Re: [LAU] LightWorks for Linux Demo

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com You may need to tell that to most of #blender and quite a few of well known people in that community that I checked with about this specific workflow when I did this. Aside from my own knowledge of Blender, I will say if you said that to most people going to blender you would get laughed at, only because the interface is very different frmo anything else out there, and that does include in the NLE, which in the NLE there is less gain than there is in the various 3D manipulation views. I would suggest not assuming everyone is an idiot. The learning curve was not a problem, I have been using Blender for some time long before I looked at it for the NLE, and when looking at it for the NLE I specifically sought help from experts in the community to see if what I wanted to do could be done easily. The consensus was that it couldn't. In fact they just did their last open movie project specifically to improve that workflow, and as I said I haven't looked at it since then, but hopefully it has significantly improved. Again please isntead of assuming you know everything, you might try asking if it had been tried before. That's your opinion. Lots of studios and professionals use them for editing. You are correct that is my opinion. And I repeat a former assertion of mine that could also be qualified as an opinion but fairly true anyways, you tend to overstate things. Content generation. It allows to synthesise your entire 3d environment. > Similar to what you can achieve with ams or ingen. Combined with other > synthesis applications you don't even need an NLE. Yes but that isn't what an NLE is most used for. Use the correct tool for the job, ESPECIALLY if you are discussing professional workflow. So which big names in the movie industry do you know that haven;t embraced > Linux? Go back to the previous thread on this that I mentioned, I really don't feel like repeating myself. I would say that you and your team are going to be left behind if you keep > holding onto the past like you are now... > > Linux users have already eclipsed Mac users the Steam user stats and Steam > for Linux was only released 1 month ago. > > http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey#cat0 Uh, no they haven't. Mac OS X 10.8 -- 1.71% Mac OS X 10.7 -- 0.74% Mac OS X 10.6 -- 0.62% ----------------------------------- Total -- 3.07% Ubuntu 12.10 -- 0.71% Ubuntu 12.04.2/64 -- 0.31% Ubuntu 12.04.2/32 -- 0.20% Linux Mint 14 -- 0.17% Linux (64 Bit) -- 0.14% Ubuntu 12.04.1 -- 0.11% ---------------------------------------- Total -- 1.64% Even if you add all the 'other' category to Linux you end up with 2.46%, still under OS X's share, and that is assuming that all of 'other' is in fact Linux. Again your facts are just plain wrong. This doesn't even touch on the fact that only three versions of Windows don't by themselves eclipse either of these categories by themselves, much less if you obviously add them all together. Windows is the platform of choice for gamers, but then again I have no idea why you feel this is important for media creation. There are likely going to be slightly related, but like many things media creators are a tiny portion of those that game. It's ok though. When you decide to let go you will find you can fly ;-) I am well aware of Linux's capabilities having used it professionally for many years now. And again I will point out, that a tool that can be used for something that is professional, is not what I am talking about. By that logic notepad is a professional screenwriting tool. I refer to tools that allow you to accomplish professional quality work quickly. Blender falls under that for 3D easily to me, not for video editing. Seablade