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thunderspanks posted:Just following up to say the first couple of compilations are now online. Many more to come. speaking of which, what's currently the best tool for auto captioning from audio?
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Resolve does it really well
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Aug 10, 2024 21:32
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honestly didn't know resolve had it
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Aug 10, 2024 21:35
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Trying some filters and stuff to make a semi-convincing VHS rip of a fake 90s Paranormal documentary about an actual supposedly Haunted house https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP1WfNA1wrM
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FreudianSlippers posted:Trying some filters and stuff to make a semi-convincing VHS rip of a fake 90s Paranormal documentary about an actual supposedly Haunted house Not bad but it will always seem off if it's not 4:3 or letterboxed. If you want to get real crazy and have a few dollars to burn, hit up some thrift stores until you find a VCR (ideally 2), and source a capture card. Print the video to physical VHS (a couple of times for some generational loss if you actually found 2 decks) and then rip it back to digital with the capture card. Can't beat the real thing. thunderspanks fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Aug 11, 2024 |
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Aug 11, 2024 05:32
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Alan Smithee posted:speaking of which, what's currently the best tool for auto captioning from audio? I used premiere's auto captions, but they are terrible and I spent a lot of time manually fixing them. It works best with clean VO and decent with otherwise good iso's and such, but for content like this anything will struggle.
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Aug 11, 2024 05:34
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thunderspanks posted:Not bad but it will always seem off if it's not 4:3 or letterboxed. If you want to get real crazy and have a few dollars to burn, hit up some thrift stores until you find a VCR (ideally 2), and source a capture card. Print the video to physical VHS (a couple of times for some generational loss if you actually found 2 decks) and then rip it back to digital with the capture card. Can't beat the real thing. It was supposed to be in 4:3 but I think I hosed something up in the export. I really want to do it properly and do the VHS transfer like you said but finding working VCRs at thrift stores is getting pretty hard. Not as hard as finding tube TVs (which is now impossible as they are considered so outdated that the thrift shops throw away any non flatscreen TVs they get donated without even checking if they work.) but pretty hard.
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Aug 11, 2024 23:28
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FreudianSlippers posted:It was supposed to be in 4:3 but I think I hosed something up in the export. You ain't wrong. I had to use fb marketplace myself- you can find some pretty reasonably priced decks on there in my experience. Be warned though that the rabbit hole of VHS digitization is deep and steep. If this is a one off I'd recommend you just aim for "good enough".
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Does anyone happen to have an old Mac with Final Cut 7? I need to convert an old file to XML but my oldest computer has Mojave on it, which won't run 7. I can't seem to figure out a way to open or convert the file without running Snow Leopard or before. Would love to open this sucker in Premiere, or even Final Cut X.
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What do you mean by file? An FCP7 project file?
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Yeah, I have an old .fcp project file from years ago that I was editing in Final Cut Pro 7, but now it won't open in anything including Final Cut X, and I can't seem to convert the .fcp file to anything without the program itself. I can't install FCP7 on any of the Mac OS versions I have access to since Catalina and up doesn't support 32 bit applications and my oldest machine is running Catalina. Searching around for other people with this issue, it seems like you have to have access to a working FCP7 install in order to get anything usable. e: Found a solution! For Mojave, at least. Someone built a custom program to do just this. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Sep 9, 2024 |
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Sep 9, 2024 18:25
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Why THE gently caress doesn't Premiere analyze Warp Stabilisers during a render.
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Sep 10, 2024 15:05
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I had to use Premiere on a recent job, and never again if I can help it. Love rendering an entire sequence and then having it render it AGAIN on export no matter what settings I use.
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Sep 10, 2024 15:44
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Don't know why anyone would use Premier when Resolve is right there
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Alan_Shore posted:Don't know why anyone would use Premier when Resolve is right there Because everyone uses Premiere and it still does some pretty basic stuff a billion times easier than Resolve. E: Should clarify that I edit for a living, so yeah, everyone in my industry pretty much uses Avid or Premiere.
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Alan_Shore posted:Don't know why anyone would use Premier when Resolve is right there I used to do contract work for a production house that did stuff with the NFL and they had all sorts of bespoke scripting that would only work in Premiere and After Effects
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Sep 10, 2024 17:30
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Well yeah, just because most companies use Premier doesn't mean they should!
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Alan_Shore posted:Well yeah, just because most companies use Premier doesn't mean they should! Buddy, don't I know it
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Sep 10, 2024 17:48
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I'm getting a million ads for some new gizmo called Tourbox Neo or something that looks like a wacky video game controller and claims to make editing and color correction much faster. I'm somewhat suspicious as this feels like one of those things they market to people who think that they just need to get X piece of gear and they'll finally finish their projects (see every single synth ever). I'm not gonna buy it (it costs a lot of money) but I'm curious: Is this something some of you actual editing people use or is it a gimmick? Personally I think it might speed things up eventually once I'd forcefully unlearn the muscle memory of the shortcuts and hotkeys I already use and transfer it over to a new thingamajig but that would probably take a while, especially since the only editing I ever do is my own projects which are sporadic.
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The only use case I can see for it is editing on an iPad. But I can already do that with any old keyboard, and have more controls at my fingertips too vs the handful of buttons and wheels here. It’s a solution in search of a problem.
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I think there's a case to be made for certain controllers that can help with certain editing packages. But I wouldn't look past BlackMagic for their stuff: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/keyboard Or at most maybe using the new Logitech MX Creative things. https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/buy-mx-creative-console.920-012661.html From past experience... most people don't use more than the jog wheel function.
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BonoMan posted:
Yeah. Though the DaVinci once’s look pretty nice, and also have a ton more buttons mapped to common functions so they’re actually usable. But again…I have most common edit shortcuts memorized so it’s not really saving me any time. I think there’s a better argument for their color panels, since they physically put most of the color controls into physical dials and buttons you can manipulate.
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honestly a contour shuttle of some flavor will cover like 90% of what most people need, even the xpress has enough buttons that you can map most of your common tools. the only one of these gimmick panels I've ever seen that looked like it was worth the money was the original loupedeck, and logitech apparently decided to kill that one when they bought the company out in favor of making lovely streamdeck knockoffs
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If you've got a dedicated grading setup then the DaVinci desks are pretty sweet, the trackballs are very natural for pushing the tone about etc. But that's kinda niche. I have a Contour Shuttle for editing and it's fun and useful when I get it out but more often I'm editing on my laptop or else I can't be bothered.
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What are people's thoughts on Vegas Edit 21? I'm largely a hobbyist who makes obscure nerd content for youtube like once or twice a year. I have previously used Vegas Pro 14 and 18 and basically liked them both, although 18 could be a little crash happy. 21 is cheap on Humble Bundle which is why I ask. Is it some big improvement or is it just Vegas: a new one? For that matter, what about Sound Forge? Does that do anything Audacity doesn't?
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Schwarzwald posted:What are people's thoughts on Vegas Edit 21? I used Vegas about 20 something years ago and didn't think it was that bad or anything. Been a long time since I even heard of anyone using it tbh. Regarding price, you can't really top Resolve, of which the free version has like 70% of the features of the fully paid one. Obviously, use whatever NLE you're most comfortable and happy with if you're a hobbyist.
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B&H has the paid version of DaVinci Resolve on sale for $185
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I want to make a video where a drawn avatar speaks in sync to an audio track of a person. Very simple - drawn avatar is 2 images - silent and speaking version. I see tons of apps and documentation for doing that in livestreams with OBS but I have already recorded the audio. I use Adobe apps as well. The audio amplitude effect in after effects seems like it could work but I don't want to script expressions if I don't have to. Any ideas? I'm open to buying a plugin if it means I can do this relatively fast.
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Adobe character animator. I did this a while back, it auto syncs easy. Also it's free with your subscription.
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the_lion posted:Adobe character animator. I did this a while back, it auto syncs easy. Also it's free with your subscription. Ah, cool! Are there any tutorials you recommend for this?
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clockworkjoe posted:Ah, cool! Are there any tutorials you recommend for this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HmSv1dS0nM
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apologies for the dumb question, but is there some type of settings i need to modify in my Premiere Pro/After Effects/Photoshoppe/etc. that doesn't waste inordinate amounts of space? so what happened was, i haven't tinkered around with my video/photo editing programs for a good while, and i had about 10 GB of space left on my hard drive. then within the past week or two i had finally started using them again, and suddenly everything dropped by literally 90%! but here's the thing: i didn't export any new videos, and only a handful of photos (couple MB each, at that). and no, i didn't download any large files of any kind recently either. certainly not enough that would come anywhere close to 9 gigs at least!
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Mr Interweb posted:apologies for the dumb question, but is there some type of settings i need to modify in my Premiere Pro/After Effects/Photoshoppe/etc. that doesn't waste inordinate amounts of space? Each of these programs has a disk cache (or "scratch") that stores temp files as you work for faster retrieval. You need to go into the preferences for each program where you can define where you store it (and generally how large you'll allow it to be.) You can also generally "clear the cache" from preferences or a similar command in each program. Best practices has your program on one drive, your media files you're working with on a second drive and then a third drive dedicated to just scratch storage.
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Mr Interweb posted:apologies for the dumb question, but is there some type of settings i need to modify in my Premiere Pro/After Effects/Photoshoppe/etc. that doesn't waste inordinate amounts of space? You need to periodically clear your cache in these programs. They're typically set to a pretty high gb limit so that's probably where all your data has gone, after effects is likely the worst offender.
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Outside of technical concerns, when you get around 10GB of space, you should start considering that "out of space" I start looking for stuff to clear or expansions any time I start dipping below 50GB
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Yeah you should aim to keep 25% of disk clear at all times if possible. Here are your disk cache locations. After Effects  Photoshop  Premiere - this one is slightly different. In preferences you'll find "media cache" but that is *not* the scratch location for Premiere. You open a project, go to file, go down to Project Settings and locate "Scratch Disks" there. 
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thanks, guys! sadly though, it seems this might not have been the cause of my rapid hard drive space filling up. or at least, not much of it, as i was only able to get rid of 1 GB that was taking up space. unless i'm going crazy or something, but i'm pretty sure i had far more before, and shrunk in the span of a very short time frame anyway, i suppose it's moot. i deleted a whole bunch of other large extraneaous files, and now i've got almost 40 GB. but even then, this is for a few handful of remaining videos i plan on editing. after which i'm going to move entirely from my current PC to my brand new one that has a whole order of magnitude more space 
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I'm suddenly having this weird issue with clips captured using Nvidia's desktop capture feature being washed out, but only in Davinci Resolve and in the finished product: The original clip looks normal in VLC, but looks like the above both inside DR and after being cut and rendered. Apparently it's an issue with Nvidia because I tried Steam's game capture and didn't have the problem, nor did I when I tried with a random downloaded video. I use HDR on the relevant monitor, but I have for months and the problem only started a day or two ago, possibly when I updated nvidia drivers. I just tried reinstalling drivers to no avail. Anybody know how to fix this? e: Nevermind, I fixed it by toggling this setting off: 
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XPost from the Streaming Thread since it moves kinda slow and I figured there might be more tech chat ITT: OBS technical question: Is there a way to run a macro (not sure if this is the right word, Blackmagic uses it for their ATEM switchers) inside OBS that will, on regular time intervals, cross dissolve to a different video input? I'm looking to run a livestream in a few days. I've got one camera and capture card, but I want the stream to cross dissolve to a still image with the stream details, say every minute or so, then cross dissolve back to the video feed after a few seconds. On my ATEM Mini at home this is pretty easy (at least, to dissolve between HDMI inputs on the unit), but I'm bringing a more barebones single-camera setup to the cottage and I'm curious to see if I can do this within OBS. Thanks!
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