If you are borrowing equipment for audio recording, here are some tools that you might find helpful.
Free/Open Source Audio Editing Software:
Other Resources and Tutorials:
If you are borrowing equipment for video recording, here are some tools that you might find helpful:
Free/Open source video editing software:
HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. HandBrake is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Other Resources and Tutorials:
If you are borrowing equipment for photography, here are some tools that you might find helpful.
Free/Open source photo editing software:
Paint.NET is an image and photo editing software free for download onto any Windows computer.
Other Resources and Tutorials:
Looking for music, sound effects, videos or images to use in your projects? Try these sites*:
Music:
Sound Effects:
Images or video:
*Please note that each of the sites may have different policies on how you may use their content.
Borrowing the Stream Capture Card, here are some tools that you might find helpful.
Elgato Game Capture Software:
Other Resources and Tutorials:
The Digital Scholarship Commons has a computing area with 12 PC workstations, each with an ultrawide monitor. Use your Pitt computing account to log on. The following software is available on each of these machines:
Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud DC (media creation and editing)
Anaconda 2 (data science platform for python)
ARCGis 10.6 (commercial desktop GIS)
Arduino 1.8.3
Audacity 2.1.3 (open source audio editor)
Blender 2.78 (3D modeling)
Chrome (web browser)
DB Browser for SQLite 3.9.1 (open source relational database manager)
Docker with Hyper-V (software containers)
Fiji (scientific image analysis)
Filemaker Pro 16 (commercial relational database manager)
Firefox (web browser)
Garmin VIRB Edit (360 video editing)
Gephi 0.9.1 (network analysis and visualization)
Git 2.13.3 (source control management)
Github client 3.2.0.0 (source control management
Google Earth Pro 7.3 (global digital map)
JetBrains PyCharm
MALLET 2.0.8 (text analysis / topic modelling)
Microsoft Office Professional 2016 (documents, spreadsheets, presentations)
Nvivo 11 (transcription and qualitative analysis)
Open Refine 2.7(tabular data cleaning)
oXygen 19 (XML creation and editing)
Panopto 5.7 (video platform for teaching and presenting)
PixPro 360 Stitch
Processing 3.3.5 (computational visual design)
Protege (ontology creation and editing)
Putty (SSH client)
Qgis 2.18.2 (open source desktop GIS)
Ricoh Theta SC (360 video capture)
RStudio (data science platform for R)
Sculptris Alpha 6 (3D sculpting)
Looking for some help beyond the user guides? The sections on Audio Production, Video Production, Photography, or the Stream Capture Card may be of interest.