On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:31:06PM -0400, Rob wrote: > I think Linux may well be more usable (by non-Linux-advocates) > for certain kinds of film work than it is for audio work > presently, due in large part to the availability of things like > Maya. I don't think any equivalent sea change has happened on > the audio side, though Ardour and the like could well get there > soon. I think ardour might have a chance of sneaking us into the audio industry through the back door of the aforementioned film industry :-) For anyone who's not on ardour-dev: Paul D. has some work that should be done by ardour 1.0 that enables it to support synchronized playback of animatics, and building on that, video playback in the future. (I'm not clear on whether this is handled by a special kind of track within ardour, or a separate jack client.) That might be interesting to production companies: they can twiddle the source to fit their needs, avoid some number of expensive licenses, etc. just as they've done with linux. And, I can't seem to remember... Wasn't one of the good editors partly funded at some point by a film studio? Did I just make that up? Audacity? Sweep? Rezound? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller? -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's THE FAST LYNX! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)