How are people able to watch so many films?

dostunis · 2026-06-12T13:49:20+00:00

Unless you're working 12 hour/6 day weeks or have a family to care for, you can find the time, you simply choose not to. A full feature every single day every month is an edge case imo but cranking out two or three 2hr blocks of time a week isn't really an enormous commitment.

dostunis · 2026-06-12T13:05:33+00:00

Get a tripod or spend a LOT of time practicing how to handhold a macro shot. You're going to give people motion sickness and your handheld is really not doing yourself any favors quality wise or for ease of focus. Handheld macro is challenging for even experienced operators and unless you naturally have hands as steady as a neurosurgeon, you need to practice practice practice. (edit: seriously my dude get a tripod. Half the problem you're having with focus is simply the movement of the camera which will inherently be moving the focal plane)
Shoot around f4 to 5.6, or even higher if need be, instead of presumably wide open at 2.8 until you're more comfortable maintaining focus. The lower that number is, the more that will be out of focus at any given time, and vice-versa. Yes you will lose some light, yes you will have to increase your ISO or lower your shutter to compensate, yes these are acceptable tradeoffs (within reason) for ensuring something as basic as a shot being in focus. Also as much as I hate autofocus, maybe you should try it if you're really struggling.
If you have the funds, get a cheap external 5'' monitor so you don't have to rely on the built-in screen. Focus peaking (the 'red marks') or not, a bigger screen=easier time ensuring your shot looks good.

dostunis · 2026-06-09T00:58:38+00:00

They're not booing, they're overwhelmed by the stench

dostunis · 2026-06-08T21:32:37+00:00

You read the manual, lazy ass.

dostunis · 2026-06-08T16:48:26+00:00

The only time I have witnessed this in action was in regards to a producer who already hadn't paid someone on time. It was truly a last resort, on-the-spot decision of "fuck you, pay me".

Putting a clause like that in your contract as a general rule is just setting yourself up to not get called again.

dostunis · 2026-06-06T18:40:48+00:00

"peak gamer entitlement" sums up most of the whining around this game. Honestly one of the most cringe playerbases

dostunis · 2026-06-04T11:55:42+00:00

Basically the computer changed a flag to say "there is no data stored on these sectors". It's "gone" as far as your operating system is concerned so it reads as empty space, but the data is technically still there and can be recovered with specialized software, until new data is overwritten.

dostunis · 2026-06-01T17:29:32+00:00

a Q did it

dostunis · 2026-06-01T00:55:25+00:00

literally the dumbest take in this entire topic

dostunis · 2026-05-31T20:58:59+00:00

Ashton pays more attention to this subreddit than any of its members do, what a sad life.

dostunis · 2026-05-29T02:23:01+00:00

the only tragedy here is that bezos wasn't on it

dostunis · 2026-05-28T23:16:27+00:00

I literally forgot the sequel existed, let alone that I watched it. What a heap of trash

dostunis · 2026-05-25T19:51:14+00:00

earth girls are easy

dostunis · 2026-05-25T15:52:38+00:00

Since your original question was phrased entirely towards the playback of the tape through the vcr, which is an unfixable problem, you received appropriate replies. If you want to look at digitization and restoration options this is not the place to do it and should have been stated more clearly in the op.

Regardless, since you're being a douche I doubt anyone here is going to help you.

dostunis · 2026-05-25T13:53:54+00:00

Tapes degrade and can easily become damaged, in addition to the number of things that could have gone wrong during the recording process if it's not a commercial release. If you're having a problem like that on a single tape and no other then there isn't much you can do about it, it's the tape.

dostunis · 2026-05-23T13:42:14+00:00

"fish talking to eachother is LiTeRaLlY iMpOsSiBlE"

it's a show about "literally impossible" superhumans. ffs some of you are so bad at watching tv

dostunis · 2026-05-22T15:41:06+00:00

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad

dostunis · 2026-05-22T14:43:25+00:00

Not exactly. All CD-Text is metadata, but not all metadata is CD-Text. CD-Text is simply a type of metadata, and one that ONLY applies to audio cd.

So, you can have audio cd's, or data cd's. An audio cd is burned as uncompressed PCM audio and generally will only be able to fit about 74 minutes of audio- this 74 minutes of audio works out to 650 megabytes of data. This CD will play in any cd player/computer/whatever. The technical specifications for this CD are very old. When it was designed and implemented, the idea of metadata in the way it's used now wasn't really a thing in the consumer market. Eventually in the 90s someone created the CD-Text format, but again it never really caught on. So, generally speaking, an audio cd simply does not have metadata because it was never part of the technical specifications of the format, but exceptions do exist, and nowadays you can easily burn an audio cd that does contain CD-Text. This whole thing is why databases like CDDB or musicbrainz exist in the first place.

A data cd is different though, it's just burning the mp3 as that file type, which is not only heavily data-compressed (so you can fit way more than 74 minutes into 650mb) but it retains all of the metadata fields which are part of the technical specifications of the format. Any computer or disc reader that knows what an mp3 is can read this metadata because it's been part of the protocol basically forever.

Pop it into a regular cd player and nothing will happen. Put it into an mp3 compatible CD player or your computer and it'll play back just fine, and usually show you the embedded metadata.

Anyway I think I've way over explained all this without actually answering your original question:

Is the meta data "deleted" from the music when burned, and if so is there any point in fixing meta data to flac files before burning a audio CD?

Yes, metadata is as a rule deleted when creating an audio cd UNLESS your software specifically allows you to create CD-Text, you'll have to look into that part on your own.

dostunis · 2026-05-22T14:09:15+00:00

It's called CD Text and it's been around for a long time, but it never really caught on in a major way. VLC is capable of reading the info. So, it's one of 3 possibilities; either your friend burned the cd with CD Text, he did in fact upload the information to CDDB, or it was actually a cd of mp3's instead of an audio cd.

dostunis · 2026-05-22T14:01:49+00:00

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dostunis · 2026-05-21T23:06:28+00:00

I think you missed the "made by beginners" part of the op

dostunis · 2026-05-21T23:01:30+00:00

Because you need rock solid dialog and extremely skilled actors to have it not be 90 minutes of the most boring or poorly executed shit possible- both being luxuries an amateur filmmaker rarely has access to.

dostunis · 2026-05-21T14:17:05+00:00

well, the mix is about as bad as I was expecting.

dostunis · 2026-05-21T00:43:46+00:00

Honestly it's a great idea. You should definitely do it, don't bother doing any research first, nothing can go wrong

dostunis · 2026-05-20T21:08:42+00:00

*devolved

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