Four Cat 6a feeds:
1. Internet/main office network
2. IP private network
3. Dante network
4. Comms network
Monday, October 26, 2020
A Pair of Shoes (with interior music cues)
This is the version of our movie with the interior music cues.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
A small number of tabs cleared
Risk minds convention splash video.
Titles for journal articles.
Gender citation gap.
OBS Ninja, for adding people's webcams to your OBS feed.
Suzanne Valadon. Artist. Model. Etc.
Oscillator
Filter
VCA
LFO, modulators, effects
Sequencer
Synthrotek 16 step sequencer kits
The Neinhorn
Music from Outer Space boards from Synth Cube
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Thursday, October 08, 2020
Things to know.
How this does, and does not, apply to video games.
One might reasonably presume that dramatic "moments" do not occur in video games as such.
The direct analogy for a dramatic "movie" in a videogame is, of course, the "cutscene." Outside of the cutscene, however, the player controls the moments in well-designed and well-written music in a videogame.
Moments in the game, which is typically attached to the player entering into a specific physical area of the game, can be revelatory in a story sense (seeing the "Big Bad" for the first time) or in an emotional sense (discovering the entrance to the golden cave), or even in formative (you can ride whales here.)
Sometimes you need just a white, black, or blue screen. Whitedisplay. I'm not proud. I've used it as fill light.
Streamyard is a multiple participant video-production software which you can use for webcasts and panels and such.
Thursday, October 01, 2020
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Maybe I AM a Robot
How to write a detective story. I've been reading a lot of posts about how to write stories and the one big thing is to add an antagonist, which honestly I hadn't thought of for a detective story. RIMS is a risk-management "society." They have podcasts. PRMIA is another one. Beechwood Cafe in Jersey City. Sennheiser HD 800's. Man, this post is starting to look like a 'bot wrote it. The Production Bot is a box with some SDI ins and out, it can record to internal hard drives and runs on Windows 10. Outlining with index cards.
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| Hypatia of Alexandra |
The Shadow calculator. I'm not entirely sure how to really use it. But for the shoot next week it seems like we'll be in sunlight all day. I should remember to bring a hat. Astra light panels. Adobe is making things which might automatically take out "um's" and such. Well, at least find them all for you. The Eight Sequence Method of writing a screenplay.
Monday, September 14, 2020
Nigh on the Ides of September
The Microsoft Lifechat headset.
Montclair Radiology patient portal.
Locking female 3.5mm to regular 3.5mm male connector.
The crime: there are three IAs who control the city. Each has it's own weaponry.
The White Queen controls the SUZI security android force.
The Medusa has an army of killbots -- floating little poison-infected things that can key onto an individual's biology.
Amaryllis controls nanobiotechnology. That's used for both medical and security purposes.
Robots have certain other powers. They can see into the future. Some see better than others. The ones who see all the paths are called Cassandras. The Cassandras were all but wiped out in the wars between the Warlord AI's, before the truce and peace of The Triad. Their manufacturing plants were shut down and all the humans involved with creating them were exiled or terminated.
Amaryllis, a powerful AI who is worshipped as a god, has died. But the only people who know this are The Medusa and The White Queen. This could permanently upset the balance of power in the city.
The Cassandra is dead. The Cassandra was supposedly killed by the White Queen because the Cassandra knew of the Trojan Horse the White Queen had planted in Amaryllis and had warned Amaryllis (who ignored her.)
Except both the White Queen and the Medusa know a Cassandra is very hard to kill.
The Medusa believes that a hunt for the Cassandra's killer, will reveal the Cassandra herself -- putting her into grave danger before she can advise the Medusa on how to prevent it's OWN death. The White Queen believes that putting Logan on the hunt for the Cassandra will give the White Queen another opportunity to murder the Cassandra, leaving her free to take over the city with the Amaryllis nanobots.
When Logan finds the real Cassandra, the two of them race across town to the Amaryllis Castle, only to discover the god has perished.
Although seemingl
Saturday, September 05, 2020
It was the Panda
OBS Studio can emulate a web camera so that you can use it with Zoom and suchwise. You need OBS virtualcam. (A Mac version is here.)
Using .srt to After Effects plugin from Digital Anarchy
The scooter is six hundred bucks. I may be too overweight for it.
I don't know. But I've been told. Marketing an indy video game with no money.
Friday, September 04, 2020
Captions
If you have your captions in Word and you copy-paste them into a Notepad document, make sure that when you save you use UTF, not ANSI encoding, if you want to maintain Chinese characters.
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| My kitchen isn't even this clean right now. |
Digital Anarchy's After Effects SRT Importer Script. If you need to format captions (which I way do) it's kind of a life-saver.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Oops
Standdesk collapsed. I'd put wheels on it more than a year ago. I can't find the instructions for the wheels but they seem to all be stripped. I mean, they're loose -- and I can't imagine I put them in that way originally. But in any case, I went to move the desk and it fell off a wheel and then went gerblonk.
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| This makes me just want to lie down and sleep for a while. |
No cats were harmed. I'd actually grabbed onto the desk as it was collapsing and I moved a lot a lot a lot of stuff off of it with one hand while holding it up with the other. That why there isn't, for instance, a smashed monitor or speakers on the floor.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Let the Darkness In
Christa Kimlicko Jones as Dr. Ellen K. Henderson in Richard Byrnes' Let the Darkness In. This was shot entirely remotely, it's a "Zoom play." But we set up a second camera (a Panasonic GH4) and separate audio (a Zoom -- not the same company as the teleconferencing app -- F1 with a Sanken COS11). Laura Schlachtmeyer produced, I "directed" (more like a TV director, with Richard having worked with Christa beforehand and Laura as always having the best notes and adjustments.)
The lighting was all Christa's practical lights except for a ring light she has.
Christa really knocked this out of the park. There are two camera angles -- the actual Zoom call and the GH4 but this is all one performance (take 4.)
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