[wellylug] video / Linux

Simon Smith mail at simonsmith.geek.nz
Tue Jan 28 11:52:44 NZDT 2014


Yep, about 80% Linux desktops (Ubuntu 12.04). Weta is helped by being a
test bed for a lot of new technology and having a great development and
tech support crew that interact with suppliers who listen to their concerns.


On 28 January 2014 11:29, E Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

>  re Weta / park road : they have been running Linux based system for ages
> actually.
> Da Vinci for say runs on it... In fact plenty of serious video soft are
> based on Linux.
> Just expensive.
>
> In the opensource world, unfortunately options are limited.
> Openshot is nowhere close to a professional tool (yet). Plenty of effects
> that belong to the garden gnomes cupboard (my opinion here). What is needed
> is serious color correction and temporal denoising not roll over effects.
>
> The only 2 serious ones are Kdenlive (then again ....) because it can cut
> through AVCHD files.
>
> I use Cinelerra. Yes it's not user friendly but not supposed to be anyway.
> Strength ?  a render farm system that allows me to process half a million
> of 1600x1200 RGB Tiff files overnight through NFS and 8 linux boxes without
> EVER crashing.
>
> My 2 cents experience.
>
>
> On 01/28/2014 10:47 AM, Pedro Worcel wrote:
>
>  Might come as a shock, but I recently heard of (in the news) that Weta
> Digital actually uses Linux for most of their video editing and 3d magic
> and other stuff.
>
>  That means that not only they have spectacular editing software, but
> that they have managed to configure two video cards, one normal, and one
> 3d, at the same time!
>
> How impressive is that? I've struggled in the past to install steam to
> play counter strike :P
>
>
> 2014-01-28 Kingsley G. Morse Jr. <kingsley at loaner.com>
>
>> For what it's worth, I recently found that the
>> multimedia packages in Debian's so called
>> "unstable" distribution were good enough for gnash
>> and openshot.
>>
>> Gnash is an open source alternative to flash.
>>
>> OpenShot is a video editor.
>>
>> For what it's worth^2, it seems to me that Linux
>> finally has a usable video editor in OpenShot.
>>
>> I hope that helps,
>> Kingsley
>>
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