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Jack Simth said:
It isn't the machine time that's the problem - it's the time of the artists involved that run the machines.
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I am aware of this. When I spoke of technology advances I was refering to software as well as hardware. When computers first started getting into business, database systems were only available to the big companaies that could afford to hire programmers or pay third parties to administer them. Now my dentists office can buy an off the shelf program like Access, or something else specifically tailored to the medical field, and the billing person can maintain it. There's no reason to think image technology won't have a similer progression in time. I can imagine 50 years from now the director could input some basic parameters himself and the computer would do the hard work of turning it into the shot he's got in his minds eye. Then all you need is some actors speaking lines in front of a green screen, or maybe not even that. At some point we'll be to where we don't even need actors. That's fantasy today, but it's coming. When the technology advances to where the computer can interface with your typical non-artist type person, the cost will come down precipitously.