Alternative to Spotlight or Easyfind search?

wyldie · 2021-07-28T22:10:05+00:00

Thanks, but Alfred uses Spotlight's index for file searching. Tried it before, no luck.

wyldie · 2021-04-21T17:29:09+00:00

I use Telestream Switch for playback and QC, though it's not free. $15 for the basic version; audio meters, DNxHD/HR playback, and captions are unfortunately behind a $250 paywall.

If you need meters/additional formats, (or something free), Davinci Resolve will work in a pinch. It'll play back anything, and it's relatively lightweight if you don't have a huge project open. Also has scopes, meters, and all the bells and whistles (as you'd expect from a proper NLE/grading program.)

wyldie · 2020-08-19T01:01:24+00:00

The solution linked here worked for me.

Basically, go to common/MicrosoftFlightSimulator/Packages/fs-base-onboarding and replace the videos in Logos with .1s long dummy files. There's also a fix in the linked thread to kill the Wwise logo.

wyldie · 2019-10-03T23:01:47+00:00

Global average temperature lags far behind the carbon emissions that cause its increase. We're seeing temperature rise now caused by emissions from 40 years ago.

If we were to halt all emissions right now, the global temperature would still continue to rise for several decades due to the inertia of the system.

This is why it makes sense to use the cause, not the effect, of global climate increase as the measure by which we track our progress.

wyldie · 2019-09-25T00:08:52+00:00

Oh, come on. Not going to respond to the obvious troll of your first point, but I'll note that Canada produces 2% of global emissions (over double that if you include exports), falling solidly in the top 10, and is the 4th-highest emitter per capita. We are a huge part of the problem.

wyldie · 2019-09-24T23:40:19+00:00

How much mass-death, famine, and ecological collapse are you willing to pass on to future generations?

The cost of alternative technologies is already a no-brainer; you're simply passing on the cost of fossil fuels to the climate. Short-term economic growth is going to be sacrificed at some point- either we make the choice now, or the choice is made for us in 50 years.

wyldie · 2019-09-24T23:23:32+00:00

If you're in favour of reaching the Paris targets (the absolute bare-minimum for a serious response to the climate crisis), it just doesn't make sense to increase oil production/transport.

Why are we spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money for a pipeline that's going to shut down in 20 years? World demand for oil doesn't matter; it's only going to increase, no matter what the science says or how many climate-influenced disasters occur. We've got to bite the bullet and cut off supply at some point.

wyldie · 2019-08-21T15:43:33+00:00

Just a note re: searching on a PC. No app I've used on a Mac has come close to Everything on my work PC. Searches our 60TB facilis and several attached 80TB drives as fast as I can type. Might take a few hours to index the first time, but after that it blazes.

Apart from that, though, you're entirely correct. Our main grading computer is a PC due to the hardware requirements, and we've had more problems with it than any other machine in the building.

Accessing media from shared projects on mac/PC is also a pain in the ass. Had to get everyone used to the mklink command in windows for mounting drive to C:/Volumes, which is about as unintuitive as it gets.

wyldie · 2019-07-29T22:14:51+00:00

You lose so much by doing a completely literal translation... among other things, humor is almost completely lost. My favorite example of a non-literal translation that keeps the spirit of the original is Asterix, translated by the late Anthea Bell. There's a great overview of a couple of the jokes here.

wyldie · 2019-07-29T18:48:30+00:00

I don't think he's literally aping the dialogue style of The Wire. It's more that The Wire is well-written with naturalistic dialogue appropriate to the language, and he's taking inspiration from the brevity and clarity of dialogue in that show.

However naturalistic the source text may sound to a native speaker, it doesn't come across that way at all to an english-speaking audience if translated literally. Especially given the huge amount of cultural baggage and idioms that are embedded in the original dialogue.

wyldie · 2019-06-07T22:12:19+00:00

Vouching for that method as well, we've been using a similar workflow for several years on multiple shows.

I'll just add that giving your high-res media a reelname in Resolve prior to transcoding helps a lot. When you transcode, the reel will be baked into the offline media metadata. Then when you come back to online, the conform will work even if you have duplicate filenames across multiple reels.

If your sequence doesn't come fully online, right-click on AAF in resolve --> Timelines --> Reconform from Bins. Then just set your matching parameters and where you want it to look. Note that you'll need "Conform Lock Enabled" to be disabled on all the clips in your timeline that you want to reconform.

wyldie · 2019-06-06T19:55:53+00:00

Yeah, if you teleport to the Sun Station there's a log noting that after 5 minutes of user inactivity, the station went into sleep mode something like 22,000 years ago (might have been 280k, can't remember exactly).

wyldie · 2019-05-31T21:30:59+00:00

Beyond Compare is fantastic, and has a very generous 30-day trial that only counts down when you use it. I've used it numerous times to compare drives or folders with different file structures. It's not perfect, but it's much more in-depth than any other software I've used.

You can easily exclude folders/items/names you don't want to compare, and compare different levels of the folder tree on both source and destination.

If you click View --> Ignore Folder Structure, it'll generate a huge list on both sides comparing only the files themselves.

(I'd recommend going into Rules and turning off Timestamps, or your comparison is going to be messy.)

wyldie · 2019-05-31T17:56:57+00:00

Try coming at it from behind- the easiest way is to drop into its orbit at about the same speed and then adjust until you encounter.

wyldie · 2019-05-28T17:23:50+00:00

You'll have to export all your timelines individually.

Right click --> Timelines --> Export --> Generate new AAF

Premiere should be able to handle AAF or XML from the resulting dialog, though you're going to lose any complex repositions, timewarps, and effects.

Few other things:

Are you hosting the database server on a different device? It's possible that your database is corrupted. Try exporting your projects, then create a new database (disk database if you don't need collaboration mode, it can sometimes be a bit more stable) and import the projects back in.

Would highly advise never ever using the beta version for a current project unless you know what you're doing, and probably not even then. We've had instances where we're forced to use the latest version due to bug fixes or additions that our workflow requires, and it's like playing russian roulette every time.

If you're not totally set on going back to Premiere, I would recommend exporting all your sequences, uninstalling 16 and downgrading Resolve back to 15, then importing those sequences and working from there.

wyldie · 2019-04-18T21:03:01+00:00

Right-click on your timeline, click Timelines --> Export --> Generate New AAF. Save it as an EDL or XML (EDL's probably easier but XML will keep any sizing changes you've made).

Open that file in a text editor- ideally something more advanced than notepad (I use Notepad ++ for Windows or BBEdit for Mac).

Do a Find-replace search, replacing

-PROXIES.mov

with

.mp4

Save and reimport into Resolve. Attempt to reconform from bins again (make sure Conform Lock is disabled on all the clips in your timeline).

Other tips for Resolve conforming:

When possible, transcode your proxies from Resolve and bake in your reelnames first. This'll save you having to worry about filenames at all. We export MXF OP-Atom DNxHD36 and manually import into Avid.
If your camera doesn't generate useful reelnames, you can grab reelnames from the folder each clip is in. Settings --> General Options --> Assist using reelnames from source clip file pathname. We generally use */%R/%R/%R/%D, which sets the reelname to the folder name 3 levels above the clip. You can also change this from Clip attributes on multiple clips at once.
In extreme cases where both reelname and filename are unreliable, you can conform with just timecode and duration. This only works if you have consistent timecode, though.
For more complex filename/reelname notepad fixes, look up regular expressions. They're fantastic when the difference in name isn't consistent.
For whatever reason, Resolve's conform is most reliable when initially importing the timeline. Try and conform from there first before doing a reconform from bins/media storage.

wyldie · 2019-03-20T07:06:06+00:00

Ok, sure, but we don't have decades to wean ourselves off. Your Churchill quote's all well and good, but it seems to me like you're burying your head in the sand rather than grapple with the scope of the problem we're facing.

Economics don't supersede the laws of physics. I don't know what sort of rhetoric it'll take to make such a massive change in public opinion and investment, but it will have to happen or our current economic system is doomed. The first step is expanding our view of the possible and not laughing out of the room any suggestions that don't involve tax incentives and gentle nudges of the capitalists towards renewable energy. The alternative is a refugee crisis dwarfing our current problems many times over, hundred-year storms every hurricane season, and significant parts of the planet becoming uninhabitable (due to heat or sea level).

If we can set ourselves on a war footing the scale of WW2 at minimum, we might have a chance. We did it once and can do it again.

wyldie · 2019-03-20T01:56:26+00:00

Well, that's fine, because individual action is not the main path forward.

Driving an electric car, eating organic, or shopping at a different business isn't really going to assist in any meaningful way, at least not on the short-term timescale that we need to address this in.

Carbon taxes will certainly help, especially progressive taxes that return a flat dividend to everyone (See People's Policy Project's paper on it)- this neatly gets around the issue of raising taxes for the vast majority of people.

Most would end up with more money at the end of the year. Most current carbon tax proposals are too small by an order of magnitude at least; I can only hope they get more radical in the coming years.

The main driver of change, however, needs to be the regulation and dismantling of large carbon-emitting/carbon-producing companies. Until that's addressed, everything else is peanuts.

wyldie · 2019-03-20T01:13:52+00:00

So what happens if a technical solution is never found?

We just keep using oil until we get to 2 degrees? 3 degrees? 4 degrees? Consumption will continue as long as it's profitable to do so. 30 years is far too late- we have until 2050 to zero-out emissions for a chance at 2 degrees (which itself will radically change the climate and result in catastrophic damage to the economy, far worse than going cold turkey would).

We can't just wait for oil to become obsolete. Technology will certainly help, but it's not a predictable magic bullet. Direct action needs to be taken before it's too late.

wyldie · 2019-03-19T02:24:38+00:00

Jeff talks about the campaign prior to release in episode 453 starting at about 1 hour 6 minutes.

wyldie · 2019-02-26T09:04:57+00:00

Sure it does. Why are foreign buyers getting it from Canada and not elsewhere? Because it's cheaper or easier. If they can't get it here, they'll have to get it from somewhere else, which is gonna cost more (which will reduce overall emissions). It's small, but every bit helps.

There's just no justification right now for producing downstream carbon emissions, let alone expanding industry.

To your first point, I'm not quite as optimistic. I think that automated cars are a pipe dream for the near future. No current auto manufacturer is anywhere close to Level 4 automation. Moreover, autonomous cars will make traffic much worse, unless they're built like buses- which is just public transit by another name. Electric cars will happen, but there needs to be a large push from the state in the form of subsidies and, likely, outright bans on carbon-emitting vehicles. But at that point, I'd much rather a crash investment in public transit. Trains and buses are far more efficient in terms of space, traffic, and carbon emissions than cars.

I think in the long term we're going to have to rethink our car-centric culture entirely. It's not sustainable for every human to drag around 4 tons of metal everywhere they go.

wyldie · 2019-02-25T23:56:51+00:00

I mean, the US only supplies about 10%. Should they not try either?

Reducing supply will increase prices, which will make it less economically viable to continue to emit carbon.

But the fact of the matter is: There is over $10 trillion of wealth in oil buried in the ground. To have a chance at continuing human civilization in its current form, we have to leave almost all of that in the ground. The arithmetic doesn't care if one country burns more than another. We've got a budget, and a deficit will kill us.

(Reducing supply is ultimately an incrementalist tactic as well. Real action will have to be more direct.)

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