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Continue reading →: vid: Final Cut Pro High-Quality Media eating the entire driveOK, I don’t completely understand what is going on with Final Cut Pro, but I have eight videos of about an hour each and I keep running into the dreaded “Disk Full” messages. So here is what I’ve done:
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Continue reading →: Pod: Remastered podcasts are all up!This is just part of learning the system but I republished the remastered versions that bump the SDR pieces to pseudo HDR with HDR Tools. They look pretty good in my iPhone which is awesome! The regrading causes Final Cut Pro to hang for several minutes as it renders away…
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Continue reading →: vid: Regrading SDR to HDR at how many nits.Ok, this has been a really confusing topic that I have to keep reminding myself how it works. But basically, a nit or more properly cd/m^2 Is a measure of how bright a screen is. SDR or standard definition has a range of basically 0 to 100 nits. But high…
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Continue reading →: Mac: making iCloud+ Sharing work and iPhone Activation flakinessOk one issue with Apple iCloud+ is that there’s a limit of six family members (family size-ists!) So we had to create two families and have some duplicate IDs. This family sharing is pretty odd and requires three steps to get going: This took an entire day to get this…
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Continue reading →: tech: Transients suck of Mac Proxy at port 41000 or do and B80587C2 blue screen of death on HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw and ChatGPT is not usefulWow sucky transient problems are the worst. Here are my two of the week… Mac Browsers stopped working As really strange problem. But the jynenety worked fine but not of the browsers did. Safari, Firefox and Chrome all reported no connection and a proxy problem. When I get these I…
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Continue reading →: pod: YouTube Podcast meta data confusionWell, I just spend an day remastering all our podcasts because heck, the colors were bothering me, they look great thanks to the use of HDR Tools and Apple HEVC 10-bit and it only took 2 hours to process this whole mess (so we are running at over 30 fps…
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Continue reading →: vid: The confusion that is a 4K Video HDR WorkflowJust like finally getting a great HDR still image workflow, getting one for video is just as challenging, with the camera setup, I have a special Spyder calibrator with DisplayCal and then getting out true 14-bit RAW output and then using DxO and other systems to get RAW output as…
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Continue reading →: dt3: GPT4 and SVB, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Ok, Deon and Tong’s Third Podcast or maybe Exhaustion cast is a better name. YouTube in 4K HDR Glory Sorry for the continuing video issues, we are recording this in 4K HDR, so if you want to see it in high definition glory, you need an HDR capable screen (like…
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Continue reading →: pod: Streamlined workflow v1.2 and OBS and Zoom bugs
OK, if you can believe it, I’m now doing four podcasts a week. Ok, two are private “video journals”, but still that’s a lot of videos. In the course of this, I’ve learned how to crash OBS and Zoom (a lot!) and how to bring a 64GB M1 Pro Max…
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Continue reading →: tax: HSA and IRA Contribution no brainers
If you can, you should make your Health Spending Account contributions. They are $3650 for 2022 (or so) and $3850 for 2023 for individuals. Basically, this is pre-tax money you put into an account and then you can actually invest this money, so if you are just starting out, then…
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