Software

MediaShout (Windows - Commercial)

MediaShout transforms your Windows computer into a complete media-for-ministry delivery console: Play any media at any time, in any order. Instantly.

That's the key. Instant access to more kinds of media than any other presentation software. You can create your presentation more quickly and easily than you ever have been able to in the past. But more importantly, if something changes -it's not a problem. A lyric, Bible verse, video or graphic is just a click away. And you never have to interrupt what is already happening on the screen to do it. Display your texts over full motion backgrounds, add soundtracks, create announcement loops, or use media to add depth of understanding to a message or song. There is no limit to what you can do.

OpenLP (Windows - OpenSource)

Some of the features you'll find in openlp.org 1.0 (from RC4):

  • Add and edit songs.
  • Preview songs, Bible verses and images.
  • Comes with two translations of the Bible - KJV & ASV.
  • Import a Powerpoint presentation (PowerPoint XP/2002 and up required).
  • Present your presentation from within openlp.org.
  • Show videos.
  • Show images.
  • Slide themes, with gradient, image and colour backgrounds, fonts & font effects.
  • Import and export of themes.
  • Saving and opening of Orders of Service.
  • Announcement pop-ups.
  • Custom slides.
  • Multiple Bible verses per slide.
  • Themes set either globally, per Order of Service or per song.
  • Import Bibles from CSV files.
  • Search through all words in every song in database for a certain word or phrase.
  • Search through all words in a book of the Bible for a certain word or phrase.

Free for Churches

Quality free resources for churches and other non-profit Christian ministries... especially resources dealing with Bible Study / Christian Discipleship and with Multi-Media.

Xilisoft DVD Ripper (Windows - Commerical)

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum is multifunctional DVD rip software which can rip DVD to almost all video and audio formats, such as AVI, MPEG4, WMV, DivX, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV, SWF, MP3, WMA, WAV, M4A,  AAC, AC3, etc. The powerful compatibility for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV of Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum enables you to rip DVD to any format they support easily.

Additionally, you can choose any chapter or any segment to get optional DVD audio and video when rip DVD. Customizations of profile and output file size are also supported in the DVD rip software.

GIMP (Windows/LINUX - OpenSource/Free)

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Inkscape (Windows/LINUX - OpenSource/Free)

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Ardour (LINUX - OpenSource/Free)

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms.

Reaper (Windows - Commercial)

REAPER is reasonably priced Windows software for multitrack audio production. REAPER requires no dongle, has no copy protection, and can be evaluated with full functionality.

VirtualDub (Windows - OpenSource/Free)

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.  It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.  VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

dyne:bolic (LINUX - OpenSource/Free)

dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognized most device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb and more; all using only free software! 

Ubuntu Studio (LINUX)

Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

We provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination.

CinePlay (Windows - Free)

Now you only need one multimedia player to view all of your videos offline. Cineplay has freed millions of video viewers from the restraints of video codec limitations. It’s simple drag and drop feature makes it one of the easiest multiple format media players on the market.

CinePlay is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Mac OSX (Intel Version), Linux and supports the following codec's: AVC1, H.263, H.264, XVID ISO MPEG-4, MPEG-1,MPEG-2,WMV-1, WMV- 2, WMV-3, WMP –V7,WMP -V8, WMP -V9, WMA-V2, WMA-V9, DIV3,DX50, DVPP, DV5P,DV-DVC, FLV1 Flash/Sorenson, FLV4.

CineCode (Windows - Free)

CineCode is an offline encoding tool that allows you to convert virtually any file format to flash on your desktop. Just drag and drop any video file into the CineCode application and CineCode will convert the file to flash. It’ that easy!

CineCode is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Mac OSX (Intel Version), Linux and supports the following codec's: AVC1, H.263, H.264, XVID ISO MPEG-4, MPEG-1,MPEG-2,WMV-1, WMV- 2, WMV-3, WMP –V7,WMP -V8, WMP -V9, WMA-V2, WMA-V9, DIV3,DX50, DVPP, DV5P,DV-DVC, FLV1 Flash/Sorenson, FLV4.

K-Lite Codec Pack (Windows - Free)

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files.

SUPER (Windows - OpenSource/Free)

SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. A GUI to FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, mppenc, FFmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn.  If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.

SUPER © "The Player" surpasses any known player by supporting just any Multimedia file format. SUPER © plays files that cannot be played with WMP or even MPC and VLC the advanced Libavcodec based players. SUPER © also plays and saves Internet Media Streams of different protocols ( mms://  rtsp://  http://)

SUPER © "The Encoder" is the fastest and simplest tool to encode full length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation. 

MediaCoder (Windows - Free)

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music - Free)

CLAM is a full-fledged software framework for research and application development in the Audio and Music Domain. It offers a conceptual model as well as tools for the analysis, synthesis and processing of audio signals.