[Gllug] Video Editing in Linux

[Martyn Drake]

On my trip to Cinesite (cool company - lots of seriously nice hardware
and software to play with) I noticed that virtually everything was
produced either by SGI boxes (whether that be modelling/rendering,
colour correction (the Pogle, I believe, uses SGI hardware), NT (spit,
spit) workstations, or in some cases Linux (workstations or a small
render clusters).

Isn't the AVID editing system based around NT/2000, as a matter of
interest?  Are there any decent general UNIX editing systems out there
(IRIX, Solaris or whatever)? 

Anyway, thanks to Will for making available Broadcast 2000 available - I
certainly won't sue them if it goes wrong - I'm only intending to edit
and distribute my wedding video to the family and not make Tomb Raider
II :)

Agreed about pulling back on Broadcast 2000 - it's a shame that in this
day and age of people suing the pants off each other that it's come to
this sort of thing.  But surely the majority of what is being used in
post-production/visual effects experimental software anyway?

Kind regards,

	Martyn

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-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On Behalf
Of John Hearns
Sent: 18 December 2001 10:19
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Video Editing in Linux

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 09:51, Martyn Drake wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> I have seen some mention of various products all over the web and
Usenet
> discussion groups, but I'd like to know if anybody out there is active
> video editing under Linux and can recommend software.
> 

Emmm.... check out my email address. Grin.
Think dinosaurs. And dancing cats who drink Bacardi.
And squirrels who drink Guinness.

Actually, we don't do any editing on Linux.
We have Avid suites.
We also do a lot of work on MAcs, for making quicktimes and the like.

Anyway, the best candidate for your task would have been 
Brodcast 2000 - do a web search for that.
Sadly, the Broadcast 2000 team stopped distributing their software.
They were too afraid of being sued by production houses if there
was ever a bug or a problem which caused loss or damage.
Me, I find that quite sad, but that was a decision they had to make.


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