How to Optimize an Open Source New Media 3D Workstation is an affordable new book that outlines how to take an entry-level quad-core 64-bit workstation with no application software on it, and transform it into a powerful multimedia production workstation at ZERO COST, using the world's leading open source software packages. This well-researched book is targeted at readers who want to learn new media production from the ground up, and who want to assemble a complete, professional-level, new media production workstation with which to do this. The target reader for this book is persons interested in learning new media production, but who have no experience with determining what the best software packages to install would be, or how to go about locating, downloading, installing, and configuring a workstation to use these software packages optimally. This valuable book will take any beginning new media developer through this multimedia production workstation optimization process step by step, and at the end of the book, the reader will have a new media 3D workstation containing the very latest and the greatest professional new media content production open source software available anywhere, and which is optimized for a smooth new media content production work process.
Included in this book is detailed information on how to locate, download, install and configure the leading professional open source software including: digital video editing and special effects, digital imaging for digital photography, 3D modeling and 3D animation, audio editing with audio effects, a professional business productivity suite, the leading software development environment, and the work process that is needed to tie them all together into a comprehensive multimedia production workstation. All software used in this book is Free for Commercial Use and easily available via the Internet, so all that one needs to turn their workstation into a Multimedia Super-Workstation is this inexpensive book. Screenshots of each step are included so that the reader has a visual reference for the entire process along the way as it unfolds.
The author uses multimedia workstations assembled via the work-process in this book to do international new media production work for clients world-wide, within his Mind Taffy Design new media management consultancy in the USA. Now, you too can use the exact same software and set-up on your own new media content production projects, and for Free, with zero royalties and no politics. Open Source is the best thing that has happened to computing since the CPU. If you had to buy paid software versions of all of the packages that you will discover via this key book, you would have to pay thousands and thousands. But now you can do it all with a few bucks for this eBook and a quad-core from WalMart, BestBuy or PriceWatch.com for a few hundred! New Media Production is now affordable and available to all digital artisans, no investor required!
Included in this book is detailed information on how to locate, download, install and configure the leading professional open source software including: digital video editing and special effects, digital imaging for digital photography, 3D modeling and 3D animation, audio editing with audio effects, a professional business productivity suite, the leading software development environment, and the work process that is needed to tie them all together into a comprehensive multimedia production workstation. All software used in this book is Free for Commercial Use and easily available via the Internet, so all that one needs to turn their workstation into a Multimedia Super-Workstation is this inexpensive book. Screenshots of each step are included so that the reader has a visual reference for the entire process along the way as it unfolds.
The author uses multimedia workstations assembled via the work-process in this book to do international new media production work for clients world-wide, within his Mind Taffy Design new media management consultancy in the USA. Now, you too can use the exact same software and set-up on your own new media content production projects, and for Free, with zero royalties and no politics. Open Source is the best thing that has happened to computing since the CPU. If you had to buy paid software versions of all of the packages that you will discover via this key book, you would have to pay thousands and thousands. But now you can do it all with a few bucks for this eBook and a quad-core from WalMart, BestBuy or PriceWatch.com for a few hundred! New Media Production is now affordable and available to all digital artisans, no investor required!
