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Nvidia Releases Hardware-Accelerated Film Renderer

Posted by timothy on from the smart-use-of-hardware dept.

snowtigger writes "The day we'll be doing movie rendering in hardware has come: Nvidia today released Gelato, a hardware rendering solution for movie production with some advanced rendering features: displacement, motion blur, raytracing, flexible shading and lighting, a C++ interface for plugins and integration, plus lots of other goodies used in television and movie production. It will be nice to see how this will compete against the software rendering solutions used today. And it runs under Linux too, so we might be seeing more Linux rendering clusters in the future =)" Gelato is proprietary (and pricey), which makes me wonder: is there any Free software capable of exploiting the general computing power of modern video cards?

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  1. Word up bitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    J to the P, niggers.

    1. Re:Word up bitches by Jim+Florentine · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    2. Re:Word up bitches by Quim · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Welcome back slut.

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      >> From the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. -- M
  2. Happy Birthday Hitler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. moo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First ?

    1. Re:moo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, slut.

  4. For low res, general computing power is too cheap by Sancho · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Even a low end computer these days will be capable of rendering DVD quality video in a short time with many filters in place. I routinely use free tools (AVISynth being the biggest) as well as inexpensive encoders (TMPGEnc, and I want to try CCE Basic one of these days) to make DVDs from my video. I filter the hell out of my video, and it rarely takes more than 7x realtime on my Athlon XP 2800. Usually it takes much less time. And TMPGEnc is considered a fairly slow encoder. With a P-IV and CCE, I would probably cut that time in half, at least.
    Using a higher resolution source would certainly slow down the process, but is it really enough to warrant paying high prices for this sort of software? Probably not. If you are going for real quality, you'll probably spend much more time working out the processing for the video than the time you will spend encoding. If you just want something simple, you probably aren't going to need this hardware because for simple, general computing power is definately fast enough. Without filters, I encode at roughly half-realtime for Full-D1 DVD resolution, for example.

  5. Re:Gelato or Gensto? by Quim · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bitch, please.

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    >> From the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. -- M
  6. gamespot.slashdot.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do you know gamespot.slashdot.org?