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Do you know why a wedding is usually took so long preparation time? Generally, a wedding may take place after 4 months or more of the time you made final decision. Why? The answer is to make the wedding ceremony perfect by impressive presentation. If you can't imagine, I recommend you to check out an example at Ju & Na Wedding. I'm not sure but it seems wedding is not just church and hotel but web too. That is the starting point to introduce guests to the wedding. All details are updated often to make sure guests got the correct information. In the ceremony, the most impressive part is presentation. Actually, the 4 months before the wedding are just to make the perfect presentation just right for the couples.

Let's see an example from Ju & Na Wedding again. You may find many wedding have similar presentation just like a short story about the couples. Most of them are flash animations. In other words, those movies are not as smooth as you think because they are just flash. The above example you see is not flash animation but instead it is a real movie. You can do anything you imagine in that video including full 3D animation. My point is 3D animation. That's why you have to spend 4 months, just to render the best 15 minutes video!

Here is the point to apply technology like high performance computing, e.g., cluster computing, grid computing, utility computing and etc to render the video as fast as possible. Actually, rendering 15 minutes video is not that slow but the first try might not be the last one. You have to adjust camera and light to make it more beautiful and meaningful. Don't expect too much from your old desktop. Cluster and grid are on your side.

Another point is to encode the video into other formats using different codecs. For example, the original video might be raw MPEG, the video may be distributed in hardcopy with MPEG2 in DVD, high-end users may just need DivX and the most important one is to distribute on the web via streaming flash video like you saw in the example.

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