shundi82
@shundi82@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Christmas message from Batman 1 day ago:
So I take it the bells also do not jingle? :-P
- Comment on True Love 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on She must be unhinged 1 month ago:
There’s actually a JCSS parody told from the view of the innkeeper:
- Comment on Wake Up! 4 months ago:
Here you go create another fable.
- Comment on Any recommendations for digitizing DV tapes? 4 months ago:
OK, followup to my last “PS”. Even though no one asked, but I’ve got some upvotes:
Here’s a short function I didn’t test extensively (can’t post the one I use, because that one’s specific to our work and is intertwined with more of our functions like checking a file’s extension and properties to automatically determine its field order and if it needs to be deinterlaced):
It worked in a few short tests, so it should be OK, but if anyone notices a problem, feel free to add to that:
function tff_for_all(clip c, string "fieldorder") { #Usage if source is TFF: tff_for_all("tff") | else if BFF: tff_for_all() or tff_for_all("bff") fieldorder = default(fieldorder, "bff") c fieldorder == "bff" ? propSet("_FieldBased", 1).AssumeBFF().DoubleWeave().SelectOdd() : last propSet("_FieldBased", 2).AssumeTFF() }
- Comment on Any recommendations for digitizing DV tapes? 4 months ago:
PS: Since AVIs don’t store the field order, QTGMC+ will fail at detecting the right field order.
AVISynth+ will assume BFF, which is correct for pretty much any DV (there are very few exceptions). But QTGMC+ will try to be clever and assume the field order on its own. And might determine your field order to be TFF (since that is its default).
If you need it, I’ll provide you with a script to change the field order to always be TFF.
- Comment on Any recommendations for digitizing DV tapes? 4 months ago:
Professional here, who’s been doing it for 20 years as part of his job.
Use your cams DV in/out port (should be where you’d also find the svideo port according to your cam’s manual).
Install a FireWire card into your PC (or an addon card, if you’re using a laptop).
Connect both via a FireWire cable (usually 6 to 4).
If your tapes are HD, stick to Sony’s software.
If your tapes are SD, use ScenAlyzer Live (free and will even work on Windows 11): www.scenalyzer.com
If you want to transfer your tape as one single AVI file, set the Audio sample rate to 44.1 kHz within ScenAlyzer - that way the audio will match across every frame, no matter how it was recorded. Trust me, it’s the only way to not have audio run out of sync once you convert into anything but DV.
Alternatively you can automatically transfer scene by scene and convert each scene’s audio sample rate individually before editing/combining them. Just be aware, that in a scene to scene transfer you might end up with >200 scenes per tape. Which would make the next steps harder (or you’d need some batch preprocessing).
Short tldr for the following part, where I just go through my ideal setup without much of a “how to” explanation:
If you’re OK with not being up to date and “just” using QTGMC (without the +), here’s a tutorial on how to set it all up (only watched the first few minutes, but he sounds competent and the comments are very positive, too):
youtube.com/watch?v=C4PyyQoz6eo
End of the tldr.
Next is deinterlacing. And nothing compares to QTGMC+, if you have the patience to set it up:
github.com/Dogway/Avisynth-Scripts
Make sure to also download all the filters it depends on and, of course, setup AVISynth+:
github.com/AviSynth/AviSynthPlus/releases
That, in turn, will also allow you to deal with crappy DCT artifacts, if you have them (vertical lines, colors - especially red - “bleeding” and being blocky) by rotating the image by 90°, cleverly blending lines and rotating back 270°.
And really, AVISynth+ is great for every other step, you might want to add:
Denoising via SMDegrain + pre filter, getting more details out of highlights via gamma/levels manipulation, deshake, deflicker, sharpen, dehalo, deringing, crop, trim and of course resizing (there’s even more stuff like tossing bad frames and interpolating new clean ones, but you get the idea).
Regarding resizing within AVISynth+: I’m not a fan of artificial upres in videos unless I’m desperate (R-ESRGAN etc), so I mostly stick to Spline64Resize. It’s good, it’s fast, it’s reliable, it doesn’t introduce ringing.
Once you’ve set everything up and created your script, you just need to pipe the script into the converter of your choice. Most will prefer ffmpeg (I use python to pipe as a watchdog, but that might be too elaborate for your case):
- Comment on Amazon's so helpful 5 months ago:
I like its answers and its “fine, have it your way, whatever” attitude at the end of your conversation.
- Comment on Part of this complete breakfast! 5 months ago:
It would have been even better, if I’d said:
“An excellent source of irony.”
But alas, I’m not that witty on the spot. :-P
- Comment on Part of this complete breakfast! 5 months ago:
Hah, the ir_ony. :D
- Comment on The 50 Most Disappointing Movie Sequels of All Time 5 months ago:
I actually really like Lethal Weapon 4.
It has some genuinely great action scenes and comedic moments (the shootout with the armored guy, the scene on Roger’s boat, the scene with the therapist, Leo + Chris Tucker talking about cellphones, the misunderstanding of “gay” Tucker vs boyfriend Tucker and its conclusion at Uncle Benny’s dentist, the ultimate shootout + Jet Lee confrontation and the schmaltzy ending).
If you cut out the Asian family, most of the romantic + pregnancy stuff and maybe reduce some Chris Tucker (I like him, but I can see, how some people find him annoying), you get an A+ action flick.
It’s still not Lethal Weapon 2 - but you’ve got to have your plateau somewhere.
- Comment on The shittiest shitpost 6 months ago:
“Did I tell you about my mom and dad? Well, my mom and dad went on vacation down at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. This was about…six years ago, I think. Seems like it was six, about six years ago…six or seven, possibly seven, could be. Somewhere in there, six, seven: more than six, less than seven. Let’s call it six and a half. So my mom and dad went on vacation at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and my dad found a big rock. …What he thought was a big rock; turns out it was a dinosaur turd. A petrified dinosaur turd, twenty-seven-pounder.”
“You know, now that I think of it, it might have been eight years ago. That would’ve been close to Y2K, wouldn’t it? Remember Y2K? Whatever happened? Everybody was all worried about that; nothin’ ever happened. Hahahahahaha. Big fuss…nothin’ ever happened! You know? God, that’s strange, you know? So let’s say…we’ll say it’s eight years ago, it was either eight or five.”
“So my dad gave my mom this big turd; he said, ‘Here, Mom, this is a big dinosaur turd; put it in your purse and take that home.’ My mom said, ‘Dad, I don’t think this is a dinosaur turd; this thing is still warm. Whoever dropped this thing is still walking around in here, and we better get the fuck outta this cave!’”
“Nine years ago! Nine. I know it was nine because my wife was pregnant with our first boy, Mak Mudi Ben’el Said ben Salaam. And he’s ten now. …Or is he? He’s eleven, maybe he’s eleven. He’s either eleven or five.”
- Comment on Anon catches his wife 7 months ago:
- Comment on FBI identified suspect in California acorn attack 9 months ago:
Suspect is hat-less, I repeat: hat-less!
- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
But the poster you replied to has a point:
Just like most animals the greater majority of people try to avoid as many direct conflicts as possible IRL. And they’re full of empathy and compassion - even for other animals in distress and inanimate objects (saw off the fingers of a plastic doll in front of others and see how they treat you afterwards).
But of course people will lose a part of that compassion etc once they move within society without feeling like a part of it. One example is driving a car. You’re way less aware of being a part of society even though you’re “swimming” in it. Feeling a strong individual agency and being empowered by two tons of steel while simultaneously being greatly restricted by everyone and everything around you will do that to you.
Same goes for the (social) media landscape. We feel empowered by our own echo chambers and/or chosen media outlet while barely interacting with anyone who could challenge our beliefs (which, funnily enough, is often the right call in that context, because we can’t change strong opposing beliefs via social media). And since it’s all an indirect, mostly faceless interaction, our beliefs will automatically be strengthened and we’ll be more likely to agitate anyone with opposing beliefs (while still avoiding any direct conflict).
So I’d say it’s more of a flaw in our design, that is being exploited, than a general lack of sympathy/empathy (of which we actually have plenty).
Which means you can’t hold any one individual to higher standards. Because that’s not where we “fail”. It’d take a much broader appliance of social securities (housing, food, healthcare, education etc all over the world) and a fundamental change in the way we interact. But you and I won’t change that (though I guess it’s comforting telling ourselves that we could individually change things on a greater scale).
- Comment on What show took you the longest to get into? 1 year ago:
For me it’s “The Mighty Boosh”.
I fell in love with my now ex-wife (then girlfriend) in no small part because she had great humor and I liked a lot of the shows she liked.
So when one day in 2010 she raved about “The Mighty Boosh”, of which she owned all DVDs including the live stuff, I had to check it out.
I started watching S01E01 and felt like watching someone’s fever dream trying to recreate a kid’s show. Same for the second, third etc episode.
Usually I’d have long given up on that show. But there had to be something to it, if she loved the show so much.
So I started watching season 2 (“Milky Joe” or “The Priest and The Beast”, I can’t really remember) and it clicked immediately. From there I binged all other episodes + season 3 + season 1 - and I loved it all.
And thanks to that I discovered other gems from the same “circle” like “Snuff Box”, “Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place”, “Luxury Comedy” and “The IT Crowd” (some episodes haven’t aged well, but others are just filled with gold).
- Comment on What are some RPGs for someone who doesnt like most RPGs 1 year ago:
Prey’s currently on sale and one of the most memorable gaming experiences I’ve had in recent years.
You’ll be hooked within the first 10 minutes of playing, I guarantee it:
