5 different kinds of software

1. By: Arnold John R. Nunag

2.  Windows Movie Maker is a basic video
creating/editing software included in
Microsoft Windows. It contains features such
as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio
track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New
effects and transitions can be made and
existing ones can be modified using XML code.
Windows Movie Maker is also a basic audio
track editing program. It can apply basic effects
to audio tracks such as fade in or fade out. The
audio tracks can then be exported in the form
of a sound file instead of a video file.

3.  WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data
compression utility developed by Eugene
Roshal, and first released around 1995.[1] It is
one of the few applications that is able to create
RAR archives natively, because the encoding
method is held to be proprietary.
 Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives,
and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE,
UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives.
Future versions of WinRAR are planned to
include 7z creation.

4.  WinRAR supports the following features:
 Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and
unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2,
JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives. Future versions of
WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation.[3]
 The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume
(split) archives.
 Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and
recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged
archives.
 Support for advanced NTFS file system options and
Unicode in file names.
 Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced
Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

5.  Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a
graphics editing program (also known as a
DPP, Desktop Publishing Program) developed
and published by Adobe Systems. It is the
current market leader for commercial bitmap
and image manipulation software, and is the
flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been
described as "an industry standard for graphics
professionals"[1] and was one of the early "killer
applications" on the PC.[2]

6.  Photoshop CS3 is marketed with three main components of
improvement over previous versions: "Work more
productively, edit with unrivalled power, and composite
with breakthrough tools."[7] New features propagating
productivity include streamlined interface, improved
Camera Raw, better control over print options, enhanced
PDF support, and better management with Adobe Bridge.
Editing tools new to CS3 are the Clone Source palette and
nondestructive Smart Filters, and other features such as the
Brightness/Contrast adjustment and Vanishing Point
module were enhanced. The Black and White adjustment
option improves users control over manual grayscale
conversions with a dialog box similar to that of Channel
Mixer. Compositing is assisted with Photoshop's new Quick
Selection and Refine Edge tools and improved.. image
stitching technology.[7]

7.  Photoshop CS4 features additions such as the ability to paint
directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes,
convert gradient maps to 3D objects, add depth to layers
and text, get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing
rendering engine, and enjoy exporting to supported
common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels;
Content-aware scaling (also known as seam carving[9]);
Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options.[10] On 30
April, Adobe released Photoshop CS4 Extended, which
includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 with
the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and
high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop
CS3, Photoshop CS4, is the first 64-bit Photoshop on
consumer computers. (only Windows. The OS-X version is
still 32-bit only)

8.  QuickTime is a multimedia framework
developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling
various formats of digital video, media clips,
sound, text, animation, music, and interactive
panoramic images. It is available for Mac OS
(Mac OS 9, 8, 7, etc.), Mac OS X and Microsoft
Windows operating systems. The latest version
is 7.6.

9.  The included QuickTime Player is limited to only the most basic playback operations
unless the user purchases a QuickTime Pro license key, which Apple sells for US$29.95.
Apple's "ProApplications" (e.g. Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio) come with a free
QuickTime Pro license. Pro keys are specific to the major version of QuickTime for
which they are purchased. The Pro key unlocks additional features of the QuickTime
Player application on Mac OS X or Windows (although most of these can be accessed
simply by using players, video editors or miscellaneous utilities from other sources).[3]
Use of the Pro key does not entail any additional downloads.
 Features enabled by the Pro license include, but are not limited to:
 Editing clips through the Cut, Copy and Paste functions, merging separate audio and
video tracks, and freely placing the video tracks on a virtual canvas with the options of
cropping and rotation.
 Saving and exporting (encoding) to any of the codecs supported by QuickTime.
QuickTime 7 includes presets for exporting video to a video-capable iPod, Apple TV,
and the iPhone.
 Saving existing QuickTime Movies from the web directly to a hard disk drive. This is
often, but not always, either hidden or intentionally blocked in the standard mode. It
should be noted that two options exist for saving movies from a web browser:
 Save As Source - This option will save the embedded video in its original format. (i.e., not limited
to *.mov files.)
 Save As QuickTime Movie - This option will save the embedded video in a *.mov file format no
matter what the original encoding is/was.

10.  Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is
a digital media player and media library
application developed by Microsoft that is used
for playing audio, video and viewing images
on personal computers running the Microsoft
Windows operating system, as well as on
Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.
Editions of Windows Media Player were also
released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but
development of these has since been
discontinued.

11.  Allows the user to connect, share and sync data with portable handheld
devices and game consoles. Media can be optionally transcoded to a
format better suited for the target device, automatically, when
synchronizing.
 Playback of audio, video and pictures, along with fast forward, reverse,
seek and time compression and dilation.
 Supports local playback, streaming playback and progressive downloads.
 Support for any media codec and container format using specific
DirectShow filters.
 Full media management, via the integrated media library, which offers
cataloguing and searching of media. Media can be arranged according to
album, artist, genre, date et al..
 Video Smoothing which upscales frame-rate by interpolating added
frames, in effect giving a smoother playback on low-framerate videos.
 Includes a 10-band graphic equalizer and SRS WOW audio post-
processing system. Windows Media Player can also have attached plug-
ins which process the output audio or video data.

12.  Features a taskbar-mounted Mini mode in which the most common media control buttons
are presented as a toolbar on the Windows taskbar. Flyout windows can display media
information, the active visualization or the video being played back.
 Can use video overlays or VMR surfaces, if the video card supports them. In Windows
XP, it uses VMR7 by default, but can also be made to use the more advanced YUV
mixing mode by enabling the "Use high quality mode" option in Advanced Performance
settings. This turns on deinterlacing, scaling and improved color accuracy. [8]
 Version 11 introduced improved support for DirectX accelerated decoding of WMV
video (DXVA decoding)
 Features integrated CD-burning support for audio as well as data CDs. Data CDs can
have any of the media formats supported by the player. While burning Data CDs, the
media can, optionally, be transcoded into WMA format.
 Audio CDs can be ripped as WMA or WMA 10 Pro at 48, 64, 96, 128, 160 and 192 kbit/s,
WMA lossless (470 to 940 kbit/s), WMA variable bitrate (from 40-75 kbit/s up to 240-355
kbit/s), MP3 at 128, 192, 256 and 320 kbit/s, or uncompressed WAV. 24 bit high-
resolution CDs are also supported, if capable audio hardware is present.
 Information on CDs such as album name, artist and track listings can optionally be
automatically downloaded from the Microsoft Windows Media Database when the CD
is inserted.

13.  Includes intrinsic support for Windows Media codecs which
support multichannel audio at up to 24-bit 192 kHz resolution.
 Can play files in WMA, WAV or MP3 media formats. However, it
will not play MP3 files that contain compressed ID3 headers
("tags"); trying to do so results in a "The input media file is
invalid" error message.
 Supports subtitles and closed-captioning, if present in the media.
 Features "Synchronized Lyrics", by which different lines of lyrics
can be time-stamped, so that they display only at those times.
 Windows Explorer shell integration to add files and playlist to the
Now Playing and other playlists can be controlled from the
Windows Explorer shell itself, via right-click menu.
 Provides an embeddedable ActiveX control for Internet Explorer
so that developers can play Windows Media on web pages.
 A fully featured tag editor was featured in versions 8-11 of WMP,
called the Advanced Tag Editor. However, the feature was not
present in the latest preview version of Windows Media Player 12.