Robert Sharp of Digieffects sent me this article,
Editing on Big Films Is Now Being Done On Small Computers by Lee Gomes, published today in the Wall Street Journal. Note, the article is posted to a forum because you need a subscription to the WSJ to read the article.
For most of us, this is a
Ric Romero sort of headline. I thought it was worth mentioning though because Phillip Hodgetts and Red Giant's "plug-ins" are mentioned in the article.
Avid software does just about anything you could ask -- for a price. The company's flagship Media Creator package runs $5,000. Philip Hodgetts, who follows the industry for Creative Planet, says Avid has an epic fight on its hands from newer, lower-cost alternatives. Apple sells Final Cut Studio for $1,300, while Adobe's Premiere Pro is just $800.
Thanks to cheap computers, a similar sort of creative destruction is happening everywhere in the industry. Color adjustment used to require expensive oscilloscope-like monitors. It first moved to specialized -- and expensive -- software, but lately it's done with relatively low-cost (say, $200) "plug-ins" by companies like Red Giant Software.
Plus, hell, it's the Wall Street Journal! Doesn't that make you feel warm and fuzzy all over.
Labels: internet
Those videos of a cute kitten falling asleep in it's food bowl on YouTube is causing the net to crash!
Videos have Net bursting at the seams by John Van (Chicago Tribune) discusses how the web is near it's limit. Traffic volumes are high and computing power can't keep up. Yeah, I'd say that's a problem. I think Second Life is really the problem, but I digress...
So, how can you fix this problem? Toolfarm links to videos on the web in our
Inspirations page and we have a big video project in the works (sorry, no spoilers). We're uploading tutorial videos and files, demo downloads, all which can get pretty bandwidth hefty. I also use Vonage and Skype, which are internet phone services. And yeah, I do download a mess of mp3s.
I guess I'm part of the problem, eh.
If the internet does blow up, this could be a good thing. It would probably not happen at once, but blackouts here and there. This would force technology to catch up in a hurry, drastically increasing bandwidth, quality and the substance that currently exists, spreading knowledge and freedom to all corners of the world.
By downloading videos on the web, I'm actually helping someone in the Third World, in my own twisted logic.
Or, it's all just a conspiracy to keep the public in fear and off the internet so "they" can have the bandwidth all to themselves. Yes, I'm sure that's it.
Labels: internet
I'm always looking for ways to monitor the site, track visitors, popular links and different ways of viewing statistics. Tonight I stumbled up on one of the weirdest site graphs I've ever seen -
Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet. The image to the left is basically a dendridic diagram of Toolfarm's home page. At first I thought it was a map of the whole site, but that is not the case.
I wish it were clickable, more like the visual thesaurus, so that I could see what each dot represents, but It's pretty cool anyway. It doesn't seem that useful, but does everything need to be utilitarian? It's fascinating none the less.
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