Prosumer

Prosumer describes a market segment for video, audio, and other multimedia tools that have features required by professionals, but are still in the price range for hobbyists. Prosumer tools are often used by both smaller businesses and hobbyists often doing professional quality work. In a few cases, like AviSynth, software that's free, and even open source, may be considered prosumer quality.

Examples of Prosumer Software

Adobe Premiere Pro
DVD-Lab Pro
Sony Vegas
Canopus ProCoder
MainConcept Reference
AviSynth

Related software tools

	AC3Tools Pro (Commercial demo) AC3Tools Pro is the complete suite for AC3 files processing that enables to create AC3 files, decode AC3, and extract each channel from an AC3 file into separate files.
	Audacity for MacOS X (Open source) Audacity is a free, open sourced audio editor.
	Audacity for Windows (Open source) Audacity is a free, open sourced audio editor.
	AviSynth (Open source) AviSynth is an extremely powerful frameserver for Windows that allows using VirtualDub and TMPGEnc plugins as well as tons of its own plugins to be added to the frameserving process.
	Cinema Craft Encoder Basic (Trial) (Commercial demo) Cinema Craft Encoder Basic is an affordable, high quality MPEG encoder
	Cinema Craft Encoder SP (CCE) (Shareware) Cinema Craft Encoder SP allows you to directly encode AVI, QuickTime and DV files into DVD or SVCD compliant MPEG-2 streams, or VCD MPEG-1 streams.
	Cinema Craft Encoder SP (CCE) (Commercial demo) Cinema Craft Encoder SP allows you to directly encode AVI, QuickTime and DV files into DVD or SVCD compliant MPEG-2 streams, or VCD MPEG-1 streams.
	DivX for Mac OS X (Shareware) DivX5 for Mac is _the_ official DivX codec for Mac -- it has been developed by DivX Networks, same guys who have developed DivX4 for Win. Excellent MPEG-4 based video codec.
	DivX Pro (Win98/ME) (Shareware) DivX is an extremely popular implementation of the MPEG-4 standard.
	DScaler (Freeware) DScaler is a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation on a projector or computer monitor.
	DVD-lab (Shareware) DVD-lab is a new DVD authoring tool which combines a modern professional interface with easy to use approach and it gives the user freedom to create what they want.
	DVD-lab PRO (Commercial demo) DVD-lab PRO is designed to be flexible and easy, yet powerful and feature packed DVD authoring tool.
	eac3to (Freeware) eac3to is a small commandline utility that converts E-AC3, TrueHD, PCM, DTS-HD and FLAC tracks to AC3/DTS/FLAC and more.
	EAC3to Conversion Utility (Freeware) EAC3to Conversion Utility is a graphical user interface for eac3to.
	Padus Disc Juggler (Shareware) An advanced CD/DVD dublicator and CD-R premastering software