Exymen aims towards being a universal cross platform multimedia editor.
The goal is to have one application capable of editing all kinds of media
content, including sound, video, slide presentations and white board content.
The vision shall become true by many developers using Exymen as a rapid
prototyping tool for new media formats and codecs on the one side, and by
many users using Exymen as a free tool for editing media content on the other
side. Exymen's source code is therefore released under the terms and conditions
of the GNU Library General Public License.
Exymen bases on a diploma thesis of computer science (German equivalent
of a Master of Science thesis). The goal was to create a Java based editing
tool for web-streaming lectures produced with the E-Chalk System. The original
task was to design a uniform GUI for the editor and to define data structures
capable of handling all different content types in E-Chalk lectures, which
include sound, video, board content and slide show events. The author then
generalized the problem by providing abstract data structures
that allow handling all kind of time based media. Exymen has an
open API, enabling developers to write plugins that fill the abstract data
structures with different types of formatted content. Exymen has a powerful
and dynamic plugin managing mechanism based on the OSGi standard.
The following screenshots show Exymen editing E-Chalk lectures with the E-Chalk plugins. Click on the pictures to enlarge:
Exymen editing an E-Chalk lecture.
Exymen enhancing an MS P*werp*int presentation with audio and video before making it web viewable.
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Click here to download the developer version.
Exymen is an active open source project. Still, most of the contributions
come from students of the Computer Science
Department of the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
These regularly updated keywords should give you a hint what is currently
being developed and what will be the next steps in the ongoing development
process. However, feel free to contribute anything! We need everybody's
help!