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.
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
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