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Re: Video Toaster [message #28795 is a reply to message #28794] |
Mon, 26 January 2004 22:13 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
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Wayne Parham
Messages: 18748 Registered: January 2001
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This is the field where I've seen the most advances in the last decade. Everyone has noticed changes in their desktop computers too, but when you're running word processors and spreadsheets, differences are harder to see. The graphics in games is better, but I'm not sure that people recognize the correlation between machine performance and graphics. It is probably seen as an evolution, and that's about it. But when doing video editing, rendering and processing, you really notice these things. I can remember doing ray traces in the early nineties, when there was no PC available that could do a photo-realistic 15-second animation in anything short of a week. That's even giving them the benefit of the doubt - I can recall doing some quick artithmatic and realizing that a 486-50 would have taken something like 200 days to do a brief animation I was working on. Even Macintosh's and Amiga's were slow for this kind of work. But I had a parallel processing network that I used as a rendering engine, so I could "crank 'em out" in a relatively short span of a few days. These kinds of video systems are really exciting to me. It's been a long time since working with a new technology sparked me like that one did.
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Re: Video Toaster [message #28798 is a reply to message #28795] |
Tue, 27 January 2004 15:06 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
footsurg
Messages: 21 Registered: May 2009
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Wayne, I am with you in being really excited about the new technology. Some of the newer dual processor units out there hold 4 Gigs of ram, are based on 64 bit architecture and can process in the 8 Gigaflop range. With Maya 4, huge and I mean huge animations can be rendered at 30 fps with sophisticated skins in a matter of hours. Certainly not your 486-50!!!
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Re: Video Toaster [message #28827 is a reply to message #28798] |
Mon, 16 April 2007 10:09 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
Ricardo
Messages: 91 Registered: May 2009
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I find this thread interesting, but I'm not really up to speed with all the things you're mentioning. Does Pinnacle make an editing product that would be in the same general league as Final Cut Pro? I have an older version of Studio 8 that I've messed around with.
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Re: Video Toaster [message #28833 is a reply to message #28827] |
Sat, 20 October 2007 23:06 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) |
Crystal
Messages: 110 Registered: May 2009
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Try installing final cut pro and testing it out for yourself. Thats what I do when I need to know what program is better. Some programs usually have a trial versions if you have to pay for programs. Crystal
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