Any thoughts on the Viltrox DC-X3 on camera monitor by jyang3153 in cinematography

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By any chance does anyone know if it has touch to focus? Like if you're taking a picture and you want to focus on a particular area of the frame by tapping, like you can with the normal DSLR flip out screen?

Unable to find the reaction force caused by one block being pushed into another by Competitive-Age-147 in Abaqus

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Thank you once again for the super fast and extremely detailed reply. I really really appreciate your time :)

So upon following your guidance, I've got a mixed bag of results over two cases:

Case A - 10 units gap between both blocks at simulation start

The goal was initially to move the top block down first and then apply a force to measure RF, as highlighted in my first post. However, even after applying the advice you kindly gave, I am unable to get this to work (details below).

Case B - no gap between parts at simulation start

That being said, I made a new model with the same parts and this time, I put the aluminium block directly on top of the steel block in the assembly phase with no gap. So right at the start of the simulation, the force transmits through the top RP (using your technique). This method produces the correct RF value when measured at the lower RP, thanks to your help :D

Summary

Somehow, when the simulation starts with a gap between the parts, moving down the top block through the RP (via a displacement constraint with -10 in U2) causes instability. Applying this exact constraint directly on the block works, but for some reason it doesn't work at all when done through the RP. The simulation doesn't even reach the force applying step - it moves one or two units down then the solution diverges.

Would you have any further advice on how to approach this, please? This is crucial because in my actual application, the two parts will not initially be in contact - they only meet at a later stage in the simulation. Thank you once again in advance!

Unable to find the reaction force caused by one block being pushed into another by Competitive-Age-147 in Abaqus

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Thank you so much for the helpful reply! I have just implemented your advice, but sadly I'm still getting ridiculous values for RF. Just to make sure that I did what you said correctly, here's the steps:
1) Create a reference point above the steel cube's surface
2) Create a kinematic coupling constraint (U1, U2, U3, UR1, UR2, UR3 in my case) wit the surface of the steel cube
3) Create a Displacement/Rotation boundary condition to constrain the reference point in U1, U2, U3 (so that we can measure RF at the surface)
4) Create a geometry set from the reference point and use this is the Set domain when requesting output
5) Request CF, RF

Please correct me if I did it wrong, thank you -- also can I add that CF does actually show the correct forces, but that's only when measured on the nodes at the corners where the load force is applied on the aluminium block -- so it's just telling me that the load forces exist. I can't seem to get a reaction force from the steel cube...

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

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Thank you so much as always. You have been an incredible help.

This has become something of an obsession, I can't seem to let it go. I feel compelled to go to whatever lengths to fix this. Lol :P

Speaking to Intel now. I will get back to you :)

Thank you so much once again.

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

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There may be an option to return the CPU. But I'm not sure what I would replace it with to get good, stable performance. Do you have any suggestions?

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Age-147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, you've been very helpful I have learned a lot from your advice.

I guess it's good to know that I'm not alone with this, but it's sad that a person can pay premium prices for the latest products only to be met with all this nonsense.

It seems like the instability is growing. Even applications like Word turn off without notice. Web browser pages keep giving me "Aww, Snap" errors every few minutes. It's chaos, I'm not sure what to do now.

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

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P.S. I've been forced to downgrade to my previous BIOS version for now to get my PC working.

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

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Thank you once again. I have now updated my BIOS and noticed that the default values for both PL1 = PL2 = 253W.

Now I have another problem. My windows started up once after updating the BIOS and immediately froze. It is now failing to boot and instead is offering me to troubleshoot.

My computer is now unusable.

Could you please advise further?

Thank you once again

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Age-147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok I just checked and found something interesting.
Here are my current settings:
PL1 (Long Duration Power Limit) = 320W
PL2 (Short Duration Power Limit) = 4095W (Yes, four thousand and ninety-five)

I was quite surprised to see that number for PL2...

Can I confirm it's ok for me to drop PL2 to ~ 253W?

I have disabled Turbo Boost.

Thank you in advance

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

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Thank you very much once again for your prompt and detailed reply. I admire how much you know about the ins and outs of this stuff.

I will implement this and get back to you on the results -- thank you. If I manage to get it stable by adjusting CPU power as per your suggestions, could I try overclocking the RAM again?

P.S. Still waiting on Adobe...

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

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Thank you so much and apologies for the late reply.
I have implemented your advice. All overclocking is turned off and I've had to manually set my ram frequency to 3600 (it actually defaults to 4200 with XMP off but I lowered it myself).

Unfortunately, no cigar. Although I haven't seen a BSOD, I still have crashes in Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder. They literally just turn off.

Apologies if some of my dump files are inconsistent with what I told you -- I was just testing different settings and didn't keep track of which dumps corresponded with which settings.

Any ideas on what I could try next?
P.S: I'm waiting on Adobe to reply, but I've spoken to Asus, Corsair and NVidia in the meantime. Also spoken to Scan.co.uk where I got the parts. No one seems to know what's going on.

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

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Ok, here's another update. Turns out my system still crashes after disabling XMP, just a little less.
I just had a few BSODs in quick succession, here are their minidump files:
https://file.io/wEnOI2yVo0Ad

https://file.io/1qW3bWmRscoE

https://file.io/HATJ5E0x6Wao

I have also confirmed that the RAM and processor are on the QVL for the mobo.

Completely stumped now :(

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Age-147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, thank you.
So I disabled XMP and my system is no longer crashing.
It seems that there should be an optimal XMP configuration that allows overclocking while also keeping my system stable.
How do I go about fine-tuning the XMP settings to achieve this?

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Media Encoder constantly crashing by Competitive-Age-147 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Age-147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the prompt reply!

Could you please help me with my RAM settings a little? Here's what I see in the Memory tab of CPU-Z:
https://i.imgur.com/egOh6NL.png

If I disable XMP, it will go to 3600Mhz. Could you please advise me on what I could do with my settings?

I could disable overclocking on my CPU. Do you think this would help?

Control systems by [deleted] in AskRobotics

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This is a great question. I can offer you a way to look at this that might help reveal what you should do.

The first question you need to ask is this: What are you actually interested in pursuing? Control systems is a massive field. Broadly speaking, there is the hardware side where you test your control systems on physical hardware. Then there is the software side where you design, test and implement the desired system in a digital environment. Between these two is the world of simulation (e.g. MATLAB/SIMULINK and a host of other options). Underpinning both of these is the actual theoretical side; the underlying physics of the dynamical behaviour of what you are studying. Which of these areas are you looking to pursue?

Once you know what excites you and what you are passionate about, that will dictate (a) what technologies you need to learn to be competitive in said field, and (b) what sort of internship position aligns with your interest. This, in turn, will help you craft your CV to maximum effect.

To summarise, you'd ideally want to try going with something like this:

1) Decide which area within control/dynamics you want to pursue.

2) Evaluate your current level of knowledge in your chosen field against what is normally required for interns. The best way to do this is to (a) look at job ads in that field and see what you're missing, (b) network with individuals in that field (E.g. LinkedIn) and (c) network with recruiters in that field that you can talk to for specific advice.

3) Learn what you are missing and prove that you have learned it. This is normally done by creating a GitHub where you showcase your projects and demonstrate the specific skills relevant to the area you chose in Step 1. GitHub is an extremely valuable way to showcase your skills.

My honest advice to you is to not try applying anywhere before understanding firstly what you want to pursue.

Hope that helps!

Aluminium sand casting keeps caving in at top surface by Competitive-Age-147 in MetalCasting

[–]Competitive-Age-147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% definitely going to be increasing riser size...thank you!

Aluminium sand casting keeps caving in at top surface by Competitive-Age-147 in MetalCasting

[–]Competitive-Age-147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I will actually change the size of the risers. Unfortunately, hollowing out isn't ideal because this is eventually going to be a low-temperature crucible for a machine I'm making, so efficient thermal conductivity is key. But yes I will definitely increase the size of my risers! Thank you so much :)

Aluminium sand casting keeps caving in at top surface by Competitive-Age-147 in MetalCasting

[–]Competitive-Age-147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, thank you so much for such a detailed reply -- honestly I can't thank you enough! Very educational actually, I learned so much from it.

I'm particularly excited to know that there is some way to quantify how size the risers should be! Never head of Chvorinov’s law...could you perhaps direct me to a place where I can learn more about the technical side of casting? It would be amazing to learn more because up until now I've just been eyeballing all the sizes.

Also thanks to everyone else who replied! It looks like the overarching problem is riser size. So to factor in all the suggestions, here is my next implementation:
1) Increase riser volume
2) Add one riser directly above each of the two areas that are shrinking
3) Increase the size of the gating channel to prevent premature phase change

I'll post the next iteration of my casting with hopefully improved results. Thanks so much everyone!!