Yeah, that's how I read it too. They're releaseing it for free (as-in-beer) with an SDK. Then they plan to make money off of it by running an "App Store" like service for the plugins.
Don't get me wrong, a no-cost video editor is a good thing. But I think Linux and/or Open Source fans are going to be dissapointed.
On your mini 9, did you upgrade from an existing install or did you do a wipe/reinstall? Any issues with sound or networking? I ask because my mini 9 is running 9.04 and I'm deciding if I should upgrade now or wait a few weeks until any major bugs are fixed.
Oky doky... once again...
Linux was used only to render the WATER and to do rendering of composites using Nuke, DD's in-house compositing tool.
The ship was done mostly in Lightwave under NT.
The people on the ship was done in softimage, Maya or Lightwave under either NT or SGI I guess depending on the shot. (note at this point Linux renderers for none of these packages existed)
The front end to DD's compositing tool Nuke ran under Irix.
At no point was Linux actually used as a work station.
This is a copy of an email I sent to jon@eruditum.org - who runs the Linux Myth Dispeller... I wrote this to clarify Linux's role in Titanic.
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I'm as much of a Linux fan as the next guy but there are a couple of points I wanted to clarify.
In section "4.9 Linux is not a technology leader, it is just playing "catch up". " You say that Linux was running on 100 Alpha's running around the clock for several months...
This is partially true.
1> Actually it was closer to 125 systems... but who's counting.:)
2> They were in Linux for only 2/3 of the total rendering time... the rest of the time they were in NT. You see only the tools for rendering the CG water (Arete) and their compositing tools (Nuke) have render engines compiled for Linux. (Both of which were ported over from Irix)
For shots of the ship itself, they had to switch back to NT as the ship was rendered in Lightwave... Newtek isn't likely to make a renderer for Linux.
In addition, both Arete and Nuke are not open source apps... The company that did the Linux port of the Arete renderer did it themselves... and neither Nuke nor it's source code will be seen by the outside world.. It's Digital Domains in house compositing tool.
Though, now that I think about it... they didn't post the source to the patch back then... just a binary only version...
I don't think this is a conversion on M$'s part to the light side of the source... just an acknowledgement of widespread use of non-MS os's as web servers.
This is nothing new... I don't have a link handy, but they had mods for apache to allow FP extensions as far back as FP95 I think... I just never installed them because they didn't have them for the DEC Alpha version of Apache...
I've found doing computer tech support has done about the same to me... that and I have a strange urge to bludgeon any one using their CD-ROM drive as a cup holder.
Actually Maya's rendering, while not crappy, is not as good as rendermans... ILM for example will model in Maya (for polygonal stuff they'll use Lightwave), animate in SoftImage and render in a renderman.
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Yeah, that's how I read it too. They're releaseing it for free (as-in-beer) with an SDK. Then they plan to make money off of it by running an "App Store" like service for the plugins.
Don't get me wrong, a no-cost video editor is a good thing. But I think Linux and/or Open Source fans are going to be dissapointed.
On your mini 9, did you upgrade from an existing install or did you do a wipe/reinstall? Any issues with sound or networking? I ask because my mini 9 is running 9.04 and I'm deciding if I should upgrade now or wait a few weeks until any major bugs are fixed.
Oky doky... once again...
Linux was used only to render the WATER and to do rendering of composites using Nuke, DD's in-house compositing tool.
The ship was done mostly in Lightwave under NT.
The people on the ship was done in softimage, Maya or Lightwave under either NT or SGI I guess depending on the shot. (note at this point Linux renderers for none of these packages existed)
The front end to DD's compositing tool Nuke ran under Irix.
At no point was Linux actually used as a work station.
This is a copy of an email I sent to jon@eruditum.org - who runs the Linux Myth Dispeller... I wrote this to clarify Linux's role in Titanic.
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I'm as much of a Linux fan as the next guy but there are a couple of points I wanted to clarify.
In section "4.9 Linux is not a technology leader, it is just playing "catch up". " You say that Linux was running on 100 Alpha's running around the clock for several months...
This is partially true.
1> Actually it was closer to 125 systems... but who's counting.
2> They were in Linux for only 2/3 of the total rendering time... the rest of the time they were in NT. You see only the tools for rendering the CG water (Arete) and their compositing tools (Nuke) have render engines compiled for Linux. (Both of which were ported over from Irix)
For shots of the ship itself, they had to switch back to NT as the ship was rendered in Lightwave... Newtek isn't likely to make a renderer for Linux.
In addition, both Arete and Nuke are not open source apps... The company that did the Linux port of the Arete renderer did it themselves... and neither Nuke nor it's source code will be seen by the outside world.. It's Digital Domains in house compositing tool.
They'll grant a patent on the bubble sort. :)
Though, now that I think about it... they didn't post the source to the patch back then... just a binary only version...
I don't think this is a conversion on M$'s part to the light side of the source... just an acknowledgement of widespread use of non-MS os's as web servers.
This is nothing new... I don't have a link handy, but they had mods for apache to allow FP extensions as far back as FP95 I think... I just never installed them because they didn't have them for the DEC Alpha version of Apache...
I've found doing computer tech support has done about the same to me... that and I have a strange urge to bludgeon any one using their CD-ROM drive as a cup holder.
Actually Maya's rendering, while not crappy, is not as good as rendermans... ILM for example will model in Maya (for polygonal stuff they'll use Lightwave), animate in SoftImage and render in a renderman.
Actually... I run SETI@Home practically all the time... (I've got the priority set real low).
If I had to run a *inModem it would slow that down...