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Incredible stuff.

John I totally agree, I am sure it takes a lot of processing power and time to make it work, but if it can remove objects, It will become a godsend for many productions. I wonder if they have plans to commercialize this.

Hopefully they will follow in the footsteps of Photosynth:

Microsoft Photosynth Buckles Under Demand
http://www.informationweek.com.....=210200469

I’m sure Adobe and others are looking at this.

It will be just a matter of time before we get our grubby mitts on this stuff.

I almost want to sign up for their master’s program up at the University of Washington just so I can be part of this break through - but a las, I don’t want to have to break out my old math books…

It still takes me a while to understand exactly what a logarhythm is… isn’t that a percussionist that uses a fallen tree?

Personally, I think it will have infinitely more advantages to the programmer, rather than the end user… The results I saw were no different than existing programs can achieve, but it uses a different interface… How the software arrives at that result is of little concern to me, there’s only so many things you can learn in life… But if it makes it better, fantastic. The edges of a few of the alpha mattes were kind of terrible, and would likely need some additional garbage matting, unless the process is improved. I see Adobe/Autodesk buying them and incorporating various algorithms or whatever into their software. One of the advantages of the new CS4 suite coming online is the programming of the software to take full advantage of the GFX card, i.e. Cuda by Nvidia… a HUGE potential time saver. Something like this would absolutely have to be reprogrammed to follow suit…

CS4 already???

I see that only SoundBooth and Photoshop are on the list of programs to be reworked… I haven’t even come close to exhausting my possibilities with Photoshop and I could give a rat’s patutti about SoundBooth (give me Audition please)…

The entire lineup will be reworked, Photoshop most extensively, and Premiere most likely least so… The advantage though, is 64 bit processing in a Windows environment… This allows programs like After Effects to use unheard of amounts of RAM… I don’t think people realize just how useful this tiny advance really is. Programs like the Autodesk lineup have major advantages because they’re running in a 64 bit environment. Technically, the Mac OS is 64 bit, but the programs I use aren’t, and for the time being the Adobe lineup will continue to be 32 bit, until the lineup gets reworked due to some last minute OS changes by Apple…

All that means I have to update my editing computer to 64 bit to utilize that feature… that’s a lot of things for me to upgrade. I say that now, but in a year or two, after Adobe’s marketing people get to my brain - I’ll probably upgrade.