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Originally Posted by candyflip
I've READ that as well, probably the same articles. I've just never met anyone, heard anyone or seen anyone actually use linux and linux based software for high end video editing. Not saying that there aren't people who do, just that I'm working in the industry and have never yet to come across anyone putting it to use.
All four of the features I've worked on this past year have been or are being edited using Apple hardware and software. This one below is one that you might actually see.
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I think the difference might be scalability for rendering time... not exactly what can be created with the software.
We use win/mac because we work on, one movie at a time.
DreamWorks for example only uses Linux. They work on 10 or more movies at a time, each using 10's of millions of CPU hours, per movie! Scaling up to crunch faster as the hardware technology improves, allowing them to produce the movies faster. They also do things we simply don't do, or not much of it at least... like blue screens, CGI, stunts, and other crazy stuff, that really needs major editing and rendering.
We're just the pups of the video editing industry... however I bet a couple of the VoD companies or maybe few of the really large porn companies, do have something that scales related to video processing.. no idea if it's linux though.