u/Yobrogamer

The announcement in August was that ISRO will step back from routine launch vehicle production and move fully to R&D, deep space and the harder problems, with 120 technologies transferred out to industry.

The case for it is strong and I mostly buy it. ISRO's scientists spending their careers running a production line for a vehicle whose design was frozen decades ago is a waste of the country's best engineers. NASA did a version of this and the result was a launch cost collapse that nobody inside NASA would have achieved. If private industry can build the workhorse, ISRO gets to work on the things only a national agency will fund.

The case against, which I have not seen answered properly anywhere.

One, the technology was developed with public money over fifty years and is being handed to private balance sheets. What does the state get back other than a cheaper invoice later.

Two, NASA's version worked because there was a market with multiple buyers. For most Indian launch demand the government is still the customer, so you may just be converting a public monopoly into a private one with a procurement contract attached.

Three, there are roughly 440 space startups in the country and only about 18 authorised operators. The gap between those two numbers is where this either works or turns into a decade of consolidation.

For people actually working in the sector, is the handover going smoothly on the ground???

I have been using Runway for about a year and overall I have no complaints with the output, Gen-4 does what I need for single shots.

You see , the bottleneck is that when I generate four or five clips I’ll usually notice that there are inconsistencies across them. For instance , suppose shot 3 doesn't match shot 1 because the guy's jacket has changed.

The vast majority of my time and mental energy goes to that loop of regenerating shots and getting it right which isn’t creative and rather annoying beyond a point.

What I really want is a video tool that can produce consistent characters and also assemble them in a timeline.

Has anyone used / found a tool that does this?

For me, it mostly comes down to how much time I wanna spend actually building the presentation versus tweaking every little detail. If I’m putting together an internal concept deck, a visual memo, or something let's say people will mainly view through a link, Gamma tends to be the easier option. It lets me get the structure and story down pretty quickly without getting stuck formatting slides.

PowerPoint still makes more sense when I need a strict brand template, detailed charts, offline reliability, or a lot of hands-on editing from other people.

The free Gamma plan also lets me create up to whole lotta ten slides per prompt and export to common formats, but it has a Gamma branding.

Curious where other people draw the line between the two. When does Gamma make more sense for you, and when do you still reach for PowerPoint?

for whatever reason this was not allowed on the powerpoint sub, think someone is insecure