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You probably have zero chance of getting your hands on the software, but in the late 90s TV ststions ran their weather graphics off of SGI workstations with som
by nitrogen 6y ago
You probably have zero chance of getting your hands on the software, but in the late 90s TV ststions ran their weather graphics off of SGI workstations with some software based in part on something called Inventor. The software was incredibly easy to use for building 3D animations, which were baked to video with built-in loops and pauses for the weather segment.
If your meteorologist didn't want to hold a remote, the weather producer would have to sit in front of the workstation with their hand over the spacebar waiting for the right cues to advance to the next loop/pause point.
- reaperducer 6y agoIf your meteorologist didn't want to hold a remote, the weather producer would have to sit in front of the workstation with their hand over the spacebar waiting for the right cues to advance to the next loop/pause point. At some stations, it wasn't about the talent not wanting to hold the remote, it was about the station not having an engineer on staff who could rig up the remote. At many stations in the 90's, and even some today, the "remote" is nothing fancier than a garage door opener, with the relays hooked into a breakout box to a DB25 serial port.