MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Friday, 19-Dec-97 04:25:36 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 8605 Last-Modified: Friday, 01-Aug-97 21:08:46 GMT ElSet POST

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Advanced Virtual Set Production with the highest degree of realism from ELSET software running on a variety of low-cost Silicon Graphics Computer Systems.

ELSET FOR LOW COST SILICON GRAPHICS COMPUTERS

Now ultimate quality virtual sets can be produced for a fraction of the cost typically associated with virtual sets. ELSET POST enables video producers to shoot their productions while seeing a preview of the live scenes using a Silicon Graphics o2 computer system. ELSET POST utilizes Alias to create the set and to view scenes during production. Other popular packages including Softimage are planned for the near future. During production, camera moves in addition to animation triggers are recorded on the o2. After the production is complete, the virtual scenes are rendered using the o2, or another Silicon Graphics workstation or server, and are then recorded to Accom s WSD/Xtreme. Through integration of the WSD/Xtreme, virtual set program assembly can be easily automated. By rendering the virtual scenes off-line, even complex scenes with ray tracing and particle animation may be produced that are not possible in real-time virtual set productions.

AUTOTEX AND ELSET RENDERER FORMULAS

An option for ELSET POST is the AutoTex process. A unique feature created originally for ELSET LIVE, AutoTex provides an automated texture rendering process for Alias models specifically designed for use in a virtual set. AutoTex enables advanced lighting from Alias to be applied to textures during this process. Sets treated with AutoTex are rendered by the ELSET renderer in a fraction of the time needed by Alias renderers.

ELSET POST ENHANCES ELSET LIVE

Any set created for ELSET LIVE can be enhanced using ELSET POST Some sets are too complicated to run in real time even on the most powerful Onyx platforms. By using ELSET POST even the most complicated of sets can be used for virtual set productions. Once the production has been shot, scenes too complicated to be rendered by ELSET LIVE can be post produced using the ELSET POST process. This approach gives the program producer the greatest degree of freedom possible in creating productions.

FEATURES

SCALEABLE VIRTUAL SET SOLUTIONS

Accom has a full line of ELSET virtual set systems that can be operated on standard SGI and NT computer platforms giving you the option of live, near-live or off-line program production. With the industry’s widest range of virtual set systems, ELSET has a solution for virtually every professional video producer.

For more information, see also:

LIVE for SGI Onyx or Onyx2

LIVE-NT for WindowsNT PC with the Real3D Graphics Engine

POST-NT for WindowsNT PC running Studio 3DMax

or e-mail "elset@accom.com"

Accom is a registered trademark of Accom, Inc. ELSET is a trademark of Accom, Inc. All other product and company names are the property of their respective owners.

rev. 5/2/97

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