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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: sime on 10 October 2005, 12:36

Title: Linux stars in MS movie
Post by: sime on 10 October 2005, 12:36

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

Title: Re: Linux stars in MS movie
Post by: Kintaro on 10 October 2005, 13:37

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

Title: Re: Linux stars in MS movie
Post by: themacuser on 17 October 2005, 12:19

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 :D

Title: Re: Linux stars in MS movie
Post by: skyman8081 on 17 October 2005, 16:43

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.

Title: Re: Linux stars in MS movie
Post by: themacuser on 18 October 2005, 11:59

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

Title: Re: Linux stars in MS movie
Post by: skyman8081 on 18 October 2005, 19:31

Quote from: themacuser

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.