Computers, Tech and More!

Spector_Otterquill 2022-02-10 02:00:05 UTC #287

No, that happened today.

Jayhawk_Greencape 2022-02-10 02:00:40 UTC #288

Ah. Huh. IDK. Is it?

NOT Talk ALL YOU WANT V!

Spector_Otterquill 2022-02-13 00:08:09 UTC #290

Can a mod open this link and post a screenshot of where they go?
https://forums.theaetherlight.com/t/1

Hans_Oddcraft 2022-02-13 04:50:55 UTC #291

We get the same as you.

Jayhawk_Greencape 2022-02-13 14:11:55 UTC #292

Where is is supposed to go?

Spector_Otterquill 2022-02-13 15:43:47 UTC #293

I was just wondering if it was a private topic or didn't exist.

Spector_Otterquill 2022-03-29 17:04:58 UTC #294

So glad you asked(me right?)!
I do and it is very lovely.

Jayhawk_Greencape 2022-03-29 18:28:39 UTC #295

We have an Ender 3. My dad got it rather cheap somewhere. (IDK where. Amazon, Black market, it's all the same...)

Riley_Lightgrate 2022-06-07 15:14:25 UTC #296

That's the worst haha! Meanwhile I added a second M.2 to my desktop a couple of months ago and have hardly used it yet...

Here's my disk management page for anyone who's curious:

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2022-06-07 18:53:20 UTC #297

That’s pretty sweet! I see that you favor 500 GB drives over my typical terabyte, though you can probably get away with that because desktops have more physical space to put things in.

Riley_Lightgrate 2022-06-07 21:05:54 UTC #298

The most recent addition would have been 1 TB if I could go back- I bought it to store virtual machines but will more likely use it for video editing. I just bought a Atamos Ninja V recorder which records ProRes at very high data rates, so I will need the space.

The other two 500 GB are the original NVME drive I put in this computer 4.5 years ago and one I took from my dad's PC when he upgraded to 1 TB.

If I get more into video work I will need to rebuild my PC in the near-ish future anyway.

Riley_Lightgrate 2022-06-09 02:42:46 UTC #299

Yeah there is so much to learn in terms of filmmaking now that I'm getting back into it... In the meantime here is my new camera rig!

My head is kind of spinning thinking about all of the new settings to learn.

Jayhawk_Greencape 2022-06-09 12:15:05 UTC #300

I took a Skill Share class for photography and learned a LOT. (Also if you are interested, like, a lot, talk t me on Chess.com. :0) )

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2022-06-09 20:13:42 UTC #301

Heh. My brother who does video Lets Plays has a 16 TB drive to store all of his footage. Filmmaking is very hard on storage. As Max Joseph (a film editor) put it: “Here are my hard drives. You can never have enough.”

I took a film editing class at my local community college and that proved to be very instructive. If you’re over 16 (or 18) you can probably get into one of those over the summer, and that will help you immensely with whatever films you decide to make.

Riley_Lightgrate 2022-06-10 02:18:26 UTC #302

Yeah I can believe that. What games does he record?

I've estimated the data rate for ProRes 4k at 24 fps is 470-700 Mbps (small b, so divide by 8 for megabytes) which is insane... Granted I could (and would) delete the raw files after finishing an edit unless the raw files were worth keeping.

I just got my associates degree in computer science and am considering taking some video courses from the same school. They are quite cheap at ~$190 per credit.

I also talked to the "Creative Strategist" who is the marketing/video lead at the company I work for (as a web developer) and he is open to me helping with some of their editing tasks. The big question there is how that will work with me working remotely most of the time. I use a virtual windows session while the editors use Macs.

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2022-06-10 07:00:36 UTC #303

Whatever games he wants to play. His main deal is old Bionicle games, but he’s branched into obscure Japanese and Korean visual novels, Control, Ace Attorney spin-offs, and the World’s Hardest Game.

Yeah, in video editing class we had special servers to handle 4K speeds, otherwise we would be bogging down our computers something fierce. I wouldn’t risk shooting 4K unless I was sure my editing hardware could handle the strain.

Congratulations!

Technically it’s easier to video edit on a Mac. The issue I think is not so much video but audio editing, since iTunes is slightly more powerful on Mac than Windows, and Macs have access to GarageBand and ProTools. I have edited video on both Mac and Windows, so the latter is pull-off-able. You just need to install the right software.

You’ll need to pay the Adobe overlords and install Premiere Pro, which you can install on Windows (get the student discount), and you’ll probably want to install Audacity (free) which will help with the sound editing. Both of these can be installed on Windows. If you’re stuck on Windows, try to take on tasks that don’t involve sound as much, because otherwise your workflow will become unintelligible to your Mac-using co-workers. You may also need Adobe Aftereffects as well, but I would start with learning the ropes of Premiere first before diving into that more complex program.

Happy video editing to you.

Jayhawk_Greencape 2022-06-10 14:24:29 UTC #304

I edit videos on Windows with Movie Studio Platinum (I use 17 currently, but most versions are good). It's a nice (Paid) program that helps with audio and video edits.

Riley_Lightgrate 2022-06-10 21:06:03 UTC #305

And this isn't 4k from a typical camera, it's 4k 10 bit with 4:2:2 subsampling. However, it may edit more smoothly than smaller files that are more heavily compressed.

I can't speak to the audio side of things, but having used Premiere and After Effects both on PC and on Mac they behaved identically, with the Mac being slightly slower because it was weaker than my home PC.

Davinci Resolve is looking better by the day in part because of that . And I can no longer claim student discounts as I am not going back to school yet. Resolve is a single $300 payment for a lifetime license.

The editing workflow has two modes, one like Premiere, one more like Final Cut (the last one appears to be a new feature).

For visual effects you have Fusion built in, which differs heavily from After Effects in that it is node based instead of layer based. It has Fairlight built in for sound, but I have not used it.

Of course, if I do more video work at work they will end up giving me a Creative Cloud license that I can use at work or at home anyway.

Sierepica_Fuzzywalker 2022-06-10 23:41:18 UTC #306

If you’re just doing video, that’s way better than $50 a month for CC. I just use too many CC programs at the moment otherwise to ditch it, though as I adjust my career path I may evaluate that expense.

This has pretty much been my experience too. But I find the file system and shortcut keys to be irritating on a Mac. Someone who is used to to them might find the experience to be smoother for audio/video/image editing.

Having used both, I can tell you that Mac feels like it’s supposed to used for that (as opposed to Windows with feels business-y and Linux which feels like it’s supposed to be used for programming) but other than the audio advantages I mentioned previously it doesn’t seem to be anything concrete. The Mac looks shinier than the grainy old Windows desktop though, so it could be all eye tricks.

Riley_Lightgrate 2022-06-11 17:16:31 UTC #307

Right now I pay for their photography plan since I haven't found a Lightroom Alternative. Though I expect to do less photography as I focus more on film.

The growing pains I am experiencing in Resolve so far are

Keyboard shortcuts don't match Premeire even though I selected the option to use Premiere defaults (I think?)
Not exactly resolve but I am unable to play back ProRes 422 smoothly in VLC media player. It runs perfectly in Resolve so it's not an issue of computer performance.

Speaking of computer performance, this is what I've got currently: