I'm not exactly knocking anything... simply acknowledging that linux has a ways to go.
The card does well enough... It imports video... nicely and cleanly and clearly... which is all I want it to do. It's what I do with it that makes it quality.
It's not DV but I think it does a pretty good job... certainly good enough for most folks uses. For that matter... my ATI is fine. The footage is going to get edited to death anyway.
What reasonable solution are you thinking is better?
Windows 95...is an excellent platform for multimedia... along with lightwave... you've got several different video programs, Director, just about anything you'd need. My ATI card does excellent captures, the Broadway card I use for work is even better. There's Firewire, DV, etc, etc...
NT's got Maya and Softimage... it's marginally better. {tho' dual processors do kick ass.}
Linux has possibilities... It's got Trinity which is started anyway, Main Actor which works anyway... Imagemagick, etc, etc... It's also got support from SGI, several good 3D programs and Xwindows.
From what I know... support for firewire is here, work has begun on a lot of the necessary drivers and seeing as just about everything that's already implemented in this system is better implemented than it's Win counterpart... I don't see why multimedia production will be any different.
Imagine how fast a half dozen old computers set up with Beowulf will do your rendering...
I don't think the system's absolutely practical yet... {and I don't have any intention of dumping to tape {we have CD's, tapes are outmoded.}} I do think it might be a good time to start working at setting things up. As far as I'm concerned... this is for a lifetime, or thereabouts... I sure as hell don't want to be stuck with Windows forever. I don't like commercial schlock... not as a system and not in my art. I want an environment to work in that's as personalized as the work I create. Personally, I'm sick of the Windows logo and I'm sick of Microsoft bullshit...
But, I'm, not killing the DOS partition yet either.
How's about something document-centric? Something like a browser with lots of *really* configurable plugins like scripting languages, file manipulation, etc...
I suppose how you define the document might make some difference... maybe you could apply that label to the net, to your new book, your new movie, your photo album, etc...
Different documents could be configured to call different tools, monitors, shell types... you could run them in buffers, use different bitmaps...
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Actually... if you head over here...
http://linuxartist.org/
Maya's been released for linux as well as some really nice, really hardcore stuff...
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Firewire's been available on the PC for, what, a year... two years?
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Really? I've read differently. Tho' I can't seem to find the article.
I suppose there's always this...
http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/ieee1394/
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The card does well enough... It imports video... nicely and cleanly and clearly... which is all I want it to do. It's what I do with it that makes it quality.
It's not DV but I think it does a pretty good job... certainly good enough for most folks uses. For that matter... my ATI is fine. The footage is going to get edited to death anyway.
What reasonable solution are you thinking is better?
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{Hell.. there goes all the impact that sentence might have had if it were only done properly.}
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NT's got Maya and Softimage... it's marginally better. {tho' dual processors do kick ass.}
Linux has possibilities... It's got Trinity which is started anyway, Main Actor which works anyway... Imagemagick, etc, etc... It's also got support from SGI, several good 3D programs and Xwindows.
From what I know... support for firewire is here, work has begun on a lot of the necessary drivers and seeing as just about everything that's already implemented in this system is better implemented than it's Win counterpart... I don't see why multimedia production will be any different.
Imagine how fast a half dozen old computers set up with Beowulf will do your rendering...
I don't think the system's absolutely practical yet... {and I don't have any intention of dumping to tape {we have CD's, tapes are outmoded.}} I do think it might be a good time to start working at setting things up. As far as I'm concerned... this is for a lifetime, or thereabouts... I sure as hell don't want to be stuck with Windows forever. I don't like commercial schlock... not as a system and not in my art. I want an environment to work in that's as personalized as the work I create. Personally, I'm sick of the Windows logo and I'm sick of Microsoft bullshit...
But, I'm, not killing the DOS partition yet either.
{}Rick {:} End silly rant.}
How's about something document-centric? Something like a browser with lots of *really* configurable plugins like scripting languages, file manipulation, etc...
I suppose how you define the document might make some difference... maybe you could apply that label to the net, to your new book, your new movie, your photo album, etc...
Different documents could be configured to call different tools, monitors, shell types... you could run them in buffers, use different bitmaps...
:} Somehow that sounds a bit like emacs.
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