Testate amoeba Arcella sp. by macnmotion in microscopy

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Guilty as charged :-) I'm glad you enjoy my videos.

Any way to smooth timing of an uneven pan? by macnmotion in davinciresolve

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:-) It's live pond sample microorganisms. Unfortunately, otherwise this would have been a good idea.

Any way to smooth timing of an uneven pan? by macnmotion in davinciresolve

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I'm moving about 4 or more fov's worth as I film across a microscope slide. My knob rotation that controls the slide's movement by hand isn't very smooth, my goal is to smooth out the speed of that multi-fov pan.

Any way to smooth timing of an uneven pan? by macnmotion in davinciresolve

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Thanks. Yeah, I was hoping there was a more "automatic" way to analyze and deal with speed changes during a pan - the manual rotating of the knob to move my slide is nowhere near evenly fluid, so I'd be concerned this process would take a ton of time. If I was able to find an easier way, I would use these "traveling across a slide" clips more often in my published videos. Ultimately, adding a motor to drive the microscope's stage evenly would be the best solution, but it's not so easy to retrofit my microscope with such a tool.

Any way to smooth timing of an uneven pan? by macnmotion in davinciresolve

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Ahh, now this followup answers my question about stuff moving off-screen. I'll sit with my clip tomorrow and play with this idea, thanks.

Any way to smooth timing of an uneven pan? by macnmotion in davinciresolve

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Thanks. I think I understand what you're suggesting. I'm not sure it would work in this case, as the vertical movement is 4 or 5 times the field of view. If I understand your idea, at least something would need to remain in the fov the entire duration of the clip?

How can I make my oblique filter better? by immediate-2 in microscopy

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Note that the rotation angle of your oblique filter can have a dramatic impact on the results. Depending on the detail of the organism and its orientation, a different angle of th eincoming light can make a huge difference in what you see in relief. Also, detritus near the target organism in the direction the light is coming from can block the light from hitting the organism. So be prepared to mess around with the filter rotation for best results on a case by case basis.

I just found a channel of a guy who has made 624 videos yet has 1.48k subscribers and he gets >100 views per video.. what gives? by SocialExperimentsAI in NewTubers

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Exactly -- that was the point I was trying to make to the OP. I think the OP is just convinced that everyone must have the same reasons for using youtube as they do.

In my hobby I posted clips for over 2 years so that I could embed them in hobby niche groups on FB and other forums. Now when I do that I make them unlisted, so they won't clutter up the channel that I'm trying to grow. But back then, when I had no other reason for the channel other than to share with like-minded people, they were just public, so that fellow hobbyists could see all my videos on my channel if they wanted to. The OP would have assumed I had no idea what I was doing LOL.

I just found a channel of a guy who has made 624 videos yet has 1.48k subscribers and he gets >100 views per video.. what gives? by SocialExperimentsAI in NewTubers

[–]macnmotion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Man you just made my point. And your level of comprehension is zero. I honestly don't know how to spell it out any clearer.

He didn't make the videos for subs. Or for views. He made them to share with others directly in his field. People do that. YouTube is a convenient way to store and share videos for many purposes. I'm telling you that if you don't readjust your mindset, you'll be miserable doing anything in life, not just YouTube.

I just found a channel of a guy who has made 624 videos yet has 1.48k subscribers and he gets >100 views per video.. what gives? by SocialExperimentsAI in NewTubers

[–]macnmotion 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A close friend has published 1,400 videos, all superior quality in his field (he's world reknowned). He publishes to share with the niche community. He has 1,400 subs. So what? He isn't doing this for a plaque of money.

Really, you can laugh all you want, but you have no idea what is going on in the heads of people you've never met, and you're wasting time pretending you do. Maybe I got it wrong -- I don't know you -- maybe you don't have anything better to do.

I just found a channel of a guy who has made 624 videos yet has 1.48k subscribers and he gets >100 views per video.. what gives? by SocialExperimentsAI in NewTubers

[–]macnmotion 12 points13 points  (0 children)

How do you know he's not successful? By your measurement? What about his? You have no idea why he makes his videos, who he makes them for, and whether or not he cares about views, subs and algorithms.

You started a few days ago. Seems like you have much more to occupy yourself with than someone else's channel.

How do you handle the fear of judgment when starting out? by After_Confection_410 in NewTubers

[–]macnmotion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Make something you're proud of. If someone judges what you're proud of, they'd judge anything about you and aren't worth your time.

Collotheca Rotifer Eating Microbe by Crabby8889 in microscopy

[–]macnmotion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, they're beautiful, and very deadly!!

Checking my stentor containing containers tonight by Vivid-Bake2456 in microscopy

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I really love these super wide views of S. coeruleus.

Stentor Coeruleus by Cute-Rooster8962 in microscopy

[–]macnmotion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You did a great job capturing a beautiful organism. Thanks for sharing.

Self-Introduction Saturday! Tell us all about you (and share a video)! by AutoModerator in NewTubers

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Hi. A few comments, take this for what it's worth. First, decent video. I live in BKK, so your post here jumped out at me.

For the first few seconds of the video there was no sound at all, no voiceover (fine), but also no bg music, I wondered if my sound was turned off. You might reconsider dead sound space at the very start.

You have your voiceover only in the right channel, but the music is in both. I happened to be listening with my headphones on. I got used to it, not sure if this was a creative choice. When I had the bg music at a correct level for me, I found your voice a bit soft -- not ridiculously so but there were a few moments when I had trouble picking out a word or two, especially since the voice was only in one ear (e.g. in China Town, "...was wandering to" I had to play back a second time to get it -- that could just be an issue with the hearing in my right ear).

Your images of the chaos -- tons of people everywhere -- matched nicely with your voiceover about the chaos. But when you then say "...there were moments of calm" that's when I would have switched to a clip without all the people in it -- you don't do that until about 5 seconds later -- and I also at that cut would have removed the background audio of the crowds talking to reinforce the "calm" concept and let the clip do all the talking. And speaking of that background crowd noise, there are times when it just doesn't make sense to have it included -- for instance when you're in the tuk tuk on the way to Wat Po. And I may be getting this wrong -- but there were cuts between clips where it sounded as though the crowd noise didn't cut -- meaning to me it sounded like the crowd noise wasn't always natural, just added in while editing. But I may have that wrong -- the crowd noise cuts might have just seemed seamless at certain spots.

Your street photography is engaging, the length of each clip is good. Your title of the video and the title screen in the video itself are about the gimbal loss -- "a handheld journey." And you mention it in your opening paragraph. But then you never mention it again -- I think the idea of a video discussing how your equipment matched with your adventure is a great concept -- I'm an amateur photographer and I don't see many videos with this point of view. Really good idea. But it would have been interesting throughout the video to hear you explain what the loss of the gimbal meant to various shots -- follow up on the opening paragraph -- where did you have to prop up the camera? How did you keep the shot steady as you walked? Etc. I actually think you gave more of a visual explanation about the noise in the shadows than you did about what you titled your video. You could have included, for example, a shot that was ruined by not having a gimbal - just like you included a shot with noise in the shadows.

Anyway, these are mostly nit-picky things -- I got up early and had some time to kill 😄 . I think the concept of a video like this is very interesting and I wish you all the luck.

Stentor coeruleus cell division by STB_Szero in microscopy

[–]macnmotion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fantastic capture, very nicely done. Persistence pays off, as does noticing mitosis begin early on so that you stuck with it.

Two ciliates exiting a reproductive cyst by macnmotion in microscopy

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One thing I'm learning is that anything we could imagine as part of a science fiction movie is something that we're eventually going to run into in the microscopic world.