Nov
20

Curious gFx

Curious gFx is the latest addition to the Curious Software platform: a powerful integrated paint, rotoscoping and compositing system for video, HDTV and film. Taking full advantage of the latest generations of PC and Mac® hardware, and offering fully integrated real-time video support, gFx delivers the highest professional performance and quality to the desktop. Designed [...]

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Nov
13

CinePaint, the only Open Source (free) deep paint application

CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry — used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films. [...]

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Nov
13

Linux in Hollywood

A Brief History of Open Source and the Movies For Star Wars: Episode II, Linux made Yoda a light saber-wielding action figure. In Lord of the Rings 2, waves of Orcs attacking the colossal fortress at Helm’s Deep are not thousands of human extras, but digital actors created using Linux. To consumers, Linux may rank [...]

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Nov
09

SGI Altix 3000 Proves Favorite with Linux Journal Readers

World’s Fastest Linux OS-Based System Named ‘Favorite Server’ by Linux Community Members in Annual Readers’ Choice Awards MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Nov. 6, 2003)- In another sign of growing support from the Linux community, SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced its SGI® Altix™ 3000 family of servers and superclusters has been named “Favorite Server” in Linux Journal’s [...]

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Nov
04

New Avid Xpress DV Software Available at Breakthrough Price of $695

Tewksbury, Mass. – November 4, 2003 – Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced a new version of its award-winning Avid Xpress® DV software at $695 USMSRP (contact Mahmood Al-Yousif for local pricing in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait). This new price enables a much wider audience of DV (digital video) users to take advantage [...]

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