Software

Adobe
Provides a range of products for digital media creation and editing, multimedia authoring, and web development. Includes documentation and support for all software.
http://www.adobe.com/

AfterGRASP
Application scripting language and compiler for building animations and other multimedia content. [Windows]
http://www.aftergrasp.com/

AutoPlay Media Studio
Tool for creating AutoPlay menus for Windows CDs from existing multimedia content. Free trial available. [Windows]
http://www.indigorose.com/ams/

Biography Software
Photo album software, that lets you create a software scrapbook of memories.
http://www.biographysoftware.com/

Dazzler Deluxe
A multimedia authoring tool that uses a graphical user interface without any programming necessary.
http://www.dazzlersoft.com/

DemoShield
Software for authoring interactive presentations, AutoRun CD browsers, and e-learning, tutorials and quizzes.
http://www.installshield.com/ds/

Digital Workshop
Producers of graphics and multimedia software including Opus Presenter and Paint Shop Pro. [Windows]
http://www.digitalworkshop.com/

doubleTwist
Windows software to synchronise and convert media files between different portable devices, including the facility to move iTunes files to other mp3 players. Free download, documentation, and FAQs.
http://www.doubletwist.com/

E-Book Systems
Publisher of authoring tools for e-books, online photo albums, and CD shopping carts.
http://www.ebooksys.com/

Emulive Imaging Corporation
Develops and markets an end-to-end e-commerce ready streaming media platform.
http://www.emulive.com/

Flying Popcorn
Animation multimedia authoring tool which provides graphical work environment. Creates multimedia contents with 3d sound effects, images, shapes, text and video files.
http://www.parasys.net

Formula Graphics
Software can use sound and graphic files of a wide variety of formats, has search capabilities and supports database SQL queries through ODBC.
http://www.formulagraphics.com/

Gmedia Music
Graphics language for professionals is a powerful, flexible and fast multimedia development engine. Includes native support for fonts, animations, MP3 and database connections for the Windows OS.
http://www.gmediamusic.com/

Impatica.com
Java-based tool converts Macromedia Director and Microsoft PowerPoint files to web projects. FAQ, user's guide, free trial version.
http://www.impatica.com/

Leadtools
Offers imaging development toolkits supporting color, grayscale, multimedia, vector, document, and medical imaging for a wide range of programming applications.
http://www.leadtools.com/

Magenta MultiMedia Tools
Magenta is a development environment for creating multimedia, e-learning, e-business and Internet applications. Includes documentation center and downloadable tutorials with source files.
http://www.magentammt.com/

Media Semantics
Tools for building rich interactive media content hosted by believable cartoon and 3D characters.
http://www.mediasemantics.com

MediaChance
Windows-based multimedia authoring system creates autorun CD menus, multimedia applications, demos, presentations, and MP3 players as small stand-alone Windows applications.
http://www.mediachance.com/

MediaForge
Developer tool for multimedia authoring. tool for multimedia authoring. Event-driven and object-based. [Windows]
http://www.mediaforge.com/

MediaInfo
Display extended information on media files. Also provides MediaInfo.dll which can be used by third-party software. [GPL]
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

MetaCard
A multimedia authoring tool and GUI development environment for Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/NT, Unix/X11, and Macintosh systems.
http://www.metacard.com/

Miro
A free, open source Internet TV and video player that can automatically download videos from RSS-based channels. Features a built-in BitTorrent client. For Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.
http://www.getmiro.com/

Navarasa Multimedia
Shareware multimedia authoring tool for web and CD-ROM projects. Windows.
http://www.navarasa.de/

NeoBook
Tool for creating Windows multimedia applications, useful for promotional, educational, and training purposes. [Windows]
http://www.neosoftware.com/nbw.html

NeoDezign
Information and resources for using NeoBook, a Windows multimedia development tool. Includes source code, tips and tricks, and discussion.
http://members.tripod.com/~neodezign/

Ovation Studio Pro
Tool for creating professional multimedia applications such as games, storybooks, tutorials, and Computer Based Training (CBT).
http://www.risoftsystems.com/ovation.asp

PlayMo
Publishing tool for interactive video, audio, images, and simulation content, appropriate for online manuals, catalogs, and educational applications. [Windows]
http://www.playmo.com/

PresentWare
Offer CRE:8 to allow the creation of multimedia CD's, Pictacle for image slide shows and screensavers, and LabelCreator-Pro for designing labels.
http://www.presentware.com/

Proce55ing
Open-source environment for learning the fundamentals of electronic art and computer programming.
http://proce55ing.net/

RealNetworks
Downloads, documentation, support, articles, for the popular range of internet media products.
http://www.realnetworks.com/

Simple Star
Offer a number of products to manage images and sound, create slideshows, VCDs, and mix audio. Product information, purchasing, and free trial for download. Windows
http://www.simplestar.com/

Six Mile Creek Systems
Software development company that offers Springboard, an application for sketching and annotating storyboards for film, video, animation, or other dynamic media.
http://6sys.com/

Skunklabs Liquid Media
Presentation and training authoring tool for DirectX. Freeware version and free trial available. [Windows]
http://www.binaryresearch.net/slm.html

Slim Show
Authoring tool for interactive Windows applications, optimized for small file sizes. [Windows]
http://www.pcww.com/web_mat/slimshow.html

StarterFile
Software that enables HTML and other files to be autorun from CD.
http://www.trah.co.uk/starterfile/

StereoMaker
QuickTime utility to generate 3D movies or images for multimedia productions or games. [Macintosh/Windows]
http://www.foundationcompany.com/stereomaker/

Storyspace
A hypertext writing environment designed for large, complex hypertext projects, which can be saved as stand-alone programs or exported to Web.
http://www.eastgate.com/Storyspace.html

ToolBook Users' Web
Categorized links for Asymetrix ToolBook software.
http://www.toolbook.org/

Toxi
Interactive artistic visualisations, codebased motion design, demos, audio-visuals and tools using Processing, Shockwave and Flash. Source code released under Creative Commons License.
http://www.toxi.co.uk/

TurboDemo
Software to allow the creation of demos and tutorials in Flash, Java, EXE and AVI files.
http://www.turbodemo.com/

Visviva Software
Developers of a scriptable multimedia authoring tool supporting object design, 2D and 3D graphics, animation, and hypertext. [Windows]
http://www.visviva.com/

Vuze
A file sharing application by Azureus. Allows downloading of high definition TV, movies and videos from BBC Worldwide, National Geographic, Ministry of Sound and the History Channel.
http://www.vuze.com/

Windows Media
Digital media platform enables the development of applications, creation of multimedia content, and reliable distribution. Downloads, detailed product information, documentation, news.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/