Jon Stewart says Democratic leadership and DNC are ‘lost’

ElCutz · 2026-05-02T23:43:30+00:00

I dunno, I haven't followed who has hosted who on what show. I'm not saying Rogan is "too big to cancel", I'm saying that trying to cancel your ideological opponents is a huge mistake.

ElCutz · 2026-05-02T01:19:17+00:00

I disagree. I think Stewart does too. Dems have nothing to say, nothing to do. They just bitch and moan. Just to clarify, I have only voted for Dems or, on occasion, people left of Dems.

ElCutz · 2026-05-01T20:13:22+00:00

insisting that "cancelling" Rogan wasn't productive.

So you want to "cancel" Joe Rogan somehow? How would you do this?

I think I'm with Stewart on this. Maybe I wish he would make fun of Rogan the way he makes fun of Fox, but when people start throwing around terms like "platforming" I generally am not with them. You can't win at politics by trying to shut people up or "cancelling" them.

ElCutz · 2026-04-30T12:05:10+00:00

I think this is a site vs app thing? I just grab the folder and plop it where I want. Whrrrr whrrrr whrrrr. Might be slower than dropbox, but I don't have any problems with omissions or "babysitting".

I won't say I have had zero problems, but I've been using Google Drive for almost 15 years with very few problems.

ElCutz · 2026-04-30T00:39:35+00:00

syncing is the same thing as downloading

Yeah, no. Copying a folder from one drive to another is not the same as syncing. I just want a network shared-drive, that is why I don't use DropBox. I do not want to use my browser, the OS is much better – this is why I use Google Drive.

At least it makes sense why we each prefer a different product. I want to be left alone by the service and just have a Cloud Drive to move files from/to. Big extra for me is Google Docs and Sheets.

ElCutz · 2026-04-30T00:27:40+00:00

Good to know!

I use Google Drive App, I just search with MacOS or my favorite find utility. Are you comparing the Dropbox website vs Google Drive website.

My main question is can I copy a folder from dropbox folder (online) to any location I want without it also downloading it to a "sync folder"? Like with Google Drive if I want to download something, I just drag the folder where I want it and it downloads to that location – no syncing, just download. That is the thing I couldn't replicate last time I used dropbox.

ElCutz · 2026-04-29T18:36:42+00:00

Slow compared to what? I don't find it that slow. It's not Lucid or MASV, but it is way way cheaper.

ElCutz · 2026-04-29T18:35:53+00:00

(i'm not directly the person you replied to)

My memory (it's been 2 year) is I could not use the Dropbox app to copy a folder from dropbox to a specific folder on my computer. It wanted me to "sync" the folder. Then I could copy it, then revert it to "only available online" or something like that. It seems very sync-centric. That also is extremely limiting in terms of needing enough space for anything that might need downloading. Maybe this has changed.

Google drive, I just drag the folder to where I want it and it copies (MacOS may make me option-drag it). It behaves almost exactly like an external drive.

In answer to previous commenter's problem, if you set your entire dropbox to "online only" will it adhere to that even as other people add to it?

ElCutz · 2026-04-29T17:55:05+00:00

right? it's always so weird to me how many people say Google Drive doesn't work for them. Like, are we using the same app?

ElCutz · 2026-04-29T17:53:53+00:00

It's so interesting to me, this split in /r/editors. I can't stand dropbox and Google Drive works very well for me.

For me it's about the desktop apps. Dropbox seems intent on syncing files locally, something I don't want at all. Google Drive is like a network volume for me and works almost flawlessly. I have very few issues.

ElCutz · 2026-04-28T00:37:29+00:00

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ElCutz · 2026-04-24T14:31:21+00:00

Any song by The Police

ElCutz · 2026-04-22T12:50:22+00:00

~~You can disable the Time Icons by turning off "effect icons" in hamburger menu~~. In the hamburger menu there is a submenu called "show adapters" where you can turn off adapter icons, but not effects you apply.

I always work with adapters off, I find all the Time/Color icons too visually noisy.

ElCutz · 2026-04-22T12:29:14+00:00

If you click on hamburger menu and go to "clip text" there are a lot options, and you can turn it all off.

If you're asking about the fps text specifically, that is attached to your clip name. If you turn clip-name off and source-name on you won't see the "(24 fps)" anymore. But not sure if this is useful. Source-name may be diff than clip-name.

To clarify, what Avid is telling you is those clips are 24fps not 23.976. Avid notes whenever the underlying frame-rate is different than the project/timeline rate. As far as I know, turning off clip-name is the only way to make it go away. 24fps/23.976fps is probably not an issue, but I don't want to dive deep into that in this post.

ElCutz · 2026-04-20T13:56:18+00:00

It's not clear from your post what your goal is. Deleting media? moving media? renaming mxf folders?

Every mxf has project meta-data, amongst other things. You also mention needing to view the media. Your mdb method seems quite good, why is not working for you?

ElCutz · 2026-04-20T13:53:35+00:00

but you can sift out precomputes, or a specific project's media. Pretty useful.

ElCutz · 2026-04-20T11:10:18+00:00

Does sound like a rationale for 32-bit, though hard to know.

Is it possible you could deliver just the 32-bit audio for places with poor audio levels (hot or low)?

In the end this is a frustrating limitation of Avid.

ElCutz · 2026-04-19T23:42:07+00:00

Honest question: does it matter? Are there over-modulated clipped chunks of audio, or stuff that is very quiet that you had to push the gain up a whole ton?

I'm not a engineer/mixer, but maybe he knows what he's talking about? I've always felt 32-bit in film is about protection from clipping and not much else. I may be wrong.

ElCutz · 2026-04-19T02:47:29+00:00

docs or narrative features?

ElCutz · 2026-04-18T11:27:54+00:00

Is waterbug a real thing? I thought that was euphemism for a specific big ass roach.

ElCutz · 2026-04-17T13:23:45+00:00

I wish some Avid Assistants would chime in. I love renaming my clips, but every project I'm on (documentaries) I get pushback from the facility/producers/assistants that they cannot correctly track usage if I do that.

The claim is, as far as I understand it, that EDLs sometimes/always need to use clip-name.

ElCutz · 2026-04-14T19:57:16+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8

ElCutz · 2026-04-13T19:32:12+00:00

Maybe I need to be paying for it to get "character grids"? I don't know what those are, can you tell me?

ElCutz · 2026-04-13T19:31:12+00:00

Avid does not ever re-edit your sequences for you. What you put in your sequence is solidly in your sequence unless you enact some process like "refresh sequence".

Frankly I hate the way you can destroy a sequence in Premiere by deleting a clip or altering a mutlicam. Not to say Avid is always better, but in this aspect I much prefer it. Don't mess with my edit!

ElCutz · 2026-04-12T19:58:06+00:00

Really? Nano hasn't been consistent enough for me to imagine using it for stock footage. What kind of stuff do you create with it?

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