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Recording and Editing audio is a great art and sound engineers would love to have a tool which lets them do anything they would like to on their tune. Audacity is one such tools which brings in smile on any body who would like to play with Audio files. Its easy to use and configure. On top of all this its an OpenSource project released under GPL. This tool has been used in OpenMovie project as mentioned earlier in my post on “Big Buck Bunny”.

(Work environment of Audacity)

Audacity is built on lot many other opensource projects like expat,  OggVorbis, FLAC, LAME, SoundTouch, PortAudio etc which makes it rock solid. Try this out today for a sample audio editing task and you will get addicted to it. Audocious…

Blender Foundation has released its 2nd Open movie “Big Buck Bunny“. Its a short animated film created by “The Peach Project” which follows the “Orange” project’s world’s first open movie “Elephent’s Dream” released in year 2006.

(World’s First Open Movie)

Guess what, these open source movie  projects used open source tools like 3D modeling suite called Blender, GIMP, Audacity as tools.  Blender provided them all assets required for animation studio used for production.

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