Apple

Adobe

Other

Video Editing (pro)

Final Cut Pro

Premiere

Avid Xpress DV

Video Editing (starter)

iMovie

Many applications exist (especially for the PC), but may be either not standardized, well-known, or widely distributed

Video Compression/Encoding

QuickTime Pro

Discreet Cleaner, Equilibrium DeBabelizer, RealNetworks RealVideo, Microsoft Windows Media

DVD Authoring (pro)

DVD Studio Pro

Many applications exist for the PC, but may be either not standardized, well-known, or widely distributed

DVD Authoring (starter)

iDVD

Bias

Apple

Other

Audio Editing

Peak, Deck

Audacity, GoldWave, Syntrillium Cool Edit, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge

Audio Filtering/Cleaning

SoundSoap

Discreet Cleaner

Audio Compression/Encoding

iTunes

Discreet Cleaner

Asset Management

iTunes

Adobe

Macromedia

Apple

Other

Image Editing

Photoshop

Fireworks

Illustration

Illustrator

Freehand

Image Compression/Encoding

Photoshop

Equilibrium DeBabelizer

Asset Management

iPhoto

Extensis Portfolio, Canto Cumulus

Clip Art

Nova Art Explosion

Macromedia

Adobe

Other

Application Development (especially for CD/DVD-ROM and intranet delivery)

Authorware, Director

HyperStudio, programming languages such as C/C++, Java, etc.

Interactive/Dynamic Web Content Development

Flash

LiveMotion

Programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, etc.

Web Site Development

Dreamweaver

GoLive

Server-Side Scripting

ColdFusion

ASP, PHP, .NET, JSP

Database

Access, MySQL, SQL Server