The video editing software market is pretty much split into two categories. There's the real high-end, professional editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro and then you have your dumbed-down home editing suites ...

Long one of the most under-appreciated video editing applications on the market, Sony's Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum is an exhaustive, comprehensive suite of applications that hopefully will reap the level of sales its continual critical ...

As if we needed more proof that effects that were once the sole domain of experts and whizz-kids are now actively in the hands of less experienced users, Morpheus Photo Animation Suite is a powerful yet ...

Roxio's Creator suite has been many people's digital media creation and authoring tool of choice for some time now, and is regularly updated to stay in touch with new developments. The 2009 edition has undergone a ...

One of a steadily-increasing stream of applications set up to tackle this particular task, Magix Movies2Go 3 exists so that you can take your media and crunch it down to a format and size that your ...

With yet another version of the trusty Adobe Photoshop Elements to add to the library, you could be forgiven for thinking that the sole purpose of this release - so relatively close to the launch of ...

The plethora of alternative video and audio formats, and the equal plethora of devices that support differing selections of them, can make the digital multimedia revolution a bit of a headache. Fortunately, meeting the avalanche of ...

A week, as they say, is a long time in politics and a year is an eternity in the software business. There was a time when WinDVD was the PC DVD player of choice, but since ...

Adobe Director is a multimedia design tool for creating all kinds of online media and standalone applications. It can be used for creating applets, games and e-learning programmes in Shockwave, though these can include Flash and ...

Computer Aided Design (CAD) is no longer just about orthogonal projection of nuts and bolts in heavy engineering drawings or the concrete panels of corporate architecture. Lighting, textures and rendering give modern 3D CAD applications a ...

Come version fourteen, you have to suspect that there's not too much else you can add to a program to fundamentally alter the way it works, and the way you interface with it. That proves to ...

Digital Workshop's Opus series has for many years incorporated a range of interactive tools to embellish applications and databases of all shapes and complexities. Each upgrade has been carefully developed in response to user enquiries (for ...

Not so long ago, a decent video camera cost the best part of a grand. Now you can pick one up for a fraction of that price, and moreover even cheap normal cameras and some mobile ...

Corel continues its mixed Roman/Arabic nomenclature with version X4 of the CorelDraw suite. The new release contains the vector drawing program itself, plus Corel Photo-Paint X4 for photo editing, Corel PowerTrace X4 for tracing bitmaps in ...

It perhaps goes without saying that the digital photography revolution has brought us a booming demand for storage space. But there's another alternative to adding ever-larger hard drives to your system, and that's to employ image-centric ...

This sounds like an inspired idea. You take your TomTom GPS navigation system and, when you're on those long hauls down the motorway and you need to keep the kids quiet in the back, you convert ...

There's not a dramatic difference between Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11 and 11.5, as testified by the fact that this new version is available as a free upgrade for those who own the earlier one. That upgrade ...

This image editing package is a cut-down version of its more complex big brother, Painter X. Think of it as a far more budget-priced and user friendly program, with much the same remit: to allow you ...

There's no escaping it. The greeting card industry has convinced us all that no notable occasion - ranging from Christmas, Easter and weddings to Father's Day, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day - can pass without a ...

Painting programs that support natural media - which can simulate painting with watercolours and oils or drawing with charcoal and crayons - are not thick on the ground. Those that cost around £20 are translucently thin. ...