Making software and entertainment, editorial technology nerd. Senior Software Engineer in Video Engineering at Netflix and a helper guy on OpenTimelineIO.
Exciting news for video lovers! Released in January, AOMedia's open specification for film grain synthesis brings remarkable coding efficiency gains to movies, streams, and TV shows. #AFGS1@Andrey_Norkin To learn more, visit the blog here: brnw.ch/21wHLLP
OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) is now natively supported in ShotGrid RV! OTIO is an open-source initiative that helps you handle important editorial cut information in your timeline. Learn more here: autode.sk/31ptTUe
Cracked Mac plus keyboard fixed up with a combo of sanding traces to the copper to solder across the crack and adding jumper wires where the crack intersected multiple times or the traces were too small. A super fun fix!
This little Mac 512k that’s gotten a RAM, SCSI, and ROM upgrade to effectively make it a Mac Plus runs great except the top half of the keyboard didn’t work.
Found this crack running the length of the board, looks like I’ve got a lot of traces to patch with bridge wire…
I have no problem with fractional frame rates disappearing, but I'm also a frame rate Nihilist - I do my best to build tools that don't care about what timestamps are on samples. I guess I'm not building displays though...
nomore2398.com
However, if we're calling for frame rate reform to restore mathematical purity, 24fps isn't the answer - 25fps has frames samples at exactly 40ms intervals. It would resolve issues like this one (container duration often mismatching stream duration): github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blo…
I think we can all agree fractional frame rates are not ideal, but if we're doing this reform the choice of 24fps or 30fps feels like it may be an overly Americentric one.
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Data visualization is important for making complex information (like election data) comprehendible. This election I've been paying close attention and most outlets have been failing. This is a great start addressing the most common offender:
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Google's visualization is probably one of the worst variants. It applies colors to states regardless of how much data is in. If 24 votes have been tallied for a state, a candidate's lead is visualized the same as 12,000,000 votes tallied.
This is a place where @NewsHour has done much better. In this image they're telling us which states are called, which aren't and what electoral votes are going where. (Note the elegant handling of NE and ME too!)