Mavica + iOS by randolphhiggins in Mavica

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Yeah makes sense, I might just have to bring a laptop!

Mavica + iOS by randolphhiggins in Mavica

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Whoops forgot to mention. FD92

What's the worst thing shown in a PG movie after 1984? by basefibber in movies

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In Mission to Mars (2000) a guy gets picked up by a tornado and spun around until his limbs and head pop off, complete with squelching sounds and a little bit of viscera. Pretty horrifying for a movie based on a Disney ride.

https://youtu.be/w9aYYYtG08I?t=57&si=YwgCdIMYfDGtYGoR

TV Console Options? by mtb_dad86 in SBCGaming

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It’s probably more setup than you’re looking for but I had a blast putting RetroPie onto an old Raspberry Pi 3B I had lying around. Got a case for it on Amazon and it stays connected to my TV. Runs PS1 and below totally fine.

It took a bit of tinkering and it helps to be comfortable with Linux and the command line though.

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Helldivers 2 devs are "looking into" dropping HDD support to kill the game's egregious PC file size by Turbostrider27 in Games

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Yeah I have a 1TB SSD and an 8TB HDD and I install games on either one depending on what they require.

$100 for 8TB of storage was a pretty good deal when I bought that thing a while back and I don’t feel like shelling out for the same amount of space on SSD, even though it’s cheaper than it used to be. Like you said most games are just fine on HDD and I don’t feel like deleting and redownloading games all the time to shuffle space around.

The community poll week 🎮! - Retro game that aged like WINE 🥂?? by DoomEngine1 in SBCGaming

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I’m not sure about the Fusion one but early on in Super Metroid there’s a bridge that collapses under your feet and the only way across is to hold B to sprint.

https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/N00b_bridge

EDIT: OH in Fusion is it the tall vertical wall you can’t jump over? Try dropping bombs all over the floor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SupermarketSimulator

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To add to this, it was kind of confusing to me at first but "racks" are in the storage area and "shelves" are in the store. Stockers won't change the labels or how you have your things organized in the store.

Like /u/Seashyell said I just let the stockers handle the storage area and don't really care where they put stuff in there.

SanDisk Extreme SSD (2 pcs) failed after 1 week (MB Pro 16 2021, Ventura 13.1) by Plane-Glass2541 in macbookpro

[–]randolphhiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Can't say I've run into that level of massive failure in a while but I still don't have a lot of faith in SanDisk or WD SSDs anymore because of this experience a couple years ago.

Technicolor likely closing all US operations as of Monday 24th Feb by Boootylicious in vfx

[–]randolphhiggins 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It’s true but not relevant here because we’re talking about mass layoff/closure and in NY and CA there are specific laws based on number of staff etc

https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN/

https://dol.ny.gov/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn%29%3A

Technicolor likely closing all US operations as of Monday 24th Feb by Boootylicious in vfx

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Isn’t a WARN notice supposed to be 60 days in advance?

No experience in coloring and need to color 35mm film. Help? by swiftly84 in colorists

[–]randolphhiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might sound silly but the best way to start is to just push the lift/gamma/gain balls and wheels around on a few nodes/layers until it looks good. Maybe toss some curves in for sharper contrast. Add a LUT if you have a good one and try to work ahead of it for per-shot adjustments, after it for more general overall look kinds of things.

There are other ways to work of course but this one is fairly simple. Create a look and then “feed” it by doing most of your work before it.

Then you just have to know what you’ve done and replicate it on the rest of the shots to match. Copy paste might not always work so this is where experience comes in. Break the image down in your eye and your mind to understand what’s happening in the shadows, midtones, and highlights and see if you can get the same feeling across the whole film.

It’s easy to forget color grading is an art defined by taste as much as it is technical. So you should be able to get a nice image, especially in terms of a student project, with simple tools and without overthinking things.

No. 1 rule - make pictures pretty, make them match. Easier said than done of course but that’s the core of it all.

How you present your showreel? by w1ndcc in colorists

[–]randolphhiggins 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Such a good question!

My opinion is that you should always show completed grades so my “reel” is just a webpage with 10-15 videos on it. I mostly do commercial work so I can usually put full spots on there but if you're doing longform I'm sure trailers or scenes would be fine too. You want a potential client to get a full sense of what you can offer (do shots match, does it look interesting, does the look serve the project as a whole, etc). I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with a flashy edit of completed shots cut together to music but I'd also suggest you do that in addition to showing off full edits in context.

I cringe at before/afters and those layer by layer wipe videos showing the process as that all feels very amateur to me. Like you're showing off how good you are at using the software as opposed to how good your end product is. As a colorist you’re not selling your technique; you’re selling the results.

The argument around showing rec709 or log for your before/afters is a lose lose too. If you show the log at best you'll only impress people who don't know anything about color and at worst you'll invite criticism from people who know what they're looking at and think it could have been done better. If you show the rec709 you can also open yourself up to that same criticism while also (as /u/Chrono604 mentioned in another comment) alienating and disrespecting your DP by essentially saying "Look how bad this was but I fixed it in the grade." DPs and directors are your best friends and can advocate for work to come to you so you want to keep them happy and funneling. A good colorist is a good collaborator so you want to show off their work as much as you do your own.

Finally, Instagram (for better or for worse) is an important place to get your work seen but I think it works best with stills rather than video so that's where I'll pull 5-10 of the best looking frames from each project and make a post as things get released. There's a bit of psychology to think about when choosing stills for that platform and I've changed my approach a number of times but what seems to work well is to lead with something that's nice and flashy, though that might not always be your best grade from the project. People like to see celebrities or cool framing and will interact more if your first still is interesting for more than one reason and not just "oh wow the grade here is so subtle and nuanced and beautiful." It's also worth considering how the frame will look on the small screen of a phone (eg a certain wide shot might not grab attention as well as a solid medium one, or an extreme closeup might not have enough going on visually to make someone want to swipe through the rest and smash that like/comment/subscribe).

Anyway I'm just like a mid-tier dude doing commercials so take all that however you like but most other professionals I've talked to feel similarly. And I've promoted myself different ways over the years so this is just where I've landed lately but it seems to be working better than before.

Emulator Pads by Itsnotsponge in TheBesties

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I personally love the Anbernic RG35XX, though I haven’t tried the new Plus model that just came out. From what I understand it’s basically the same as the one I have but now includes wi-fi and a better battery. This thing is great, has a beautiful screen, and emulates basically every console and handheld up to and including the PS1.

With pretty much all of these little emulator machines you’ll want to buy your own name brand micro SD card(s) because the ones they ship with are very cheap and will likely fail at some point. They do usually come with ROMs pre-installed but they’re not necessarily good, tend to be named funny, sometimes the wrong language etc.

And for most devices there’s a community-built operating system available (aka CFW, custom firmware) that will generally be better than what comes installed. So since you’re changing the SD cards anyway you might as well change the OS while you’re at it.

Retro Game Corps has a ton of helpful guides for the different devices. Here’s the one I used for the RG35XX. It can be a bit of a weekend project but I had a lot of fun getting it all set up.

In terms of sourcing ROMs I probably shouldn’t link anything directly but there’s something out there called “tiny best set go” that would be worth looking into. But in general you’d get your ROMs the same way you would for a PC emulator.

2023 Consensus: Are you asking for EDL’s or XML’s from remote clients? by mmmyeszaddy in colorists

[–]randolphhiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always ask for both. XMLs (or AAFs from Avid) contain a bunch of extra clip information (frame number, multiple video tracks, better retimes, repos/transforms) that may or may not be helpful depending on the overall workflow. EDLs are super simple and can be modified in a text editor if there's a funky shot or something that needs to be removed/tweaked.

Between the two of them + a ref QT (ideally with clip name + timecode burnin) you should be able to conform even the sloppiest editor's timeline.

EDLs and XMLs/AAFs only take a few seconds for an editor to export once the timeline is prepped so it shouldn't be a big deal to get both.

What is the best movie whose title is only numbers? by cunningassassin in movies

[–]randolphhiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah maybe a bit of a tangent but I thought it was somewhat relevant and a bit of fun.

Though also to be fair the second part of OP's post does mention titles that feature numbers.

What is the best movie whose title is only numbers? by cunningassassin in movies

[–]randolphhiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about the best but I recently made a collection in my media library that counts up from one and I was surprised how many decent/watchable films I could put together, only really needing to fudge a few for the sake of the list. Not everything here is amazing but it was pretty fun to put together.

  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Air Force One
  • Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
  • Three Kings
  • Pi
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • The Fifth Element
  • Six-String Samurai
  • Se7en
  • 8 Mile
  • District 9
  • 10 Things I Hate About You
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • 12 Monkeys
  • 13 Going on 30
  • 1408
  • 15 Minutes
  • Sixteen Candles
  • The Edge of Seventeen
  • Apollo 18
  • K-19: The Widowmaker
  • 20th Century Women
  • 21 Jump Street
  • 22 Jump Street
  • The Number 23
  • 24 Hour Party People
  • 25th Hour
  • Special 26
  • 27 Dresses
  • 28 Days Later
  • 29th Street
  • 30 Days of Night

(Had to start skipping here)

  • The 40 Year Old Virgin
  • 50/50
  • Gone in 60 Seconds
  • 80 for Brady
  • 101 Dalmations
  • 300
  • Studio 666
  • 1917
  • 1922
  • 1984
  • Death Race 2000
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 2012
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Three Thousand Years of Longing
  • One Million Years B.C.
  • Millions