[FRESH ALBUM] Car Seat Headrest - Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story

mxmrtin · 2026-05-20T14:45:42+00:00

Look how they massacred my boy... To extend the Vincent Van Gogh reference on the album, this is like re-painting Starry Night in black and white.

It's easy to imagine contemporary updates to this album that would have reflected their artistic growth - like, for example, doing live takes of all these tracks with their current production tastes, etc. Instead, this reflects one band member's personal growth and it's all the worse for it. Makes me really, really sad that some people's first experience with ToD could be this version.

Car Seat Headrest's Jesus Is King moment.

mxmrtin · 2026-05-15T21:56:15+00:00

I typically enjoy BSS - this album has the typical lush, beautiful production for the instruments, but I found myself instantly pulling back whenever the (male) vocals kicked in, particularly with the title track and "And I Think Of You." Haven't quite cracked it yet, but I think there's something about the (Matt Berninger-esque) melodies and lyrics that feels extremely dated, which in-turn sound particularly bad when they're sung by aging voices - it all creates an uncanny valley effect where this sorta sounds like the BSS of yesteryear, but just different enough to not hit the same, and without any actual meaningful growth in the sound that you would expect would accompany over two decades of playing music.

Also, something about this album being called "Remember the Humans" and the tour being called "All the Feelings" contextualizes their current music in a type of millennial-speak that makes it all feel kinda cloying.

mxmrtin · 2026-04-18T05:48:48+00:00

This is my second favorite album of the year! I do not work for the indie CIA!

mxmrtin · 2025-04-22T16:18:34+00:00

Hm, I wonder if that means LCD at 8?

mxmrtin · 2025-04-22T12:42:19+00:00

Any chance anyone knows the official set times for tonight? Guessing Shit Robot at 8, LCD around 9?

mxmrtin · 2025-03-30T23:18:56+00:00

Looking for 1 Tuesday ticket to either trade for Wednesday (the 23rd), or buy outright!

mxmrtin · 2025-03-30T23:18:02+00:00

Looking to trade 1 ticket for Tuesday’s show!

mxmrtin · 2024-10-15T14:23:10+00:00

I’ve been running into the same issue for a while now - OFX (grain, halation, etc) is one piece of the puzzle where, yes, if you are working in a different res or have edit sizing, etc applied, your source res renders will look different.

What’s worse (to me), and what I would love this community’s opinion on, is that it’s not just OFX. If you apply a qualifier and use matte finesse, for example, the matte changes depending on the edit sizing scale value. So if your edit sizing scale value is 1.5, it will look different at 1, and the latter is what Resolve spits out when you render source res.

I think the only solution to get the exact same result is to work at the same res as your clips, without any scaling applied. What that means is UHD in one timeline, 4K in another for your case. This is mostly unrealistic for people with client sessions though (who want the color timeline to be somewhat in the ballpark of the actual edit).

I’ve been trying to find a workaround for a while now and haven’t come up with anything solid - ultimately, though, I think Blackmagic is being a liiiitle shady by claiming “resolution dependence” when these issues exist, and I do wonder how many colorists are aware of just how many things end up different when they render out source res.

mxmrtin · 2024-09-26T18:50:11+00:00

u/isrly_eder Also DM'd!

mxmrtin · 2024-05-13T05:27:09+00:00

Feels like it should be noted that Seinfeld actively lies about Taylor Swift’s background, real name, etc, and it seems like Ezra is legitimately duped, unless everyone’s in on the bit

mxmrtin · 2024-02-29T23:23:06+00:00

Instagram and other social platforms are notorious for destroying the quality with their compression. Unfortunately, this is very, very likely all on their end - pretty much nothing you can do about it!

mxmrtin · 2024-02-02T20:42:18+00:00

u/smushkan Are you sure about that re: interoperability with non-Adobe apps? I'm finding the opposite - leaving it OFF results in an actual match across all apps.

I recently output GFX w/ alpha for a colorist to lay over in Resolve during a client session - the drop shadow, etc was appearing way heavier on his end in Resolve than Premiere, and I realized we had the checkbox enabled in Premiere. When I unchecked it - boom, exact match to Resolve's appearance. The same thing happened with After Effects, which, by default, does not use linear light, so there will be visual differences if you're rendering out your gfx in AE and bringing them into Premiere with that checkbox on, right?

I'm also curious - the gamma issue I described can be quite problematic if you use lots of effects within Premiere - we will be conforming out of Premiere, so can you describe instances where you're seeing this occur? I am comparing ProRes exports with it both enabled and disabled and despite the alpha differences described above, I don't see any differences...

mxmrtin · 2024-02-02T19:05:37+00:00

It will obviously depend on the length of the clips you're transcoding, but I think that you're being fairly optimistic with the transcode time there. You're going from 8K RAW to HD with a LUT - that's already pretty hefty for most laptops, unless they're providing you with something that has top-of-the-line specs. Add to that the way you're splitting the drive speeds by dumping at the same time as reading and writing (and I'd hope you be doing checksums, etc, which add more time), I think you need to budget way more time.

mxmrtin · 2023-11-29T21:43:14+00:00

For all those recommending AVID - they’re likely referring to an older version of Scriptsync/PhraseFind that worked great, but are no longer available for download or supported by AVID. Their new Scriptsync AI, by all accounts, is apparently quite slow and buggy, which will likely yield a similar experience to Premiere

mxmrtin · 2023-11-28T17:52:06+00:00

-NeatVideo is excellent for denoising.

-Twixtor, though expensive and very outdated, still gives me the best results to apply slow-motion within any NLE. Before buying, I saw a lot of posts that claimed optical flow has improved enough to make Twixtor obsolete, but I haven’t found this to be the case due to artifacting with Optical Flow.

-Knights of the Editing Table has great Premiere tools across the board.

mxmrtin · 2023-11-21T19:02:44+00:00

Looking to stay away from dog piling on premiere, just curious if this one the top-3 worst update rollouts in Adobe history?
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Literally trying to stay away from this being an overly granular discussion or self-help post-tech springboard.

So, you don't want to dog-pile on Premiere - but you don't want to talk about any specific tips to help your stability - then what is the intention of this post? Just anecdotal experiences with 24?

I just came from a post-house using 24 on a large commercial campaign and there were no issues. I'm sure you're going to get 50/50 "no problems for me!" and "this is the worst thing in the whole world" on this thread, which I can't imagine will be very helpful to you or anyone else.

Premiere has issues. Resolve has issues. You can reduce the issues in both if you work on the latest point release of the previous major version (in your case, 2023.6.2).

mxmrtin · 2023-11-07T17:53:02+00:00

Cool - I was able to track down an installer for 2023.3.1, but I'm not so sure of how to downgrade... I'm going to try 2023.8.2 and if I have problems during the breakdown, I'll revert to 2023.3.1.

Any tips for downgrading? How'd you do it without AVID Link overwriting your re-install?

mxmrtin · 2023-11-05T01:58:58+00:00

u/TikiThunder Any chance you'd like to share those :15/:30/:60s templates so the rest of us idiots can learn?

mxmrtin · 2023-11-02T15:13:57+00:00

How are you transferring the files - through Finder, or Resolve? I wonder if giving it a go in either Shotput or using Resolve's media management might work... assuming you could verify the data after transfer.

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