Film Gimp Released For Mac OS X 35
An anonymous reader writes "Film Gimp, the most popular open source tool in feature motion picture work, has released its first Macintosh version. Film Gimp is now available for Mac OS X, Linux, and SGI Irix. Film Gimp is a frame-by-frame retouching tool used by motion picture studios as an alternative tool to Adobe Photoshop. Film Gimp was used on the movies Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little, and other productions."
Blowing my Excellent karma on this one (Score:1, Offtopic)
Phase 2. In Soviet Russia?
Phase 3. Profit?
Re:Blowing my Excellent karma on this one (Score:1)
Photoshop Trolls (Score:2)
Well, next time, link 'em back to this posting.
There is a professional and sophisticated use for The Gimp as a high-end tool, which doesn't require proprietary colour-space models, or CYMK matching printed output.
Re:Photoshop Trolls (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Photoshop Trolls (Score:2, Insightful)
this whole story baffles me, film GIMP is a Commotion competitor, not a Photoshop competitor.
Re:Photoshop Trolls (Score:4, Interesting)
Even though I wouldn't trade Photoshop for (regular) Gimp, I wouldn't have any qualms about using FilmGimp if that's the tool I needed for the job.
I don't know why so many people are so passionate and interested in the tools other people use. Using the same tool doesn't make somebody a good designer/director/programmer/etc. When was the last time you went by a nice house being built and said "Say, nice work. What kind of hammer you using?"
- vin
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Re:Photoshop Trolls (Score:2)
Re:Photoshop Trolls (Score:4, Informative)
To port FilmGimp to run natively on Cocoa is an undertaking that it doesn't sound like anyone is trying to take. Heck, nobody is going it for regular gimp either. And the windows ports of both are based on GTK for windows, not native. So, don't expect it anytime soon.
Re:Photoshop Trolls (Score:2)
And porting any app to OS X automaticly improves it's usability.
I appologize if Film GIMP is completely different to, and much better than GIMP GUI-wise. Either way, GIMP still has a bad GUI, and I'm not sure what linking back to your post is supposed to prove.
Re:Photoshop Trolls (Score:3, Insightful)
Except to my understanding GIMP != Film GIMP. They may share a common lineage but are targetted at entirely different markets. The fact that Film GIMP is fantastic for its userbase doesn't change the fact that plain-old GIMP, while very useful for RGB work, is effectively useless for even basic prepress work.
Fink unresolved-dependency blues (Score:2, Informative)
This seemed like a cool thing to try, as I've been following the Linux development for a while, but I can't seem to find "dlcompat_dev" in fink, and the film-gimp install fails without it.
As far as I can tell, my fink config is listing all trees. I know it wouldn't break my arm to install something manually, but it's just nice to see more complete install packages.
Otherwise, congrats to the team on another much needed media tool for OS X!
Re:Fink unresolved-dependency blues (Score:1)
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Cool. Any other replacements? (Score:4, Interesting)
Can Film Gimp load any kind of movie files? The problem with Photoshop is you have to (or as far as I know) use something like Adobe Premiere and convert the film to a
What about editing software for OSX, Linux, etc? Something similar to Ulead Video Editor? I'd love to make more movies and actually use legit (read: free) software and not be scared to post them.
And yes, I know I can Google for these answers, but it is better to have answers from people who have used the software and know what is good and what works (versus the company telling me it is good and works).
Re:Cool. Any other replacements? (Score:3, Informative)
Adobe's
I know all this because I've been wanting to do the same thing: lightsabers in GIMP instead of Photoshop. I've never had much success with the OSS video editing software though; Cinelerra seems to be targeted at the $80000 HDTV workstations with which it is frequently bundled.
Re:Cool. Any other replacements? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Cool. Any other replacements? (Score:3, Interesting)
frame0001.tiff
frame0002.tiff
frame0003.
And of course, all audio is lost.
I don't know how hard it would be to write a macro to make the task easier once loaded. Do you at least have a macro to let you select two points and have it draw the saber in between?
By the way, there is no company behind FilmGimp. The closest is Rhythem & Hues who have a developer or two on staff. But they don't control the project.
Re:Cool. Any other replacements? (Score:1)
I actually would outline the [toy] lightsaber in Photoshop using the polygon tool, then use fill, then add blending effects (inner and outer glow).
We added a lens flare for the frame the lightsabers came in contact (at the point they came in contact, too). It came out pretty good, except we filmed at night and sometimes lost visual of the toy lightsabers and had to guess the length and position of the saber resulting in "jumpy" lightsabers.
*shrug* I'll give FilmGimp a shot sometime. Too bad theforce.net only has tutorials on Win32 software. I just hope TFM for FilmGimp is good.
Re:Cool. Any other replacements? (Score:1)
Re:Cool. Any other replacements? (Score:2)
Quartz GIMP? (Score:1)
OS X? Not really... (Score:3, Informative)
You need Fink to make it work.
Re:OS X? Not really... (Score:1)
Movie Industry and Opensource? (Score:2)
I wonder how good it is for the rest of us that they even use opensource. Do they let their own people view the movies on their workstations?
Re:Movie Industry and Opensource? (Score:2)
Of course not. Their own people are supposed to be working at their workstations, not watching movies.
And Rhythem & Hues basically paid for the development of FilmGimp, so for those of us who needed something like that (there are a few scientists using it, amoung others), it is very good that they use it.
Re:Movie Industry and Opensource? (Score:2)
Altho this is meant to be funny, I still am curious...
This is not OS X (Score:1, Troll)
If you apply the same logic, Quark Express is available as OS X application (as it runs unter Quark), and my 1995 file comparison utility égale is an OS X app, as it runs in an Atari TOS emulator (MagiCMac OSX). Wow, I could write programs for OS X way before it was released. Amazing!
Re:This is not OS X (Score:2)