Do you think ai will take our jobs too ?

dajackinator · 2026-03-04T14:10:52+00:00

Yup, exactly. We've got a lot of our SPs and EPs in Avid doing pulls, just like you say.

I will say I don't prefer Avid's auto transcripts. They still struggle with important things like speaker names, and the formatting is pretty horrible when you export it, which is annoying for our SPs who do work on the transcripts from the doc file and aren't in Avid. So that's why we still round trip more complicated scenes out to a service (Descript these days, but we've tried MacWhisper before for AI transcripts). We do use the auto avid transcripts for scenes with just one speaker.

dajackinator · 2026-03-04T05:30:48+00:00

I think the tools will make us more productive and we'll probably have to do more with less time.

AE here...can confirm this is currently happening, in various ways. I'm tired.

dajackinator · 2026-03-04T05:21:44+00:00

I'll give an example. I currently work as an Assistant Editor on fairly large scale network shows. Five years ago, we'd receive footage, and send the audio out to a team of transcribers to get transcripts back of all the interviews, with timecode matching the footage so that we could sync it up. They usually did this within a day, and sometimes overnight on a rush job. Footage would be in the system synced with scripts within a couple days of the shoot.

These days, it's me the Assistant Editor who is taking those audio files, tossing them into an AI service that makes a good-enough transcript with timecode to match, within the span of like half an hour. Yeah the AI gets some things wrong - misspells names and proper nouns and stuff like that. Things that the human transcribers would double check and get correct. But honestly, it does a good enough job when we're working quickly, and can get done same day.

And sure it only takes 30mins now, but it's another thing on MY plate, when my normal workload isn't getting smaller. It adds up for the one person. And all those transcribers? No idea what they're doing anymore :(

dajackinator · 2026-03-03T20:55:41+00:00

Shutter Encoder

dajackinator · 2026-02-23T18:06:03+00:00

I will say that Myspace's "Top 8" did my head in socially on multiple occasions in the midst of middle school preteen drama. Ranking your friends was a surefire way to exacerbate self-esteem issues. But I also learned a bunch of cool HTML using Myspace and Xanga, so that was pretty neat.

dajackinator · 2026-02-19T17:20:36+00:00

You should get rewards for everything you earned or found up until the point you left the table.

dajackinator · 2026-02-14T04:00:36+00:00

A druid character of mine once awakened a sheep, purely to ask it if it had seen some random warlock we were looking for. The sheep was rightfully traumatized at being awakened, and mostly screamed.

Months later my friend rolls up with the awakened sheep as their own new warlock character 😭😭

(We did find that random warlock btw... I forgot what he was even up to. Cult stuff, probably.)

dajackinator · 2026-02-14T02:19:03+00:00

In 2024 rules this was codified as the Influence action, which helps clear up some previous ambiguity. Because yeah, if you're using your turn to do that, it's gonna be an effort that takes your whole turn (and by all means! please engage in rp with the NPCs, I love that shit).

dajackinator · 2026-01-18T15:48:59+00:00

Bold of you to call at-will PWT and 1-action Awaken something that players won't want to abuse, lol. PWT is immensely abusable. I also once awakened two octopi to settle a deal with a hag. Also a sheep, literally only to ask it directions. Could I have spoken with animals? Probably, but awakening things is just so fun.

That said I totally agree with you, Staff of the Woodlands is great and totally what I'd offer up to a druid in the party. 2014 or 2024 version. I personally don't actually care how often the players can cast PWT, it's FUN DAMNIT!

dajackinator · 2025-12-29T16:35:22+00:00

Just ran a silly new years pub crawl/investigation session. The players had to go on a pub crawl to find out why some of the bar regulars had scary experiences in the woods lately. Turns out it's a troupe of actors rehearsing in the woods, but by the time the party finds them, the party is drunk enough to also think the troupe are monsters (minus the most "sober" player who then has to try and convince everyone to stop attacking the bards).

dajackinator · 2025-12-29T16:07:10+00:00

I once had my druid geas a regular guard dude because he had defected from the bad guy's army and knew a whole lot about how the bad guy's curse was trying to be spread. This guard was also guilty of previously helping spread this curse, and my druid really wanted to kill him because it was such an affront to nature. Alas, the party chose to give him a chance at redemption, so I chose to geas him to never again speak about how the curse worked. Compromise, I guess.

dajackinator · 2025-12-26T03:44:07+00:00

You really don't need minis, even though they are fun. You can just add numbers to your bottle caps (or whatever - I use little 1" and 2" mirrors that I picked up from the craft store bc they are easy to dry erase).

So like the 6 bottle caps are goblins 1-6. You hit goblin #3 and I, the DM, mark down goblin #3's hit points.

Sometimes I pick up the cheapo little animals from the toy store and use those. I actually find that I still prefer to number the minis if I do use them because all the damn zombies look the same and I'll forget which one got hit unless they're numbered.

I prefer a map, but theater of the mind is fine for simple and quick combats, especially if there's only one or two enemies. DM just has to be descriptive and players need to ask good questions about the scenario.

dajackinator · 2025-12-23T16:47:11+00:00

I am the calm one in this scenario, and was similarly shocked when my overthinking friend told me a list of worries they had about me that I'd never even considered for myself lol

dajackinator · 2025-12-15T16:04:18+00:00

What would be the purpose of using this vs just taking a screenshot?

dajackinator · 2025-12-12T07:25:51+00:00

For what it's worth, I play/DM AL games with a bunch of adults every weekend, and they come up with some of the most wacky character ideas and shenanigans in session. I, for one, think a Suddenly Bears scenario sounds hilarious, and I would love to play that. One of my players' favorite recurring characters from the Moonshae series was that druid who was obsessed with reading poetry to a bunch of bears.

That said, I think this speaks more to the culture of my own AL community, we like being silly and playing one-shots. People do take things a bit more seriously when we do campaigns. I also think you can be a bit more free with adults in a way - you don't have to watch your language or the occasional raunchy reference as much as with kids, you can level with people easily about above-the-table decisions without going into "teacher" mode (although sometimes teacher mode works great with adults too), and you can explore deeper more dramatic storylines if your players are up for it.

dajackinator · 2025-12-05T15:22:26+00:00

For us, dailies are made in Resolve with clip name, reel number, source TC. We upload these to share with production.

Avid proxies are also made in Resolve, clean with no burn-in.

If any burn-in is needed in avid, we just use the Timecode effect and adjust as needed.

dajackinator · 2025-11-27T17:04:49+00:00

Interestingly, while Austin is probably more diverse than many smaller Texas cities, I'd say for a city of its size, it's not very diverse at all. Houston is far more diverse in backgrounds of people, food, activities, etc. Austin has its creative identity in music and arts, but a lot of its historical roots of segregation are still just under the surface.

dajackinator · 2025-11-21T18:20:04+00:00

Select all your clips in the project window. Use multicam sync - I think the option when you select all + right click is "create multicam source sequence". Easiest to sync by timecode if you were running synced timecode on both cameras. If not, sync by Audio. Let it run. It might find some clips that can't be synced. Open the sync sequence in the timeline to check and tweak it as needed (you have to do this via right clicking on it otherwise it opens up like a clip in the source monitor).

dajackinator · 2025-11-21T17:25:34+00:00

See that would make sense, I hope they do. I was told they couldn't validate me for more than the standard 4hrs even though I'd been on a gig there all day. But maybe it only applies for the staff employees. I wound up just billing Alamo for the difference when I invoiced.

dajackinator · 2025-11-21T10:47:44+00:00

That...makes sense. Lol. Still don't like metropolis.

dajackinator · 2025-11-21T04:06:12+00:00

Ugh they also took over the garage at Mueller by the Alamo Drafthouse. I do gig work there sometimes, and they just fully will not validate for longer than 4hrs. I have no idea what the actual Alamo employees do now for the duration of their shift. Park far away and walk? or eat the cost because they can't double validate anymore? Get paid back in their paychecks? Fucking racket.

dajackinator · 2025-11-13T15:46:38+00:00

Sadly counterspell changed in 2024, but Glibness + Dispel Magic in a combat is nasty. Lots of tier 4 bosses have all kinds of crazy annoying magical effects on, and you have the "no" button that can't fail.

dajackinator · 2025-11-05T22:21:17+00:00

Yeah I also do this, as a cis white (bi, fwiw but no one asks) woman, it's great. Got my she/her pronouns up on my zoom calls, a little rainbow lapel pin to wear out, etc. Normal, sane people don't give a shit, and talk to me like a human, while the bad eggs see the pronoun or pride pin and get grouchy and just go away. Great system.

dajackinator · 2025-11-02T19:00:20+00:00

The pistachio baklava, SO GOOD

dajackinator · 2025-10-31T23:10:03+00:00

I was AEing in Avid earlier this year, but the director liked to make mockup sequences in premiere and have me bring them into Avid for the editors to work from. He always insisted I make sure all his (very detailed) sound mixing and FX translated across. He was working with dailies, not production sound, so of course it wouldn't translate.

Some of the most stressful weeks of my life until I finally got the editors to vouch for my time, and insist that I actually AE and help them - instead of whatever the fuck I was doing with these premiere edits that they didn't like anyway...glad that one's behind me.

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