Quote Originally Posted by Spam Butterfly
Firstly, it's not the media server that does the artistic images - it's the person who uses it and what they do with and the person who creates the content for it.
Hugh
Right! But you need the tool to be able to do it.

Quote Originally Posted by Spam Butterfly
20 Layers - what does that mean? 20 Images? 20 movies? What?
The A/B Mix paradigm is difficult to map to a lighting console.
Hugh
A layer can be:
- a video file (animated or not),
- or a BMP (animated or not),
- or a real-time effect like ribbons, real-time ocean, smoke etc...

Why would the the A/B system difficult to map?
It a 16-bit DMX channel and you make a transistion between two sets of layers.

Quote Originally Posted by Spam Butterfly
Essentially Maxedia works off a standard, although powerful PC, with a Radeon 9800 graphics card and a 7200 rpm hard disk. As we already know from Catalyst - there's a limit to how many SD movies you can actually run off a hard drive - particularly something as lowly as a 7200 rpm drive, and it's well below 20!
Hugh
Of cource of you start running 20 video files from the S-ATA drives (150Mbyte/sec) then it starts dropping frames. Hey it's still a computer!
But since it does a lot of real-time stuff inside the graphic card they layers can go up without dropping the frame rates too low. I usually kept something like 60-70 fr/sec.