[linux-audio-user] Re: prebuilt tools (long!)

[Chris Lyon]

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.


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
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