CompuServe Thread

Hi Chris, re: "…I'm not involved with DTV … We have been looking to expand…" So what do you do now, write actuarial software for insurance companies? 🙂 There is a lot of potential, as I see it, for the DeskTop Video Producer. Wether you are more into the "desktop" side of it, Morphing, Warping, Image Processing, 2D-3D modeling and Animation, Rendering, or, the "video" side of it Documentaries, Infomercials, SitComs, Features, Commercials, Training & Event VideoGraphy, or, the "audio" side of it, Music Videos, Soundtracks, Narration, Effects, Surround Sound & Home Theatre, Closed Captioning, etc…. I see lots of potential. One of my latest cool, million dollar making, ideas is to set up a rendering farm of Windows NT based MIPS/ALPHA/PENTIUM machines running software that would allow folks using packages like Lightwave 3D, Crystal Topas, AutoDesk 3D Studio, World Construction Set, Imagine, Morph Plus, Elastic Reality, or any other packages that are typically used to create multi-second animations and take a loooong time doing every 30th of a second, so that folks could use their modems to upload their "scenes" along with any other unique "textures", "objects", etc., and have my farm render it much faster than they could possibly do it otherwise. I think that something like this may open up new markets for 3D/high level render and animation markets, where like a news department at the local television station could create unique 3D animations depicting news stories on a daily basis, just like they do now with their 2-dimensional pictures now. Software is getting about easy enough and powerful enough now to set up a decent scene in a couple of hours, but the rendering times are just prohibitive in a lot of cases. Therefore, if this "pay-on-usage" rendering farm could take that burden away, I think that it would be a valuable resource for the DTV community. Anyway, those are some of my ideas, I think someone else will probably pipe up with others. Good to see you here, Chris! -John