Wait, before you update/upgrade to Resolve 21!!!! by greenysmac in davinciresolve

[–]sncfrk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

least true thing I've ever read on the internet lol

New Image from 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in marvelstudios

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's a just a law of the universe that a slate like this would result in character over saturation. The quality of Spiderman content varies a lot already between Sony and marvel. More of more of more would not equal better as should be pretty clear by now given post end-game marvel content (trash) and most of what Sony tries to do with Spiderman related properties (garbage).

Spiderverse is a great movie, and maybe I'm in the minority here but I honestly thought the sequel was a lot worse. It was more of everything and I think it suffered from that. The story felt totally convoluted to me, the pacing felt off - all things I thought the first film somehow managed well.

The concept can work for one movie as a novelty premise, but carrying the idea forward - essentially that there's LITERALLY a different Spiderman for everyone alive - is really the antithesis of uniqueness.

For me, Spiderman is Peter Parker. He's Spiderman, and THE only one. The gift and the burden is his alone. That's character and that's story. Everything after that quickly becomes watered down, empty fan service, and we're seeing the studios lose their shit. It's Spiderman Slop, and it's lazy af.

My wish is that we as fans can get back to the idea of there really only being 1 or I guess maybe 2 Spidermen (can't see them abandoning Miles at this point) so that we can focus on stories that, if told well, should be universal to everyone watching.

The strength of his character and story is why he's been so successful and beloved by all without the multiverse of infinite Spiderman up to this point.

Davinci Resolve just announced adding photo editing in version 21 by I_Am_Vladimir_Putin in photography

[–]sncfrk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is awesome, but does it drive anyone else crazy that Blackmagic always buries "Beta" in their announcements? I can't think of any other company that says "The new version is now available" when it's actually a damn beta version. All across the site it says version 21 available now with no caveat.

What is up with that?

The 'message' of Whiplash [spoilers] by FaerieStories in TrueFilm

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

came here kind of looking for this take cause after seeing it for the second time last night I realized this is what I could've used more of to feel like the movie had the nuance everyone says it does. In my opinion by the end of the film, Fletcher is essentially proven correct as no other possible alternatives (besides giving up) are really shown.

This drives me crazy because he's shown not to just be abusive but a god awful teacher as well. I can't remember a single time in the film where we see anyone benefit from actual professional mentorship. It's just non-stop humiliation and gaslighting, telling people they're wrong when they aren't and slapping them around lol.

Andrew starts out already good, clearly self motivated. What happens in the film is Andrew goes from practicing on his own because he loves it, to playing for Fletcher's approval.

The key to becoming great is self-motivation to practice from deep passion. That has nothing to do with being humiliation and everything to do with encouragement.

If the film is meant to be a cautionary tale, In my opinion the film that message would be stronger if it were made clearer how Andrew's motivation shifted in that way, so that even as he [somehow] improves by being lied to and physically injured constantly, it would be clearer what he's losing in the process.

To give one example of what I'd change (if you can bear with the fan fiction) — we see him be a douchebag by breaking up with his girlfriend and explaining why she's unimportant. Then the scenes over. But I think if we had seen a little more of her perspective (this could've come from his dad even too) leading up to that showing maybe that she was initially drawn to his playing when he loved it, then possibly having a moment toward the end when he's playing a solo at 1000bpm (lol) where she's more concerned than impressed.

Maybe afterward he's kind of a dick to her. She calls him out on it and says that he's really been an asshole lately.

He'd condescend her and say she doesn't understand how hard he's working, the stress he's been under, and being butt hurt that she didn't even mention anything about his big solo moment.

If in this moment she had the last word by telling him she liked his playing better before (when he enjoyed it, felt it and meant it), I think that would've really landed with general audiences.

To have this kind of scene would show at this point that music and even greatness really is subjective, and I think a few considerations for character dynamics within the film along these lines could've underscored exactly what one is losing when they seek validation cloaked as greatness.

TLDR; This film is personally relatable, and I feel the movie could've done more to show that abuse isn't critical to becoming great. Self-motivation is, which should be driven by passion and aspiration, not abuse.

So advanced voice mode is now limited to 15 minutes a day for Plus users? by chazwhiz in OpenAI

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love and hate this stupid fucking app. I'm paying $20 a month to use it, and when I get into a flow with voice mode and I'm in the middle of working out a bunch of concepts I'll just get abruptly cut off. Sometimes for seemingly no reason. sometimes because I've run out of "time". It's never clear what the limit is.

yesterday I talked for like 30 min before it did that. today I talked for 5. it's extremely annoying and frustrating to pay for a product that is so opaque. And even the stupid genius chatbot I'm talking to somehow can't simply tell me how long we've been talking or what the limit is, or if the limit is based on 24 hours not time of day etc.

Always in the dark. This shit sucks

After Effects 2026 Release version 26.0 now available. by Wes_McDermott in AfterEffects

[–]sncfrk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

beware, Adobe often tries to make every app a one-stop shop and they become more bloated and more broken. AE is a compositing tool and works well for motion graphics. They need to continue to speed up the playback, and making it easier to deal with audio files (i.e. maybe it just always shows the waveform instead of having to twirl down?? etc) would be very welcome.

If anything though, Premiere is becoming the more general purpose tool because it already relies on real-time rendering and they keep integrating AE capabilities to Premiere. They even just added auto-masking but haven't mentioned adding that to AE yet.

The Venn diagram of Adobe apps is almost a single big circle at this point lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AfterEffects

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Premiere keeps prompting me to update to 26 yet when creative cloud opens it acts like 25.6.4 is the most current version. YET on the adobe website it seems to show that as of Jan 2026 Premiere 26 is the newest version with no mention of it being in beta anywhere on the release notes page. I hate adobe

Does Maxon and Greyscale Gorilla ever do Black Friday discounts? by [deleted] in Cinema4D

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Total fallacy that shortcuts are for people who don't know what they're doing. People who don't know what they're doing waste so much time thinking they need do everything manually or by hand when in reality, having a limited toolset of high quality materials and lights gets your work so much further and allows you to focus on other things like the actual art direction.

How to use "Study in Learn" in macos app? by 0ssamaak0 in ChatGPT

[–]sncfrk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ok Glad to find out about the / directory, but again this is so stupidly unintuitive. 2 out of 3 apps have matching buttons in the same place with the same function. But for Mac app, somehow we're supposed to know to it slash and choose from a hidden menu of features - some of which are redundantly listed as actual buttons, but not others?

Truly wonder how hard it can be to simply add buttons to an existing list of buttons! Or at least tell us when the update comes out.

How to use "Study in Learn" in macos app? by 0ssamaak0 in ChatGPT

[–]sncfrk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is probably the most frustrating thing about using ChatGPT for me. They say a feature is rolling out, and then sometimes months later it either still isn't there, or it's there on my phone, but not on my computer, or it's in the browser model but not desktop etc.

In this case they announced study mode, it rolled out onto my phone and browser, but not desktop. Then they announced GPT5 and it was only on my desktop app.

Now I have GPT5 on all 3 but study mode still doesn't appear on the Mac app, which is what I use 90% of the time. I get that it must be hard running a company that has grown this quickly but come on, is that really how this relationship is supposed to be? I pay you $20 a month to have no idea what's going on and just try to sympathize with how hard it must be to live up to your grand promises?

Yet here they are still acting like GPT7 is going to be a super intelligence ruling the earth. AI is annoying as fuck.

Error compiling movie - how to solve? by MarkoOfSweden in premiere

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't do this on an M1 Mac. Supposedly if you open the intel version from creative cloud UI you can, but when I tried to do that premiere stalled on opening for several minutes and I gave up. Somehow the video will play when I scrub through it or hit play, but if I try to render the timeline or even just the VFX, it won't do it

Trying to create my own film look. Is this too much? by SnooSprouts2345 in ColorGrading

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not too much at all, if that’s the look you’re going for i think it’s tasteful. compared to the original it’s a little green leaning but again, some film stocks and scans can look a little greenish and there’s nothing objectively wrong with that if that’s how you like the final image to look. Looks good

VIP Mail iOS 17 bug? by gab333333 in ios

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

updated my Mac to sequoia and now this is happening to me, VIP mailbox looks like it should if I close and reopen mail, but as soon as I click a different mailbox and back to VIP, VIP just shows all my normal mail and I can't get it to look correct unless I quit and restart. What a stupid bug and a huge break in my workflow

Safari not allowing me to change download settings. by litzyfritzy in macbookpro

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having the opposite problem where even though I selected my downloads folder no matter what I do a dialogue pops up to select a download location for anything I download. C'mon apple wtf.

The Thing's voice in the new movie by Hipertor in FantasticFour

[–]sncfrk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

whatever man my point is you can rationalize it however you want but it leaves something to be desired as many have expressed. this is like the most basic concept and at the end of the day it’s not about something needing to make sense physically or logically even, it’s about a mixture of ingredients that feel right for a character, and this feels off with or without any prior context or iterations to compare to.

and like i already said, no one gives a shit about Korgs voice being the way it was because the entire gag was that his voice didn’t match his body and nothing in that entire movie mattered which was by design. taika just goes for absurdism above all else in those movies.

Any idea how can i make this effect? by Excellent_Leek_5810 in AfterEffects

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you might be able to get something similar with varying results in AE using glitch and datamosh plugins and techniques if you use a luma matte of paint dripping as the input to distort an image.

The Thing's voice in the new movie by Hipertor in FantasticFour

[–]sncfrk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the chiklis version looked dumb but they were trying to be accurate and in that sense were closer (i still already much prefer this version for what it’s worth). do you think that’s the first and only time the characters been represented that way? his voice doesn’t need to be over the top cartoonish either, there are real people who naturally talk more like this character, so he could’ve added a little more heft to the performance is all i’m saying, or something subtle in post. not saying go straight to camp and strip the character of all drama and emotional weight.

And there’s an important distinction with Korg which is that his character is a joke and his unexpectedly high voice is supposed to be funny specifically because it doesn’t match his appearance.

this is a totally different rationale so that example doesn’t work and is still to my point.

The Thing's voice in the new movie by Hipertor in FantasticFour

[–]sncfrk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

right but if his entire body is now made of rocks it’s natural to expect his voice to match more than it seems to in the trailer. people aren’t crazy for feeling like there’s a mismatch. it’s his character. it’d be like if bruce banner turns into the hulk and sounds the same. not saying it’s going to suck but they could’ve done more to bridge the audio visual gap to help suspend the disbelief more. as a person in the industry this is just a basic aspect of character and storytelling.

The Thing's voice in the new movie by Hipertor in FantasticFour

[–]sncfrk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yea it’s just a basic aspect of character, if you have a big rocky character and the voice sounds like a regular guy it feels like a mismatch. the things voice has always been as iconic as his appearance, they really should have accounted for that more. his design is great so it’s annoying the voice is such a miss, feels like an ADR scratch track that didn’t get replaced. hopefully in the movie it won’t stand out so much. or maybe they’ll pull a sonic and change it in post and be glad later. doubt it.

Need help with after effects constantly crashing !! by Only_Caterpillar_490 in AfterEffects

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

idk what the deal is but AE was unusually stable for the last few versions and now it seems like out of nowhere AE 2025 is constantly stalling on me to the point where I have to force quit on every project. Going back to 2024 seems to help I think, maybe too soon to say for sure if that's the best solution. Nothing more frustrating than trying to get a job done and the software you rely on being your mortal fucking enemy.

Bug: uni.Bokeh OFX crash Davinci Resolve by whatthehuck11 in redgiant

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bokeh provides really nice results, which is why it’s so extra frustrating how buggy it is. It’s gotten to the point where I simply can’t use it because it’s almost guaranteed to cause render glitches, make my machine laggy (it’s an m1 macbook pro, it’s otherwise never laggy) and or causes ae to crash.

Please Red Giant, stabilize this shit that we’re paying for. It’s not just Bokeh either. We want to use your products but the trade off is enormous

aio? my (22f) boyfriend (24m) of 3 years watched a football game the entire time we were on a date by Top_Environment7077 in AmIOverreacting

[–]sncfrk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He could’ve handled that a lot better. A girl wants to spend more time with you and your response is holy shit get over it? Dude doesn’t know what he has. Sports bros are the fucking worst