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Looks like Sony sells just the authoring software standalone for $39.95. Same one that's in Movie Studio Suite. But having played with Sonic Scenarist, and worked with DVD Studio Pro, I don't know if I could handle using something at the iDVD level with basic themes and graphics imports. If Apple had backed Blu-Ray instead of HD-DVD, DVD Studio Pro would be useful for Blu-Ray. It has full HD-DVD authoring.

That leaves me with DVD Architect Pro from the Sony side. Not too bad at $199. But I've been out of the video production game for a while. No idea if I'll ever need it. I do have a Blu-Ray burner, though. I've only used it for ripping my movie collection.

Seriously, can't people who write software choose meaningful, easy-to-remember names for their programs?

How the hell is 'rosegarden' supposed to make me think about editing audio files? And that 'SpiderOak' name is a joke, right?

Y'mean like Acid, or Abelton or Pinacle or Pro Tools?

Tell me that someone new to the field would have any clue what type of software those names represent?

Sony Vegas and a couple other video editing apps.

Write to them and ask when they will either have a native Linux port, or have Wine as a supported platform:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/corporate/contacts.asp

Seriously, do it. If they don't know that people _want_ ro run their software on Linux, then they will never port it or write it in a wine-compatible fashion.

Go with a quality PC running Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas Pro. This will give you a lot more "bang for your buck" in a nice portable editing setup than a Mac running Final Cut Pro (particularly on a small documentary budget). Don't bother with Linux, it's video editing software is shit (sorry to be harsh, but it's true).

most large commercial software do have free trials
what $600 purchase are you alluding to that does not?

Photoshop http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?platform=windows&product=39
autocad http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?id=9106363&siteID=123112
Sony Vegas http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials/vegaspro

MS office- http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx
you can in fact with a tech net subscription-
trial EVERYTHING Microsoft produces for $349 a year--
which is a worthwhile investment and negligable sum for ANY company large enough to have a full time IT person on staff

not an unreasonable purchase amount at all.

Who will replace her?

Sound Forge and a dialogue editor. There is enough of her computer dialog from all the trek episodes and movies that an editor could splice together a variety of sentences without much effort.

So can you please tell me where I can buy Linux versions of Final Cut Studio, Shake 4, Creative Suite CS, Flix Pro, Sound Studio, Toast, and Sony's XDCAM HD transfer apps please?

I cannot believe that you got modded troll for that. It is true, there are not enough commercial apps available for Linux at the moment. What I wouldn't do for Solidworks on my Ubuntu box!

For Creative Suite, write to these folks:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html

For Flix, write here:
http://www.on2.com/index.php?373

Write to these folks asking about Sound Studio for Linux:
http://www.freeverse.com/support/

This is the address for the people responsible for Toast:
http://www.roxio.com/enu/company/contact.html

And the infamous Sony:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/corporate/contacts.asp

Please, don't be shy and WRITE TO THEM! If we don't write and let them know that Linux is a viable OS with a strong user base, then they will never port their software to Linux.

While I'm all for open source and regarding hardware drivers I wouldn't want it any other way, let's not forget that open source does not have to be pushed around at the application level at the expense of usability. Professional-level applications are critical for the use and expansion of Linux, and proprietary software vendors should be encouraged to develop their software for Linux, not alienated by being badgered to give away their source code. Currently, there is a heated discussion on the Debian list regarding PCB and CAD software availability. One camp (me) is encouraging users to write to software houses and to request that they port their software to Linux, with the other camp rejecting all contact with proprietary software vendors unless it is a demand for the source code. Currently, myself and other engineers cannot use Linux at work because we must run proprietary engineering software, such as Solidworks in my case. For those who want to help, please write to these companies and let them know that we are interested in their software on Linux:

Intuit (Quicken, Quickbooks) http://www.intuit.com/contact/ (requires registration)

Adobe (Photoshop, Flash CS3 Professional, Captivate, Dreamweaver, Studio) http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Sony (Vegas Studio) http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/corporate/contacts.asp

Autodesk (Autocad) http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1073074

SolidWorks http://www.solidworks.com/pages/company/SolidWorksOfficeWorldwide.html (requires registration)

Sage (Act!) http://www.act.com/company/contactus/

Nuance (Dragon Naturally Speaking) http://www.nuance.com/help/contact/

hardin-soft (BM-Win Plus (mailing address correction software)) http://www.hardin-soft.com//forms/feedback.html

Daz (Bryce (3D modeling and animation)) http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/support/rnlogin/-/?p_sid=vOwOJN6j&p_accessibility=&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=&p_li=&p_next_page=std_alp.php (requires registration)

ArenaNet (Guild wars): http://www.arena.net/contact.php

Ironclad Games (Sins of a Solar Empire) http://www.ironcladgames.com/contact.html

Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform-us.xml?gameId=0

Firzxis (Civilization IV) http://www.firaxis.com/support/

Electronic Arts (lots of games) http://www.info.ea.com/company/company_prlist.php

My personal problem is that I need Solidworks, so for emphasis I'll repeat their address here:
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/company/SolidWorksOfficeWorldwide.html

Please write to these companies and let them know that we need their products on Linux. Copy the list and write to one company a week. Thanks.

Alright. I load in HDV camera footage via CineForm, and edit in Vegas. I output WMV files and also MPEG HDV m2t files for output back to tape. I view the WMV files on the PC. Does Vista affect any of this?

If you use Nautilus (GNOME desktop file browser) or the KDE equivalent you can connect to remote servers graphically using SSH, WebDAV, whatever protocol you like if you find the command line not pretty enough. No need to open a terminal Nautilus->File->Connect to server->SSH

--Remote Desktop: Check. Not as slick as the Windows one, but doesn't lack for anything important.

Are you talking about Vino or Vncviewer or what? In what way is there slickness lacking?

example of where it doesn't is media production. The tools for Linux are sub par at best in my experience. In theory it might be possible to do what I need, but in practice I have never been able to figure out how and it is just too much effort. For Windows I just install Sony Vegas and go,

What do you do with Sony Vegas? I've never used it. Looking at it's bumf it looks like Audacity does a similar job. I hasten to add I don't do much besides basic chopping out segments of recordings for podcasts, fade-in/out at the edges of those segments and some adjustment of sound levels.

As far as the texteditors go I think they're one of the strongpoints of GNU/Linux. You might like JEdit