Re: Why Apple should let HP build its workstations

[Frank Gothmann] "Avid doesn't rely on QT internally, but you need to output your content at a certain point and that is pretty much QT in Avid. No avi wrapper for DnxHD, only QT. Reference files rely on QT etc. etc. Same for Premiere. Neither DnxHD, Prores or Cineform exist on Linux so unless you want to export as uncompressed and up your storage space bigtime its a problem."

What about MXF? I thought that was Avid's native DNxHD container these days. DaVinci supports DNxHD on Linux. FFmpeg can be called upon to encode and convert almost anything, including DNxHD (which is open source).

I don't think the barriers are that high.

Best,
Andy