Ubuntu-Studio-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 49

[thomas fisher]

On Friday 28 December 2007 21:32:23 "Yosif ali" Roque Morales wrote:
> Most respected sirs:
> jes a question from a newbie.....
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> if i set up Ubuntustudio... can i have already use it to teach my students
> for use in a  mutlimedia production outfit (meaning is it sufficient for us
> to be used for the total needs of a multimedia outfit?)
>
> Yosif Roque Santos Morales
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Mr Morales   In responding,in maintaining subject clarity, I am reposting your 
posting at lamundofloss:
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"     Deploying Floss-centric Students
An Attempt to integrate FLOSS people in the Business and IT industry
By Yusuf Morales

Normally Technical Students in our school go on internship in their second 
year, and this is actually the second batch of interns were sending to 
Business, IT industry, Private Companies and Government offices. WE begun 
sending student interns last year both to ensure our students have actual 
hands on industry experience as well as test the efficacy of our curriculum 
if it has met or exceeded the standards that are demanded by the industry.

Our Programming (IT) students armed by PhP, Java, C++ and MySQL programming 
skills (although they also are familliar with counterpart COTS software )were 
deployed among IT companies, we deployed our Computer graphics and design 
(GD) students to multimedia companies among them Acid House (a multimedia 
outfit doing multimedia production for ABS-CBN, Rush TV productions (an 
outfit producing a program on studio 23 ),as well as some multimedia post 
prod rigs in Makati. These Kids know Blender (as well as the COTS 
counterpart) Scribus and GIMP (and their COTS counterparts), sadly they are 
still trying to master either cinellera or KINO as they are more used to 
their COTS equivalents. Our Business and IT (BIT) interns were sent to 
businesses, private firms and government offices, in addition to COTS office 
suites as well as web designer tools, they are familliar and activiely use 
Open Office, which we hope could be a good enticing mechanism for businesses 
to use.

We are hoping that these second batch of office interns can also serve as 
people who will encourage businesses to use FLOSS.

Based on the results of this batch's progress we may then see how we could 
situate more in the world of IT education."
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  If I am reading this correctly your school is well under way. When I use the 
term "multimedia" it's meaning is huge. When I refer to a modern Linux 
release  such as the Debian / Ubuntu, my mind automatically includes the 
application repositories that are part of that { at last count about 22,000}.

  For your reference this is the Ubuntu family repository:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Audio:--------------------------------------
  For your ref. this is the Linux audio users and developer list and archives:
  Many advanced musicians, teachers, program audio authors.
  http://lad.linuxaudio.org/subscribe/lau.html
  http://portal.linuxaudio.org/
  http://lad.linuxaudio.org/archive/lau.html     <---- this is the searchable   
archive. It is a treasure trove of many years.

  For your ref.  Bob Katz a { non Linux } professional audio engineer site.
  Many fine articles at this address.  
    His book "Mastering Audio" would be a treasure for your students.
  http://www.digido.com/bob-katz/index.php

Audio Video:
  For your ref.  Jay Rose a { non Linux } professional video audio engineer.  
  Many fine articles at this address.
    His two books on video audio would be very fine for your students.
      "Producing Great Sound for Digital Video"
      "Audio Postproduction for Digital Video"
  http://www.dplay.com/  

Graphics 3D:
  Within the application " K3D " it is able to pull on a number of " rendering   
engines"  one of which is called " aqsis" which opens the door to "    
Renderman" the magic behind Lucas films and Disney.
   http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Main_Page
   http://www.aqsis.org/xoops/modules/news/    <--- AQSIS, there are others.
   http://www.smartcg.com/tech/cg/books/RfB/home/index.html  <-- good 	 
Beginning Renderman  book.
  http://www.rendermanacademy.com/docs/ClassFrame01.php?sel=1  <-- Do not get 
lost.

  I hope this answers some of what you were wanting to know. It is by no 
means, exhaustive. High resolution digital computing is very hardware hungry. 
Lots of core memory, disks, processors, high speed I/O. Welcome aboard. 
Please encourage your students to become active in the Open Source community. 
The Linux audio developers could use some support.
Tom