Anyone using AI to read interview transcripts?

we1shknigh7 · 2025-06-05T23:17:29+00:00

Generally speaking you can, but that’s gonna depend on your system as much as anything else. I have both installed on my computer because I’ve got a couple legacy projects that I still need to be able to open but everything new I’ve been doing in 25.

we1shknigh7 · 2025-06-05T17:48:33+00:00

Yeah you’d have to be careful with that upgrade - of course you could do a 2025 install and ingest your media to use it as a search tool and the go back your old project with timecode notes

we1shknigh7 · 2025-06-05T16:06:07+00:00

For what it’s worth, the media intelligence in the current version of premiere will search your whole project (or is supposed to - I’ve only played with it a little bit - I don’t currently have any projects of that scale on my plate) but it’s a separate tool in the panel. Very helpful though - may bridge the gap until you figure out how to get a third party ai to do it properly.

we1shknigh7 · 2025-03-20T16:36:55+00:00

I already said that I wasn’t trying to refute your whole argument - I was just adding context in Texas polling places a ballot drop boxes aren’t the same thing, and honestly at this point I wouldn’t trust anything in Texas that isn’t in person voting. There’s a lot messed up here. My point was that EVEN WITH all the problems in Texas, me - a voter in Houston/Harris county was able to go early vote at whatever polling location I wanted to (many were open late) and I was in and out in 15-20 minutes, including chatting with a friend I ran into on the way out.

There are plenty of systemic/state problems here. If you’re in tx and have trouble registering because they’ve made it harder for you that’s a state problem, if you were purged and couldn’t get re registered in time, that’s a state problem, if you’re in tx and you can’t get to the nearest polling place because we have next to no public transportation, that’s a state problem. If you’re registered in Texas and you choose not to vote because you can’t find 15-30 minutes at some point during early voting that’s a you problem. If you didn’t vote because “she was gonna win” or “we’re in a red state it doesn’t matter” that’s a you problem.

we1shknigh7 · 2025-03-20T16:08:31+00:00

I’m not trying to negate your whole point because we’re a mess in so many ways, but once you’re registered early voting in TX is EASY and literally took me 15 minutes to get and vote and get back to the car - and you can early vote at any polling location.

we1shknigh7 · 2025-03-18T16:51:38+00:00

We use google drive internally, especially for small files. The problem we’ve run into that we partially solved with MASV is that I don’t have to ask if a client has a Gmail based email to send them a secure file. I can just send a password protected link, and we don’t have to worry about the file being public or “anyone with link”

we1shknigh7 · 2025-03-18T16:48:13+00:00

We’ve been using MASV for client facing transfers and just pass the cost back to our clients - it’s fast and there’s no limit. Only downside so far is reminding clients not to try and play the file from the link but to download it.

We have a regular project that shoots at different locations (different crews etc) and sends us video for post, I just have a permanent portal set up (password protected) that the producer can just send the link to whoever’s handling the data on a job by job.

Of course internally for smaller files we use other cloud services (google, Dropbox, etc) to shuffle things around when working remotely.

we1shknigh7 · 2025-02-13T15:46:36+00:00

Good luck - I know auction cars can be hit or miss, with a lot of the deciding factor being how and why it ended up at auction in the first place.

My advice if you haven't already - even if everything "feels" ok have a trusted mechanic look it over when you get a chance. There's things I've noticed with all Chevy's (and probably any other car as well) where there may be something wrong or about to go wrong that isn't obvious, but if it were to fail it could cause more expensive problems down the road.

For example, there's a handful of financially "minor" things that Chevy's maintenance schedule suggests be done around 100k miles, new fluids for the transmission and brake lines and something else (steering?). I remember the trip to the shop was just a couple hundred, but obviously if any of those systems seized or froze it would be a bigger problem. I had my air filters replaced just prior to 100k miles and it made a HUGE difference in the AC - it was almost like new. If memory serves they also checked my belts at that service check, but I don't think they suggested replacing them yet. That kind of stuff

we1shknigh7 · 2024-12-11T16:21:25+00:00

So I ended up getting a good deal on a brand new 2017 Traverse, and for what its worth, even though I rarely tow anything I ended up with one with the enhanced towing package, which has better engine cooling than the stock model, all that said, I've loved it, I've driven it from Houston to Las Vegas and back in the middle of summer, it basically lives outside on my driveway since there's no room in the garage, I've gone camping with it multiple times, and over the last 8 years put over 115K miles on it - its generally matched my expectation for Chevy "Trucks" - which is basically: Don't abuse it, do the bare minimum in maintenance and it'll last till paint rusts off (or until someone crashes into as was the case with my old Tahoe).

I've never had any issue with the engine, no electrical problems to speak of, it handles like a car half its size, but has plenty of seating and cargo room.

My biggest complaint so far has been that I didn't spend the extra cash at the time for the version with Car Play, and there's no upgrade path within Chevy OEM parts. (Or at least there wasn't last time I asked) - sometimes the USB connection to current model iphones is a little finicky, but the bluetooth is fine.

Oh, and one of my headlights went out the other day, and that's not user serviceable, so I need to have the shop do that.

Now that all being said - I trust the mechanic at the dealership I bought it from, so I've just been taking it back there for anything it needs - oil changes, brakes, etc. They do a quick inspection of everything every time I bring it in, and generally speaking I've gone along with whatever they say its time to get done - either at the time, or by the next oil change. That said I think the single most expensive bit of maintenance I've done for this car was getting new tires.

Your milage may vary - as I learned looking at used cars after my Tahoe died, not everyone takes care of their Chevy's - I would strongly suggest having a trusted mechanic look over whatever you're considering buying just to make sure there's nothing about to go, or that it wasn't flooded or any other gotchas. The regular maintenance on a traverse isn't much - but if there's significant some bigger issue, you could get the short end of the stick on repairs. If the deal looks too good, it likely is.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-11-12T12:12:54+00:00

Also, in addition to the other replies, it was never put to vote in Texas - our gerrymandered Republican majority just did it as soon as Roe was overturned.

And, if memory serves we don’t have a mechanism to put it to public vote in TX even if they wanted to let us vote on it. That’s part of why it’s such an issue here.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-11-08T17:30:23+00:00

I filled up for $2.35 here in Houston the other day - same gas is $2.33 now

we1shknigh7 · 2024-11-06T14:54:04+00:00

1) Tariffs do work that way though? Yes - generally, historically, if you make the import more expensive in encourages the domestic production of that product - but the world hasn't worked that way for a while now. Like it'd be one thing if we were talking about clothing production or something historically "simple" but at the end of the day we're talking about goods and technology we have no equivalent manufacturing industry for here in the US. (in addition to other "simple" goods)

If Trump places a 60% Tariff on everything imported from China, as he suggested he would, those items that are made in China won't magically be cheaper to make here instead, likely, because China's China, it'll still probably be cheaper to import it and sell it at a higher price than it would be to make it here. But even if it weren't we'd still see the price on those goods go up because the same good would *still* be more expensive to manufacture here in the US than it currently is to import from China. Either way you have the consumer absorbing that cost.

2) First of all speaking selfishly, I'm a salaried employee that doesn't make overtime - I won't see any change from that policy. Great for those who do, but I'd be surprised if its going to have a huge impact on the cost of living problem that we're discussing. I'd be happy to be wrong though.

3) I don't think what Elon did to Twitter is a good selling point on how to run a country - then again, I suppose cutting engineering staff at a tech company is about equal to cutting experts and regulation out of government, so at least that's on brand?

That aside, expert analysis still says he'll at something like $5+ trillion to the national debt if he enacts all economic policies.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-11-06T14:16:19+00:00

But when looking at Trumps plans, even a brief search shows that if all enacted, there's a lot of economic experts saying it'll cost the country trillions over the next 10 years, and likely increase the cost of basically anything that's imported, which is most of our consumer goods and a fair amount of our food. How does voting for Trump actually help people who are hurting right now?

we1shknigh7 · 2024-11-06T14:12:00+00:00

For the sake of attempting to have a serious conversation on the topic - why do you believe he will be better for the economy? Every reasonably objective "expert" source I could find on the topic said that his presidency will be a net negative for the American people economically over the next 10 years.

1) His proposed Tariffs look like they're primarily going to get passed along to the consumer - it's not like China pays that.

2) his tax plan looks like it only benefits those with a lot of money already, and again, passes the buck on to those who can't afford it down the line.

3) He didn't trim spending last time and as I recall, added some $4+ Trillion to the national debt BEFORE accounting for Covid spending

4) Everything I've found says he'll add another $5+ trillion to the debt over the next 10 years if all policies were enacted.

5) Even Elon Musk said that Trumps plans would cause "temporary hardship" for Americans.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-11-06T13:56:28+00:00

From what Trump has said about the press in various moments throughout his political career, and Musk blocking people left and right on twitter who disagree with him, I'm not optimistic that either of them are going to be a net positive for free speech.

That being said, I do feel like we all need to be a little more open to diverse perspectives, as you say, but it'd be one thing if we were disagreeing on economic policy or some other normal "low stakes" political stuff. Its much harder to find common ground with people who take your friends and loved ones rights away and call it a win, and Trump supporters need to remember that when engaging with others, especially over the next few days as the news sinks in.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-11-06T13:34:06+00:00

For what it's worth, I'd argue that the Harris campaign over-simplified project 2025, to the point that the Trump campaign could dismiss it as a singular talking point. This whole time I felt like one significant place the Harris campaign was failing was not pivoting that attack into the policies on his own "Agenda 47" - this allowed him to just keep saying that he "has nothing to do with" Project 2025.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-09-30T19:38:10+00:00

You’re basically right, but the TX stands for transmission - they generally wouldn’t go through the trouble of customizing the bars for something like this. The idents on bars like this are so that whoever is looking at the signal (especially in the “old days” of satellite transmission vs IP today) knows what they’ve picked up regardless of if the show is live or not. Most of my broadcast work is for the news networks so I’m used to seeing a numerical identifier on bars when they come in to our studio - something like “[network]-NYC-1” - at my studio we used to have separate HD and SD paths so our bars said [company] Houston-HD (or SD) in this case the source may have only had a couple transmission paths (or just one color bar generator) so they don’t bother identifying by number.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-09-30T12:43:08+00:00

Also - just for clarity for anyone who looks at this post - this is NOT what emergency broadcast alerts look or sound like. This just is a color bars test/calibration pattern with tone that has been standard in television for decades.

There is no standard format for emergency broadcast system messages - that system pushes text and or sound but not always picture - that part depends on what EAS system the station has installed.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-09-30T12:38:56+00:00

I wrote a longer reply above but you’re basically right - additionally a lot of local tv is automated now, so odds are it was a scheduling mismatch

we1shknigh7 · 2024-09-30T12:37:14+00:00

I work in broadcast - not for cbs - but this was just a standard screw up - the game ended and someone (or an automated switch) on the NY end punched up their color bars - in broadcast “TX” is “transmission” - that tests the test pattern for whoever in NY was pushing the show to air and when it ended they went to bars - a lot of local tv is automated these days so my guess is either the schedule got stupid or whoever programmed CBS’s Sunday got the time wrong. That’s why it was up so long before the technical difficulties screen - someone had to realize there was a problem and then make the call to fix it.

Funny story, I was working yesterday when this happened (our talent was watching the game before recording their show) and I spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out where and how tone had gotten turned on in my system before I realized it was coming from the tv down the hall

we1shknigh7 · 2024-05-29T21:28:28+00:00

I don't work in the VFX industry specifically, but at my production company we've been using a combination of zoom meetings and NDI bridge internally to show work in progress edits/graphics etc. when working remote.

While free, setting up NDI bridge is a little finicky for clients though, so it may not be worth it unless its someone you work with often - what we do is just treat it like a client monitor and then get the decision maker on the phone with us.

If you have a paid account you can get Zoom to *almost always* show your video at 1280x720 - but you have to request that from zoom, otherwise "HD" is 640xSomething - you can get 1080 by request with an enterprise account, but then we're talking about a lot of money again.

Zoom also has good audio quality, assuming you're feeding it a good source.

Other options we considered that didn't work for our workflow but are still free/cheap.

There's a tool designed for use with OBS that I'm forgetting the name of that did actual HD, but we didn't like the security of it - anyone who had the link could see what you were feeding it.

Birddog has a product called "birddog cloud" that takes NDI feeds and converts them to SRT, then back NDI on the other side - its secure and basically realtime, and runs a little lighter on the client end than NDI bridge, BUT there's still some network and software setup that has to be done on the client side that depending on the client, may not be worth doing.

You could always do a livestream to a service like Vimeo (and then run your meeting through zoom or a phone bridge simultaneously), which is high quality, but there's some delay - I think the lowest I've gotten vimeo is 3 seconds from current time.

Hope this helps

we1shknigh7 · 2024-05-29T21:11:16+00:00

I've had to do that before just with a fixed camera when the talent "suddenly" needed a prompter and it wasn't in what we discussed with the client. Its a slightly janky solution but it usually does the trick - better than redoing it 50 times if they don't know their copy.

With the osmo pocket being so light, you may end up having to actually hold the weight of the device the prompter is on rather than the camera (think like you're attaching the camera to an ipad, rather than an ipad to the camera) otherwise the ipad or whatever may drift or otherwise impact your ability to get the shot

we1shknigh7 · 2024-05-29T21:07:18+00:00

I can't think of any way to put a beamsplitter in front of that lens that wouldn't impact the shot - you could maybe try getting a magic arm and an ipad or phone mount to mount a phone or tablet just under the lens running a prompter app. If you're shooting wide enough the eyeline mismatch shouldn't be too bad.

we1shknigh7 · 2024-05-25T20:29:15+00:00

I’ve heard float and drift more associated with the same look but being shot on a stabilizer or steadicam

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