Here is my of programs that are absolutely free that everyone should have in their tool box especially if they are doing anything with multimedia.
- Blender 2.62: Enough said for making awesome looking 3D and 2D renders it's a awesome sandwich. And now Cycles adds physically accurate renders, motion tracking for special effects, and BMesh with NGONS (Polygons with other than 3 or 4 sides) and allot of other modeling tools.
Download at: [url="http://www.blender.org/"]http://www.blender.org/
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- Audacity: a free professional grade audio editing program, you can really mix folly like a pro with this software, and it supports industry standard plugs.
Download at: [url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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- cam studio: a free screen capture program with all the features of the professional stuff, works great with no frame dropping on any machine. Make sure you grab the cam codec and select it. Cam codec is a compressor for AVI files that divers 32 bit color depth, no loss compression, and is super fast for no dropped frames.
Download at: [url="http://camstudio.org/"]http://camstudio.org/
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- WinFF: It's FF Mpeg with a GUI. FF Mpeg is a mpeg compression and play back library for converting and playing video in hundreds of format. WinFF adds a easy to use GUI for the converting video function so you don't have to know command line. So you can convert just about any format to any other format with studio quality. WinFF is used in many professional studios and is absolutely free.
Download at: http://winff.org/html_new/