What does smoke mean about Linux?

We spoke with Miguel Rodríguez, regional manager of discreet for Latin America, who told us about the characteristics and purposes of the versions of smoke and flint for Linux, whose prices are below US $ 100 thousand.

At the end of last year, Discreet embarked on a new strategy that many made think of a shake-up of the most important company in high-quality digital post-production. The announcement he made Discreet of the new versions of smoke and flint on Linux platform and with prices below US $ 100 thousand, was the main topic of an extensive talk with Miguel Rodríguez, discreet regional manager for Latin America.

How do I know? differentiates the smoke of US $ 70 thousand, from the traditional smoke that you keep selling?
Smoke of US$ 70 thousand is a product equal to smoke of US$ 200 thousand, but taking advantage of new technologies, especially the Linux operating system. This has given us allowed to download it from a Silicon Graphics on Unix, to attend a market that seeks all the versatility of the original product, at a lower price.

Runs on Linux on platform Intel, has all the capabilities of smoke with a few differences, one of which is the application of intermediate digital. That niche market needs the best possible quality. The product on Linux works up to HD. To work 2 k or 4 k or a 12-, 14-bit or 16-bit bitrate, which gives the color quality in cinema, a more robust platform is needed.
But for medium-sized producers who do not work digital intermediate and they need HD quality for TV, the smoke over Linux is enough. The same can be said of flint on Linux in the composition field.

Are these products still being a closed platform? Do you still have discreet your Own Raid arrays, for example?
He still has them. And that's another pressure point. One terabyte of discreet is expensive relative to one terabyte of another maker. The problem lies in how discreetly handles the file. By digitizing the material, it becomes a file. Our competitors treat the file as one. That file grows according to how long it has lasted recording. But to handle a file of that size you need compression, compression that degrades the quality of the product. When discreet record your material, record each frame independently. Each box is a separate file.

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But then they skip the Linux file system
True, we have our own file system. To get to the degree of quality and performance that our customers are accustomed, we have to record the images in shape different. So what's the matter? Much more demand is required on the discs and each of the discs that discreet buys is modified to achieve the transfer and performance that can hold frames of the highest possible resolution, RGB 4:4:4:.