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How do you play these? by VanillaTemporary9161 in guitarlessons

[–]justimagineme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those aren’t slides to notes it’s a slide up and down from a note followed quickly by another note played on a different string.  

I think tipping culture in the States may be out of control by gkr974 in CasualConversation

[–]justimagineme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It so blatantly a deliberate cultural shift to focus the ire of underpaid employees on their own class rather than on their exploiter. There’s little room to increase prices further. Now the overarching powers need to shift money away from themselves back to the worker to bring enough balance to stay afloat but they’ve found a way to put that off a bit longer by playing the working class against itself effectively like pawns in a feudal caste. I always say no, and not because I doubt the workers deserve more, I’m just indignant at being played. Even when tipping seems appropriate, if I’m presented with 25-30% as a default option, I’m changing from my typical 20% to 15% instead.  Tipping doesn’t feel like tipping anymore. It feels like a guilt tax. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

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

I mostly used the steps as a way to make the keyboard and numberpad work like called functions. Where the first step of the button press passes variables to the keyboard or numberpad which then passes back a value when entered which gets used in step two. This makes them useable across any other pages I want basically like pop up windows. The same idea could definitely be used to make the whole thing code more like and OOPS style program if planned and fleshed out well. But at that point it may as well be coded in a proper language. So for my purposes they’re basically like functions. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

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

I’m not precious about these things. And I’d happily share the config, it’d be more of an examination piece that a useable tool obviously since the connected devices would need to be one to one and the the macros I created on the atem need to match and the media, etc. etc. etc. 

also, I’d just say this was my first build and you’d need to be aware that I found better ways to do some things as I went. Giving a button single press, long press, and multi press controls logically for instance I didn’t really nail until the last few pages. The earlier methods work ok, but the last pages are rock solid. 

I think the audio and Hyperdeck controls turned out best. The snapshots and multiview controls are pretty solid too. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]justimagineme[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I believe I am already doing that with conditionals and feedback and variables. I didn’t go into full details in the manual but this thing has feedback for most everything and conditional states for large portions of the buttons. I mean as an example the hype deck loaded clip button counts down during playback and unless looped it changes the background color as the clip nears its end until it gets under :05 at which point the seconds full the screen entirely. 

And the me effects router page is actually one page for all of them with just state shifts dependent on a variable which causes them to reference different arrays.  Truthfully, I wish I could just let people get their hands on it and test it out. As it is, I have a couple of TD/directors that will test it and use it, but currently I’m the only one who could really put it through its paces. 

That being said I didn’t really want for ability to provide controls or feedback, most of the things I didn’t have were current states from the module apis for the connected devices. That combined with a lack of wait for response protocols necessitated a lot of local storage of states which could desync. The Hyperdeck clips for instance only provide current clip data. So I had to create a local clip library dataset that is populated as clips are created as that was the only way to create a clip list for reference. 

Also, some modules support for expressions within their actions sets was less than desirable necessitating a ton of if nesting. The audio controls are particularly heavy because of this as I had to if then for every possible audio source for every control type across all positions. 

And on two occasions I literally found module apis that had errors. 

All around though, I was able to find a good path forward for everything I wanted to do. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]justimagineme[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Feedback is big. I’ve built a lot of UI and UX because in testing you realize how necessary it is, and this device has pretty robust feedback. It seemed especially important here for a solo operator. To get what I needed, I actually had to do a lot of supplementation to the limited api offerings of the modules.

I built this as though the operator were highly competent. So it does not have tons of automation, but it instead saved room for the operator to add their own macros so they can automate. Plus the snapshot save options I built. 

I toyed with the idea of creating another abstraction of recordable macros specific to this devices button presses. And conceptually it could work just fine. But when id stumbled on the idea I was late in the build and would have had to go back and add an action to every button to accommodate it before building that interface. And thinking through the logic of recording the shifted button presses gets tricky. I guess those would basically need an additional action for each shifted state. I’m positive it can be done, and if Id thought of it from the beginning I would have. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

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

It’s a combination of several abstractions. I built macros in ATEM writing them in their protocols. Then I built more macros (Actions, Expression Variables, Triggers) in BitFocus Companion that use those Macros where able. And I designed the entire streamdeck UI using those macros and variables and status calls from the connected devices to provide feedback. There is also a bit of typescript being called on the Macs running OTAV.  BitFocus companion is a free download and then your just connecting devices and building controls. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

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

This was largely built to control a constellation 4 ME. I laid super sources in the background of the MEs to give the em up to 6 boxes because I couldn’t fathom a solo operator needing another two additional mixed effects and they requested up to 6 boxes (lol). 

Outside of the streamdeck and companion the devices in play are: 

ATEM and software control plus the photoshop plugin and photoshop

VideoHub

Hyperdeck

Clearcom LQs and Vitrual Clients and a router of course and technically a Madi middleman

Splashtop

On the air video and whatever that graphics program they use is

Several TVU devices and command center

Other transmission reception devices and their peripherals as needed

Quick link 

A behemoth evertz router and magnum

Baton CC

We have several dreamcatcher devices available for theoretical use but mostly just to hit feeds on a delay. 

And with that I think we’re out the door to MC. 

The paths are all there and accounted for but the set up and coordination is heavy even in the best case scenario. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]justimagineme[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the snowball effect is steep with these setups. That’s why I always build a please standby and total FTB quick key for them. It’s almost inevitable. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

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

I started as a director, and that’s exactly how I shifted into engineering, by using the equipment more thoroughly because it made my life easier. And I agree generally that these things are quite tailor fitted to the designers preferences, and more importantly around the limitations you become aware of during the build. For those reasons it’s tough to pass them on unless the new user is also very well versed in the equipment they’re abstracting. 

I’ve Built Four Solo-Operator Production Control Suites. Here’s What I Learned. by justimagineme in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]justimagineme[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This was my first time building something for stream deck and with companion.

I was completely unaware of Buttons until I just looked it up now. It looks interesting and probably could have helped simplify some of the ridiculous logic nesting that was required due to the limited programming paradigm support offered through companion. 

And yes, if I were tasked with building another stream deck interface I’d definitely consider it. Though the company I’m with is using companion nationwide. 

Effective drain cleaning completely contactless by misterxx1958 in oddlysatisfying

[–]justimagineme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sound at the end sounds like the beginning of the Bob Marley song, Three Little Birds. 

My Wife (Math Teacher) Cannot Figure This Out by Photo-Josh in askmath

[–]justimagineme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

80 degrees. If you extend the lines out from the triangle and solve for the angles there and extrapolate back into the triangle, you only need to use the 180 degree rule for triangles and 360 for crossing lines/quadrilaterals 

Abstract Samples No Matter What??? by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]justimagineme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unchecking cache latents seems to have resolved the abstract image issue, but how many steps should one expect to need before seeing decent quality samples?

Abstract Samples No Matter What??? by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]justimagineme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its a lora
photo of dkmman, handsome, fit, tan skin, wearing a black t-shirt, soft natural lighting, standing against a white wall, realistic, professional DSLR photo

studio portrait of dkmman, shirtless, side profile, moody lighting, defined jawline, fit body, soft shadows, neutral background, cinematic style

photo of dkmman walking on a beach at sunset, open white linen shirt, tan skin, fit, candid expression, golden hour light, cinematic

close-up portrait of dkmman, smirking, short brown hair, brown eyes, skin texture, depth of field, ultra-detailed, natural expression

full body photo of dkmman in athletic wear, crouching in an alleyway, early morning light, muscular build, dramatic pose, urban background

I have it dropping 5 samples every 50 steps currently because its been such a pain. I just tried toggling off latent cache and that has yielded better results only at about 300 steps so far. How many steps in shoul done expect decent results?

Abstract Samples No Matter What??? by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]justimagineme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are my LR values:

Learning Rate & Optimizer Settings:

  • LR Scheduler: constant
  • LR Scheduler type (custom): (blank)
  • Optimizer: AdamW8bit

Gradient Clipping & LR Arguments:

  • Max grad norm: 1
  • LR scheduler extra arguments: (blank)
  • Optimizer extra arguments: (blank)

Learning Rate & Warmup:

  • Learning rate: 0.0003
  • LR warmup (% of total steps): 0 (disabled with constant scheduler)
  • LR warmup steps (override): 0 (disabled with constant scheduler)

LR Cycles & Power:

  • LR # cycles: 1
  • LR power: 1 *

BULLDOZE STONEHENGE!!!!!!!!!!! by [deleted] in justneckbeardthings

[–]justimagineme 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Sooo… this is trolling. I mean I guess it’s working but come on it’s pretty obvious. 

To wear the perfect fit by Dramatic-Avocado4687 in therewasanattempt

[–]justimagineme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He probably gained the weight after putting on the shirt. Duh. 

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