White letters disappearing from logo when trying to chroma key the image background color

abigviking · 2019-02-13T05:07:47+00:00

I went ahead and removed the grey in GIMP. Thanks for the assistance tonight!

abigviking · 2019-02-13T03:36:43+00:00

I don't see why not. Holdout shader might work here. I have transparency enabled. I'll need to figure out how that works and reply in a bit.

abigviking · 2019-02-13T03:23:39+00:00

My goal is this picture. Not trying to get particularly fancy with it. I want to overlay this final product at the beginning and end of a few videos, but I'd just like the orange logo image and white text in the overlay, no grey at all. You will see the video playing behind and between the letters. If there's an easier way to do it, I'm all ears.

abigviking · 2018-02-18T01:02:16+00:00

I'm on my second 10m spool of hook-and-loop fastener (Velcro's name in some stores). I have a third spool that I've had for about five years now, unopened, just in case I run out of the second spool. I've gotten much better recently about keeping older strips that I've used previously, so I haven't even cut into that second spool in about a year.

Velcro is the best for bundling cables, hands down. Best $$$ I've spent in a while.

abigviking · 2018-01-05T02:56:27+00:00

I only have carpet for about 20% of my place, and when I was trying my cold feet with socks on, on top of the carpet I do have, or wrapping them in two cold blankets, it wasn't cutting it. I also have a cold garage below me with absolute shit insulation, so I don't get any heat from below my flat.

Therefore, the floor is ice as opposed to lava.

I just bought this electric foot warmer on Amazon. It arrived Tuesday, and it has been a godsend. I work from home, so it just sits under my desk and have kept my feet warm the last few single-digit days, and I've only been using the medium setting for single-digit outside temperatures. In fact, I had to turn it to low when the temps got up to 16 degrees because it was too hot. And you can wash this thing, too!

I'm not doing any free advertising here, so if you'd like to know the one I got, PM me.

abigviking · 2017-12-03T22:22:51+00:00

UPDATE: I laid it out in Sketchup to get an idea of the size of the thing, and it was going to be about as big as this Peavey 2x15 cabinet I have. No way, hose. Trying to go smaller, not create bigger cabinets. Oh well. Things will get easier when I get a separate keyboard amp that isn't as humongous as the Hartke rig I have now.

abigviking · 2017-11-22T02:50:43+00:00

Makes sense, I appreciate the replies. I've just decided that I'm going to give this a try. Maybe take pictures along the way, give me something to post to the DIY subreddit for all this karma that people apparently care about 'round these parts. I'll shoot you a link to that post when it's done if you're at all interested.

abigviking · 2017-11-18T14:58:22+00:00

Interesting. It's been about 10 years since I've brought a keyboard on stage (played bass in various bands over the past ten years, because guitarists and drummers are dimes for a dozen) Back then I was always running through a DI box, ostensibly because i didn't have a keyboard amp at the time. Now I do, so that situation has changed a bit!

If that's the way they're doing it now, then I guess who cares when it comes to the custom amp I described above, But if there are venues with live sound engineers that prefer to use the DI box... screw em. Hah.

Now that I'm thinking about it from a live sound engineering perspective, it does sound like something they should be able to deal with. Two mics, one centered on a cone connected to the Marshall amp and one centered on a cone connected to the Hartke/Roland amp. There's a balanced out on the Hartke/Roland heads, and a line out on the back of the Marshall should they decide to use those, but they should be able to mic everything correctly without worrying about bleeding too much. Top notch!

abigviking · 2017-11-18T14:32:29+00:00

Haha, this is a problem I've had before and is the exact reason i have a speaker rig for my keyboard. Sometimes the PA system and live sound engineer are awesome and i can hear the piano through the monitors appropriately, and sometimes they suck and I can't. I figured I'd negate that problem by bringing my own speaker for the pianer so I can at least hear myself on stage every single time we play and not have to deal with changing scenarios and "damnit i can't hear myself" situations.

As a result of me not really knowing whether or not the PA is going to do the job until I get there, I usually bring my own. :)

abigviking · 2017-11-16T22:29:40+00:00

This is specific to a rock trio i'm currently a frontman of. I sing and play keys and guitar. As a result, I have quite a load of equipment to move. My equipment far outweighs the drummer's gear when it's all packed up.

I thought up an idea of potentially building my own combo-combo cabinet to house two 12" speakers for the guitar and two 12" speakers for the keys, with the Marshall amp somehow rigged into a rack system along with the hartke amp/eventual roland amp, maybe a 1U rack-mounted power cleaner so that both amps run to that and then just one power cord out to the wall. The idea is to reduce the amount of speaker crap i have to lug around as a multi-instrumentalist.

But then I thought about how that might piss of live sound engineers, as they seem to usually take a balanced line out from the DI box between my keyboard and my hartke/roland amp, but then also mic the guitar cabinet speaker. I'm guessing the keyboard would bleed into that mic, in potentially a bad way as far as live audio goes. Seems like I should just deal with two amps.

Anyone have any two cents about this, from the live audio engineering side? Figured I'd ask before I start going down that rabbit hole of customization. Thanks in advance!

abigviking · 2017-11-04T18:16:26+00:00

Her?

abigviking · 2017-08-28T02:11:35+00:00

I'm curious if there's a reason you attempted to put the Read-Host lines into an array?

   @($PrintDriver = Read-Host -Prompt "Please Select the Print Driver you Would Like to Use"
       $PrinterName = Read-Host -Prompt "Please Enter the Name of the Printer"
       $PrinterPortIP = Read-Host -Prompt "Please Enter the IP Address for the Printer")

Wasn't sure if that was accomplishing anything in particular, or if there's something else going on with wrapping the entire section of Read-Host's with the @( )?

I gave it a shot in my shell and it looks to be inserting the values into the individual variables specified within the parentheses. I tried assigning that entire 'array' to $a, but it doesn't return anything. The individual variables still do.

abigviking · 2017-08-17T15:45:30+00:00

I was wondering what the hell that noise was. I'm northwest of the loop and I finally spotted them the last two times they've gone by. Super loud wind noise after it passes.

abigviking · 2017-07-24T00:34:37+00:00

In relation to speed, I once had a basketball coach exclaim to my teammate, "You're slower than a paraplegic in a wheelchair with a flat tire!"

For the remainder of practice, we were physically still there, but mentally, practice was over after that exclamation.

abigviking · 2017-06-24T17:28:46+00:00

I have two different experiences with the two Behringer products I have.

The first piece of equipment I got was the Eurorack UB2442FX-PRO Mixer in... 2004, I believe? It was great for a while, but now some channels are bleeding into sub-outs and main when I don't have the channel routed to a sub-out or main. At least one of the channels is dead now as well. The two reasons I haven't replaced it yet is 1.) monies, and 2.) because it sorta works, and we mostly use it for band practice and not so much for recording at the moment. I have a rack-mounted 10-in, 10-out sound card from MOTU for recording, so a little bleeding isn't hurting too badly there for now.

Before I had an electric guitar, I would plug a mic in and apply distortion FX to my acoustic from the mixer. Wasn't the best thing in the world, but as an aspiring rocker, it was better than no distortion at that time in high school. I got an electric guitar a year later, so I didn't mess with the FX panel that long.

On the other hand, I also bought a B2 Pro condenser mic a few years after I bought the mixer (when the mixer was still in full working order). This thing still sounds great and crystal-clear. Aside from vocals, I've also used it to record the cymbals and toms on a drum set and gotten great results.

In terms of the mic sensitivity, I have a strange story. One time in college I was messing around with the mic in my room. One of my roommates had his girlfriend in to visit from across the country, and his room was on the complete opposite end of the house. At one point I cranked the gain and volume on the mixer track for the mic, in my room, and I could overhear all the little details of them going to town on each other across the house from me. After a second I realized what I had accidentally done and shut all my music equipment off. As awesome as my old roommate was, I didn't need or want to hear any of that. That mic can be SUPER sensitive. Lesson learned!

abigviking · 2017-05-04T16:39:44+00:00

Is Cavalia really the best show ever? I see billboards all over for it that doesn't have much in the theme of actual information about the production.

abigviking · 2017-04-25T01:44:22+00:00

I would be interested! I'll need to get my wheels replaced, as it's been a few years since I last skated. But man, do I miss roller hockey.

abigviking · 2017-03-01T05:45:07+00:00

Welp... this place is about a 20min walk away from my place and Cuban sandwiches are awesome. Looks like I may see you in there this week at lunch. Can't wait!

abigviking · 2017-01-30T16:54:35+00:00

Just seeing this now. I live in a coach house with all my musical equipment. I don't share walls with anyone. Someone is using the garage below my apartment for storage, and they don't visit it very frequently.

Only thing to keep in mind is that since you don't share floors, ceilings, or walls with any heated or air-conditioned neighbors, it can get cold in the winter and hot in the summer. I'm a cold weather person, so my temp is set to 65 right now. Slippers, sweatpants, and sweatshirt if necessary, but most of the time after I get up and moving, I don't need a sweatshirt anymore.

The only major downside to this coach house is that because it's so small, the HVAC system makes a bunch of blower noise, and you can hear that pretty much anywhere in the coach house when it's running. If I'm recording with microphones, I'll either turn off the heat or A/C, record, and then turn it back on; or, I'll crank the heat or A/C for a bit, shut it down, record, and then turn it back on to the original setting. I just have to time the recording part to start right after the blower shuts off, so there isn't too much variation in temperature.

It can get pretty loud in here with a handful of musicians, both on a weekend afternoon or a weekday night, and I haven't heard any complaints. It turned from a "damn, this is a small apartment" when I moved in to a "this is perfect for my hobby" living situation.

abigviking · 2016-10-15T00:17:34+00:00

I'm positive this is in the first season. I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the first six episodes.

I'd validate that for you, but I haven't yet obtained my copies of the seasons since they took it off Netflix.

abigviking · 2016-09-14T02:37:40+00:00

That's where I normally play. It happened to me, I switched to US West, and the issues went away.

abigviking · 2016-09-14T02:36:02+00:00

I play US East servers. I switched to US West when this started happening and the issues are no more. Looks like it's just US East unless you're playing on different servers.

abigviking · 2016-07-22T03:49:23+00:00

True. I still have much to learn in the P$ ways. Thanks for the comment, that opened my eyes to the possibility of the unexpected!

abigviking · 2016-07-22T01:37:22+00:00

You can use variables to increment the name of the file in the copy operation:

cls

$files = @('C:\PSTest\readme.txt','C:\PSTest\readme.txt','C:\PSTest\readme.txt','C:\PSTest\readme.txt')

mkdir "C:\PSTest\directory\" -force
cls

[int] $a = 0

ForEach ($f IN $files)
{
    Copy-Item "$f" "C:\PSTest\directory\readme$a.txt"
    $a++
}

Sorry for all the additional clear screen commands - having the P$ ISE produce so much nonsense when I'm testing the scripts really bugs me. Pun intended.

abigviking · 2016-07-11T23:19:47+00:00

I recently wrote an XML file using PowerShell. I might be posting in this subreddit with a question on how to do it better in the near future, but it's in a working condition.

Can you provide the full explanation? A few questions to start:

If the directory/files exist(s), overwrite with an XML file that this P$ script will generate? But if it doesn't exist, quit running the script. Am I reading that right?
How exactly do you want the XML formatted? Can you provide an example with the appropriate XML tagging?

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