2 Sep
2012
2 Sep
'12
9:52 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
It's not OT, since film/video and audio are
related. Patrick asked what
is provided and used on Mac and Windows and missing for Linux.
Excepted of Linux stand alone devices, resp. special hardware/software
solutions nobody can't have at home, perhaps Robin can, but usually we
can't pay for it and excepted of some people drawing a complete
animation film alone, there is software available, that isn't available
for Linux.
TVPaint is available for Linux. It's not an inexpensive application,
however, but it one of the best applications for creating hand-drawn
animation in the industry. There are some free apps, too, like Pencil
and Gimp Animation Plugin, and of course, Synfig for vector animation.
Companies see what's available and much used on
Mac and Windows and if
Linux doesn't provide this, then for sure many companies aren't
interested in Linux as a market.
That is indeed the biggest issue... it's going to be much harder to
get commercial interest in audio software on LInux, because there is
this perception that no one is using it... so people don't use Linux
because there aren't commercial apps on it. The film world has had a
better time of it because there have been a couple of big films early
on that used Linux for the rendering pipeline, so there is a lot more
stuff available for Linux commercially.
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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