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Film Gimp

Posted by michael on from the thirty-percent-more-gimpy dept.

gosand writes "DesktopLinux.com is running this story about Film Gimp. It is a movie editor based on The Gimp that movie studios have been developing for their own use for a while now. The article is an interview with Robin Rowe about Film Gimp's use, and includes some interesting info about the film industry's use of GNU/Linux desktops. One quote worth noting: 'Studios have become the leading desktop users of Linux. Three hundred Linux desktops at Dreamworks. That's amazing! While the MPAA is campaigning for new restrictions on content, the artists at the studios are using and helping create open source. Having Linux and open source as a crucial part of studio operations may help executives rethink their corporate position on open source and Linux issues.'"

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  1. Sponsor by burgburgburg · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    sponsoring, sponsor

    My spelling bad.

  2. Re:*Sigh of relief* by Fnkmaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This is slightly offtopic, so forgive me, but does anybody know what happened with Katz? Did Malda give him the heave ho? Did he get sick of posting stories to /. only to get 100s of troll comments - because, let's face it, he just wasn't that well liked by the Slashdot community. In some ways I miss his stories. It was sort of nice to have an editor to hate. When I was in a really angry vindictive mood, nothing made me feel better than going and getting in some serious flamewars that only happened when Katz posted his extraordinarily flamebaiting opinion pieces.


    I am just curious about this, since you can see from Katz' profile that he hasn't posted anything on Slashdot since April or May, and everybody seems to know he's gone, but I can't seem to find any stories or posts anywhere explaining the story behind his departure, or what he's doing now (no, it's not like I want to go read his drivel elsewhere, but I'm curious nonetheless).


    And so I'm not completely offtopic - Film Gimp is great - wish more companies would invest money and time into customizing and improving open source tools and releasing them back to the public like this. This kind of contribution could really help some programs like the Gimp to go from niche programs for amateurs and non-serious work to serious professional workhorses.

  3. Re:Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving? by tswinzig · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Not that this is a bad thing, just that it's not because they hate MSFT...

    Strange that you equate loving open source with hating Microsoft. I like open source, I also like many Microsoft products. It's not an either/or situation.

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  4. Virtual Dub? by randomErr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How does Film Gimp compare the other big open source video editor Virtual Dub?

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  5. One word... by darylp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Junis.

  6. Re:Not politically correct.. by Drooling+Retard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hahaha im a speshul person an i think yur funne. want to be mi frend? we culd pla gamz and yu culd help me wen i poo my pants

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