On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:44:33 +0100 Chris Lyon <chris.lyon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >SGI,used to have a certain degree of usage in 3D special effects but not >so much nowadays. IfSGI do much in post production it tends to be with >high end film compositing tools from Discreet Logic, which certainly >handle audio but very much as second fiddle to their streaming video >handling. >Certainly audio research was done with SGI kit, Sox et al, but certainly >in London the majority of audio work is done with Apple kit. http://www.sgi.com/industries/media/ >Greg Reddin wrote: > >>>Even though Linux has made great strides in becoming an end-user OS >>>for server and office use lately, it is still a hobby OS as far as >>>audio, video, graphics etc are concerned. You're not going to have >>>much success convincing people to use it for media purposes unless >>>they are eager to get their hands dirty. Many of the DM students >>>argue constantly over Win vs. Mac and when I tell them I use Linux >>>I just get this really weird look. (At least from the ones who even >>>know what Linux is.) I would never convince any of them to try >>>Linux and I'm not going to try. It has to be something you're >>>already interested in. >>> >>> >> >>I'm probably showing off my inexperience here, but what about SGI? I >>thought all the Silicon Graphics stuff had been ported to Linux and >>Linux was becoming the OS of choice for Hollywood DM people who used >>to rely on SGI because it's Unix-based, and all that. Is that not >>true? >> >>Greg >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search >>http://shopping.yahoo.com >> >> >> > > >
