I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
That word is impossible to spell! And, yeah, it’s only available as an image coz I scanned it from something dad did and couldn’t be bothered marking it up. Whatever. The only people who care can see/have normal user agents, so accessibility is neatly matched with intended audience here!
And this was really the last post. Bye!
Of course, Paris has seen this sort of thing before, though – think what Robespierre could have done with a Blogger account.
Ah… I’m uncertain whether I’m allowed [by circumstance and social conventions] to find that funny, but it is! :D
That’s the length of audio I can record on my camera with just the new 1GB memory card I got today for it. With the 256MB card recording 4 hours and 18 minutes, I can record the 23 hours and 10 minutes from now until when our flight leaves tomorrow (~1845 GMT+10)! But I’m not going to.
Technology rocks!
Ah, would you look at that date? Yes, indeed, this fabled “Other Side” is indeed real. Or maybe I’m now a figment of my own imagination and I still have exams to go. Whoa, recursive.
Business was good, but for one question, the details of which I don’t exactly recall (23 c), which was so poorly written only BS teachers could manage it. It depresses me to think there are people that can spend that much of their life professionally applying buzzwords and doing absolutely nothing. Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
And they did. The wonders of Monty Python!
So, today, I plan to spend some time doing stuff with Tori because she’s about to fly away for… a long time… and then when I get home/before I go out play with Cinelerra, which, miraculously, I finally have working well. The secret is to ignore the stupid DEB and go straight for the RPMs with alien, which makes the experience remarkably painless. Err… in a totally non-abducted-by-aliens kind of way.
ANYWAY! My biggest qualm with it is its render/batch render thing, not because it’s slow (it is, kind of, but that’s mostly just the way I’ve got this computer setup), but because it seems impossible to export in a format that everything likes (aside from straight raw DV, which I haven’t tried because I need to put another hard disk in this computer. I would have, but I’m out of IDE channels and really need to think about how to store things properly.)
At the minute, I’m generally rendering in MPEG-4 (ffmpeg) and then effectively transcoding back to MPEG-4 using mplayer to make it more player-friendly. I take it the codec is exactly the same, it’s just that Cinelerra seems to have some quirk that means only mplayer can read the rendered file, whilst xine and VLC fall over and promptly die.
Shrug. I’ve just been editing video sequences, though, so at least I haven’t had to deal with audio as well. One would presume that would be rather less painless — it’s not, at least not in terms of setting up Cinelerra for audio playback/NLE stuff. Despite having both ALSA and esound output options, ALSA would just make it crash (this seems widely documented with no fix available), and esound wouldn’t work because… well… I don’t think my local esound server has a port open, and Cinelerra, being some broadcast-quality high-and-mighty piece of crap, decides that talking to a local sound server is beneath it. Ironically, the simplest of the lot, OSS, worked without any difficulties… but that of course means I can only have one sound stream going simultaneously. Which, admittedly, isn’t a huge problem when you’re trying to work in Cinelerra (it’s hardly as though you want other sounds going on whilst you’re trying to edit audio), but disabling the server, etc, can be a little bit of a pain.
If you’re reading this (e.g. the world didn’t end before it was posted or whatever…), I’m probably on the Other Side of the HSC. For various reasons, this might be the last post before I go to New Zealand, in which case don’t expect another post for three weeks. I’m going to delete everything in my moderation queue when I get back, because I don’t have enough time to go through all the spam that will probably accumulate (or, am not planning on having enough time… I might, if the spammers are nice for three weeks.) — this won’t impact most regulars, though, whose posts should get through just fine. Ah, I love software that just works. I can see it’s not likely to, though!
Tori is leaving for Europe tomorrow (tomorrow when this post goes live), and she’s not getting back til January :-( Hence the improbabilty of my posting at least in the next 48 hours, and possibly before I leave if it takes me longer than expected to pack/get organised.
I also may or may not have a heap of photos to post when I get back. We leave in… a handful of days now, and I still haven’t decided which/how many cameras I’m taking, nor have I bought film. Bleh!