Dream Studio contains all the apps you need to create stunning graphics, captivating videos, inspiring music, and professional websites. Available as a free download, Dream Studio can be run directly from DVD, installed to your hard-drive, or even installed onto a USB Flash drive, for the ultimate in portability! Here is a list of just some of the included software:
Cinelerra – a powerful non-linear video editor comparable to leading solutions like Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas, or Adobe Premiere. Cinelerra contains more than 30 visual effects like motion tracking and chromakey, and supports both keyframing and nested sequences.
Ardour – a professional digital audio workstation designed to replace offerings such as Digidesign Pro Tools, Steinberg’s Cubase/Nuendo, Apple’s Logic, and Sonar. Ardour features unlimited tracks, unlimited undo, and routing to and from any sound source. Ardour comes with support for many different plugin formats, and Dream Studio’s version comes with close to 200 plugins/effects including pitch correction, triggers, compression, eq, reverb, and more. Dream Studio also supports VST plugins.
Blender – a free 3D graphics application, similar to 3DS Max and Maya, that can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, including video games, animated film, or visual effects.
Inkscape – vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.
Scribus – professional page layout, akin to Quark Xpress, Adobe Indesign, or Microsoft Publisher, with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Darktable – a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers similar to Adobe Lighroom: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable. it also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) – a raster graphics editor with features similar to Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool. In addition to free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image work-flow steps such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the gif format. At present, GIMP is usable for amateur or professional work with images intended for viewing on monitors and printing on ink-jet printers.
Kompozer – a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding, and is a complete alternative to such commercial offerings as Adobe Dreamweaver and Apple iWeb.
Bombono – a DVD authoring program Brasero – a CD/DVD burning application
Dream Studio also includes drum machines like Hydrogen (including several drum kits), samplers such as QSampler and SooperLooper, close to one hundred software synthesizers including Bristol and Zynaddsubfx, format conversion utilities like WinFF and SoundConverter, an audio mastering suite (JAMin), and much, much more. Not only that, but Dream Studio comes standard with the following applications for day-to-day work: Firefox web browser, LibreOffice office suite (can read and write Microsoft Office formats) Thunderbird mail, addressbook and calendaring (compatible with Microsoft Outlook) Tomboy note taking Click here to take a quick screenshot tour of Dream Studio, or here to download a copy for yourself.
Dream Studio is based on Ubuntu Gnu/Linux. This project aims to be:
1. Simple – To this end we aim to stay as close to stock Ubuntu as possible. This not only allows users to install software from the standard repos and ppas without hassle, but also to find solutions to problems through Ubuntuforums, the Ubuntu manual, and the entire Ubuntu community, as opposed to multimedia distributions such as AVLinux and Dyne:bolic. In addition, we add features such as pulseaudio->jack integration. This goal, in fact, is the reasoning behind naming this distribution Dream Studio: those who know what Ubuntu, Gnu, Linux, GPL, and FOSS are, will quickly find information on these things as they relate to Dream Studio. The new user, however, need not learn these cryptic phrases in order to begin creating.
2. Stable – Although Dream Studio may make comparisons with other distributions, we do hold them in the highest esteem. For this reason, we make use of the most functional, up-to-date packages that the Open Source ecosystem has to offer, such as those you will find in UbuntuStudio, KXStudio, AVLinux, and the Akirad project.
3. Stunning – Dream Studio builds on Ubuntu’s goal of aesthetic beauty, and pushes it further. Unlike distributions like UbuntuStudio (which features a theme quite dissimilar to stock Ubuntu) and KXStudio (which is based on KDE rather than Gnome – which some would say is less polished, on Ubuntu at least), Dream will always base our default themes on those of stock Ubuntu, albeit usually with less coloring (orange in its current iteration). Not only that, but we include custom UI themes for applications such as Cinelerra and Ardour, making them appear more integrated with the rest of the desktop. We would like to thank Canonical (Ubuntu), Paul Davis (Ardour), the UbuntuStudio team, falktx (KXStudio), GMaq (AVLinux), Paolo Rampiro (Akirad project), the Cinepaint team, the GNU project, Linus Torvalds (Linux), Deviantdark (hydroxygen iconset), and everyone else whose contributions to open source have made this release possible.
Hello-hopefully this multimedia distro will be less buggy than Ubuntu Studio especially the 12,10 version.HECk I find noting more frustrating than getting a book on music and then the audio CD in WAV files is not recognized or the DVD will not work(it self starts when in Windows).
Last time I had to pay a techie $10 to convert the files to MP3 of a DVD
Yours,rey…
Note-If you own musical instrument hardware the upgrade is very unfriendly to Linux.All them files come in setup.exe.As I only have Linux so more cash to the pc techie
Could you find a simple solution to this ?(ex-if you have a workstation,electronic drum pad etc..)bad news if you are only on Linux..
The reason you can’t play a DVD is that you don’t have libdvdcss3, which is actually illegal for us distributors to include. As long as it’s legal for you to use, though, here are the instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
As far as hardware, this issue is different for every case. 90% of the time, the reason you get an *.exe at all is just to install device drivers, which on Linux are built into the kernel. Dream Studio keeps very up to date as far as support for audio hardware (both standard and firewire), so that usually if it’s going to work with Linux, all you have to do is plug it in. Of course, some things don’t work (just as some things don’t work on Windows or MacOSX), but that’s why you should always research before you buy something. Personally, I use a Samson C03U USB condenser microphone, a Line6 PodX3 guitar effects pedal, an M-audio Delta1010LT multichannel soundcard, and a generic set of “Rock Band” Drums (yes, the video game drumset). All these products have worked out of the box (I didn’t have to install anything, even though they all came with CDs that had installation *.exe files on them).
Also, Wav files are different from audio CDs (though they show up the same in windows – this is a trick), though both are fully supported not only in Dream Studio and Ubuntu Studio, but stock Ubuntu as well.
Happy recording!
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You should offer at least basic free support for download and installation issues or at least some documentation- what is the actual file size? why cant we FTP the actual ISO image? I have tried the download 32 and 64 bit several times and when I boot from the DVD I get a ton of bad sector errors. When it works it’s way through all that, none of the menu items do anything but they say NO TEXT!…
I know the drive works because I had no issues with the AV Linux and KXStudio installs. all of which happened today- am checking them all out. My internet service is pretty stable so I doubt it is them. I noticed the window installer is unable to detect the ext3 and swap partitions- probably because it relies on windows. Kinda week there…
Sorry, but without ANY form of install support or installation documentation I cant justify spending any more time on trying it out. Too bad, as it sounded like a good combo of software. Good luck.
Check the forums for free support (as mentioned on our support page). Specifically, here’s a link to a forum issue directly related to yours: http://www.dickmacinnis.com/dreamstudio/dream-studio-officially-launches-new-services/
A checksum is the official way to check for errors. Here’s a link to some directions on how to use one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum
Of course, the easiest way to avoid errors is to use a torrent to download the file you want (they’re available from the downloads page). When you use a torrent file to download the Dream Studio installation image, a checksum is performed while you download, and again when the download is done, making sure that the copy you got is exactly the same as the one on our webiste. In addition, our newest torrent files include a “webseed”, so that you don’t get the usual perfomance loss from using a torrent with few seeders. When you download our torrents, you’re getting a copy from this website, which is made even faster by using torrent peers if they’re available, as well as the aforementioned checksum advantage.
On the documentation side, check out our User Guide. I’d like to add that more video tutorials are coming for basic desktop usage…the new site’s new
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I thought you ought to know there is a problem with the amd64 torrent at Source Forge hosting site. I have tried to load it up to my torrent client several times with new downloads and get the same “cant download torrent” message and my torrent client freezes up. Thanks and I love your OS.
Your neighbor to the South,
Mark
Hmmm…. Just tried it, and it works just fine here (Transmission BT client on Dream Studio). What torrent client and OS are you using? It could be that your client doesn’t support webseeds.
How did you get Kompozer working from an Ubuntu 12.10 base?
Dream Studio is currently based on Ubuntu 12.04. However, if you upgrade your system to 12.10 (or install Dream Studio for Ubuntu 12.04 on Ubuntu 12.10), there are currently packages in Dream Studio’s repos to facilitate a smooth transition wherever possible. That being said, Kompozer has (as you’ve noticed) been removed from Ubuntu 12.10, and as a result, has been dropped as a dependency in the 12.10 versions of Dream Studio’s metapackages. I’m currently looking at two possibilities for the 14.04 cycle regarding this situation:
1. A possible replacement – as HTML5 is the new standard, it will have to support this. I’m considering BlueGriffon, though I’ll look at all available options
2. No HTML editor by default – if a suitable open-source HTML5 replacement can’t be found, I may drop a web editor by default, and allow users to choose their own or use CMS like wordpress.
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