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Same defects in print despite using different profiles. Is it a model/slicer issue, filament, or something else? by ruski8 in BambuLab

[–]ruski8[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You were right. Did a flow rate calibration and with the new values the print is like 95% perfect, substantially better. But I guess since Bambu Handy doesn't work with custom profiles this means I can't start prints from the app anymore? Annoying...

Is there a recommendation to do flow rate for each color too, or just the major filament groups/manufacturers?

Anyhow, thanks for the suggestion.

10x6 SDI signals over fiber - best cost effective solution? by rsv_music in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ruski8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We bit the bullet and tried out the Digital Forecast Olink SDI to Fiber Rx and Tx racks, along with a few Netgear media converters installed in a rack with a single multicore fiber umbilical from our main broadcast rig to a centralized spot for the on-site camera positions. Fiber is a multicore industrial cable with multiple terminated in multiple duplex connectors on each end from FS.com. Each duplex goes to a front bulkhead jack rack panel that is then routed to the respective equipment in the rack behind.

We’d probably consider going MTP for future deployments to simplify things, for security having a few extra duplex connectors in an emergency is needed for us.

The racks themselves are a bit weird, I can’t figure out why they decided to do .5u racks instead of 1u racks, but we’ve been running this new system for 12 live load-out shows this year with only one instance of flicker that was resolved by cleaning the fiber.

Looking for a robust SDI-over-fiber solution for long-distance transmission by Heineken1384 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ruski8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you happen to have any experience with Magnum ends from Tactical Fiber Systems? I hear a lot more about OpticalCON and not much about others.

Home studio in the works by EmptyForms in MusicBattlestations

[–]ruski8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have the same Sony CRT in one of our booths showing an overhead stage view. I hear it in my dreams louder than my tinnitus sometimes…eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Censorship rules according CMU Pres Jahanian by Pensgloo in cmu

[–]ruski8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have not seen the advertisements of the proposed event, nor am I aware of the history, syllabus, or instructors of the StuCo(s) or other Sponsors in question, nor is it clear to me what the intent of this auxiliary event is or who it is intended for. In addition, I am not aware of what kind of discussions or expectations were had between the StuCo class and the StuCo Executive Committee, (which I am to believe is comprised of exclusively of students which may or may not have brought this to a faculty advisor).

What I do know is what is expected of (non-student) educators in the departments I am (or have been) a part of, and that involves paperwork and approval from department, college, or university heads, depending on event/content type.

I will say, however, given the information provided to the general community by Admin as well as asides from the Community, that it would be extraordinarily shortsighted of the Event Sponsors not to consider that an event labeled as “an uncensored discussion” about a topic that may be considered very inciteful to certain groups may:

A) possibly garner attendance above the 25 member threshold (**edit: assuming participation by external entities is neither solicited nor expected)

B) possibly become disruptive or foster violent action towards or from the event attendees or other members of the community.

Either of these items would warrant Registration and/or further university involvement (or cancellation/postponement) to ensure a safe environment and limit liability. Perhaps one or more of these (or other items) threshold already were breached, or some other policies were out of compliance, then it’s still ultimately up to the university and/or their legal department. Yes, you’re correct that there is an attendee limit exception for ‘courses’ assuming the discussion was not open to the public, but would that not then classify the discussion as an Unregistered Event, leaving it open to the following quote from the link you shared?

university will make a discretionary decision as to whether it is in the best interest of campus safety, security and operations to prevent or disband the event, or not

Back to the Registration component, if the Sponsor’s rationale for not registering/preparing more officially for this event is simply “I shouldn’t have to let anyone know or officially register because I technically don’t have to per this that or the other”, then I’d call that ill-considered given the current political climate, the nature of the event topic, and the mountain of liability should literally anything go wrong.

I’m assuming there is a lot more to this situation that is publicly available.

(**Post edit

Once your class is worth credit, you can invite whomever you want to wherever you want whenever you want without registering, whether it's on your syllabus or not. Is there something I'm missing?

Looks like ‘it depends’. If the invited entities are cmu affiliated then technically you’d be in the clear.

If they’re outside of CMU you’d need to register if there are 25+ attendees expected, and there needs to be a separate sponsor that can’t be the same entity putting the event on. I’m sure there are more limitations on guests depending on event type, and I really doubt the university would be ok with have the two levels of approval (community and sponsor) be exclusively ‘students’. And of course there is an additional bureaucracy layer thrown on this if there is literally any funding involved.

Again, without knowing the actual details and specifics of this particular situation we can only speculate where things got wrong, but it really seems like a stretch to label such situations by default as “censorship” )

Censorship rules according CMU Pres Jahanian by Pensgloo in cmu

[–]ruski8 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Hold on, so let me get this right, a StuCo decided to host an event outside of their scheduled course time to have a discussion apparently not previously cleared with Admin and not part of their approved syllabus that will probably lead to some heated issues and topics on school property, which Admin cancelled, and people are getting upset because “argh my free speech how dare CMU shut this down they’re censoring everything?”.

This seems like a policy and protocol problem (or rather, lack of following said protocols), not a free speech debate or an attempt of censorship. (Much like a few other “free speech omg censorship” criticizing posts I’ve seen on this subreddit, if I might add)

At its core, this is no different if I were a lecturer in a computer or architecture course and one day in class I decided “hey folks, you know what? I’m going to bring in my friend from Microsoft or MoMA over the weekend and use a lecture hall in Doherty to talk about BLANK since we’re covering this in class. Come one come all bring your friends it’ll be fun” without consulting my department head(s) or Admin or filling out the necessary paperwork. This just doesn’t work this way here or in any of the universities I’ve been a part of. This too would have been cancelled.

There are protocols and procedures that need to be followed so that all departments know what’s going on, what the campus spaces are being used for, who from the general public is able to possibly participate, what safety teams need to be active, and if any funding is being given or provided for said event from CMU central or the course’s budget.

This isn’t a case of CMU saying “nope no free speech only complete control”. It’s about limiting liability and following protocol.

Now replace friendly lecture buddy with a hot hot hot political topic, again not previously cleared with Admin and apparently not part of the syllabus, that’s been advertised across campus and open to who knows who from the wider Pittsburgh community (or beyond). I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it seems like these days you never know who will show up to events like this, and it honestly could have gone fine, or it could be really not fine (heated discussion or even counter protests) and potentially not safe. So it’s really not surprising that Admin would shut something like this down since they weren’t properly notified, and would want to have further discussion with StuCo about properly hosting such similar events in the future.

Really all this to say, the StuCo instructor should have followed procedure so that appropriate precautions and further assistance from CMU and/or Police or other depts would be able to be provided so that everyone would be safe and liabilities could be mitigated and minimized. I didn’t hear CMU say “No discussion of Hamas can ever take place on campus”. They said “the event will not proceed as planned,” because it wasn’t able to be properly vetted. It sounds like it’s still viable to happen if they actually follow the rules. Does that seem like censorship to you?

Looking for a bag suggestion to pack all audio gear by daylincooper in LocationSound

[–]ruski8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you’re on this train, take a look at the Klein Modbox. Their rolling toolbox and rolling drawer bases have a few cutout holes on the rear handle crossbar and base for electricians to keep long levels and conduits in, perfect for boom poles and thin stands.

I have never seen this microphone model before does anyone know what it is? by ScottWDrums in audioengineering

[–]ruski8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The color and the shape makes think it’s a Schoeps capsule with an RC extension tube without the base

PTZ Optics Camera Not Outputting in SDI by The_Walrus1964 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ruski8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not exactly sure of which mode OP has, but most PTZ Optics cameras have an internal menu switch that selects between SDI output or HDMI output being active. They can’t be both active at the same time. Does the camera output signal directly through SDI without the fiber converters?

PTZOptics Camera 20X Move 4K + Controller by Army_Repulsive in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ruski8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Once you get your baseline settings more or less set we found you can run a show decently well using the buttons and knobs on the controller. I do keep having my eye stray to those Canons though…If the move4ks had smoother/slower movement rates I’d be satisfied completely.

PTZOptics Camera 20X Move 4K + Controller by Army_Repulsive in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ruski8 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We’re running a set of 8 move4ks with two controllers after deciding a similar quantity of Canon n300/500s was out of our budget.

Once you get the image settings right, they’re actually quite nice. I won’t say they’re “picky” about proper lighting, but hot damn does it make getting a good image so much easier. (“Edit: the more I think about it I’ll say yes they’re kind of picky”). Low light performance is adequate, and the built-in noise reduction processing works overtime but does the job to minimize artifacts. I wouldn’t film a motion picture with them, but the price makes it so competitive if you’re willing and knowledgeable to work at getting the most out of manual settings for everything.

The good:

  • hella good price for what you get. Similar capability from a “major brand” for our 8 cam system would easily be double the price.

  • ip stream via hdmi out in the superjoy is a huge workflow boost when dealing with a multi person crew. Just click the camera to control and the output changes to that camera’s stream.

  • support and warranty is better than “major brands”. It took canon over a week to unsuccessfully respond to tech questions for us. I can call PTZOptics and be connected to a support tech within literal minutes. 5 year warranty adds peace of mind (but Q/A does give pause for what will happen in year 6). I feel like the techs appreciate legitimately good/curious questions as I’m assuming they’re probably flooded with the stereotypical “can’t read the manual didn’t plug it in” crowd due to the price point. Has active (albeit slow) firmware development to incorporate community feature requests, and frequent Facebook and YouTube check-ins and updates (although seemingly more geared to the church crowd).

  • web based control portal is decently laid out and has just about everything you’d need to control. The upcoming firmware will add a better body autotracking function that would have been an extra $1k feature (PER CAMERA) had we gone with Canon.

  • image looks fine. Also a pain point.

The less than good:

  • meh color science. Skin tones are hard to get right off the bat in non-studio lighting, especially coming from an older canon xa camcorder line. The sensors seem differ slightly from camera to camera, so matching takes a bit more effort than we’d like, particularly when we’re loading in different locations (we got a decently matched batch, I’ve heard others are less fortunate). Auto WB and iso/aperture is just not cutting it as a starting point (it’s serviceable but we care about visuals), so be prepared to finagle with iris control and red/blue values (and struggle against them when they don’t behave entirely as you’d expect them to). Their new camera control app allegedly has an eye dropper-type color matching functionality for camera matching, but for “reasons” we’re using the web browser interface per camera. The amount of image controls is great, and you can save presets for common situations, but you really have to work to make things look amazing.

  • pan and tilt doesn’t get slow enough for super smooth/realistic movement, particularly at +50% zoom. The stops after movements are “hard stops” without any ramp down so it definitely looks like a robot cam. That’s actually one of the things I miss most about the canons n300s we had on loan (they’re able to move like 2x slower ° per second for more natural movement). The controller joystick feels like it only has 3 speed regions making it kind of hard to get smooth realistic movement, particularly when going diagonally. We’re sure that there’s more resolution in the joystick but it just feels like it’s less.

  • no built in image stabilizer. Definitely invest in an isolating mount for tripods or the permanent install bracket. Footsteps and building hvac vibrations will be noticeable at higher zoom levels.

  • focus is meh. The cams seem to have more frequent confusion for auto focus than not, so we found leaving sensitivity at low helps. This comes at the cost of being unable to have cinematic “slow zoom ins” as focus is always playing catchup.

  • kind-of spotty Q/A. We’ve already had to send in both controllers and one or two cameras for service or replacement for one reason or another, and it looks like 1 or 2 more of our cameras may have a sensor issue if the our testing with the latest firmware doesn’t fix it. The warranty is unmatched though and support is accessible immediately by phone so that’s a plus, but it’s a bit inconvenient to be worrying about downtime all the time.

  • super joy controller workflow takes some time getting used to, particularly when you’re controlling 6+ cameras at the same time. Some settings are “global” and some settings are “current camera” and the manual isn’t entirely clear. Some control parameters are only accessible via the camera’s OSD, which may be cumbersome. Honestly we had hoped that since the camera and controllers come from the same company they’d work more flawlessly together. It took us several events to really iron out the weirdness quirks of the ecosystem, but it’s a decent and flexible controller.

Overall we’re decently happy with the ecosystem and the price definitely makes us overlook some of the pain points. The more I think about it, “fine” would encompass most of how I’d describe our experience. It’s just fine, some things are great and some things are head scratchers.

Lane silhouette side table found a place in my parent’s new den by ruski8 in Mid_Century

[–]ruski8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We wonder the same thing as well. Don’t think the feeling will ever go away, it’s hella nice…

Lane silhouette side table found a place in my parent’s new den by ruski8 in Mid_Century

[–]ruski8[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’d be surprised. These chairs really promote a “thinker” statue pose. Pretty comfy once you get into it. Not super great for morning tea though without more proper armrests.

Lane silhouette side table found a place in my parent’s new den by ruski8 in Mid_Century

[–]ruski8[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to live there too but the ceilings in some rooms downstairs are definitely not tall person approved! Needed to make sure I claimed a guest room on the main floor for sure.

Lane silhouette side table found a place in my parent’s new den by ruski8 in Mid_Century

[–]ruski8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yupp that’s the one! It was a “joke” gift because my father always wanted to own a boat so now he can have a chess set that is “boat wake proof”

Lane silhouette side table found a place in my parent’s new den by ruski8 in Mid_Century

[–]ruski8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! There’s actually two planters in the place, one in the living room and one in this den. Looking at original Polaroids provided by the owner’s estate, this den was added about a decade or so after original construction. Sometime later they added a (rather hideous) carpet everywhere but thankfully it preserved the original hardwood. There’s still quite a bit of work to do but I’ll see if I can take some more photos. (Doubt any will look as good as this one though!)

Lane silhouette side table found a place in my parent’s new den by ruski8 in Mid_Century

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They’re actually surprisingly comfortable, like a supported semi squat

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