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cragsand

@cragsand@mastodon.social

VR, RP and science nerd
I play in #NeonDivide, an episodic #RP #LARP in #VR

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carolynporco, to TierraSapiens
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Fellow Mastodonians ...

Do any of you do video editing ... perhaps for a podcast or maybe personal home videos? If so, what is the best, most easily used video editing software out there?

I don't need all the bells & whistles, but will need features like splicing video segments (from diff't sources) together, some nice (not over the top) transitions, ease of use, & good quality end results.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

cragsand,
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@carolynporco I've tried a lot of free video editing software but I always find myself coming back to .

Using effects can be a bit tricky to figure out at first but just for basic transitions and editing in multiple track layers it does the job well.

Sometimes it crashes when you zoom to quickly from the timeline but saving with CONTROL+S is instant and restarting the same. https://www.shotcut.org/

cragsand, (edited )
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@carolynporco Yes, you can drag and drop a clip into the timeline, split it in the middle, separate the two parts and drag in another clip in the middle.

If you drag the beginning of one clip over the end of the other clip, it will create a transition.

To show one clip on top of another, create a new track, and drag that clip on that track.

Here's a tutorial video showing how to use the timeline: https://youtu.be/PCMcyYAtRzw?t=10m
Best of luck!

dbrgn, to random
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At first, there wasn't any to be seen, only the moon...

cragsand,
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@dbrgn Amazing photos! The current solar storm is giving these amazing Auroras pretty far south. It's late at night here in southern Sweden and unfortunately very overcast and cloudy so no luck for me at this time. 😊
https://www.space.com/powerful-solar-flare-x-class-eruption-from-giant-sunspot-ar3664-may-10-video

cragsand,
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@dbrgn Fairly rare but we get them occasionally!

cragsand, (edited ) to Eurovision
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From #Eurovision my favorite is Ireland's entry.
Such an amazing choreography for the whole performance with a pagan theme.
There's influences from Black metal and Death metal here so the only thing I felt was missing from the performance was the electric guitar.

Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNc5zTYkTaQ

cragsand, to Eurovision
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isn't region locked from the SVT Swedish PoV! You can even watch along from the US :catjam:
https://www.svt.se/kultur/senaste-nytt-om-eurovision-song-contest-2024

cragsand,
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Sorry for late post :cate:

rolle, (edited ) to Eurovision
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ICONIC

cragsand,
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@rolle Sudden hairy ass nudity on screen, must be Finland's entry :KEKW:

atomicpoet, to bluesky
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So I just tried opting into (https://brid.gy/mastodon/@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org).

I found it confusing. For one thing, it asks me for my Mastodon account. Though Akkoma uses Mastodon’s API, not all sites recognize this nor support it—I don’t know if BridgyFed would reject.

Secondly, it’s not clear how to opt in. I think I opted in but there was nothing to say “Congrats! People from can see you!”

Also, how do I receive posts? That’s not apparent to me.

@fediversenews

cragsand,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews

To enable and opt-in you follow this account: @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
That will start mirroring and federate your ActivityPub account over the ATProtocol and assign a DID.

Then the counterpart for BlueSky you follow:
https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy
And it will start mirroring your ATProtocol account as an ActivityPub account.

AT to AP seems more seamless since AP has more features. Truncating long posts for example looks ugly. The plan is to thread them eventually.

cragsand,
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@giant_awake @mike Early beta so expect it to be slow and break.

It's running pretty slow from testing and took several hours before my first posts showed up so following and then unfollowing without waiting probably won't work.

You can compare the timestamps of my posts for example:
https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/cragsand.bsky.social

ScottManleyHimself, to random
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Certified aircraft avionics contain just as many hacks as any other piece of small run consumer electronics.

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cragsand,
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@ScottManleyHimself
That reminds me of region chipping PSX consoles back in the day.

Then again, the outcome of breaking something wouldn't be anywhere as fatal as with an aircraft... :AngeryCat:

cragsand, to random
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Test post from Mastodon over the BlueSky bridge. @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

Transportist, to bluesky
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Using to see my Bluesky account in to boost fed.bird.gy () allowing me to see posts on , and vice versa. If I post something on Mastodon will it appear on Bluesky, and so appear on Mastodon, and so forth, in a mirror of infinite recursion?

cragsand,
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@Transportist Seems to only work one way for me although I followed from both sides 🤔
https://mastodon.social/@cragsand/112385186081456970
https://bsky.app/profile/cragsand.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3krp3m3pz3rr2

cragsand, to Morrowind
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Found this great vocal cover of :catjam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF5rTsgjceg

cragsand, to random
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Skyblivion update!
Love these fan projects :BlobhajHeart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2w3ciSVEQ

cragsand, to random
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Test post after following @bsky.brid.gy
Does this show up on BlueSky? 🤔

cragsand,
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@bsky.brid.gy I can see the account appear as this but no posts yet. https://bsky.app/profile/cragsand.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

cragsand, to Energy Swedish
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"Miljöpartiet hade fel tills de inte hade fel längre."

Med natriumbatterier (sodium/salt) som når 160Wh/kg och solceller som närmar sig 30% effektivitet känns kärnkraft otroligt ineffektivt, dyrt och förlegat.

Förnybar energi har hunnit ikapp och vi måste acceptera den verkligheten med smartare investeringar och subventioner.

Intresset för ödrift av solcellsanläggningar ökar och ett smart elnät är rätt väg. Det ger redundans, självständighet och säkerhet vid kris.

dalekcoffee, to random

From 115k Polys to 20K

I Might be able to do more, but I think that's a fantastic success already when I am just now learning

cragsand,
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@dalekcoffee Blenders automatic weights rigging feature when you parent an armature to a mesh with control+P is surprisingly good. Saves a lot of weight painting time.
A cheat you can do instead of retopologizing the whole thing is use the slice tool to paint new places to bend around.
Another cheat is splitting the mesh into separate problematic parts that wont auto weight properly, then join them together afterwards.

cragsand, to solarpunk
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Been on this binge lately so I'm reading and watching all about earthship construction, packed dirt tyre and earthbag walling, thermal mass air conditioning, water retention earthworks and permaculture berms and swales... all without need for electricity.

I'm familiar with passive house engineering but this stuff is fascinating. Rather surprisingly... why aren't we doing it more? That needs to change!

jwildeboer, to random
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An EU-wide has been adopted by the EU parliament with 584 votes in favour, 3 against and 14 abstentions. The directive now goes to the council and after it is officially published, member states have 24 months to implement it in national law.

And yes, smartphones are included.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IPR20590/right-to-repair-making-repair-easier-and-more-appealing-to-consumers

cragsand,
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@jwildeboer
So happy to see this!!! Another step toward a sustainable future.

There's so many old appliances with hardware that works completely fine that end up in the trash bin because of moronic software lockouts, built in tamper prevention and all kinds of consumer hostile design.

Apple especiallt takes the cake by hardware locking each individual component with IDs, making them impossible to replace elsewhere than their own repair shops.

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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Happy Birthday to TESS, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

Launched on April 18, 2018, TESS has since been hunting for exoplanets in our galaxy.

Recently, on April 8, TESS had gone to sleep in "safe mode" due to an anomaly detected by its computer system. At the time of the anomaly, some scheduled engineering activities were taking place 🤔

All is well now, as TESS continues to add to its record of 432 confirmed exoplanets and 7,138 candidates.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/tess/nasas-tess-temporarily-pauses-science-observations/
1/n

cragsand,
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@AkaSci Love imagining and reading about different concepts to try and accomplish this.
I think the most feasible is probably mass producing a swarm of spacecraft being launched at regular intervals, somewhat similar to the breakthrough starshot concept.
Having multiple spacecraft in series forming a meshnet as they travel to the focal point they can relay the data back that way.
Decelerating spacecraft that far out and reaching destinations within reasonable time is even more daunting.

futurebird, to random
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There are AI or otherwise programmatically generated "How To" pages. This one on shortening your dishwasher hose has an interesting choice of image...

If your hose looks like that the "shortening" isn't going to go very well.

cragsand,
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@futurebird This made me relate in that the Norwegian word for snake, "slange" souds like "slang", which is the word for garden hose in Swedish. Danger noodle enjoyers rejoice.

cragsand, to random
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Large solar prominence from EverydayAstronauts stream 😊
Beautiful footage :BlobhajHeart:

Animated GIF showing a solar prominence of plasma ejecting out from the sun during the moon eclipsing the sun.

cragsand,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUdXFQtefqM

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