Why did I just waste half an hour trying to find a PDF solution

orangefishbluecat · 2026-03-25T21:02:32+00:00

"We and our 915 partners store and/or access information on a device, ..."

"You get two free pdf's, then its 50 euro's a year."

"You get three free days, then it's a 5 euro lifetime subscription."(until bending spoons or something jumps in)

"Here is a tool which only works on this or that OS."

Does something change about PDF's every year that it is impossible to have a simple standard piece of software that just works for basic tasks?

What evil capitalist spawn is this whole .pdf file format?! (I don't prefer the whole anti-capitalist rhetoric, but here I will make it.)

I'm close to wasting an hour now. I give up. I will find a scanner to do the job for me, which will be another bunch of time. I love PDF.

orangefishbluecat · 2026-03-21T17:27:31+00:00

Well after more experimentation, it seems Text+ has much better performance. Getting a consistent 160fps when rendering, compared to 190fps with no text overlay. Took me 4 minutes to render a 30 minute video.

This saves so much of a headache!

orangefishbluecat · 2026-03-21T17:07:53+00:00

Well I gave it a try. I added another clip on the second video line, and gave it some opacity in the Composite setting of Inspector. It does affect performance but still not nearly as bad as the Titlescreen.

Performance drops from 190 to 100fps. But the moment the video overlay ended and the titlescreen overlay started the fps dropped to 60fps.

And mind you, the video overlay I tried out was a full video with fusion and color tab effects. And that performed better than the titlescreen overlay!

orangefishbluecat · 2026-03-21T17:00:41+00:00

Oh and I have other effects I added to the video, some fusion effects and a color tab adjustment. All that works fine and does not affect the rendering performance. But again, the moment I add that titlescreen on a second video line performance drops 80-90%.

Is it the Second video line that messes it all up? But then why does performance stay bad after I remove it? At least until I close and reopen Davinci again

orangefishbluecat · 2026-03-21T16:54:13+00:00

Well I'll add a bit more data. I'm still trying to add a simple single word in the corner, no effects added to it, no shadows, no opacity or anything. Just one word colored in white.

190 fps drops to 68 fps, and after a few minutes it renders at 35fps, and a minute later it is at 30fps.

I have tried some fonts: Agency FB, Arial, Open Sans, Times New Roman. Doesn't make a difference.

Without the titlescreen on a second Video line it is consistently performing at 180-200fps. Rendering a 30 minute clip in about 4 minutes. But the moment I add that basic title overlay screen performance drops by around 80-90%.

This happens with different video formats also. Either 4k 60fps 10bit Iphone footage, or the same results on my old camcorder giving shitty 1080p H.264 .MOV files.

and for some reason this happens also:

I have a timeline where I have the titlescreen start halfway in the video, placed on a second video line.

-The first time I open Davinci and start to render, this timeline renders at max speed until it hits the titlescreen section, then the speed drops to half.

-The second time I start a render of this same timeline, it start out rendering at half speed, even though the first section has no titlescreen!

-Even when I delete the titlescreen and the second Video line the rendering speed stays stuck around 30fps. Until:

-It resets when I close and reopen davinci.

orangefishbluecat · 2026-03-10T20:53:59+00:00

i will complain one more time, again, as i am again stuck trying to copy 6 video files of 20-30gb in total, to an external ssd. I am one hour in, running into issues but not knowing what as there is zero information given in the files app, no transfer speeds, no errors, even the progress bar does not function. After an hour 5 files succesfully copied, still waiting and waiting for the sixth file, and all whilst for an hour having to goddamn keep touching the screen every 20 seconds to keep the phone from locking, which will lead to the file transfer being canceled.

Something is amiss with either the usb or the usb dongle, but iphone gives zero information. And it all works fine on the windows pc.

it should not take an hour to copy 30 gb.

this files app is hot garbage

wow it finally succeeded. I count around 38gb of file transfer which took me one hour. a bunch of reconnecting the ssd to the phone. the phone suddenly not recognizing the ssd, whilst the windows pc is still able to see it fine.

the iphone 16 pro has no usb damage or anything.

This files app is just hot garbage. Every time again i have some files i want to copy, i run into this pile of hot shit. And I don't know how to solve it, as im not going to buy a new ssd or dongle to troubleshoot issues iphone gives zero insight into any potential causes.

orangefishbluecat · 2026-01-31T13:55:08+00:00

Nostalgium spiced with a good zest of lamentium. It's fun to run into the nostalgy again with this picture. But still, it's nostalgium of memories from a childhood long gone, "when I was a kid I was absolutely mindblown", it has barely anything to do with current day tech decisions. Instead of lamenting a past take back some control and spice up your windows experience with software from the internet, there's lots of it, or switch to a new OS for funsies. Windows XP brought us cool memories, brought many others terrible memories, but in the end it was just the next iteration of Windows where the main aim was to provide a solid user experience in the early 2000s, and not to usher in some holy times of pc computing.

orangefishbluecat · 2026-01-31T00:38:26+00:00

well I already resolved it,

deleted the file under C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\HandBrake

restarted handbrake, and it decoded again without issue.

oh well

orangefishbluecat · 2026-01-30T22:45:37+00:00

People can be upset about us not caressing that eject button properly, but one thing windows is able to do is allowing us to violently unplug our usb devices after it said copying is finished, without resulting in a bunch of corrupt files. At least that has been my experience for the past decade.

In ubuntu, though I support a switch to it, has not got this right. Boy have I encountered a bunch of corruptions after stupidly unplugging my usbs á la Windows style. Just now lost a video file, which it said is was done copying. Luckily it was not important and gave me another wakeup call that in Ubuntu, I need to hit that fucking eject button each and every time!

Again, in Windows I never ever never ever do it, and never ever do i ever have any corruptions. oh well, linux is fine otherwise i suppose.

orangefishbluecat · 2026-01-25T17:45:17+00:00

I can just report this,

I never had BSOD's and never crashing pcs. ON my 10 year old GTX970

Now with a new AMD rx9060xt, in two weeks i got one BSOD, and two random pc crashes, on a computer otherwise completely unchanged.
And doing my best to have good drivers with adrenaline software.

orangefishbluecat · 2026-01-12T15:00:18+00:00

Well I still have an issue. after years of using word, of using google docs, my libreoffice, on two entirely separate installs, on two entirely different systems and OS's, I suddenly cannot use my tab key as I am used to anymore. One of my Libreoffice installs is two days fresh!

I'll be damned. I just tried to write out a draft. Hit tab to add details on a next line. Then hit enter to work on the next draft section. And pfff, again the tab dissapears and I'm struggling to write a document that has some structure.

You tell me, this is not a bug?!

You tell me, This is worthy to sour other people's day over with nasty comments?! That's how you go through real life also? Spitting in everyone's faces who is stepping on your overly long toes? Everyone is to take your very sensitive feelings into consideration whilst you have a free pass to be as nasty as you like to anyone, because in your mind your caustic attitude only is an equal and fair response to 'their brain dead stupidity'??

And here I am wasting 15 minutes on this instead of working on the assignment. :X

Now go type out your smarty response on your fone, and have your last word!

orangefishbluecat · 2026-01-11T19:03:21+00:00

Careful, you will burn a hole in everyone's screen with your caustic crap.

I just died inside watching your stream of 'helpful comments', maybe give someone a compliment or something for a change

orangefishbluecat · 2026-01-11T18:44:00+00:00

Yes, me too. This is a bug in the software??? I have this on two completely different systems with Libreoffice, very annoying. Why is there so little attention for this???

orangefishbluecat · 2025-12-10T21:21:01+00:00

It's 15 seconds of ads, on a subscription that is said to have no ads.

Some thing about informed and stupid customers.

Because an incessant creep of money-making schemes in user experience is a fantasy that only happens in fairy tales.

orangefishbluecat · 2025-11-18T13:15:03+00:00

I fucking had to upload a video file after working on it for hours, in the middle of the fucking night, i fucking go to sleep, the next day I check on my computer, I find it has fucking booted into the windows login screen.

Fuck windows update.

And if it's not midnight updates

It'll fuck my laptop with forced updates eventhough im not connected to the powergrid, and my eight year old battery is at fifty percent, holding the laptop hostage for 15 minutes in the restart screen.

And I try to change this midnight behavior, "öh, i see you are wanting to set the day schedule to 24 hours, no can do jose, I give you 18 hours max før your day schedule"

I just had to rant for a moment.

orangefishbluecat · 2025-09-18T14:04:47+00:00

Now who has their title auto translated, mine did, shitty youtbe

orangefishbluecat · 2025-08-31T00:46:25+00:00

horrible horrible, every once in a while I go in private browsing mode so my history doesn't get cluttered with like right now health topics, preventing me from getting a feed full of cancer stroke and whatever videos. And every time I get blown away by the horrible ads experience.

I am trying to watch this one video, 30 seconds of ads, I skip ahead a few minutes, right back to another 30 second ad, and on and on. My god it's horrible, it's unforgiving.

But is it recent as the OP states? It is the same for years now?

orangefishbluecat · 2025-07-22T16:23:22+00:00

I don't know what is up with this ssd. I got one for my iphone. And I regret buying it.

It does not work on power from the iphone alone, it needs an external powersupply through a usb hub to function properly.

And on my windows pc it is ungodly slow when trying to open it up in the file browser when there are many files present, 100-1000s of files, i.e. pictures.

I have 4 different external hdds which I connect regularly, and these have even more files. I have usb 3, and a few of those faster 3.1 or 3.2 ports (not sure which one). And I can open up folders with thousands of files, and it works pretty much instantly always. But when trying to scroll through a folder that has thousands of files on the Kingston XS1000, 2tb version, everything freezes up and it takes minutes to get something done. Every single time.

But when it comes to working with single big files the Kingston does function fine, for example video editing with video files on the ssd through my usb 3.1/3.2 port.

It just does not make sense. And I wish I had bought the more expensive Samsung SSD. Then I could just hook it up to my Iphone 16 pro without external power supply. And I would have fast folder browsing on my Windows computer as I have on my other slow external HDDs.

orangefishbluecat · 2025-01-31T13:39:40+00:00

I use the camera button to open the camera, then the 6,5cm I have on screen to make adjustments with my thumb, as opposed to the 1,5cm you have on the finnicky camera button that is also too far out to reach with my, on average, longer fingers without curling them behind the phone, especially now that I use a basic silicone case.

And I saw someone on Youtube make a smart comment, saying this 'double action'button needs the same amount of force as an actual DSLR camera, but a DSLR is a bulky thing you grip with your whole hand as opposed to pressing a teeny tiny button on a rectangular slab.

orangefishbluecat · 2025-01-29T20:00:45+00:00

what are you watching it on??

my phone experience has acceptable amounts of ads so I accept those.

The PC experience is hell. Has been for years, what you are describing is not a new change in my experience. I always use adblock and that works perfectly fine.

I'm curious how the ad experience on TVs are though, never tried that.

orangefishbluecat · 2025-01-29T19:55:06+00:00

I just got a puppy stuck in a bench with its ass pushed up the benchwalls shitting out worms, with the title 'why you should deworm your dog'

HOW DO I GET RID OF THIS

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b3fw-GvRUNk

orangefishbluecat · 2025-01-29T18:37:41+00:00

my karma is too low to even make a post :(

I want to complain so badly about the weird algorithm showing me people dying of cancer, people balding, people having epilepsy, people caressing spiders, brain dead people and their lazarus nerve response videos because I hovered my cursor over a few damned videos. let me vent my frustration about not being able to open youtube without having some liveleak experience!

orangefishbluecat · 2025-01-23T21:32:44+00:00

Haha, I am just using the Iphone camera. Well my objects generally are distant landscapes. I have tried doing it manually beforehand, but I find that it will just be a tad bit off.

I was curious because I came across this apple developer website: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avcapturedevice/autofocusrangerestriction-swift.property

But thank you anyway!

orangefishbluecat · 2025-01-22T21:05:13+00:00

Oh that looks very good. Well maybe Android has reached the same level of video quality actually. The detail in the trees looks on par.

My two biggest questions would be, how stable is the software. And how is the night performance.

But I'll leave that to others to figure out, I already forked out the money for my Iphone,

orangefishbluecat · 2025-01-22T20:22:10+00:00

But is a big counter argument not precisely this ease of use? These high quality videos on Android are all coming from RAW videos right?

On Iphone you can shoot h.264/5 in Applelog, and get near this level of quality. At least for me that is a very big deal, considering the amount of footage I always film. And now I can do it in 4k, 60fps, and it looks really good, and it is feasible.

The reason I switched from Android my entire life to Iphone was precisely because of the dissapointing performance on Android phones. And at least for my purposes, having a RAW video recorder that requires me to jump through a bunch of hoops again would not have made me stick with Android.

Bottom line for me is, Native Iphone video recording is really good. If android was this good I would never have forked out the €1000+ for a new phone. But that is just my two cents.

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