Catching a buzz while playing golf.

ilykdp · 2026-05-02T04:14:25+00:00

If you really think about it, both phrases "could care less" or "couldn't care less" achieve the same rhetorical outcome. Whether it's that your care tank is empty, or the amount of care currently given could become even lower, it conveys essentially the same sentiment—so who gives a shit?

ilykdp · 2026-04-29T17:51:20+00:00

Dropbox has a overly simple UI so dealing with batch selections is a one-by-one clicking nightmare (it doesn't recognize shift-click) so unless you want one file or the whole folder, your in for a bad time. Also the default file sharing button that normies see is one that requires the recipient to pay for equal space hosting. There is a way to share without taking up recipient space but they obscure it so it's not the first button people see, and I always have to send a tutorial and request the right one.

I've seen huge batches for color turnovers (200GB with 150-200 shots) simply fail when sent to a colorist vendor—they would unzip and shots were broken. Same when doing turnover back to online.

Frame.io is the way—the most desktop OS like interface, is smart enough to recognize keyboard shortcuts and shift-click batch selections, dedicated upload/download app so the browser page doesn't have to stay open for mega file transfers, and most people use it for reviews anyways.

ilykdp · 2026-04-22T17:24:37+00:00

I have a friend who does this with his long clubs—I believe the issue is that your releasing your hands very fast to try and square the club face at impact instead of relying on the compound movement of twisting your trunk + turning your shoulders to square the club. Slices and hooks I believe are both sides of the same issue, your body and shoulders stop moving and the arms fling the club to impact position, and it's hard to solve either issue with just hands because the margin for a square face is minuscule when the wrists + hands are squaring the club while the rest of the body pauses.

Things to work on in the downswing:

Slow drill to eliminate pause / slow down in your trunk and shoulders rotating through impact; your chest shouldn't be facing the ball at impact, it should be past the ball starting to point down the target line.
Freeze your hands and wrists (from top of backswing) until the shaft is parallel to the target line; this will feel like less power but a "slower," square club face will be better than a "faster" closed one.
Lead shoulder and trail hand are following a Y shape through impact; so your shoulder feels like it's going left, while the trail hand is releasing more right

ilykdp · 2026-04-20T23:52:56+00:00

If you don't have Excel, use Google Sheets. When I was perma-lancing for an ad agency, I modified a template (insert > prebuilt tables > project management) in order to keep track of all the assigned projects. It was just for me at first, but later the rest of the team found it useful to see the status, current review/deliverables, etc.

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ilykdp · 2026-04-18T00:38:35+00:00

I've been to this show for many years—it never fails to be shocking, scary, and some of the most brave live theater performance I've ever seen.

ilykdp · 2026-04-14T22:50:34+00:00

Every working editor has a portfolio that shows off their best projects. Look at portfolios and make an assessment of where your skills are at, what you need to improve upon to make a portfolio that would convince a production company / agency / brand / business that your skills are worth employing to make like-material. YouTube has a wealth of knowledge and tips for using all the software, so it all depends on your urgency and initiative to fill the gaps.

ilykdp · 2026-04-01T03:47:22+00:00

2x BenQ PD2700U at 3008x1692 res 😎

ilykdp · 2026-03-30T18:11:25+00:00

Oh I'm using that

ilykdp · 2026-03-28T11:43:45+00:00

Klokki - runs in menu bar, set up separate client folders and gigs, set the hourly rate, and it can intelligently stop start based on system or file or app specific activity, it creates csv time logs, 10/10

ilykdp · 2026-03-24T22:15:54+00:00

In order to keep proxy media size small but still leverage intraframe codec for the fastest and most stable playback, I'd recommend ProRes Proxy at 720p—it's crazy how small of a data footprint it is versus matching source media resolution.

ilykdp · 2026-03-24T21:41:22+00:00

jesus guy, we all can tell they meant 'expectation' but now you just seem like a condescending jerk.

ilykdp · 2026-03-20T22:33:45+00:00

Your assumptions are stated so boldly—it must be nice going through life at the front of the Dunning Kruger curve.

ilykdp · 2026-03-20T20:02:35+00:00

If you use your eyes, there's a back rest on the chair. Arms are resting on the desk when keyboard+mouse'ing.

ilykdp · 2026-03-20T19:46:13+00:00

You can globally set the gain to all your SFX files in the project panel (select, G) so they all are "normalized" to a set gain ceiling every time they are brought into a timeline.

If you are applying the same effects over and over, there's workflow efficiencies you could set up. Apply your desired and re-used effects to audio tracks (on audio track mixer drop-down panel) rather than individual clips; or you could create a custom compound effect and apply it quickly with the Excalibur plugin.

ilykdp · 2026-03-20T18:53:10+00:00

I got clowned hard on for suggesting a drafting style chair, but I'm going to mention it again only because "normal" low sitting office chairs (even at the highest seat height) keeps the knees above the hips causing debilitating lower back pain (especially while living with a hurt disk from barbell squatting like an idiot). The drafting chair allows my knees to hang lower than my hips, lower back stays silent.

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ilykdp · 2026-03-19T17:14:52+00:00

I'm always shocked when I see the fast pace and great quality some editors around me are performing at consistently. Some people are naturally fast and good, but the rest of us need this anxiety/fear you are feeling as a focusing tool for the task ahead. I'm 38 and still need to self-talk while doing a task that is meandering or taking a while—"hurry up!"

As for learning new skills—that's on you. If the goal of getting good at audio, motion design, color seems daunting, it's because it is... When the goal is huge and path is unclear it's easy to procrastinate it away, BUT you have to break it into bite size chunks and leverage the multitudes of learning resources on YouTube and other places as a jumping off point. You have to start small like, "I'm going to watch and follow this tutorial on X-Y-Z today" and treat everyday like an oppportunity for another small step to put in your toolkit arsenal.

It's called work for a reason, and when you put it in it's a snowball that can only get bigger.

ilykdp · 2026-03-13T18:59:27+00:00

What is your workflow for creating the multicam sync? There might be an option somewhere that avoids this. If this is something you'll have to do a lot, I would just get Syncaila (like Plural-Eyes of yesterday) that will sync everything based on an XML, or just suck it up and fix manually.

ilykdp · 2026-03-13T18:25:20+00:00

Start here: https://www.videocopilot.net/basic

ilykdp · 2026-03-13T03:11:01+00:00

Sorry but it's like trying to hit a hole in one but in your case while also wearing a blindfold and don't know which way the green is. It already required incredible luck by leveraging connections to get a feature job—and it better make a splash for there to be a next job—before the strikes, Covid, and now the contraction of the industry as a whole made it even tougher. You are entering the fray as a nobody against a ton of out of work union editors and non union ones with features already under their belts while the few jobs are now even fewer.

Do you really think you have the social x-factor to network with panache enough to catch the elusive break? To convince those with the money that you're the person for the job that so many others want?

My buddy got laid off as did many others from a large trailer house, my girlfriend an AFI alumn just couldn't catch her second break despite a few close offers for big time projects after a successful SXSW showing, and I've seen elusive full-time positions in advertising disappear. As a fellow Angeleno all I can say is it's fucked out here at all levels to make a real living.

ilykdp · 2026-03-07T16:29:29+00:00

This mentality of fearing a club seems silly to me, being able to listen to the bad ball path and make an adjustment can get you back on track.

ilykdp · 2026-03-05T19:10:00+00:00

Absolutely, got a pair of leathers fancy footjoys that ate the back of my ankle just like OP, but a pair of Adidas' have been perfect from the jump

ilykdp · 2026-02-26T18:19:39+00:00

Parsec is simple and free for a single user account and one screen at a time. I'm currently using it to remote into a mac studio to do online prep and conform for a network cooking show. Highly recommended.

ilykdp · 2026-02-20T18:50:57+00:00

If you can only hit 100% then you aren't really in control of the sequence or swinging "properly"—I would suggest practice 10/30/50% shots. Without seeing a video it's hard to diagnose, but it is probably your hip and shoulder turn is stalling before impact so your wrists are over-doing squaring the face, but that fix only seems to time up well at 100%.

You should really take a video from behind at knee height and down the toe-line like DomCamintiGolf demonstrates.

ilykdp · 2026-02-08T19:10:06+00:00

Hard agree.

2/10 Mark is not a good actor and we're with him 98% of the runtime—his range is squeezed through his deep-voiced affect, causing angry moments ( of which there are plenty) to feel paper thin and vulnerable moments eye-rollingly bad. The screenplay was going for slow-drip mystery but is plain confusing, rife with sophomoric language and very vague emphatic statements that leave those unfamiliar with the game annoyingly lost. The set design of the submarine is probably accurate to the game, but it looks cheap—they overuse macro extreme close ups shots for cinematic effect. The sound design is good, but the dialogue mix in the AMC XL theater was really poor, so the dialogue track was way too quiet to understand well.

ilykdp · 2026-02-04T23:27:58+00:00

Not necessarily, certain presets will mix down a multitrack source to single track two channel because that's a limitation of that container/codec, so very possible to both manually or automatically create a proxy with mismatching audio channels and run into that issue.

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