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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

No more keyboards!!!

Wow, I am speechless, that was truly a marvel!
 
Wow, as posted on Vimeo, I'm selling my Cinema displays for one of those :) and off course my house too and my Denali :(

Jokes aside this technology is nothing short of amazing and widely in use by the Military and other special agencies off curse has been feature, since Tom's film "Minority Report", in just several TV series including CSI's.


Wish I was 16 years old and had a life of technology ahed of me to enjoy :)

ciao
 
I remember back in 1991 when I bought my first voice-control systems for our Macs. It was going to be the way of the future until about 4 of us in the same room started driving each other nuts. Most of us simply don't have an area big enough for a system like this and user volume drives software development. Further, it would require voice control as well for all textual input and special commands (which time has proven people don't like). Not saying this won't happen commercially, just saying it may be a long time before it's mainstream. It's like video conferencing vs. text chat, people really just don't like to broadcast their not-so-photographic, everyday selves and probably never will until society expects it from them.

-shooter
(michael zaletel)
 
In regards to the keyboard, you could put all the letters on the bottom flat screen and just type with your fingers i guess.

I know i am just being lazy but i like resting my elbows on the table sometimes. Can you imagine a 12hr day of editing like that, your arms would be killing you.
 
Ever try to touch type on a touchscreen? Good luck.

I like knobs. And buttons. Are keyboards ideal for editing? No. Not at all. But if I'm going to be building an editing bay I would prefer a hardware console to an elaborate touch screen.
 
Be careful what you wish for...

I still remember the gesticular editing with a huge Quantel tablet; at first it seemed fun, but it was a real pain.

I think most of us remember the "amazing" early voice recognition systems, there were even some video editing applications. Again, what we thought was cool, turned out to be very impractical.

For interface speed, I don't know of anything that beats a keyboard.

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
I don't know this takes things like zbrush to a whole new level. It is like going back to the clay...on a computer.

It is interesting and exciting.

Very nice!
 
I believe the people who did this (Oblong Industries) are led by the same person who actually did the Interactive Displays in "Minority Report". Don't remember his name but he is a researcher in Human Computer interaction who invented the gesture language used by Tom Cruise in the movie.

This is taking that and making it into a real system. They actually were doing demo's at Sundance this year.

So this really is the way Pre-Crime edits video.
 
Leo Ticheli said:
Be careful what you wish for...

I still remember the gesticular editing with a huge Quantel tablet; at first it seemed fun, but it was a real pain.

...

For interface speed, I don't know of anything that beats a keyboard.

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
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I work on Quantel Paintbox over 3 years now and I love that simple GUI with getsures - works best with tablet. Especially I love to edit on it beause its very simple and I am not distracted with tons of frames, windows, buttons, scales, icons etc. etc. (but mostly because its noncompressed real time machine :cute:). Once a month when I have to work on FCP it is real pain for me, and all that tiny text and tools makes me mad. Its antihuman.

But Quantel is still full of basic bugs which bugs me.:unhappy:

Also I loved philosophy of Kai Krause and his KPT plugins for Photoshop back then. It was simple and fun.
 
Just thinking about having to stand and make wide, waving movements with both of your hands all days makes one tired. Stuff like this is only practical for really short periods, like reviewing thing or so. Actually, what makes Wacom tablets etc. practical is that it enables you to do inputs with the least amount of arm/hand movement.
 
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