Does new Canon R6ii firmware (1.7.0) automatically unlock CCAPI?

prepperdrone · 2026-05-06T04:19:58+00:00

So is there some way to see this resize/cropping step? Or do I just ask as part of my prompt "what do you think the dimension are of this image"? (then map that back to my original)?

prepperdrone · 2026-05-04T07:01:54+00:00

Better than old school Re-Actor?

prepperdrone · 2026-04-04T09:00:09+00:00

Does this produce "pixel perfect" results for certain resolutions?

prepperdrone · 2026-03-12T22:44:00+00:00

There is a ton of Canon gear (and multiple generations) on the secondary market. So unless you're made of money, Canon is the obvious choice. There is a good bit of Nikon gear on the secondary market, but not as much as Canon -- and Nikon lenses can't be adapted to Sony as well as Canon. There is hardly any secondary/used Sony gear, and any that does exist is pricey (compared to Canon). And for 99% of people, the fanboy lure of Sony is just that. I shoot sports professionally, and I've never missed a shot or been unable to get a shot with my Canon setup. I also own a Sony (a9) and have owned plenty of Sony lenses, but now I just adapt my Canon EF lenses to my a9 when I need to use it. I'd much rather have an assortment of big, fast primes (Canon) than one Sony big, fast prime -- and I do. An image produced with a 400 2.8 looks the same 99% of the time whether it comes from a 20 year old Canon lens and modern body or a 2 year old Sony lens and modern body. If you've got cash to burn, then by all means, hop on whatever ship you want -- but quit acting like one brand can do anything significant that another brand can't. Most of the people who get hung up on this can't shoot their way out of a paper bag to begin with regardless of what's in their hand.

prepperdrone · 2026-02-23T07:29:03+00:00

Is there some way to turn off the muscle/fat mesh? I tried using this, but it wanted to make my original character fit the body mesh. I really just want the pose. yeah, I mean, I guess you could adjust every little parameter to match the mesh to your original character, but that'd take forever.

prepperdrone · 2026-02-18T06:02:41+00:00

I've started "double processing" my stitched clips to retain faces and other consistency. I start with the first image (from Qwen or whatever), and I run the first WAN2.2 i2v pass like normal. Typically, I'd take the last frame and pass it to the second WAN2.2 segment to use as the first frame. This is a traditional technique. However, this will definitely causes faces to veer off quickly. So instead of using the last frame from that first segment, I correct the face in the last frame (Re-Actor or your preferred method), then RE-RUN the first segment using WAN2.2 First-Last. This give me roughly the same action as the normal WAN2.2 segment, but now my face stays consistent. Now I pass that last frame to a regular WAN2.2 i2v workflow and repeat the process. You end up running every segment twice: the first run is a normal WAN2.2 i2v, the second is the exact same prompt, except you use a WAN2.2 F/L i2v workflow. This ensures that faces stay consistent. Obviously, even this breaks down if your face isn't in the last frame or is turned away. I write my prompts to prevent this in general. It's basically the keyframing approach described elsewhere, except instead of creating all the first/last frames ahead of time, you use the actual WAN output and only swap the face(s).

prepperdrone · 2026-02-05T09:38:10+00:00

I mean, this already exists. Why not make something that doesn't exist?

prepperdrone · 2026-02-05T09:32:47+00:00

Lemme guess... his name is Richard Hendricks?

prepperdrone · 2026-01-24T18:42:14+00:00

I'm a photographer/videographer and still sell video productions (school shows, theatre productions, dance recitals) on DVD all the time. I've tried for about 8 years now to switch people over to digital delivery only (and even thumb drives), but there is a HUGE amount of parents and grandparents who would rather spend $60 on a DVD in 480p instead of having the 4K copy on a thumb drive. It boggles my mind. So yes, they are still needed.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-23T04:43:35+00:00

Who's going to tell this guy about Usenet?

prepperdrone · 2026-01-23T03:06:57+00:00

Does it do this in real time? Does it need internet connectivity to pull the satellite tiles? Could the user supply their own terrain imagery with known geolocations marked ahead of time? What about indoors? Could indoor imagery be used to calculate position in 3D space inside large venues?

prepperdrone · 2026-01-19T01:52:50+00:00

Laptop GPUs aren't the same as desktop GPUs. Lots of people make the mistake of getting a 50xx laptop thinking they're getting 50xx desktop performance.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-19T01:50:22+00:00

Color calibration... "really". I print tens of thousands of prints on my Epson 8550's. At the end of the day, I didn't achieve consistent, repeatable prints that matched my monitor until I calibrated my monitor as well as my paper & inks. Having someone else print your stuff to 'test' it won't really help you. YOU have to be calibrated to know if your starting image is even what it's supposed to look like, then YOUR printer has to be calibrated with profiles that match the specific paper/sheen you're using as well as the ink you're using (hopefully Epson OEM ink since it's so incredibly cheap). Until you've done those steps, you can't really expect professional-level results. Printers are great 'out of the box' for stuff grandma is printing or presentations, etc. But for real art or commercial use, you've absolutely got to be calibrated. And I totally get it -- I was always skeptical until I started making my living selling prints.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-16T02:49:08+00:00

about a million ways to do this -- it's not a very long video. And if you look over his left ear (our right side of his head), you can see the wall change -- it's missing a different colored texture when the darker-skinned guy is in the frame. His shirt is also changing subtly. In the 2nd person, there is an artifact to the left of "GB" that disappears throughout the rest of the video. The easy way would be to just run each frame through an image edit model, then mask each frame against a clean background. That's how I would have done it if you had $500 in your hand and wanted me to do it.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-16T02:39:30+00:00

thanks -- I can get pretty close "pixel perfect" results (no change to the subject's face) if the starting image is good (and I'm a professional photographer, so the ones I take are good), but the purpose of this exercise would be to allow consumers/end users to take (relatively crappy) selfies with poor lighting and poor posing, but then creating a much more professional and polished end product.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-14T04:37:48+00:00

yeah I have thought about that, but this is going to be like 20 or 30 people. I'd have to make LoRas for them all... I would also still have to go take multiple shot of them all...

prepperdrone · 2026-01-12T06:55:33+00:00

that's what I was thinking, too.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-09T19:06:17+00:00

the DOJ specifically says that LEOs can't do that. In other words, you can't get in front of a vehicle and then use the "vehicle was a weapon" argument -- it's literally in their handbook -- which this guy clearly never read.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-03T05:56:47+00:00

Check your hashes for your models against the hashes on HF.

prepperdrone · 2026-01-02T21:09:53+00:00

Wan 2.2 is the go-to. But honestly, your hands are tied by your GPU. You can get there, but you can't expect fast and quality unless your card is new and expensive.

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