#Buying SGI Equipment
Kevin,
Thanks for the feedback. Let me tell you where I am trying to go with this
whole thing. First, I am looking at music videos and commercials. I want to
be able to incorporate 2d effects, 3d animation and live video with an output
that is atleast Betacam SP. Building on this, I want to be able to move more
into compositing with 3D and morphing with live video. I have several
connections to film people that could use cheap special effects, cheap in terms
of ILM.
I feel that in order to match computer animation and live video, I will need a
lot of speed because I know there is going to be a lot of tinkering to get it
to look right. The Extreme might be too much for now, but I want to grow into
having several SGI machines. I would love to stay with IBM compatibles, but I
find it hard to picture a general computer fullfilling the growing graphic
needs for video and film. Let me know what you think.