CompuServe Messages

Like John said, you certainly *can* use time-code when dealing with the PAR, especially if you're gonna need it down the line. It just doesn't seem to be absolutely needed *just* to get field-rendered animation properly to tape. There is, and I suspect is going to be, all kinds of software you can use for PAR-related functions. GregP is selling a wonderful .IXP, N-DUMP, that'll take network-rendered frames out of a drive and copy them on to the PAR's drive *in order* and *during rendering*!! A definite PAR owner's must-have. Absolutely neccessary for network rendering directly to the PAR! Many professional-level VTR's allow you to add Hi-Fi sound after video is recordered to tape. This is where some sort of code; SMPTE, MIDI, or whatever can be helpful if syncing is important. Regarding the style issue: As the many threads in this forum relating to the meaning of "what is art" can attest, it certainly seems that many different people have many different feelings about what art they are going to create, and how they are going to go about creating it. For most of the work I do, I'll almost always try to strive for the "lots of colors" look, even if I'm limited to 256 at a time. Thus, having the PAR's capability is frosting on the cake for me, finally having the ability to see everything I have modeled and animated in all it's color and movement. I guess that I'm really not versatile enough to have developed a marked style that is optimized for a certain palette. -Alan