.

Apart from being a full video suite for your PC, it would be a mistake not to talk about the user-friendly aspect of Camtasia Studio. The program offers a number of tutorials, many of them in video format, to explain the different actions you can undertake. The process from recording to editing and producing is well structured and Camtasia Studio will guide you, even suggesting things such as the output format. Whether you’re out to make screencasts or need a friendly and complete tool to prepare presentations, Camtasia Studio is the application of choice.

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With DVD video recorders and video camera becoming increasingly popular, there's a growing demand for user friendly video editing software that can handle footage from a variety of sources. With MAGIX Movie Edit Pro you can import videos from DVDs that you have recorded directly with your DVD camcorder or TV recordings on your living room DVD recorder. This offers exciting new possibilities to create your own DVDs with your own menus and extras.

The program makes maximum use of your processor cutting and arranging DVD, MPEG, and even HDV recordings. Both the picture composition, and video compression ratios are calculated in the background whilst you get on with some seamless editing. Note however that you'll need a processor of at least 3 GHz or more to reap these benefits in HDV mode.

This program also makes soundtracks a priority with an integrated Soundtrack Maker that enables you to produce your own individual background music. You simply select a style, from classical to action and the music will intelligently follow the "tension curve" that you define. This is a massive bonus in that you don't have to search for suitable music to fit every mood represented in your film although that said, nothing can beat a human touch in that area.

This is an excellent video editor that can handle the demands of even HDV but in a way that makes it fairly simple for all.

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MAGIX Ringtone Maker lets you add some spice to your mobile device by creating your own ringtones and animated pictures. The program is extremely friendly to use. The interface itself is clearly divided in sections to select your media, edit the ringtone and export it. A help guide is easily accessible from the bottom right of the interface and tutorials for specific actions from the menu bar. We were impressed with the advanced editing tools on hand to add effects like distortion, filters or delay. Similarly, the equalizer was very effective at adjusting sounds. If you want to add extra elements, you can also access the extensive Catooh online library from the menu bar. MAGIX Ringtone Maker features a "simulate ringtone" button, quite useful to test your creation before exporting it.

We were also well impressed with the export function. The application provides a list of many mobile manufacturers and models to allow you to export to the format which most corresponds to your device.

Overall, the structure of the interface feels great, especially the timeline view, which really makes it easy to edit your media. We did feel however that some elements, like the media selection part at the top, felt a little bit crowded. It's a shame that you can't resize the interface window. Similarly, the installation process was a bit lengthy.

On the whole though, MAGIX Ringtone Maker is a great application to create and add media to your mobile device, providing a very accessible interface and loads of advanced editing tools.

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The best-selling award winner transforms your photos into dynamic TV events – ready for the big screen and in wide-screen format! Ideal for beginners!

Using 1-click automations you can create slide-shows with cinematic effects, virtual camera movements and personalized background music. Experience your photos on TV, PC or the Internet on your very own Album website.

Top features include:

• Animated DVD menus from your own show motifs
• Flash-Video exporter
• Animated decorative elements
• Look good in every light
• Story Maker
• Audio- + Video Cleaning
• Automatic slide-shows
• Automatic background music

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One way to make your favourite photos more special is to turn them into screensavers. My Screensaver Maker allows you to create a slideshow screensaver based on your favourite photos. Not only that, but it allows you to create a screensaver setup file which you can send to friends and allow them to enjoy the screensaver you've made for them.

Unfortunately, it only supports BMP and JPEG image files although if you want to add a soundtrack, it includes support for WAV, WMA, Mp3's. Once you've loaded your pictures into the interface, there are more than 120 transitional effects. You simply drag and drop images and flash animations into your screensaver sequence. If you've got flash animation skills, you'll also be able to add them to give your screensavers an extra special look.

Once your screensaver is complete, you can output it into either an .EXE or a flash .SWF file. If you want it to be a video, you can turn it into AVI, MPEG, ASF and WMV. If you just want to create a single stand-alone screen saver for your PC only, you can create an .SCR file to add to your control panel.

This is a great tool and a lot of fun but it's a shame that it doesn't support a wider range of image formats as you may find you spend more time converting images than using the program.

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Caraq offers you a fun way to create a personalized avatar that you can use in your favorite IM application or in your blog. The program leads you through several steps in the process of designing the avatar, choosing face expression, skin color, clothes and even the action that will be performed by the character. Once you're done, the avatar will be saved on your PC as a BMP file and also published to the program's website, from where you'll be able to embed it to your blog.

Caraq is very easy to use and features a wide range of items to use on your avatar, although not all of them are free. The program has a currency system (Caraq coins) which you can use to purchase special items. These coins can be acquired in the program's website and there's also ways to obtain some of them for free: for example, if your avatar is viewed more than 100 times.

The official program's webpage acts as a community site for all Caraq users, where you can browse other people's avatars and share yours. Although you can upload your avatar with a guest account (as long as it uses only free items) you'll need to create an user account if you want to use other services.

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Anvsoft Flash Slide Show Maker is a Flash album creator to make animated photo slide show with SWF file as the output format. It transforms your digital photo collection to Macromedia Flash file format ( SWF ) which you can share your memorial moments with your family or friends on your own homepage or website.

With Anvsoft Flash Slide Show Maker, you can easily turn a folder full of still images into a stunning Flash slide show with background music and special transition effects.

Anvsoft Flash Slide Show Maker is extremely user-friendly. Its friendly user interface enables you to create amazing slide shows out of your digital photos with quick and simple steps. No Flash knowledge or programming skills are required. Everyboday can make a flash album in less than 5 minutes.

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Flash Slide Show Maker is a Flash album creator to make animated photo slide shows with SWF as the output format. It transforms your digital photo collection to Macromedia Flash file format (SWF) with which you can share your memorial moments with your family or friends on your own homepage or website.

With ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker, you can easily turn a folder full of still images into a stunning Flash slide show with background music and special transition effects. This Flash slide show software allows you to add nice looking animated slide shows to your website in no time.

ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker is extremely user-friendly. Its friendly user interface enables you to create amazing slide shows out of your digital photos with quick and simple steps. No Flash knowledge or programming skills are required. Everyboday can make a flash album in less than five minutes.

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Have you ever wanted to be able to design computer games, but didn't want to spend countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Then you've come to the right place. Game Maker is a program that allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code. Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun. Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time.

You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3d games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker.

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Animoids are 3D characters that can be built from scratch and used in movies. With this library of characters, behaviors, props, sets, sounds and textures, you can direct your own movie scenes. Animoids has the ability to build 3D models from standard components or work with node points.

Simple tools to animate models are present, and you can create QuickTime Movies of animations.Import work from other 3D programs - 3D-Studio, Lightwave and Wavefront.HAve integration with online art gallery and create own sounds or use our Sound Library to bring animations to life.

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Emote Maker (or EM) is an application that anyone can use to make unique, stylish, customized emoticons. The application has been under creation for over a year and has many features which you can initialise on over 100 assorted emoticon objects!

Emote Maker is probably the first emoticon creation tool to offer a massively advanced amount of effects, you can rotate, flip and even blend colours into all the objects in the program and objects that you import from image files!!

Emote Maker offers many exporting options, you can export your emoticons to be used on your website, chat room, forum, blog, E-Mail or practically anything that allows the use: GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP image files.

The most exciting thing is that you can make animated emoticons with Emote Maker, YES upto 10 frames of animation!! Not only that but Emote Maker has an option to create your animation for you so it runs without you having to combine seperate files afterwards!

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3D Sci-fi Movie maker is a real-time rendering studio, capable of impoting 3DS model files for animation and 3D scene development. There are many types of effects to choose from in order to create many kinds of animated sequences.

Once you have made an animation, you can then write it to an AVI which will be compatible with a whole host of video editing packages, including Microsoft Movie Maker, where you will be able to add sound and music to it.

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Amara Flash Slide show Builder allows you to design compelling animated Flash photo slideshows from your digital camera pictures. Amara Flash Slideshow maker saves your settings. All your personal settings for pictures, URL links, colors, sound etc. ,are automatically loaded the next time you use Amara Flash Slide show builder. But you can also easily change and update them.

Amara Flash Slide Show maker is extremely user-friendly. The user interface guides you through the quick and easy steps and you will understand how it works immediately. No Flash or programming skills are required.

This Flash slide show software allows you to add nice looking animated slide shows to your website in no time!

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With CoffeeCup Button Factory you can make buttons for your site in Flash. Use your own .gif or .jpg images to create custom buttons for your site. Add awesome effects and sounds easy as pie. All this and more makes CoffeeCup Button Factory one of the coolest button makers on the planet. CoffeeCup Button Factory enables you to quickly complete a set of buttons for your site, including graphics and animation effects. Use the included images to create your buttons, or your own customized graphics.

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Create professional looking banner ads, buttons, logos, and web graphics quickly with Banner Maker Pro. By using a wizard like interface, you can create great looking web graphics in just minutes. Simply follow the tabs at the top of the program to go step-by-step in the graphic making process. Many options are available including one step animation, 3d text effects, gradients, and more.

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