options on Ubuntu

[quantumrider]

Could someone give me some advice please on how to go about editing redone footage on Ubuntu?

I have 75 GB's of footage 4k and no way to even view it, I would like to convert it probably first to 1080p resolution and some format I can use with the video editing apps available on Ubuntu, how to do that, can anyone advise please?

 

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

I know of no native tools for Linux; I'm sure someone who knows more will come along with workflow suggestions in due course. But I'm going to use this as a chance to evangalise for one of my favourite tools: VirtualBox. With this, you can run Windows under Linux:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Mike

 

[Kyle Mallory]

IFX's Ant and Piranha run well on Ubuntu, and are native tools, that support R3D directly (no transcoding, etc).

 

[César Díez]

hi kyle
thank you for the info
i never heard about ant and piranha... :-o
i'm searching the web looking for more info (price, formats, requirements, compatibility...) but there is no so much info
this proyect seems so silent... but they are at nab... maybe is too expensive? anyway way, reading their web, looks like very nice products (much more profesional than the other linux options, for sure)
can you tell us more things about this softwares, please?
regards

 

[Stephen Gentle]

Nuke (the compositing software) runs on Linux and supports R3D natively. I think Smoke might too but it's very pricy on Linux.

Apart from that, a lot of grading software runs on Linux and a lot support R3D. But not much in the way of editing software.

By the way quantumrider, if you read this - you need to make an account with your real name as the username (or email the admins to get the banned account changed and reactivated). It's a requirement of the forum.

 

[Dan Hudgins]

My editing system runs under FreeDOS which can dual boot with UBUNTU for editing DI/NLE/MIX/CC. I will be looking into a port to UBUNTU for my image processing program I am getting ready to release so that render farm computers can run UBUNTU, but I need to finish up the DOS/WINDOWS code before I try to get it to compile for UBUNTU. BTW, Windows ME (tm) does not cost much now and supports large disks.

 

[Kyle Mallory]

Cesar,

Sorry for the long delay... I don't check here regularly. Piranha is a high-end finishing solution that is primarily geared toward VFX and Color, but also has editing capabilities. It competes with Smoke/Nuke/etc. Ant is the light-weight version (same code base). It is still a surprisingly functional piece of software, but lacks a couple of modules from Piranha (that I rarely, if ever user anyway), and has a number of the effects/plugins stripped back to the basics (no trackers, etc). IFX was a big player a number of years ago, and was used by Pixar, Dreamworks, Troublemaker, and many other major studios, until most of those studios started using in-house tools. Contact IFX, and talk to Tom. He's a good guy.

--Kyle

 

[jake blackstone]

Nuke (the compositing software) runs on Linux and supports R3D natively. I think Smoke might too but it's very pricy on Linux.

Apart from that, a lot of grading software runs on Linux and a lot support R3D. But not much in the way of editing software.

By the way quantumrider, if you read this - you need to make an account with your real name as the username (or email the admins to get the banned account changed and reactivated). It's a requirement of the forum.

There are many iterations of Linux. Most of high end grading software runs on Red Hat, which is not really free, hence people prefer Ubuntu, Debian or some other free version of Linux. Baselight runs on it's own version of Linux-FLOS. But other, than above mentioned software, none runs on UBUNTU.

 

[Jay Gannon]

My editing system runs under FreeDOS which can dual boot with UBUNTU for editing DI/NLE/MIX/CC. I will be looking into a port to UBUNTU for my image processing program I am getting ready to release so that render farm computers can run UBUNTU, but I need to finish up the DOS/WINDOWS code before I try to get it to compile for UBUNTU. BTW, Windows ME (tm) does not cost much now and supports large disks.

Please dont ever reccomend ME to anyone, its possibily the worst operating system ever designed, and why would you write a program for DOS in this day and age, or it it an update to an old system thats out of copyright or something? Seems like the most unusual platform to run a high end program on considering its massive limitations on resources and interfaces.