Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: prebuilt tools (long!)
From: Rick Taylor (ricktaylor_AT_speakeasy.net)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2003 - 22:14:54 EEST
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:44:33 +0100
Chris Lyon <chris.lyon_AT_spritenote.co.uk> wrote:
>SGI,used to have a certain degree of usage in 3D special effects but not
>so much nowadays. IfSGI do much in post production it tends to be with
>high end film compositing tools from Discreet Logic, which certainly
>handle audio but very much as second fiddle to their streaming video
>handling.
>Certainly audio research was done with SGI kit, Sox et al, but certainly
>in London the majority of audio work is done with Apple kit.
http://www.sgi.com/industries/media/
>Greg Reddin wrote:
>
>>>Even though Linux has made great strides in becoming an end-user OS
>>>for server and office use lately, it is still a hobby OS as far as
>>>audio, video, graphics etc are concerned. You're not going to have
>>>much success convincing people to use it for media purposes unless
>>>they are eager to get their hands dirty. Many of the DM students
>>>argue constantly over Win vs. Mac and when I tell them I use Linux
>>>I just get this really weird look. (At least from the ones who even
>>>know what Linux is.) I would never convince any of them to try
>>>Linux and I'm not going to try. It has to be something you're
>>>already interested in.
>>>
>>>
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>>I'm probably showing off my inexperience here, but what about SGI? I
>>thought all the Silicon Graphics stuff had been ported to Linux and
>>Linux was becoming the OS of choice for Hollywood DM people who used
>>to rely on SGI because it's Unix-based, and all that. Is that not
>>true?
>>
>>Greg
>>
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