[ale] Video Editing Software?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Nov 12 09:17:37 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:53, aaron wrote:
Aaron, you're at the top of my list to have over to play with the toys!
I just installed the first 18G hard drive and I need to install 2 more
which means reinstalling the main system disk. This box ships with only
a 4G drive.  I'm thinking my way through some admin issues on the setup
and will hopefully have it ready to play with in December. I also have a
pair of Origin 200 dual 270MHz (with Craylink, but only 1/2 G ram each)
to add to the mix.

I love toys! 

> > Maybe I shouldn't mention this, but I do have the entire Alias/Wavefront
> > and Lightwave 3D for Irix (and the dual CPU/dual GPU Octane to run them
> > on). Now if I only had time and any artistic ability what so ever...
> > 
> 
> I can help you learn Lightwave thanks to all my years as an Amiga aficionado, 
> desktop multi media maverick and Videot Savant. I used to do freelance work 
> with it and taught it for a few years in Atlanta College of Art 3D classes. 
> 
> I would love to tinker with Lightwave on a rocket like the Octane! I'd even 
> settle for running it on a modern machine like an OS X G4 or G5, but the 
> price tag for the current releases is several hundred dollars more than I can 
> justify, even after the generous upgrade pricing from my Amiga versions.
> 
> I've been keeping an eye on Blender but haven't found time to plow into it 
> yet. A quick glance at Ayam, however, indicates it is worth exploring as a 
> quicker path.
> 
> <old timer mode>
> 
> Of course, anything will beat the days in the mid 1980's when I volunteered 
> CPU cycles on my 7mhz Amiga 2000 for a distributed (sneakernet) QRT rendering 
> project known as the Amiga Atlanta "Epic Ray" video. 
> 
> "Modeling" was a matter of typing long strings of coordinate numbers into a 
> text editor. Sometimes a single frame would take several days to complete. 
> One 24 bit frame would just barely fit on a single floppy disk, and we would 
> have to walk ten miles (through the snow, barefoot, uphill both ways, of 
> course) to deliver our floppy stacks to the one guy who could afford a hard 
> disk, 8 megs of memory and a frame buffer for assembling the frames onto 
> video tape.
> 
> </old timer mode>
> 
> peace
> aaron
> 
> 
> 
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