Do you shoot video and never get time to edit it? Do you find home videos boring? Did you ever try editing video on a computer and found it took far too long? Then, muvee autoProducer could be the answer. With muvee autoProducer you just select video files, choose any music you like, and pick one of the twenty-plus styles provided. In minutes or even seconds muvee autoProducer edits your video, automatically adds transitions and special effects, and gives you a polished production. Email your creations, or burn them onto a VCD and play them back on your DVD player.

MusicMatch Jukebox 6.1
Record, download, organise and play digital music
FREE CD quality mp3 encoding Seamlessly integrated CD burning On-line artists biogs, cover art, album notes, streaming sample clips, with links to other music you'll like if you like the track you're listening to A new music matching feature - find music to match your tastes Auto-update feature - without having to download the whole program The ability to create radio stations based on music from your favorite artist Connection to more than 100,000 free music tracks and videos Stunning visualisations. Download and install direct from the jukebox. The one you musn't miss is G-Force.
MusicMatch is
one of the most versatile jukebox programs on the market.


For more information about all the great features of MusicMatch Jukebox, skins, and visualisations, visit the website at www.musicmatch.com
NEW: Windows Media Player 7

Windows Media Player 7 comprises seven features in a single application: CD player, audio and video player, media jukebox, media guide, Internet radio, portable device music file transfer, and an audio CD burner. These software programs are combined into one easy-to-use application. NOTE: Media Player should NOT be used on computers running Windows 95 or NT4. NOTE: Microsoft will not provide support on this installation. Microsoft website.
FractMus 2000
Create Fractal/Algorithmic music using mathematical algorithms

From chaotic dynamics, fractals, number-theory and cellular automata... Features include: full midi-file support, sixteen independent voices, complete control of midi parameters (instrumentation, voice dynamics, channels, etc), 12 note-generating algorithms, 15 predefined musical scales (with the possibility of creating user-defined ones), 11 predefined note durations (plus user-defined ones), melody manipulation support (inversion, etc), composition assistants (Composition Maker, Randomizer, Transposer,) full online-documentation/help and more.
MicroAngelo 98
Popular icon editor for Win 98

This 30-day evaluation version also features editing of animated cursors and many powerful new features. Check the web site for further details: www.impactsoft.com

ACDSee 3.0 (trial version)
A fast, full-featured image viewer

Includes browser, database, file management and image manipulation tools, all in one. ACDSee 3.0 supports over 40 popular image file formats, as well as ZIP and LZH archives, digital cameras, scanners, photo sharing services, and more! Show your images using the on-screen slide show capabilities of ACDSee 3.0.
IrfanView
Fast freeware image viewer/converter for Windows9x/NT and Windows 2000

Features include: thumbnails, preview option, drag & drop support, slideshow, fast directory view, batch conversion, email option, audio CD player, print option, change color depth, scan support, cut/crop, effects (sharpen, blur, Photoshop filter factory), capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLLs, lossless JPG rotation, plus many hotkeys and command line options. Irfanview is the first graphic viewer with Animated-GIF support and Multiple-ICO support. It's also one of the first graphic viewers with Multipage-TIFF support.
RealProducer 8.0 (gold)
Internet audio and video utility

RealProducer converts your audio and video files or live feeds into RealAudio and RealVideo for the Internet or your intranet. Check out the Real website for more information about this product and RealProducer Plus 7.0.
RealPlayer 8
RealPlayer 8, RealJukebox 2, & RealDownload 4

RealPlayer lets you listen to and view live and pre-recorded clips - sporting events, live TV, radio stations, news, interviews, music, lectures and more. RealJukebox is a personal music management system, which lets you build, manage, and play your digital music library on your PC. Finally, RealDownload accelerates and manages file downloads from the web. You can schedule when to download files, pause and resume, or recover from broken line connections.

 
G-Force 2 (standalone)

G-Force visualizes audio in real-time and exists as a plugin for audio players and as a stand-alone application that accepts "line-in" audio. G-Force features fast anti-aliased effects, thousands of possible effect combinations, savable and scriptable effects, QuickTime services, and unparalleled expandability. If you haven't seen it yet, you're in for a treat.
Ulead PhotoExplorer
Organise & edit photos and share them on the web
You can display photos full size and step through photo collections; print thumbnail indexes or full-sized prints. You can also share photos on the Web in one step via iMira.com; just drag them onto the Drop Spot. View photos in a slide show, send them in E-mail or export them to Web pages. Create color reprints in a wide range of sizes on your color printer. Colorful toolbars and thumbnail images make using program functions easy. Visually browse through many file types.
This banner-ad version of Photo Explorer 6.0 is fully functioning, free software. It never expires. Users also get a free account on iMira.com, Ulead's photo sharing and services Web site.
For support and FAQs, visit: www.ulead.com
Ulead ArtTexture
PhotoShop-compatible plugin

This plugin creates custom textures based on a gradient by combining various textures. Once you have created custom textures, you can build up your own collection in the Library. You can even create GIF animations using multiple textures: Simply drag and drop textures from the samples to the Storyboard. Click Animation to save the thumbnails as a GIF. Open the file in your GIF Animation application to add the finishing touches.
Based on award-winning Ulead PhotoImpact WebExtensions web imaging technology, ArtTexture.Plugin works with Adobe Photoshop 3.x/4.x, JASC Paint Shop Pro 4.1+, Microsoft Image Composer 1.5, Corel Photo Paint 6.0+, and other imaging editors compatible with 32-bit Photoshop Filter and Acquire plugin technology.
NEW: Winamp 2.72
The original Windows MP3 player

Nullsoft Winamp is the ultimate high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT. Winamp supports MP3, CD and other audio formats, more than 5,000 skins and 150 audio visualization and effect plug-ins. Winamp is freeware. Visit www.winamp.com
to find out about the great plug-ins and skins available for Winamp, including some incredible visualisations.
Evolution Audio Lite v1.43 (full version)
MIDI sequencer with audio
Evolution Audio Lite's user friendly graphical interface ensures a fast learning curve, leaving you to concentrate on the most important thing of all; making great music! The On-screen keyboard makes it easy for beginners, especially with its single fingered chord mode. You can even select the PC (QWERTY) keyboard to play and record your music.
Sound Studio Pro v1.02 (trial)
All the features you'd expect from a professional digital recording studio
Sound Studio Pro lets you record and edit up to 25 Stereo Audio tracks along with 1000 MIDI tracks!! It has a 'Virtual Keyboard' with programmable style buttons featuring over 100 professionally arranged styles. It has a Style Editor for creating your own styles. It has audio effects and midi processing effects and supports multiple soundcards. It has support for Video for Windows .AVI files which allows you to compose a soundtrack to your favourite Video clip. Check out Evolution's web site for more info www.evolution.co.uk
Blender (Windows & BeOS)
Powerful cross-platform 3D modelling and animation

Featuring a versatile animation system, contemporary modeling principles, advanced rendering tools, deformation tools, inverse kinematics and an editor for postproduction, Blender can be used to create commercials and other broadcast quality content, as well as multimedia and 3D game content for PCs and game consoles. We have included both the Windows and BeOS version of Blender. The BeOS version can be found in the \software\essentials\blender\ folder on this disc, and is supplied as a compressed TAR file. You should uncompress this (you can use WinZIP, for example) and copy the files to a folder on your hard disk, then install from within BeOS. The Windows version can be copied and unzipped by clicking the link to the right.
Decks
This freeware .mp3 player and mixer for Windows 98 is unusual in that it will allow you to play and mix two .mp3 tracks in real time. Features include pitch controls, speed of playback and volume level controls. You can also overlay .wav samples and "beatmatch" one
song to the other at the touch of a button.
Cdex version 1.3

Cdex is a is utility that can extract digital audio tracks from an audio CD and save them as files on your hard disk. The extracted audio tracks can be stored as WAV or MP3 files. CDex uses Adaptec's ASPI library manager to communicate with the CD-ROM drive, so you should make sure that you have installed the proper ASPI drivers.