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Comment Linux Screenshots on Level 9 (Score 1) 247

I have lurked for many years on here. But I just had to log in for this one. I feel qualified to post about this because I spent the past 4 years doing those on screen simulations for film and TV. I'll be brief: Macs get used a lot because Apple loans more stuff than any other manufacturer. Also, they offer very generous discounts to the film crew on the production loaners following wrap. Apple also doesn't mind if you show the MacOS in your film or tv show. Microsoft on the other hand will sue you quicker than you can say "anti-trust." In all likelihood, we are looking at a windows or mac box running an full-screen animation done in Macromedia director or After Effects where the GUI was "inspired" by KDE/Gnome/Enlightenment/etc. I am almost sure that this was the case because there are special video cards needed to get video to sync to 24 fps (film speed). The cards are rare and for rent only and the 24frame drivers aren't likely to exist as there would be no real advantage to using linux to play back a director animation or quicktime. Just thought I'd put in my 2 cents.

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