[wellylug] video / Linux

Pedro Worcel pedro at worcel.com
Wed Jan 29 09:23:22 NZDT 2014


Yeah, agreed. Hopefully SteamOS brings the concerns of the gaming community
and the concerns of the Linux gaming community closer together =)


2014-01-28 Simon Smith <mail at simonsmith.geek.nz>

> 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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