Chapter 1 ■ the Different faCes of Java: Create a Java 9 Development WorkstationOther Open Source New Media Software Packages
There are a significant number of other professional level, open source software packages which I also use in
my new media content production business. I thought it would be nice to let you know about some of these,
in case you had not heard about them. These will add even more power and versatility to the new media
production workstation that you have built up to this point during this chapter. It is important to note that
you have already saved yourself thousands of dollars (or your native unit of currency), which would have
been spent on similar paid content production software packages, during this process of doing all of this
extensive downloading and installing. I guess my motto could be said to be: “do it right the first time, and be
sure to go all the way,” so I will go ahead and tell you about some of the other free, and even about some of
the more approachable (not free, but very affordable) new media content production software packages that
I usually have installed on my 3D content production workstations.
One of the best values in open source software, aside from the DaVinci Resolve package, which used
to cost close to six figures (back in the day), is a business productivity software suite which was acquired
by Oracle after their acquisition of Sun Microsystems and then made open source. Oracle transferred their
OpenOffice software suite over to the popular Apache open source project, just like they are doing currently
with NetBeans 9.
Open Office 4.3 is an entire office productivity software suite, which contains six full-fledged business
productivity software packages! Since your content production agency is actually a full-fledged business
concern, you should probably know about office software, as this is an exceptionally solid open source software
offering. You can find it at: OpenOffice.org, and this popular business software package has been downloaded
by savvy professionals such as yourself over one hundred million times, so, it’s no joke, as they say!
For user interface (UI) design prototyping there’s a free software package called Pencil 2.0.6 from
Evolus.vn which will allow you to easily prototype user interface designs before you create them in Java,
Android or HTML5. The software is located at pencil.evolus.vn and is available for Linux Distros,
Windows 7 and 8.1, and Macintosh OS/X.
A great compliment to the Audacity 2 digital audio editing software is the Rosegarden MIDI sequencing
and music composition and scoring software, which can be used for music composition, and for printing
out your resulting scores for music publishing. Rosegarden is currently being ported from Linux to Windows.
Figure 1-22. Google the words Daz Studio Pro, go to http://www.daz3d.com, and download the latest version of Daz
Studio