Graduation pictures

 All photographs from the Queen of Mars.

Here I'm having breakfast at the university's coffee shop.

This is maybe the first time I went up the stairs, but they skipped over my name so I had to sit back down again while the staff added my name back to the list, making me walk at the very end rather than 3rd.

A closeup of Dr. Andrew Bellware. We don't know if this was the first time or the second time. 

I feel I look like a Picasso in this. I'm not sure why I'm so two-dimensional. 

I was very irked at this point. 

Still, there's one smiling picture of me:

I have my PhD now

Doctor Andrew Bellware with his official diploma from the University of Salford, having been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

 

Proof

I finally got "proof" of my PhD. It's an email addressed to "Doctor Andrew Bellware" from the university ratifying my award. So that's kinda fun and cool. Eventually they'll snail mail a hard copy. I don't know what they hand me at the ceremony, I'll find out.

Experimenting with just dumping Premiere for DaVinci Resolve. By that I mean I've quit my Adobe subscription. So far Resolve seems to work. It also seems a bit faster than Premiere. I dunno. It seems to work. XML exports from Adobe seem to mostly open in it just fine. I don't really understand what a "film dissolve" really is mathematically, but Resolve doesn't have one. So far that's the only thing I really miss.

Kitbash likes the Logitech 3S mouse. They also like the Dell UltraSharp U2723QE monitor.

I forgot to name this post

Mirror is a plugin which faffs with the reported latency to a DAW to do reverse effects. I dunno if it's actually that useful, I think most DAWs have something like a macro which bliermergates files in reverse in a way that the process is more straightforward than it used to. 

The Life Of An Agent: Secret Soviet police training films and Propaganda Cartoons

I'd like to groove you to Auburn Sounds -- I've been playing with their autotune-like plugin Grallion. Which is free, actually. Or, you can buy an upgrade it actually. But I've been using the free version as a VST2 plugin in OBS to autotune my very out-of-tune cello. As a live performance device. 

And it totally works. Probably terrible for actually learning to play cello though. I do want fret lines on this thing. 

Cello end with guitar tuners stuck where the pegs used to go.

Anywhoo it's kinda interesting that they use the Dplug open-source framework for developing. This intrigues me. 

I sent in my changes to my thesis today. We'll see if/how many are accepted. My brain is basically a puddle of mush.

Production of films

The following text is excised from my PhD thesis based on notes from my committee. It's all about the production of our films over Covid. I thought it should live somewhere, so here it is.

ATEM

To hook the ATEM Mini to a monitor you may need to set the output to 1080/60 manually to make the monitor happy with the signal.

I feel like I'm going to want to do a version of Scampr where the whole thing takes place inside an O´Neill Cylinder. Apparently this is doable in the Unreal Engine with some gravity mods.

Would you like an image dump? I have one for you.

Ningyo kuyo is a Shinto (I think) "doll funeral." 

I need to do a whole bunch of work to finish up my PhD. I have all the notes. I just need to make the changes for my examiners. 

Hopefully in the next week I'll have recorded upright bass and then after that we start recording vocals for the Red Flag of the Future opera.