Notices by Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com), page 10

Brand new 2-hour video of me making a disco track from scratch:

https://youtu.be/pPuyn0l3NKE

@adam Interesting. 🤔 I'm not uploading these with a great deal of optimism about their entertainment value to other people. 😅

@kf Said program would have zero video effects, zero transitions, etc, because all of that would require recompression, and it would also be limited to slicing at keyframes. But so long as you're happy with that, it'd be able to save edits of huge videos to disk very quickly.

@kf No, I'm already using ffmpeg for the muxing, but I need a program that lets you seek through the video and slice away bits I don't want.

The closest thing I've got is the "Trim" feature in QuickTime, which is able to trim down a video without recompression, and there is also an "Add clip to end of video" that also doesn't need to recompress it.

So just make a program that does this in a GUI and you have the world's fastest video editor.

This video won't finish processing until tomorrow, I bet. It's 2 hours long.

If you want to go crazy, you should watch it when I post the link. It's just me trying shit for two hours until it turns into music. This is representative of my usual creative process.

I need some kind of dirt simple video editing tool that will not want to recompress the video but simply copy the sections I want without recompressing them. I don't need single-frame accuracy. Slicing clips by the keyframes is fine for this. Any tips? I'm on macOS.

It would take ages to process these huge video files for any kind of filtering or editing, so I'm basically uploading them unedited to YouTube.

VLC doesn't like super long MKV files. It just hangs when I try to seek in them.

In case anybody missed it earlier, I decided to start making videos of myself making music. It has me talking on camera, in case anybody's been wondering what I look and sound like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEG4uLZnZv8

Another much longer video with no talking but lots of production work is coming up soonish.

I have this giant 17 GB video file of me working on a song for several hours. Few people are going to want to watch the whole thing, except maybe if they want to learn how to make music, but I'm going to upload it to YouTube anyway...

I think that, if I'm going to do this more, I'm going to need one of those tiny cheek-hugging mics to reduce the acoustics a bit, since I can't make music with headphones on. The mix always comes out wrong when I do.

Did another video where I record music, this time with me speaking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEG4uLZnZv8

Ah, yes, U.S. presidential campaigns. The Internet will now be flooded with un-nuanced and therefore completely uninteresting opinions about presidential candidates.

@MartinJJ @clacke @jack I've used various programs similar to it, such as XSplit and Wirecast. Back when I last needed a program like it, Wirecast had the features I needed and OBS was immature, but it looks like they have fixed many of the problems I had.

I uploaded a video of the little music recording session I just had in order to test if I had a working setup for recording videos myself making music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85IvXWblDk8

As you can see, I look like a boring adult man that you probably wouldn't talk to at a party.

@clacke @jack

I uploaded a video of the little music recording session I just had in order to test if I had a working setup for recording videos myself making music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85IvXWblDk8

As you can see, I look like a boring adult man that you probably wouldn't talk to at a party.

Found a working setup for recording a video of myself recording music.

A better channel if you truly want to understand a STEM subject is BigClive, but he's an electrician and stays away from the more advanced electronics.

Great Scott goes into more advanced stuff and explains it more than EEVblog does, but is still a tad superficial.

Computerphile and Numberphile are very good. You actually understand the concepts after you've watched the video. It demands more out of you as a viewer, but that's the point, isn't it?

TV shows about STEM subjects are typically dumbed down so everyone can understand it.

The same is generally true of YouTube, but you can at least find the high-brow content if you look for it.

What's still difficult to find on YouTube is content for people who are smart, but aren't taking STEM courses in college.

Take EEVblog, which is run by an electronics enginener: He mostly doesn't explain anything. He just tears stuff down and points at random parts. Why? Audience retention.

As far as I'm concerned, the world has seen two major tech innovations since I was born in 1983:

1. Internet.

2. Smartphone.

Other steps along the way include the commoditisation of enabling technologies such as broadband, microwave radios (4G, WiFi), flat-panel displays and lithium batteries.

The criterium is disruption. It must change how we live our lives to be included on the list. As far as I can see, the rest of the world remains much the same as it was in 1983.