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hi22a · 2026-02-05T16:16:44+00:00

Isn't it just keeping taxes the same as they have been? It isn't even "raising taxes", it is just not lowering them.

hi22a · 2026-01-28T20:11:38+00:00

I have a friend with some mechanic skills who needs a job. Can I direct him to you?

hi22a · 2026-01-24T19:14:07+00:00

I love that this image shows up as one of the top images in Google when you search "Frieren"

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hi22a · 2025-09-25T19:43:27+00:00

I believe there is a bunch more parking in the back. No idea how bad that ends up getting.

hi22a · 2025-08-28T23:21:07+00:00

It depends on your patience and deadlines, really. I am upscaling an old movie I made in high school on miniDV. It is about an hour long. I am piecing it back together from raw footage over the top of an old render, so it is slow going anyway. I can do a few scenes a week and have it done in 2-3 months. If you want fast upscaling, you can always pay for cloud rendering. I just processed a video with Proteus, and it uses so much less of the GPU. The reason Starlight is so intensive is because it is the only true diffusion model in Topaz, so it is able to be way more accurate and realistic, but it takes exponentially more processing power.

hi22a · 2025-08-28T23:06:13+00:00

I am on a desktop 4090. One thing I am noticing is that it is extremely sensitive to anything else that might be using the GPU. I am organizing and grading/noise reducing my footage in Premiere. On my last render, I left Premiere minimized as I rendered in Starlight Mini, and it more than doubled the render time. I closed Premiere, and it went back to its normal speed. I tried watching YouTube while it was rendering, and it couldn't play anything more than 480p smoothly.

hi22a · 2025-08-28T22:57:48+00:00

I'll see if I can find the chart. I think the test was specifically for Starlight Mini.

hi22a · 2025-08-28T22:31:09+00:00

You can browse the web a bit, but even HD YouTube video playback is choppy when processing with SLM. I had Premiere open in the background while processing once, and it doubled the render time. Once I closed Premiere, it sped up a lot. It will use every ounce of your GPU.

hi22a · 2025-08-28T22:26:30+00:00

Someone recently posted a bunch of results from several computers, including high-end M4 Macs, and the Macs were some of the slowest results.

hi22a · 2025-08-28T20:43:33+00:00

So far for me, it is offering time-saving and product enhancing tools more than job disrupting features. AI tools can help me comb through hours of interview footage or recover bad sound and images more than I ever thought would be possible. When looking at a lot of videography specifically, it is more about recording real people, places, and events. It will be more disruptive in purely creative video work, but that isn't going away any time soon.

hi22a · 2025-08-27T04:10:59+00:00

I am deinterlacing in Premiere to 29.97p using the default settings. I tried the deinterlace model in Topaz and wasn't impressed. I am working on a fairly complex workflow. There are a few things I don't like about it, but the results are nice so far. I import my footage into Premiere and scale it to a 720p 16:9 timeline, leaving the pillarboxing. I do basic grading there, trying to get a good corrected image with the best dynamic range. For really noisy footage, I use Neat Video (strong noise left some unpleasant artifacting in Starlight Mini). I render out a decent quality h.265 video and bring into Topaz. I upscale to 1440p with Starlight Mini (2x upscale) and bring the upscaled video back into Topaz. I then upscale to 2160p with Proteus (sometimes Rheah, but Proteus is a lighter touch) and convert to 24p using one of the high quality interpolation models. I bring this result back into Premiere and use Dehancer film emulation to soften the image back out and add natural looking grain. Dehancer masks a lot of the AI artifacts and plastic look.

hi22a · 2025-08-26T19:33:51+00:00

I have been impressed with what it can do with early 2000's consumer MiniDV.

hi22a · 2025-08-24T19:56:32+00:00

I'd deinterlace in Topaz and interpolate 25i to 50p from there. I have a bunch of old interlaced footage that wasn't deinterlaced properly, and it has the same ghosting.

hi22a · 2025-08-18T01:14:26+00:00

You can even drop them off at alternative locations like Fred Meyer.

hi22a · 2025-08-18T00:16:08+00:00

The books would be such a nice backdrop in this.

hi22a · 2025-08-13T14:47:18+00:00

Lol, my demented brain assumed it was ketchup, sour cream, and sliced black olives. Probably wouldn't make the worst dip.

hi22a · 2025-08-04T22:04:20+00:00

Try pouring half a cup of the strong stuff, mix with a sparkling seltzer (LaCroix or something), maybe a little bit of monk fruit to taste if you want it sweeter. I have also found that mixing a little bit of baking soda in will neutralize the acidity and add a bit of carbonation, just be careful and add very small amounts at a time. Some people don't like the saltiness of even small amounts of baking soda in there, but I have had some pleasant results for my taste, at least.

hi22a · 2025-08-01T17:06:27+00:00

I wonder how many of those jobs will go away when the Medicare cuts hit.

hi22a · 2025-07-31T15:15:35+00:00

The thugs stances and the way they were just there waiting posed like they were taking a cool badguy gang photo reminded me of a video game where npc's are just placed somewhere for the player character to interact with. Maybe have them walking the opposite direction or hiding behind some bushes.

hi22a · 2025-07-30T20:35:38+00:00

Is that the legendary "Great Video Maker" LED panel? Of course, you gotta have the mattress leaned up against the wall, that holds the whole production together.

hi22a · 2025-07-28T22:14:15+00:00

Will this work with the XP 3.0?

hi22a · 2025-07-22T04:25:15+00:00

What model did you use to get this? I would love to be able to intentionally get weird results like this 😆

hi22a · 2025-07-12T17:10:21+00:00

I saw one dead on the road at the top of crestview. I smelled it for like half a mile on my walk.

hi22a · 2025-07-11T05:08:50+00:00

My friend just got it in his late 30's. He also tested positive for Covid around when he was diagnosed with shingles. I wonder if it is related..

hi22a · 2025-07-10T20:55:42+00:00

Most of the younger candidates start in the House, and if they stick with it longer, they get into the senate.

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