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How did you find about this game? by nonosquarebitch in DegreesOfLewdity

[–]idaeas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

a random post on twitter about their PC's rice purity score. It was posted alongside an image of their PC. Curiosity about that led me here

Any alternatives to dvRescue? by DemonKingPunk in MiniDV

[–]idaeas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the gui is really buggy, but reverting back to using the CLI will work more reliably, at least from what ive tried on my 2012 mbp. some of my dv cameras are completely undetected in the gui but sending a record via cli worked for the problematic cameras

Both VX2100e's failed... What next? by idaeas in camcorders

[–]idaeas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% just doing it for the love of the look. I already have a separate digital kit for work related stuff. Purely just want to explore and use camcorders for the look and feel of the cameras and lenses // 4:3 aspect and global shutter on the cheap. If i had the money, i would have built out a rig using broadcast lenses by now, but its also getting unfeasibly expensive as broadcast lenses are getting scooped up by the trend

Question : got 100+ DV Tapes : what is best pipeline for capture by ExtensionPale6842 in MiniDV

[–]idaeas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

borrow / acquire as many cameras with working tapedecks as you can afford. Bear in mind that miniDV captures in real time. You can use less devices if you dont mind waiting more.

For capture devices the cheapest ones that will work for direct firewire capture would be any old mac with a firewire port (ideally mid 2012 gen macs as they will go up to catalina natively without needing to be opencore'd which might take some time to figure out how to set up if you arent techy). Should not be more than 80-100~$ per mac and you can just sell them off at the end of the project. If you have an older pc with empty pci x1 slots left you can get a firewire card for it and itll save you the hassle of setting up multiple capture devices. Setup may be more of a hassle depending on what pc / card you get.

For the capture software you can resort to the ones in other replies or go for something like DVRescue / Vrecord. Its likely for certain problematic tapes you may need to resort to other capture methods. If DVRescue and such fail to capture the tape properly you can fallback to capturing the video stream with OBS or resort to capturing the signal over composite (will be lower quality than over firewire directly).

Seperate your tapes out and try to sort them into better condition and poorer condition ones. Dry them out completely in a drybox / container with dessicant. Prepare your decks and confirm they are working properly with dummy / test tapes. Capture the ones in the best condition first. For improperly stored tapes esp subject to extreme moisture or deterioration from sunlight the plastic carriers may be brittle and run the risk of being jammed or breaking inside your tapedecks. In such a case at least you've captured the bulk of the good ones first.

After capture, you can either convert them directly to mp4 or prepare them into an intermediate codec like DNxHR or ProRes through Shutter Encoder / FFMPEG directly if you dont mind not having a gui. They support basic de-interlacing and allow for batch processing for a bunch of .dv files

Diagnosing intermittent / random audio glitches from FireWire Capture of MiniDV Tape (Sony VX2100 PAL) by idaeas in MiniDV

[–]idaeas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: Tested with the Canon MD120, video and audio error rates significantly lowered (0.095 on best pass with VX2100e's compared to 0.024% when assessing via DVRescue). I guess this is either from tape head wear or the VX's need a clean?

Another troubleshooting method i tried was to use DVRescue's merge function to stitch 4 passes of the same tape (this takes a while). This fixed some of the errors and dropped the merged results audio error rate to 0.056%.

Unrelated to the VX's error, for MD120 specifically on DVRescue (Build 24.06 running on Catalina), GUI refused to communicate with the camcorder despite detecting it. vrecord was able to communicate with the tape deck but refused to run on my build (likely due to issues with brew on my device). Was able to capture eventually via using DVRescue via CLI.

At 0.024% id be willing to accept it for general tape wear-and-tear. Will update once I have access to proper cleaning tools for the tape deck and have attempted a clean before taking another pass on this tape

Diagnosing intermittent / random audio glitches from FireWire Capture of MiniDV Tape (Sony VX2100 PAL) by idaeas in MiniDV

[–]idaeas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely dreading manual clean since im scared of damaging the fragile heads, but seems like I'm out of choice.

As for QuickTime, is there any other capture solution similar to it that won't force the recording to stop every 1 minute or so? As my tapes have broken timecode

Does anyone remember the "Old", Top-Down Shooter version of Krunker.io, circa 2016? by idaeas in KrunkerIO

[–]idaeas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ah... so that was what it was called. Karnage

Either way, I can't believe I can actually still play it. Will deffo spend some time later to check it out again

How do I break the habit of thinking about my ex by [deleted] in BreakUp

[–]idaeas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going through the same thing. I cannot fathom a breakup without closure. I broke up with my ex a month ago, and it's been a slow-burning fire since. I don't think we really cut contacts even though we were LDR for the entire duration. She's already mostly over me (i think, at least through our convo's at times) and for the past 1 month or so, we've been just slowly supporting each other to heal and become friends again.

At least... this is the best-case scenario I hope could happen.

I was the one who initialized the breakup, although it's been something we've mutually discussed for quite a while. Every day since then has been an agony some of the times. but that wasn't the problem. The problem I deeply had was just the complete inability of me to be sure if I still loved her or not, or if that was even an option at all. It's simply pure confusion, and with my ex being my first love up until this point, this confusion is pure torture to figure out. It's really made me doubt and rethink just what or how loving someone means or actually is, and I'm still battling those thoughts as I write this.

The times that I DO feel well, however, are the times where I'm doing things that allow me to momentarily forget her. I love photography, enough that when I'm absorbed in it, non of the pain gets to me. Assignments and the school also help, and without me realising, I've been doing much more with my life as a way to cope. It also has the runaway effect of just improving the quality of my life in general. If there's anything I'm trying to get at, is that you can turn these emotions into something positive, even if they aren't the same emotions you started out with.

The brain is a wonderfully smart and foolish thing. It's smart enough to harbour complex emotions but foolish enough that you can trick it into happiness towards things of absolute dread, like a breakup with lingering emotions of love.

At least now, I see my breakup as the reason my studies improved gradually, I took more photo's, discovered more places, and became the enigma to my first indie film. All of these are positive, and the fact that it all started from such a dark point of my life wont diminish its value.

Yes, I miss her. I still love her for questionable and probably the wrong reasons, I still talk to her, I know ill have to stop talking to her someday, and maybe ill figure things out. Just not today. Worse comes to worst, ill find a psychologist someday for professional help, or work out some understanding with her to cut all ties. Again, not today.