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Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


:wrong:

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BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

sure vlc is bad, but there are actually zero other options.

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

actually vlc does what it does very well, its very good

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
vlc is the knife of media players

sure sometimes what you need is a fork, but a knife will probably do instead. but imagine carving up a ham with only tongs and a fork? this is why we need vlc

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




mpc hc or mpc be both do everything vlc does only better, like since forever

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

cinci zoo sniper posted:

mpc hc or mpc be both do everything vlc does only better, like since forever

except run on a non-garbage os

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




The_Franz posted:

except run on a non-garbage os
mplayer and its forks, please. mpv, for example

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

what the gently caress is an m player?

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

BONGHITZ posted:

just use that weird triangle graph, it should work



agreed

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

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pram posted:

Stymie gimmick low energy. Boring. Terrible posts! Sad.

:same:

cinci zoo sniper posted:

mpc hc or mpc be both do everything vlc does only better, like since forever

actually mpchc or mpc both don't do a key feature of vlc, which is being able to scroll both through the video and adjust volume when you have only one hand and not enough attention to precisely click things while watching porn

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

The greatest troll ever told.

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


since this thread is like catnip for video knowers, can anyone suggest a list of things to buy/know for decce youtube content? a client of mine needs to make not poo poo looking training material and they want to keep it in house.

assume the following:
- an employee familiar with photoshop/indesign/illustrator but not premiere/ae yet (so training stuff or online courses are welcome)
- single static camera positioning (mostly a shot of someone talking with intermittent cuts to on-screen workflow stuff)

known issues:
- lighting throughout the office is terrible; no natural light, heavy yellow/orange bias in wall paint, standard cheapo commercial fluorescent tubes
- they own a few cellphones with alright cameras (s7, iphone 7) so while it's not ideal, i don't expect them to be willing to pony up the cash for a nice dedicated one for now.

the immediate issue is lighting, is there a model or brand i should suggest? for the rest, any tips and tricks are welcome. tia!

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

surebet posted:

since this thread is like catnip for video knowers, can anyone suggest a list of things to buy/know for decce youtube content? a client of mine needs to make not poo poo looking training material and they want to keep it in house.

assume the following:
- an employee familiar with photoshop/indesign/illustrator but not premiere/ae yet (so training stuff or online courses are welcome)
- single static camera positioning (mostly a shot of someone talking with intermittent cuts to on-screen workflow stuff)

known issues:
- lighting throughout the office is terrible; no natural light, heavy yellow/orange bias in wall paint, standard cheapo commercial fluorescent tubes
- they own a few cellphones with alright cameras (s7, iphone 7) so while it's not ideal, i don't expect them to be willing to pony up the cash for a nice dedicated one for now.

the immediate issue is lighting, is there a model or brand i should suggest? for the rest, any tips and tricks are welcome. tia!
i have bad news for you

i only do photos and very small scale video stuff from time to time and i own several thousand worth of lighting equipment and flashes and i still often run into limitations

even if you just want decce amateur content that's not blatantly trash amateur content with production values lower than the average xhamster video, you should get several hundred bucks worth of lights with good colour reproduction (there's somewhat ok daylight flourescents if you want poverty-tier lighting) and large light formers that prevent excessively harsh shadows from light just coming from a point (i suppose propping up white sheets against things is the poverty-tier way here)

also your lighting won't be of the room lighting brightness variety, even if you go for the ghetto route and buy flourescents you will want to buy several hundred watts worth of them to get clean video

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Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
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is there a way to make a mixed-dpi multi-monitor setup not poo poo??

i have a high-dpi (200% scaling) laptop that docks into two normal-dpi monitors at work, and boy oh boy there are a lot of programs that don't like that

visual studio and chrome do not like being on a monitor w/ a different dpi scaling than that of whatever monitor is designated the "main" one

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Instant Grat posted:

is there a way to make a mixed-dpi multi-monitor setup not poo poo??

i have a high-dpi (200% scaling) laptop that docks into two normal-dpi monitors at work, and boy oh boy there are a lot of programs that don't like that

visual studio and chrome do not like being on a monitor w/ a different dpi scaling than that of whatever monitor is designated the "main" one

windows 10 supports individual scaling settings for multimotor setups

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE

cinci zoo sniper posted:

windows 10 supports individual scaling settings for multimotor setups

ye but you still gotta designate one monitor as the "main", and things turn poo poo when you stick a window on a monitor that has a different scaling to the main one

visual studio gets blurry, the lil extension pop-up windows in chrome (for my email checker and poo poo) stop working right, etc

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Instant Grat posted:

is there a way to make a mixed-dpi multi-monitor setup not poo poo??

use macos 10.12

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Instant Grat posted:

ye but you still gotta designate one monitor as the "main", and things turn poo poo when you stick a window on a monitor that has a different scaling to the main one

visual studio gets blurry, the lil extension pop-up windows in chrome (for my email checker and poo poo) stop working right, etc

vs changes fine from monitor to monitor and chome is garbage that you shouldn't use

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

Instant Grat posted:

is there a way to make a mixed-dpi multi-monitor setup not poo poo??

i have a high-dpi (200% scaling) laptop that docks into two normal-dpi monitors at work, and boy oh boy there are a lot of programs that don't like that

visual studio and chrome do not like being on a monitor w/ a different dpi scaling than that of whatever monitor is designated the "main" one

My Macbook handles this scenario with no problem, maybe you should use better tools?

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE

Shaggar posted:

vs changes fine from monitor to monitor and chome is garbage that you shouldn't use

set a monitor with 200% scaling as your main, log out and back in to propagate the change properly, then open vs and drag it onto a 100% scaling monitor and tell me how it looks

pram
Jun 10, 2001

ch-choooOOOmmee!! :chome:

Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE

Instant Grat posted:

set a monitor with 200% scaling as your main, log out

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

Mometors.

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie


its not really teaching people a lot, sry

a 3D artists understanding of linear light is so lol becuase they do such great work and have no idea why values work, they just randomly type in what looks good

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

also wtf i leave for a week and yall get all porn and lighting questions in the monitor thread? hahaha

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




pagancow posted:

also wtf i leave for a week and yall get all porn and lighting questions in the monitor thread? hahaha
what else did you expect leaving for 6.9 days

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb
I like how porn

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

pagancow posted:

its not really teaching people a lot, sry

a 3D artists understanding of linear light is so lol becuase they do such great work and have no idea why values work, they just randomly type in what looks good

i learned something :qq:

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


blowfish posted:

i have bad news for you

i only do photos and very small scale video stuff from time to time and i own several thousand worth of lighting equipment and flashes and i still often run into limitations

even if you just want decce amateur content that's not blatantly trash amateur content with production values lower than the average xhamster video, you should get several hundred bucks worth of lights with good colour reproduction (there's somewhat ok daylight flourescents if you want poverty-tier lighting) and large light formers that prevent excessively harsh shadows from light just coming from a point (i suppose propping up white sheets against things is the poverty-tier way here)

also your lighting won't be of the room lighting brightness variety, even if you go for the ghetto route and buy flourescents you will want to buy several hundred watts worth of them to get clean video

figured as much, the reason why they're holding off on a dedi camera is because they expected a four figgie expense in related stuff. got any links to stuff i can read up on to figure out where to go from here?

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

surebet posted:

figured as much, the reason why they're holding off on a dedi camera is because they expected a four figgie expense in related stuff. got any links to stuff i can read up on to figure out where to go from here?

You can go the lol route and buy whatever the newest from SHENZHEN CHINA, but they will have problems with color CRI, and when you expand to buy more expensive gear you're buying new lights becuase you cant match them. It just depends on how big of a production budget you're going for and just execute on it.

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

what if you just shoot outdoors with daylight

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

also is there any good night vision poo poo

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

how many megapixels in a Polaroid?

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Bloody posted:

what if you just shoot outdoors with daylight

Look at the spectrum graph to understand why not all lights are created equal:

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

these are professional lights designed for lighting stuff you make money off of. Imagine what kind of lol backlight gets put into the monoprice special.

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

the reason why everything looks good in THE SUN is because it's full spectrum

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

New iPad 600 nit brightness, 120hz, p3 gamut, software supports "HDR video playback", they say its "the best display in a tablet"

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

pagancow posted:

the reason why everything looks good in THE SUN is because it's full spectrum

yeah so if you're always shootin outdoors in beautiful weather things should be a lot easier right

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Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


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