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From: Ted Stethem <tstethem@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>
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Subject: Long help message
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This isn't strictly a Lightwave message but since there are so many
professionals here (and nice guys, at that!), I thought I might be able to
get some help and advice here. I am about to make the plunge into the
professional 3D modeling, rendering and animation field but only part-time,
free-lance. Yes, your first thought is probably, "Give it up, don't even try,
unless you want to eat, dream, breath 3D 24 hours of every day...". But, I
really want to try to make a go of it. Besides, if I fail, it
will be inconsequential to everybody but me, but if I succeed, watch out!
I am not about to compete with Industrial Light & Magic, Foundation
Imaging, Colossal Pictures or any of the other heavyweights. In fact, I am
just going to try to fill a niche market in my immediate area, hopefully in
areas like courtroom visualization, engineering and architectural
visualization, marketing and training tapes, and possibly local cable
advertising.
I plan to use Lightwave primarily. With the unlikely resurrection of
the Amiga, my plans for an accelerated A4000T have essentially disappeared.
So, I am looking at a Pentium with Lightwave 4.0, either Windows or
WindowsNT, as my main rendering platform.
What I really need help with is getting to videotape. My budget is
probably low to moderate, relatively.
1. Is the PAR the best price-to-performance system to get single frame
animations to videotape? Is the quality acceptable for commercial broadcast
TV (local cable advertisements)? How about the V-Lab Motion, is it a viable
alternative or even better?
2. Is S-VHS high enough quality or is Hi-8 better? Is either format
acceptable for professional use? Which is better, Hi-8 or S-VHS
recording/editing equipment?
3. If S-VHS or Hi-8 is acceptable, which deck is recommended? Is the
Sanyo GVR-S950 Single Frame S-VHS a good, better, or not recommended recorder?
What about the Sony EVO-9650 Hi-8 Single Frame Recording VCR? Is it a
necessity to get a single frame recorder for animation recording and editing
or is it just a convenience? Is it better to look at combination editing
decks instead?
4. Where does the Flyer fit into all of this? Doesn't the Flyer need a
Toaster-equipped Amiga? Would it be a dead-end to consider the Flyer as an
alternative editing/animation recording system, I mean, sinking all that
money into an Amiga system that will probably be unsupportable in a couple of
years or sinking roughly the equivalent amount of money into a PC system that
will also probably be creaking into obsolescence in a couple of years, but
with the greater likelihood of third party support still being around?
5. Any recommendations for an all-around animation/editing/recording
suite? Do you have a set of components that are working for you right now,
in a single person or limited partnership work environment?
Thanks in advance for any help, advice or tips you might be able to
provide.
"I'm wired, I'm wired!", the net newbie shouted excitedly.
SPLAAATTT!*?!@! Now, he is just more roadkill on the information
superhighway.