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by **Jean-Eric Henaul** » Wed, 09 Apr 1997 04:00:00

Hi,

Does anybody knows if Play still works with SoftImage in the development
of Trinity and Digital Studio ?

There seems to have been some sort of problem between the two companies.
I can no longer find any mention of SoftImage on Play's site
(http://www.play.com) nor on SoftImage's (http://www.softimage.com).

Anybody knows what happened ???

Jean-Eric

by **Stranah** » Sat, 12 Apr 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>Anybody knows what happened ???

I don't know what happened exactly - but I know this....SoftImage Digital
Studio was going to be priced at $30,000.

Trinity is now under $5000.

These are different price strategies. SoftImage acted in a clueless
fashion by pricing themselves too damn high when they moved to NT. I
didn't see anything in Digital Studio that justified $30,000....but I
don't see much that DOES...I like the inexpensive strategy...

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by **Tim Bro** » Sat, 12 Apr 1997 04:00:00

>Hi,

>Does anybody knows if Play still works with SoftImage in the development
>of Trinity and Digital Studio ?

>There seems to have been some sort of problem between the two companies.
>I can no longer find any mention of SoftImage on Play's site
>(http://www.play.com) nor on SoftImage's (http://www.softimage.com).

>Anybody knows what happened ???

>Jean-Eric

I have just returned from NAB and both Play and Softimage are acting like it
is an open wound. Neither has anything to say, bad or good, about the other.
As for matrox, their digisuite product was used on the systems that
digital studio was being demoed on. No play inc. product anywhere to be
found( at the softimage booth). But, play was showing thier trinity box and at
a price of only five thousand U.S.. The cheeky bastards had the nerve to have
a booth right across from discreet logic and ran demos of thier virual stuio
apps while discreet was showing thiers.

Tim Brown
Softimage animator and part-time wise ass!!
And A damn proud Canadian!!

by **Stephan Scha** » Sun, 13 Apr 1997 04:00:00

>>Hi,

>>Does anybody knows if Play still works with SoftImage in the development
>>of Trinity and Digital Studio ?

>>There seems to have been some sort of problem between the two companies.
>>I can no longer find any mention of SoftImage on Play's site
>>(http://www.play.com) nor on SoftImage's (http://www.softimage.com).

>>Anybody knows what happened ???

>>Jean-Eric

>I have just returned from NAB and both Play and Softimage are acting like it
>is an open wound. Neither has anything to say, bad or good, about the other.
>As for matrox, their digisuite product was used on the systems that
>digital studio was being demoed on. No play inc. product anywhere to be
>found( at the softimage booth). But, play was showing thier trinity box and at
>a price of only five thousand U.S.. The cheeky bastards had the nerve to have
>a booth right across from discreet logic and ran demos of thier virual stuio
>apps while discreet was showing thiers.

Specially when the price diference is ~100x ....
I heard that the price of digital studio running on the matrox HW was
~80,000$ and had very little feature that trinity did not have for 5000$.
But there are alot of feature trinity as over matrox/digital studio (HW &
SW).

Stephan

by **Tim Bro** » Wed, 16 Apr 1997 04:00:00

Quote:> Specially when the price diference is ~100x ....
> I heard that the price of digital studio running on the matrox HW was
> ~80,000$ and had very little feature that trinity did not have for 5000$.
> But there are alot of feature trinity as over matrox/digital studio (HW &
> SW).

> Stephan

I think that perhaps you may have your signals crossed. Digital Studio has
many features that the trinity box doesn't. Take for instance the compositor.
It had more tools than eddie has and allows you to go back and forth
between all the modules including the paint module which gives photoshop a run
for it's money. In the trinity box, you have to buy the upgrade to non linear
editing, which they neglected to put a price tag on. And no audio editing
tools. Yes trinity can mix incoming audio with video but it cannot isolate it
and tear it appart and place it back in the time line. But don't get me wrong,
the trinity box is a good deal. It will make the PC a staple of middle end
production and post production, much like the toaster did for the Amiga (gee,
same people, sort of ).

I wrote this response not as a my software/hardware is better than yours,
but to point out that there is a difference between the two. Also, take into
consideration that the trinity was supposed to be finished a year ago. Not to
mention that this is the first time the hardware is being shown off. So don't
hold your breath, even thought they have put a price tag on the hardware
doesn't mean that it is ready for public consumption. Anything too good to be
true, generaly is.

Tim Brown
Softimage animator and part-time wise ass!!
And A damn proud Canadian!!

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