Linux stars in MS movie

[sime]

In a stroke of irony, Microsoft's Halo movie will be produced in Wellington by servers running the open-source Linux operating system.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3437625a28,00.html

[Kintaro]

Most clustered computing uses Linux, its the area it is best.

[themacuser]

Yeah.

No surprise there.

It's also going to annoy Microsoft that they're going to have to use Xcode to make microsoft office universal binaries, it's based around gcc

[skyman8081]

It seems Linux is doing good in the only place it can.  In the render farm.

I'm sure it will be cut on an AVID box, most likely a Mac.

[themacuser]

Why would you edit in AVID on a Mac? As if you wouldn't use Final Cut Pro?

[skyman8081]

Why would you edit in AVID on a Mac? As if you wouldn't use Final Cut Pro?

Well, Final Cut Pro is good.  but it isn't quite ready at the point for editing feature films just yet.  I'd say, 3 years.

Right now, AVID is really the only NLE that can edit professional feature films.