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PA Arts and Humanities Standard Areas	Grade Level Range	Title	Platform	Facts of Publication	Comments
Production/Exhibition	9,10,11, 12, adult	Zettl's Videolab 2.0	Macintosh /PC		Production and post-production principles of camera, lighting, audio, process and editing are in an interactive format. Learn by doing
Production/Exhibition, Critical Response	9,10,11, 12, adult	Drammatica Pro	Macintosh	Screenplay Systems (800) 487-8679 www.screenplay .com	Drammatica Pro helps the user to take a general story idea and develop it .
Production/Exhibition, Critical Response	9,10,11, 12, adult	Final Draft 5	Macintosh and PC	Final Draft ( 818) 995-2911	Specifically designed for writing movie scripts, TV episodes, and stage plays, it combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained easy-to-use package.
Production/Exhibition, Critical Response	9,10,11, 12, adult	Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000!	Macintosh and PC	ScriptPerfection Enterprises, Inc. San Diego, Californi http://www. scriptthing .com/	Developed by and for working script writers. By handling formatting and page breaks automatically, it frees the writer to concentrate on writing. will even check for common typing and editing errors
Production/Exhibition	7,8,9,10, 11,12, adult	Sound Byte 1.6.0	Macintosh	Black Cat Systems 4708 Trail Court Westminster, MD 21158 Fax: (603) 297-395 http://www. blackcatsystems. com	A playback program that uses the old "cart machine" as a metaphor. Sound Byte allows for multiple carts to be playing at one time, making it an ideal playback program for theatre. It plays cuts in the following formats: AIFF, WAV, AU, and MP3.
Production/Exhibition	7,8,9, 10,11, 12, adult	MegaSeg	Macintosh Download from web site or CD-ROM	sales @megaseg.com, or call 1-877-MEGASEG . Fidelity Media, Inc. One Henson Place, Champaign, IL 61820	A music mixing program that allows you to consolidate all your CD's on the hard drive of your iMac, iBook, PowerMac, or PowerBook computer. You can then segue (mix) between songs for a professional presentation without the need for extra CD players or mixers.
production /exhibition	7,8,9, 10,11, 12, adult	Level Control Systems	Macintosh	130 E. Montecito Ave. #236 Sierra Madre, CA 91024 626.836.0446 phone fax 626.836.4883 sales@LCSaudio .com info@LCSaudio .com	A show control program for live sound engineers. It runs on Macintosh computers. It can send notes to Samplers for sound effects, MIDI program Changes, CD ROM control and it will do fades of level to VCA units, mixers, equalizers, delay lines etc. It can even fade delay times to provide a seamless transition from one delay time to another
Production/Exhibition, Critical Response	9,10,11, 12, adult	Theatre Sequencer	Macintosh
Production/Exhibition	9,10,11, 12, adult	Audio Box	Macintosh and audio box plus AB controller	Richmond Sound Design Ltd. http:// theatre-sound.com/ index.html# callus	"AudioBox" mixes eight external sources and four onboard stereo sources to any of sixteen separate outputs, with variable delay and EQ on all inputs and outputs. And, unlike other DSP products, AudioBox lets you make all changes in real time. Use as a standalone sound generator or as the sound distributor for your Promix01 or other digital or MIDI console.
Production/Exhibition	9,10,11, 12, adult	SndSampler	Macintosh	Zd Net http://www6. zdnet.com/ cgi-bin/texis/swlib/ mac/infomac. html?fcode=MC1 0793	Using SndSampler you can record new sounds, extract sounds from any file or application, edit them, change them and add special effects.
Production/Exhibition	9,10,11, 12, adult	CostumePro	Macintosh or PC	Power Production Software http://www. power production .com/	"CostumePro" Although designed for film and television, this software should prove useful to theatre as well. It provides Breakdown and Budgeting software. CostumePro works with Microsoft's Excel and adds a Custom Menu into Excel's Menu Bar. Breakdown Pages, Script Changes, Budgets and automatic updating makes your job easier.
Production/Exhibition	9,10,11, 12, adult	Lightwright	Macintosh or PC	John McKernon Software http://www. mckernon.com /index.html	A cross between a spreadsheet and a database, designed specifically to manage professional lighting design paperwork. Lightwright understands what designers and electricians do with their paperwork. It knows that dimmers and circuits shouldn't be overloaded, that striplights have more than one color, that color scrollers have a whole series of colors and need a control channel, and that some lights don't use color at all!
Production/Exhibition	9,10,11, 12, adult	"MacLux Pro"	Macintosh	Claude Heintz Design,PO Box 21834 Eugene, OR 97402, Phone (541) 741- 2574, E-mail: info@   macluxpro.com	"MacLux Pro" by Claude Heintiz is a stand-alone application that allows you to draw plots and manage the paperwork with one program. It also allows you to set and preview cues and record and play them back as QuickTime movies. Plots may be printed with any printer and pieced together, or may be exported to a plotter.
Production/Exhibition	9,10,11, 12, adult	"LD Assistant"	Macintosh	Design-Drafting http://www. design-drafting.com/	"LD Assistant" combined with VectorWorks/MiniCad is a complete design solution for the Theatre. It offers a full compliment of 2D & 3D symbols specific for Lighting, Sound , TV Studio, night club, and Set Design.

 Last Update: September 30, 2000