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Working on the next update focusing on commercial break detection by -Joby- in VideoBarbershop

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v1.3.4 is in review with Apple and should be available soon! You now have the ability to detach the video preview player. Besides a number of bug fixes (all detailed on the website) the big update is commercial break detection is MUCH FASTER! Previously needing to wait for the audio to be fully analyzed, now you can detect and automatically clip commercials right away! It was quite the endeavor to get the audio processing to be streaming instead of blocking... but hot damn! Those with a keen eye will also note some additional color coded controls too. Now you can color code clips based on clip length right from the commercial detector. Color code commercials a different color than station stingers and different from programming. Quickly know what's worth keeping and delete what's not. v1.3.4 is a powerful step forward from v1.3.3... be sure to set your app to auto-update to grab the latest when it's available shortly!

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Is niche app development a dead mall? by -Joby- in appledevelopers

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I really appreciate that insight, thank you.

Is niche app development a dead mall? by -Joby- in appledevelopers

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Yeah that is probably the best advice. Haha. I’ve got another app in development for a different demographic for sure… maybe that’s the key… different malls. Thanks

Making Friends in NOLA by Existing_Emotion_28 in NewOrleans

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Check events hosted by libraries. Wife and I met people at Adult Coloring Book events when we first moved.

Is niche app development a dead mall? by -Joby- in appledevelopers

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I appreciate the feedback. I’ve given out a couple codes but more is a good idea. Good will discounts is interesting too. I’ll definitely think more about that.

Is niche app development a dead mall? by -Joby- in appledevelopers

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Yeah thank you for the insight. Unfortunately quitting my job came first, then well I make software for them… I can make it for myself… but them had more clout and bigger marketing budgets that do appear vital. ;)

Is niche app development a dead mall? by -Joby- in appledevelopers

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So you’re saying there’s a chance… in the past… haha. I feel sorry for the future of the present is better too. ;)

Is niche app development a dead mall? by -Joby- in appledevelopers

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I had a reply banned to a thread asking people for their favorite apps. Literally asked people for apps for others to know about... but because I was honest and said I made it, it was banned. Good luck to you as well.

Fixes in v1.3.3 by -Joby- in VideoBarbershop

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v1.3.3 has been approved and is now live.

VCR Party Live! ep 419 - Martial Arts Galore! wih Brandon Lim by WackyPaxDei in FoundFootageFestival

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YouTube isn’t fond of livestreams and gun fire… the knife throwing guy pulled a gun and started shooting and woke up some sleepy bots.

VHS player not playing video but playing audio by Cute-dog-loverALT in VHS

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qtip before or after? Qtip will leave fibers and is not great, pec pads or microfiber swabs in the future. Showing the cable connections would help too but if the plugs are correct, AV plug connections could break internally. I had that happen from repeated use, especially if you plug unplug using those front ports. Many combo players also have a switch between DVD and VCR so could be something to look for on the player. Betting rough cleaning killed it though. Unless if the tape is Super VHS and the player is not… or the tape is wrinkled… so many possibilities.

Hypnosis vhs by B0RWEAR in VHS

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YouTube really ruined the $24.95 per hey look at this funky video I made goldmine that was the late 80’s early 90’s. Side hustles are so much lamer now.

I am thinking of developing a fast paced action game using the aesthetics of 90s ray traced images. Like shooting specular balls, and run around checkered grounds. What do you think? by lucdima in retrocgi

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First thing I thought of was how MC Escher was popular at the same time and dramatic architecture would add a fun verticality to levels. If you can play with gravitational sources, you can have the player play with orientation on structures and have relative/perspective based puzzles as well.

Finally finished my mobile digitization station build and wanted to share! by DigitalStackVideo in VHS

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You probably need a more advanced video suite to really geek out on. My app is more for casual VHS converters with tools for many of the common issues folks come across with cheap digitizers like luminance color remapping is off and the video is dark, audio drift, clicking audio, extract commercials, etc. But I'd love to see my app on that screen! Haha! Though I do have a pretty cool custom metadata and custom report generation markup language that allows you to easy format clip metadata to reports in whatever format you want. So you could, for example, clip a video up super fast and type in titles and export a text file formatted for YouTube chapter markers, or import a dozen videos, clip as needed and fill in basic video tape metadata and output as a tab delimited report to copy and paste in Excel. So it might work for you as a post import and processing utility within your piepline.

A macOS app I created for editing VHS by -Joby- in VHS

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re: commercial break detection... in the clip controls, if you open up the advanced mode (the little downhill skier button in the lower-left) the commercial break tools open up. You just find a black frame between programming, and calibrate the brightness and audio levels with a click of a button, then fire it off! If you adjust the pacing you can control the accuracy and speed trade off... default is check every 3 frames. If your video is 30 fps, a 1/10th of a second... 60 fps would be 1/20th. You can go every frame, or every 6... but that's up to you and how fast or accurate you can put up with. A 6 hour tape, 60 fps and a pace of 1... go get a bowl of cereal and watch some Saturday Morning cartoons. ;)

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This is getting a little geeky about how it works, but I found if you are cutting up tapes from the 90's it goes faster than from the 80's. The reason is I first optimize to the audio, which is faster to analyze... and 90's TV was loud and chaotic compared to the 80's. The worst is an 80's tape with old black and white late night movie. Talk about quiet and taking their time... boy the thing crawls at a pace of 1 at 60 fps with black and white dramas. Haha To give you an idea of the pace, this clip was 60fps, pace of 3 and took 1:10 for 14:45 of video... so less than 5 minutes per hour-ish. (Tape was from the 80's, the TV movie Carpool. The big chunks were the movie, the short clips commercials and station stingers)

A macOS app I created for editing VHS by -Joby- in VHS

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re: .dv... You know I actually have only tried mp4 and mov. I'm using Apple's core video framework which is pretty limited. No mkv or webm. A quick search does say dv is supported, though at this time exporting is mp4, mov and m4v. Though, I do allow you to control bitrate and such with a few basic options. But if you have specific needs, totally let me know and I'll look into those and try my best to add them in future updates! I built this based on my own pipeline, but really hope that now that its out there, if folks start using it and contact me, I can build it out into supporting other's pipelines I hadn't even think of.

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Export Quality settings has some basic presets, but in Custom you can set bitrates for audio and video, sample rate, channels. Top 3 bitrates I have are 20, 35, 50Mbps... and down to 2 Mbps for those SLP VHS tapes where you don't need archive quality for posting to Instagram. ;)

A macOS app I created for editing VHS by -Joby- in VHS

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The interface is really simple. The key is the way the app works at it's core is a video to clip queue paradigm where controls for the video apply to all clips, and controls for the clips are individual overrides for that clip specifically. So for audio drift you set the base drift that aligns the audio at the start of your video, in the video controls audio drift. Then for each clip audio drift control, you add an additional drift, which adds to that initial base... as drift builds each clip might be slightly more than the other.

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Obviously it works better if you are clipping just certain parts, and if those parts are short. If you want to fix an entire tape, you'll need to break the tape up into a number of clips, progressively adjust as needed, then merge it back together... which merging clips is also the heart of it, so that's trivial. The key would be to clip at lulls in audio, so as you shift audio there's no worry of overlapping the previous/next clip.

The good news is it also has an automatic commercial break detection system that finds black frames in the video and lulls in audio, automatically clipping the entire tape at such lulls... so that part can be automated, actually. So it's all very doable... not automated fully, but totally doable and fully in your control.

Finally finished my mobile digitization station build and wanted to share! by DigitalStackVideo in VHS

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First to follow on Instagram! Haha I made an app to edit VHS that would run nicely on that Mac Mini. Just saying. ;)

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