[Tig] color

[Robert Houllahan]

> No-one, I think, who has any serious knowledge of colour correction
> seriously expects a software application that runs on a desktop
> computer to be a proper colour processor. Even given the eight core
> Mac that we all secretly crave but cannot justify buying, it is never
> going to be able to do the realtime stuff that Pandora's Revolution
> board does so remarkably - almost unbelievably - well

Ouch I would definitely watch out here, I saw scratch doing realtime  
2k grading with significantly less power than a 8 core mac, albeit  
with a very beefy video card. I demoe'd Baselight and Lustre are  
these not to be considered "desktop" apps? just because they have a  
bunch of CPU's behind them? I think a 8core mac has about half the  
computing horsepower of a current Baselight 4 and that's allot of power.

Other industry has had custom hardware for things like Financial  
modeling or fluid dynamics, old Cray anybody,  but they have found  
that if you take enough off the shelf CPU's and string them together  
you can do as much or more as a custom asic......


And I think the "hardware" systems are cool but the dam'n computers  
just keep getting faster and faster like a spreading infection.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
rob at cinelab.com
Filmmaker
Vp Cinelab Inc.
www.cinelab.com