Anyone successfully running Kodak Cineon currently?
- Thread starter KayBee
- Start date
Hi,
5-6 years ago I bought an Octane2 from the UK which came with the orig. disk.
I found a properly registered version of Cineon on it, but never used it.
I still have that machine and use it sometimes, but have since installed a fresh Irix 6.5.30 and Nekoware on it back then
(will soon remove Nekoware and install sgug-rse on it).
I also have that Cineon disk in its original state in storage.
Iirc it did not come with a complete installation source folder and I have never seen it in the wild either.
Cheers, Alex
5-6 years ago I bought an Octane2 from the UK which came with the orig. disk.
I found a properly registered version of Cineon on it, but never used it.
I still have that machine and use it sometimes, but have since installed a fresh Irix 6.5.30 and Nekoware on it back then
(will soon remove Nekoware and install sgug-rse on it).
I also have that Cineon disk in its original state in storage.
Iirc it did not come with a complete installation source folder and I have never seen it in the wild either.
Cheers, Alex
According to the wikipedia article the Cineon software had a rather short commercial lifespan of merely 5 years.
en.wikipedia.org
Cineon - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
It was Immensely expensive, 20-70k per seat. I used it for 10 years, restoring old movies. Since it was so good, many companies kept using it for probably another 5 years. It was elegant and since it as made by people with such film knowledge it could generate the best quality imagery to be recorded back to film.
Cheers,
KB
Cheers,
KB
Attachments
Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.
This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.
This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.
Last edited:
Hi all,
Basically the main issue with installing Cineon is that it replaces fm with some other version of fm, and it completely breaks it. Good news is it backs up the "proper" version of fm, so its easy to fix.
Anyway - here are my notes on it:
Basically the main issue with installing Cineon is that it replaces fm with some other version of fm, and it completely breaks it. Good news is it backs up the "proper" version of fm, so its easy to fix.
Anyway - here are my notes on it:
Code:
the cineon install backs up and replaces fm. Either backup fm or do this after the install
cp /usr/sbin/OLDfm /usr/sbin/fm (or even better "/usr/cineon/etc/install/install_desktop remove")
Installing the Tiffen software also breaks cineon
if you are having issues after installing the Tiffen package, aka this message:
Error: Cineon: Can't Open Display
Program aborting in KaMemory::new() due to request for 28 bytes of dynamic memory.
Terminated on signal 6 (core dumped)
either delete or rename the tiffen folder:
cd /usr/local
mv tiffen tiffenOLD