Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS 226
Dave Girard has written a lengthy description of how to design the best possible operating system for creative pursuits (video editing, photo manipulation, and sound editing, in particular) — at least the the best possible one he can imagine by selecting from the best tools and behaviors that he finds in Mac OS X, Windows, and (mostly Ubuntu) Linux. He makes a compelling case for the OS (or at least a GUI on top of it) having baked-in support for a wide range of image formats and codecs, and makes some pointed jabs along the way at what each of these three big players do wrong.
Re: the best os for creative people (Score:5, Informative)
PNG is already a replacement for GIF.
Re:Ooooh, pointy jabs at OSs (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Video Editing (Score:2, Informative)
Lightworks for Linux? www.lwks.com
Re:Video Editing (Score:2, Informative)
Oh dear...
Most of those switching from FCP7 went over to Premiere or Avid MC on OSX.
I think you meant unusable and what is "EFX"?. AE is a motion graphics tool that evolved into a compositor and does neither very well.
Not true... you could edit your cat videos in flame, [autodesk.com] Resolve [blackmagicdesign.com] or piranha [ifxsoftware.com] (etc) if you wanted.
Of course the linux version of Resolve is $30,000 because... being the version in professional use it's only available with the control surface. Since you're making "a feature length film or even a professional looking TV show" and want to use linux, it should be right in budget for you!