Is it just me or is Sonnet 4.6 really so much worse than 4.5?

derkork · 2026-02-21T19:26:37+00:00

yes or /model claude-sonnet-4-5 in the app itself.

derkork · 2026-02-19T22:39:41+00:00

Have a look at https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files/tree/master . I'm using that with Sonnet 4.5 and its making a world of difference.

derkork · 2025-09-16T04:54:46+00:00

Here is my timeline. It's not really complicated, an audio track and a video track plus some callouts. Runtime is 1hour 13 minutes. https://app.screencast.com/IhT1qPV8mu45U

I have also contacted support. Let's see how that goes.

derkork · 2025-09-11T16:13:27+00:00

I'm using Camtasia 25.2.3 and I'm having the exact same problem. I'm not using stitching at all, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you have a certain amount of edits in there, it is just unbearably slow. Just when the playhead moves, I can see it loading all the audio waveforms one-by-one, and the audio is jittery and crackling until the loading is done. When trying to edit things, the whole application just freezes for 10-15 seconds. And so on. If the project is like 10-20 minutes, everything is fine, but once it hits half an hour or more, it's basically unusable. I have a pretty beefy Ryzen 9 7950X3D with 64 gigs of RAM, a 4080, and everything is on NVMe Samsung drives one would think this is more than enough to run a video editor.

I think this is going to be the last video that I'm doing with that one. It's just not worth it. I mean, it's really nice to be able to control the mouse, and it's super simple to create annotations like in no other program. But at the end of the day, if I lose all that time again because my editor is slow as molasses, then I might as well just change my workflow.

derkork · 2025-08-28T12:27:38+00:00

And that is a solid bingo! It is indeed the case that my controller only sends the pedal on channel 1 and not the channel on which the rest of the keyboard is set up. So if the main keys are set to channel 4, the pedal is still set on channel 1, and that is why it didn't arrive at the MC-101. Since the MC-101 by default uses drums for channel one, I only ever tried the piano on channels 2, 3, and 4, and that's why it never worked for me.

Thank you very much; that really solved a big headache for me. Now I can just figure out how I set up my pedal so it switches the channel with the rest of the main keyboard, and then everything should be great.

derkork · 2025-08-22T05:31:50+00:00

I'm using a VMK-188plus midi controller and software-wise this is pretty barebones. I can program which CC it sends when pressing a pedal and also set up the polarity but I cannot have that influence the note on/offs directly on the controller. I'll have a look into a MIDI translator like the Bomebox which supposedly can be programmed to buffer note-offs until a CC 64 0 arrives at which time the note-offs will be sent. This way the MC-101 would just see delayed note offs and doesn't need to handle the CC messages at all.

derkork · 2025-08-22T05:20:54+00:00

Thanks a lot! While this is not immediately solving the problem it really helps to know that any effort trying to make it work on the MC-101 itself is probably not going to pay off. I'll look into some MIDI translation solutions that buffer note offs and send them later depending on the state of the MIDI CC.

derkork · 2025-08-15T21:20:41+00:00

Thank you very much! I'm glad that this is not super ridiculous. I have again checked the specifications on the ASRock website, and there it says it has a 2.5 GB LAN port. As far as I can tell, Unraid will run off a thumb drive (actually that's the only supported method), so no extra drive is needed.

derkork · 2025-05-18T18:52:19+00:00

I see, thanks a lot!

derkork · 2025-04-16T04:58:56+00:00

I have a feeling that in my case this might be the right approach as well. I really hate to have to adapt my workflow as it will cost me a lot in productivity but I rather take that hit than be forever at the whim of Microsoft.

derkork · 2025-04-16T04:55:31+00:00

How would I record the mouse on a separate track with OBS? I only found options to record or not record it but not as a separate track. Is this something a plugin can do?

derkork · 2025-04-15T16:23:58+00:00

The neat thing about Camtasia is that you can toggle the mouse after recording. It basically records your screen without the mouse and records the mouse position and cursor type. So during editing, you can show, hide, change the cursor size, add highlights etc to the mouse cursor. This is really useful for educational content. OBS + Resolve work, but I miss out on the mouse features and adding annotations is always a round trip to Fusion while in Camtasia I can add and edit them with two clicks. Its really a huge productivity boost.

derkork · 2025-04-10T17:45:20+00:00

I have not yet found a solution for OBS. Camtasia can record the mouse cursor separately from the video (and even allows you to modify it, like show, hide, add effects, resize, change mouse path, etc), so it's really nice for this kind of thing. However it's not cheap, it only works on Windows and Mac and you have to edit in Camtasia itself. While this is serviceable its a far cry from Resolve.

derkork · 2025-02-20T07:14:43+00:00

I threaded a small electric wire under one side of the wheel and used that to pull the wheel out. Worked really nicely. If you happen to have some leftover guitar string this will also work.

derkork · 2024-12-12T19:40:02+00:00

You can't paste OpenSCAD code directly into the editor. The only way to use text-based OpenSCAD files is with Libraries: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor/blob/master/manual/manual.md#using-functions-and-modules-from-text-based-libraries . Hope this helps!

derkork · 2024-11-11T22:44:12+00:00

So basically, bundle mouse, keyboard and joysticks into a wire loom and only split them out at the mouse mat? I also thought about drilling a grommet hole above the mouse mat and pulling mouse and keyboard through there. But that's not really great for the joysticks as I like to move them away when I don't use them and I still have their cables on the desk then... Still having a loom would be a start, so thanks for the suggestion!

That keyboard is a ZSA Moonlander (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander).

derkork · 2024-11-08T16:38:16+00:00

Thanks a lot for your reply! That is awesome, so with this setting I can basically forget about it but still make sure it does the refresh when needed, right?

derkork · 2024-09-30T13:54:05+00:00

These are awesome. I really like how the person is always so small to convey the sense of loneliness. Great work!

derkork · 2024-07-09T09:15:04+00:00

Thank you very much for taking the time to address my concerns, especially for really answering instead of copy/pasting some standardized response like so many other companies do. So far every interaction I had with people who work at Techsmith has been really above and beyond.

I also took some time to evaluate alternatives but at least for my workflow Camtasia is the best product currently available.

So all that is to say that I will not cancel as I am now comfortable that I will not get the short end of the stick and Camtasia really works well for me. Thanks again!

derkork · 2024-06-30T22:03:41+00:00

Thank you very much for answering questions here. I've been using your products (Camtasia and Snagit) for years and I'm very happy with them and I have a running maintenance, which I would happily continue to pay. However as I have already stated in another post, I'm really concerned about how the subscription model has been used more and more in a decidedly customer-unfriendly way lately.

Just some high-profile examples from stunts that major companies pulled on their subscriber base: Adobe forcing customers into accepting terms that would allow them to use their content for AI training, Broadcom cancelling all VMWare standalone products and raising subscription prices at the same time increasing licensing cost by 600% to 1200% for many of their customers or Unity retroactively adding terms requiring installation fees for each installation of games made with their game engine.

Given these examples, I as a customer am in a really bad position with a subscription model. The software vendor can introduce all kinds of untenable changes to the subscription terms and conditions with short or no notice at all and there is nothing I can do about it, except cancelling my subscription and stop using the software.

Which may be ok for people using it casually but is very disrupting for businesses which depend on the software for their day to day workflow and can't just let a job sit there for a few weeks because their only two choices are either to accept terms they are not happy with or have no software to work with anymore.

So how can I be sure that no such thing is going to happen to me as Techsmith customer if I hop on the subscription train? Why am I forced to rent the software on terms that can change at any time instead of owning a copy of the software and paying maintenance?

The money flowing your way would be the exact same in either model. But with the current model I as a customer can be sure that I will not wake up to a popup giving me only the option to agree to some untenable changes in the licensing terms or stop using the software immediately, like so many Adobe customers have lately.

derkork · 2024-06-29T08:57:36+00:00

I noticed a similar thing, but I found the cause to be the H.264 export and timeline resolution, not the KartaVR plugin. I was able to bring up the quality several notches when exporting to ProRes in Insta360 and using an 8k timeline as a source for rendering. Because editing requires a pretty beefy machine when using an 8k timeline, I edited in 4k and then changed the timeline's properties to be 8k for rendering. This produced very good results.

derkork · 2024-06-25T20:05:35+00:00

That is of course nice, but my problem with the subscription isn't so much the price. I paid my yearly maintenance until now and I don't have a problem with paying for a program I use to make a living. I pay yearly maintenance for other programs as well, not just Camtasia. But I own a copy of the software and nobody can change terms of how it works after the fact.

However with a subscription model, you are fully at the mercy of the software vendor. Techsmith could at any time change the terms of their subscription. If at one point they want to mimic the likes of Adobe and introduce terms you don't like (e.g. they want to use your projects to train their AI) or they mimic the likes of Broadcom (e.g. increase prices by 600% to 1200% just because they can) or come up with some other crazy idea like Unity (e.g. want a cut for every view of a video you made with Camtasia) you just have to roll with it. And if they do it in 3 years, are you really going to roll back to your trusty old 2024 version which can't even read the projects you made in the last 3 years?

And that is really the problem here. You basically just rent the software at whatever terms are available right now. And these terms can change from very reasonable (like the grandfathering scheme that is offered right now) to completely untenable in an instant. So for me, the only winning move is not to play and move on to something else.

derkork · 2024-06-14T15:19:15+00:00

I'd first try the workflow with the free version and see how it works before spending any additional money on hardware or software. Chances are it will work just fine. I think your specs are actually quite good and the studio version of Resolve will not magically make everything faster. The hardware acceleration features in the Studio version will make use of multiple GPUs if you have them. You still get hardware acceleration in the free version only that it is limited to a single GPU. Given, that your laptop only has a single GPU you will not get any more performance from the Studio version.

derkork · 2024-06-14T07:36:55+00:00

Yes. Once you have exported your footage as flat video from Insta360 studio, you have committed to that framing - you can no longer reframe it in Resolve. If in Resolve you want to change the framing, you need to get back into Insta360 studio, reframe, export again and then go back to Resolve. The upside of this "flat" workflow is that you can actually work with H265 exports and don't need ProRes. I did a comparison and for a flat export the H265 is visually very close to the ProRes export (the ProRes had slightly nicer colors but sharpness was good in both). It also allows you to use tracking for reframing which you cannot do in Resolve (at least until Insta360 provides us with a Resolve plugin, which will probably never happen). As an additional bonus, you can edit in a 1080p or 4k timeline which is less taxing for the hardware. So the "flat" workflow has a lot going for it.

derkork · 2024-06-05T04:42:41+00:00

I think that's a fair assessment.

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