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Film Gimp Chalks Up Another Studio
Robin Rowe of the Film Gimp project has a piece running on NewsForge (also part of OSDN) that says "Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth motion picture studio to use it in making feature films." Check out this recent post about Film Gimp to see some great screenshots of behind-the-scenes use. (And Rowe is also hoping you can get to the Linux Movies Track at Creative Cow West 2003, starting Tuesday in Los Angeles.) Update: 02/17 04:04 GMT by T : Brain rebooted, so I added the missing link.
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Okay, originally I thought Film Gimp might have been a video-editor or something built on top of The Gimp, but here's what it really is (straight from the horse's mouth):
Film Gimp is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to be more suitable for film work than GIMP or Adobe Photoshop. Film Gimp is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films. Go Film Gimp! Go!
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Who's got the whiteout?
God I am depressed.
We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade.
dweebs just want to have fu-un...
The newsforge article is here. Or perhaps they are saving the URL to tomorrows dupe about it.
The number of open source applications continues to climb and grab the attention of the bigwigs in charge of various money grubbing organizations.
"hmmm.. maybe we should start to take this open source thing seriously."
You cannot stop the tux.
I love Jesus Christ.
just out of interest, what OS was used before by the studios ?.
Was it windows ?, it is possible to vreate open source software which runs on a Win32 platform, so why is Linux better ?
I don't personally go for bondage fetish films, but I think it's cool there's such an obviously active development community.
babelfish describes it as follows:
In order to decorate the decoration string of the film and from the string or adobe brick Photoshop to be suited for working the film it is the picture of the free was opened source which is designed and the correction program of the image. The decoration string of the film is the potter of the Scooby-Doo and the Harry, the photographic strip industry which a little is used with the film of the and other feature most spread the source equipment which was opened....
I thought they were talking about "The Gimp" from Pulp Fiction.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
The Blue Screen of Death!
This is another prime example of OSS can work to make software that is competitive if not better the other closed source applications.. Of course adobe will come along and say that they own the patent on anything that edits a layer of an image and try to sue because they cannot seem to compete and let their work answer the challange. Looks as though the gauntlet has been cast down again.
Hey, Timothy, did you forget to link to the story?
gimpii ?
*ducks, runs*
Like, what's the latest Red Hat release? Three or four CDs? Jesus H. Christ!
Somebody installed us the breakdown
You are on the access path wth the destruction
(The famous line stayed the ame through about 6 systran translations)
I was expecting a story about Christopher Reeve.
Trolling is a art,
that's pretty terrible.
mod this down, por favor.
I thank you for the mod point I am about to recieve, I'm sure it will be delish.
But I have serious doubts about that Windows NT claim.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
My general opinion of Hollywood is that it's populated by people like Jack Valenti, clueless rich assholes that will stop at nearly nothing to suck every last dime from the pockets of the public. I'll feel some sympathy for poor Jack when the film industry is living in cardboard boxes beneath highway overpasses. They whine and bitch about pirates stealing billions from their pockets when I read stories like this.
Great, just saw a banneradd for the Ironport server. Turns out it is a server made for the specific purpose of delivering SPAM.
Link: http://ironport.com
Some of its great features:
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"Thank you, Slashdot!"
Although ot out yet for windows, there is a screenshot of the early version here.
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Note in the bottom right corner? atiTray. Yeah. Real geeks don't go with nVidia in mission critical assignments. Even if that mission is taking out the terrorists.
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Work sucked, until it became unemployment, when it became slightly more tolerable. -Tet
Just the OSS communists trying to achieve the lowest common denominator in software quality.
So the open source movement saves studios bacon does it?
I hereby declare the motion picture industry in material breach of any sanity whatsoever with regard to IP and copyright.
Fuhgettaboutit
FilmGimp started as a hacked up version of Gimp to solve a particular problem that had no solution. Instead of making that a propriatary product R&H went open source. FilmGimp is more specialized buy very handy for some extgreme image processing. very cool
It may just be the only OSS tool in the motion picture industry.
I know sweep, an opensource sound editor is used widely, and in fact was partly funded by Pixar.
For copyright holders as paranoid as corporate copyright holders, it's all about control. It has to be, they can't legally decide that "this is enough money" once they make a good profit because even though that might keep their customers happy, it won't satisfy their stockholders. Individual copyright holders can analyze a situation and realize that they have more to gain by letting 75% of their users/readers/views/listeners bootleg their works. Corporations don't have that luxury.
So that presents a problem. I'm a classical liberal, I believe that freedom from tyranny is more important than wealth, the former begets the latter and that the latter does not reinforce the former. If anything one can look at today's corporate society to see a society where freedom is sacrificed to make a buck. The democratic process control by two parties is in large part responsible for this situation. The only solutions could never be put into effect because monied interests of all stripes control the system. It doesn't matter whether they're labor, capital, environmentalists, "consumer rights" (whatever the hell that is), anti-abortionists, you name it. They're almost all invariably against the public good which is the protection of natural rights.
There are two solutions I can foresee. One painful, one not so painful. The first is to bar corporations from owning intellectual property. The movie studios for example would "loan money" to steven spielberg to produce a copyrighted work that he would own that the parent corporation would have an exclusive right to distribute, but not own. The other solution is to simultaneously remove anti-freedom nuts like Valenti and give legal protection to copyright owning corporations that allow bootlegging on some meaningful scale to keep their customers happy.
Strong copyright advocates need to learn that America doesn't have the culture to stomach the laws they want. It never has, those laws fly in the face of hundreds, if not almost a thousand years of Anglo-American customs and traditions. One of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, did not believe that the law should allow for private ownership of ideas. I'm sure almost none of them would approve of our current system. As a very liberal Christian I find it repulsive to allow for patents on anything other than very specific physical product designs. To me, allowing patents on anything else is an affront to God's creation as all knowledge is ultimately the creation of God, not man. Knowledge exists independently from human understanding, it awaits discovery, not creation, by man.
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
Your comparing people who make movies with those who's business is to invest, finance, and eventually profit from them. The people using this software only care about quality and creating spectacular effects, and use the best tool for the job be it OSS or not.
ZED
Bring out The Gimp
MAYNARD
The gimp's sleeping
ZED
Well, I guess you'll just have to wake him up now, won't you?
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The other solution is to simultaneously remove anti-freedom nuts like Valenti and give legal protection to copyright owning corporations that allow bootlegging on some meaningful scale to keep their customers happy.
Can't do that. Valenti are just symptoms of the root problem. Remove him (illegal as that would be) and another would take his place.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
they had locked up in a box in Pulp Fiction movie?
I thought so
You seem to be confusing my explaining that Linux is cheaper than Unix and easy to port to from Unix with "cheering the linux mantra."
Mantras, sir, are not to be cheered, but either sung quietly, or not spoken at all.
KFG
natural rights
What is a "natural right"?
You won't care, probably, but ten years ago when I didn't yet decide on what to study, I just called R&H while I was in LA as a German tourist, because I tried to find out about the folks behind the Star Trek special effects.
They gave me, a foreign High School kid, the grand tour of their facilities, showed and explained almost everything I asked for and were really really nice people - considering the fact that I just called them hours in advance and had no prior appointment with them.
Same with the model shop, btw, who allowed me to see the actual DS9 model. I still can't quite believe that they just took the time for that weird German fanboy that I was...
While I didn't end up in computer graphics software development, it's nice to know that since I made minor contributions to Linux, some of my code now runs on R&H's computers...
So anyway, good luck to them. I hope they are still as cool as they used to be.
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The answer to the dilemma is to set clear limits on the copyright monopoly, particularly *time limits*.
Some have suggested that it's reasonable for the copyright owner to make 90% of the profit. So if the typical book generates 90% of its total profits within the first twenty years of publication, copyright on books should last for twenty years. The 10% reduction in profit for the publisher (compared to perpetual copyright) is more than outweighed by the increased gain to the public from having the book in the public domain after 20 years.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
To decide what Hollywood thinks perhaps there should be a film?
But which studio, producer, and who should star?
Hi I'm sorry if this sounds a really stupid question. I'm interested in getting Film Gimp up and running on my MAC. I've got X11, and although I'm an independent filmmaker I've got a background in computers. Can anyone recommend a site that explains what I need ? and how I get it up and running ? Ive searched web but all the sites i find about the film gimp seem very Linux/Unix based, and rather more techinical than I'd like. It would be nice if there was a site that explained how to get it going on just a MAC. Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this. Toadguy
today's corporate society to see a society where freedom is sacrificed to make a buck. The democratic process control by two parties is in large part responsible for this situation.
My favorite word: Plutocracy. Used in a sentance: "The United States of America is a plutocracy."
...that would work until the MPAA used their accountants to devise a scheme where they recieve equal revnue over a desired period.
How? I dont know, say, sell the 'potential revenue' to a Bank (like you can sell a debt) and allow them to give you X% today, Y% over Z Years.
My point? It will require a much more definate and "radical" method to make the changes necessary. Small, "procedural" style changes will, in time, be made ineffective by future MPAA whores. Like they do today, slowly extending copyright, they will slowly morph your desired change to their own will.
My suggested answer? Amend your constitution to say "10 or 3 or 1" year. The rule must be simple. No more legislation, and no exceptions save ANOTHER constitution change.
...but thats not going to happen, the plutocrats have seized control of USofA'ian democracy and ground it to a halt. There is no more change, there is no more Democracy in America.
not "Windows." The difference is critical.
Please note also, which I also explained in my original post which seem to have failed to read, that this isn't a case of Linux replacing Windows. It's a case of Linux easing out Unix because of the obviousness of not having to pay thousands per person to use it OR most of its apps OR exepensive workstations to run them.
You might also note that MS's line here works against them. Since this is a Unix to Linux move TCO would go up by going to Windows because of the cost of retraining.
Petard? Meet MS. MS? Meet Petard. Oh? You two already know each other?
KFG
if you're frickin' linking to a PRESS RELEASE posted there.
Stuart!
Dude, that's heavy!