15 May
2007
15 May
'07
12:46 p.m.
At 08:38 AM 5/15/2007, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Babylon 5 used hopped-up Amiga 2000s w/68040s and
Toasters and
Lightwave for their first season, but I think they switched the
rendering platform to Lightwave on Pentium-class machines for the
remainder of the show. Don't know if they continued to use Toasters
for laying down the rendered images to tape or not.
As I recall, they all used non-video / all-digital methods of
laying down the rendered frames. I remember writing an Abekas
utility at one point for Newtek for someone at the Post Group,
I think it read and wrote Abekas-format data to an Exabyte 8500.
Back then there were video recorders that could cleanly lay down
single frames of video to tape. They may also have simply 'tar'd
rendered frames to Exabytes and delivered them to a post-production
service, who rendered them to high-quality video output.
- John