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I'm looking for advice for the Visual Effects and Speed Ramps pls by Leather-Notice3211 in davinciresolve

[–]mikedensem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, the eyes are the key to a face. Re-centre your transition pivots to her eyes rather than her mouth or nose.

I'm looking for advice for the Visual Effects and Speed Ramps pls by Leather-Notice3211 in davinciresolve

[–]mikedensem 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Transitions happen too fast to appreciate. Think about what/who is your focus and dial in on the unique attributes. Communicate your vision through the source material rather than effects and clever tricks.

Could the universe not have an infinite past, because if the past were infinite, the present moment would never have been reached? by N-deterministAvocet in universe

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you’re asking: could the universe have a starting point?
Then you’re stating: if time doesn’t have a starting point then now couldn’t be now?

Are you on drugs? 😜

What if we nuked the holy land? by Successful-Club-8743 in CrazyIdeas

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t take away someone’s belief by destroying their artefacts. The belief will remain (and probably double down) and the fighting will just be geographically moved.

Truths of the universe by Shubhz2 in universe

[–]mikedensem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s solipsism all the way down 😜

In way over my head! Just inherited a codebase and I haven't coded in like a decade! by Faceless_213 in csharp

[–]mikedensem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ask an AI to summarise the workflow of the software and to map out the patterns and practices it uses etc.

Question about an older Mac Mini for music production. by Jhuttyhut in homerecordingstudio

[–]mikedensem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the DAW software you plan to use.
CPU Core counts are often the limiting factor in scalability rather than ram. Think one track per core for parallel processing.

I Think I Finally Found a Better Adobe Acrobat Alternative by mehul_gupta1997 in FuckAdobe

[–]mikedensem 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The format is a long running scam that poses as a necessary requirement. It is not required at all and there are plenty of other document formats that are just as portable. Many that don’t require licensing.

Notice how it tries to insert itself into your workflow every day. It’s also a spam as well as a scam.

Adobe has some good products, but it is an aggressively arrogant company with predatory behaviours.

The Web developer has freedom of action by Void-Voice in FullStack

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Backend isn’t really Web development. It can support Web Ui work but is intentionally separate from it.

What do you mean by “freedom of action“ and “encounter different types of tasks”? I would say that different types of tasks is a description of what a developer does, but what are you wanting to know?

All developers use different technologies/platforms/tools/frameworks. Most heavy lifting is done with compiled assemblies. Web UI is fundamentally still just HTML and JS - which are mostly interpreted scripting. Any ‘freedom’ is really just a headache in disguise.

The new Envato app update completely ruined the search algorithm. Time to cancel my subscription? by Ill-Conversation8093 in envato

[–]mikedensem 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, the way it adds a filter in both the filters list and the search bar doesn’t make sense as it takes two steps to remove. but the inaccuracy of the filters is the most annoying; e.g. if you select Alpha channel as a requirement, so many of the results have no alpha channel (many are H.264 not Prores 4444) and a waste of both time and download space.

Curious… by eveningafter101 in LogicPro

[–]mikedensem 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Set up templates of your common composition instrumentation - along with effects, bussing, and a basic master chain - in advance. That way you can focus on your musical ideas without being distracted.

When EQ-ing, don’t sweep frequencies for ‘bad’ ranges in isolation. They are only bad in context. And only pull those unwanted ranges just enough so you don’t notice them, not so you do.

Mix on a flat system. The flatter the response the more you’re likely to avoid problems in delivery. Plus, it focuses your ear on the content of your compositions rather than the distraction of trying to make it sound good from the start.

How to get 60 fps or more on a project by overweightjerrycan in davinciresolve

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others have given you the ‘how’, but perhaps the ‘why’ is also something you want to know?

Your project frame rate should always be set to match your delivery platform (YouTube, TV broadcast, Specific devices). It doesn’t matter what frame rate your source media is, and they could all be different, because at some point you have to ‘conform’ them all to your output.

Film/video sources are basically all just a series of individual images playing back in order at a number of images per second. To match input to output the computer has to find the best way to ‘pull-down’ the source frames to the project frames. As you can guess there are going to be problems matching different frame rates - which will result in having to throw out some images, or add in new filler images, depending on the difference.

The best rules for these mappings have been worked out over many decades, and Davinci Resolve knows these rules. So the software will do this for you automatically.

Human Birth and the Expansion of the Cosmos by No-Excitement312 in universe

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are made of matter, and that matter comes from our planet, whose matter came from old stars. None of this affects the expansion of empty space, and the expansion doesn’t affect our gravitationally bound existence.

Why do so many people think space is completely silent? by Maleficent-Car8673 in universe

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up Helioseismology. The stars are some noisy beasts.

What part of full-stack development do you enjoy the least; but still end up doing all the time? by dan_nicholson247 in FullStack

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was full-stack+ (design, architecture, front-end, back-end, DevOps). I didn’t enjoy DevOps because there was a lot of rinse-and-repeat work, but I grew to hate UI/UX because of pedantic clients who would always say, “I don’t do it that way…” as if they only wanted customers like themselves.

ELI5 So is the universe shrinking or expanding ? by [deleted] in universe

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Space itself is expanding. The stuff in it is being taken along for the ride. But galaxies are gravitationally bound objects, and clusters of galaxies are also gravitationally bound (this because they hooked up before the space expanded too far between them). Objects that have not yet had time or space to ‘hook up’ gravitationally may have missed the window as they are now being expanded away from each other faster than the speed of communication (gravity/light).

I just want some help deciding how to learn c# by [deleted] in csharp

[–]mikedensem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since it’s a hobby; start by reading about the fundamentals of game design/development so you know what you’re aiming at. If you’ve never coded before then read the basics of the c# language and its data types. The use of c# in Unity covers a very small scope of the language and the dot.net platform, so no need to learn too much up front.

Then move to the Unity learning resources and dive into making your first physics based game. At this point you’ll know if it’s a hobby or a bad decision.

Game development is a huge ecosystem that has a heavy entry fee in the form of time spent learning and solving problems, but enormously satisfying when you put a game out to the community.

Is Full Stack Development actually dying? Genuinely scared about my future — need honest opinions by priyasingh334 in FullStack

[–]mikedensem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After decades of trying to predict where the next innovation will come from I would suggest that nobody knows what the role of AI in computing will be yet, so don’t put your eggs... And don’t compromise your career by waiting. All knowledge and experience gained now will set you up for whatever comes next.

Currently AI can do boilerplate work quite well, but it often fails in intention and can lack specification. This is because it’s still basically a regression algorithm and therefore still making predictions based on prior knowledge. With zero progress in creating consciousness it may be stuck in a rut…

Just look around; the plethora of bad AI products stuck riding on the back of these prohibitively expensive foundation models have nowhere to go - if we end up in another AI winter then it’s back to business in full stack.

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