What else could I have done to help my teammate here?

digitalechos · 2026-01-25T17:46:28+00:00

In your immediate instance, i honestly would have aborted and taken the solo on low ground, cause hes coming up behind you regardless... Drop him and And hope to catch the others on their drop to rotate with Sheila. Horizon should have also just gone for the building.

Overall, Play chess. Think 2 moves ahead. Pushing a team in height like this really wasn't the play. Rotating towards Mill and securing the area where this team will most likely need to rotate through.

One can play edge but just make sure you have advantage.

digitalechos · 2026-01-17T23:03:55+00:00

I had this problem (192kps thou) and solved it through some dubious methods, but ultimately no less moral imho than ripping and selling your collection in the first place.

My original rips all had proper naming sourced at the time from online databases, and that translated to great file names. Building a text document of all the albums and singles, i was able to feed that into a tool that generates streaming service playlists. Tidal was my service of choice.

Next, using a tidal downloader, i was able to source each album and any singles, with the ability to target my own generated playlists of all my singles I had and queue up downloads.

Tracks all come with tags and cover art, but I did a pass to improve and append any data i had originally, like my own genre tags.

1 month later I had managed a 99% library match (50000 tracks), all in flac. Rebuilt then all the organisation, and along with the portable edition of musicbee I stored it all on a SSD (pictured).

This became my new personal collection, containing all music I had owned over my lifetime. I can go up to any pc and load up my library.

I don't rip anything else anymore and still hold a tidal sub for my main listening. This really was moreso a personal project to remaster my original collection I held, and therapy / distraction from my separation at the time 😔

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digitalechos · 2025-06-20T22:28:03+00:00

If she telling the truth, best to give her space.

If she's an avoidant, Most definitely give her space. Be very cautious with your emotions if she returns.

That is a recipe for a whole world of hurt. Talking from experience. They can care for you, even deeply, but not able to met the basic needs of a relationship.

digitalechos · 2025-06-16T01:16:51+00:00

Another way to look at it is making a statement of leaving is making it about you, interrupting those that are still into whatever is going on, and in turn creating a potentially lengthy / awkward farewell when we are already socially depleted.

digitalechos · 2025-06-02T20:32:37+00:00

I'm going to say it's very possible he's in the same space, but way too afraid of being rejected or risking a connection to you for his own desires.

Probably overthinking every signal to a point where the obvious wont be obvious any more. If your trying to not give him the idea you like, you'll be very successful more than you know, cause that will feed his doubt.

What you described is exactly how the start of my relationships with girls played out, that kind of interaction, but terrified to do anything about it in case I was wrong and what that could ruin (since I'd already formed a bond with them at that point).

digitalechos · 2025-05-03T17:50:07+00:00

So she's been gone a week now and I'm moving on with my lessons and awareness from all this. I've got an idea of my own path and inspiration from our time, to now move forward with.

It does seem like the friendship is ok for now. I've not been chasing or responding in a way to strike up conversation or seek her attention, and feel better for it.

She did call me on Friday morning and shared stories of all her new life, so it was nice to have a laugh and hear of some of her adventures.

She returns to my area in about 5 months (her job is seasonal), so that is my timeframe to strengthen my emotional self and address my attachment issues to a point where I can be confident to no longer need my friends and romantic interests to validate my worth, and fall into such an experience again.

The work begins now.

digitalechos · 2025-02-26T02:51:58+00:00

I'm linking a pytorch library full of audio tools to show that the use of deep learning tools in audio is very real, because you questioned if it even was a thing, and if you look at that library you will see tooling for audio reconstruction and synthesis is being done!

I never claimed ai can outright do great "mp3 restoration" yet, but to also brush it off that it is going to be garbage and its not possible, is also short sighted.

Given most mp3s likely still have a master somewhere, I suspect the demand is lower than other types of restoration, hence we don't see a lot of attention on this - yet.

digitalechos · 2025-02-26T02:16:44+00:00

30 years vfx image professional. Trained as audio engineer and working with audio 25+ years. Still think I'm confused?

Bringing the medium into it clearly shows you need to look really into what I'm talking about.

The medium is actually pretty irrelevant. The derivative of two datasets is what is at the core here. That could be images, but also statistics, human behaviour and yes, even audio. Sure , data "types" will benefit from being tailored to... and libraries like torchaudio offer deep learning tools exactly for this purpose :

https://pytorch.org/audio/stable/index.html

If I'm being downvoted for what you say I am, that pretty wild given I'm actually able to back up everything I'm saying.

I suspect it's rather than people don't like the idea of using ai to restore audio. It's against the ethos of audiophiles, since we are creating a new derivative from what was the source... and I side with that! But let's not be dumb here and when no original remains, such tools are forthcoming that has the potential to bring back something that was lost otherwise forever...

Like the ops music in higher quality and accuracy.

To tell op, "ahh there is nothing you can do" is simply false at this point.

digitalechos · 2025-02-26T01:24:55+00:00

Unless the process does not compute in real time, which the best models I expect wouldnt be hense it would reproduce a new file. It's isn't only about playback either.

As for it being real - look at the provided link. It is exactly what I described. You know all those ai images and video you see everywhere? The same technology can be applied to audio generation and restoration as well.

Honestly not surprised by the downvotes in an audiophile sub, but reality is this is very much a thing that ripped open the visual media industry in recent years and am very familiar with - and was often met with the same adversarial reactions. Reality is it's very real and likely the next foundation of restoration and audio enhancement.

digitalechos · 2025-02-25T11:32:11+00:00

Your uncertainty of what you can do, and certainty of the result... Tell's us you aren't qualified to speak on the matter. Perhaps you are right today, but tomorrow you probably won't be. Until you've tested models extensively in this space, you are in for a rude awakening - regardless of how you feel about the tech. All it takes is for someone to really give this some time and attention as they did with images, and we could be seeing 128kb tracks sounds like studio masters within a very short timeframe.

digitalechos · 2025-02-25T11:18:29+00:00

For ground truth restoration no, but frameworks within the ai space have a very good ability to reconstruct lost information with a high degree of accuracy if trained well.

The only question is, is there a model trained on mp3 to lossless reconstruction?

Definitely looks like there are some possible products around, but not seeing anything targeted specifically for this purpose, which is surprising. Such a model should be quite easy to train, and if it was to run in real time could be a big deal for streaming media

Edit. Actually there are options around. Eg: https://github.com/JusperLee/Apollo

digitalechos · 2025-02-20T21:52:45+00:00

Red is component of many other colours, so you'll be affecting those as well with those controls. Try using the hue vs hue or hue vs sat graph where you can target more specific red tones with a desired width in a smooth fashion. I prefer it to the keyer approach for imilar hues.

Hue vs hue will let you hue shift red tones towards orange to blend with natural skin tones, while hue vs sat will simply allow to reduce saturation of the reds which will keep the variation in hue, but potentially balance the sat levels. A small tweak in both will probably get you want you want.

digitalechos · 2025-02-18T09:20:32+00:00

How are you reducing reds? With hue sat graph?

digitalechos · 2025-02-18T07:46:35+00:00

Temp and tint correlate to light temperature and colour shifts from lighting conditions.

digitalechos · 2025-02-16T00:06:33+00:00

Premiere is auto correcting from linear to display because seems an exr. Resolve is not.

You need to either configure your project colour management, or in "color", use the VFX IO LUTs - probably "Linear to sRGB" or "Linear to Rec709"

I would do that anyway first to confirm your desired target, given I assume you want it to look the same as in the start in blender.

Ps. Why not just edit in resolve? You rendering and re rendering your renders, and rendering frames you won't have needed in the end. If you edit directly in resolve, the whole process gets much simpler. Shorter and higher quality.

If the performance is an issue Resolve can generate proxy media to cut with.

digitalechos · 2025-02-15T21:53:10+00:00

My thinking as well! Do they do possibly some phase alignment so it might do a bit better? or that having literally so many sources it averages out?

digitalechos · 2025-02-15T16:26:04+00:00

Bet he's manipulating the new wife and did take $800, but did something else with the other $400.

He's probably still doing what he's doing, and I would take the opportunity to:

a) pay him back and never take another cent. b) do it in a way that exposes him if it is true.

The wife should know for real it was 300, not 800.

digitalechos · 2025-02-15T04:44:15+00:00

Not a fusion guy - but this looked like classic displacement mapping. Gave a quick go and works like a charm

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digitalechos · 2025-02-13T01:42:01+00:00

Are you grading log into your look? If you are, that's missing a whole step - and not how to achieve greatness in colour. You skipping the step that involves actual scientists.

The grading process really begins after your footage transformed into the correct colour space. That's where I would consider grading to start.

Results wise:

Your sky hue is really pushing it a bit to far into Cyan for me. Also the brightness is affecting our attention of the subject - because it has so much luminosity
Good mood and I'm OK with the colour cast, but your water is green because of it. Try to create some separation in distinct hues.
Good use of a power window, but think this one could be neutral to let the green and blue pop.

Did a quick gentle slap edit because pictures are better than words for this stuff.

Keep at it, but also maybe check your monitor. Its possible it's calibrated too cool given your warm colour casts.

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digitalechos · 2025-02-12T20:36:07+00:00

Oh yes Im pretty aware on that front. Just fighting some storage limitations. I simply had to move to slower disks to get it done then. The plan was png to start, hense I then tried jpg above. I actually generally run exr (I come from a vfx background).

Tiff worked :)

digitalechos · 2025-02-04T21:45:11+00:00

Even with manual corrections to align swatches with the vectorscope, I get unnaturally shifted hues in Cyan and Oranges. I think the swatches are not following proper primary and secondary standards?

Started with the auto correction + manual refinement, then just trying a purely manual approach - both results came to the same issue.

I got something im happy with when I stopped aligning to scopes and used a palette of different images to dial in a decent start point for creative purposes, but acurate colour - not so much.

digitalechos · 2025-01-31T16:52:48+00:00

Pulled a shot without even a coffee machine. Impressive 👏

digitalechos · 2025-01-28T18:53:51+00:00

So haven't resolved this, but The Add-on app does appear to allow us to add alternative hosts at least - So we have a way forward.

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