By default, Final Cut Pro prefers to “copy” all files on import. Indeed you’d think this is the only sensible option most of the time, since most of the time you’re importing from a memory card and you do need to make a local copy somewhere on your computer. However, Final Cut Pro has a … Read more
I’ve been using ffmpeg to trim clips from a trail camera, as most of the time there’s only a few seconds of anything interesting in frame out of the 30+ seconds of video it records each time, but I don’t want to re-encode them and lose video quality as a result (or balloon file sizes … Read more
This was a fun one. Mail started crashing on launch for absolutely no apparent reason – nothing had changed to its config or similar in a long time. The crash logs were all fingering an identical culprit – -[IMAPTaskManager secondaryIdleMailboxName] called on the wrong GCD queue: Process: Mail [19884] Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail Identifier: com.apple.mail Version: 11.3 … Read more
Most common photo editors – e.g. Lightroom – let you choose the colour gamut to use for exported photos. In Lightroom (at time of writing in January 2018) you have a fairly short list, of today’s common options – sRGB, Display P3, Adobe RGB, and ProPhoto RGB. Since we’re all obsessive nerds, that we’re given … Read more
Apparently if you get bored enough you start just playing with the keyboards installed on your iPad. Those that have the suggestion bar at the top can make some interesting ‘poetry’. You just keep tapping in the same place, or in some simple pattern across the N suggestions. Some are just bemusing drunk gibberish, but … Read more
Here’s a list of things that are missing or otherwise dysfunctional with the CASE Remote. Why am I only covering what’s missing? I guess because, after using it for a while, it really does seem to be defined by what’s missing or broken, more-so than what it can do, which is relatively little. Though I don’t … Read more
Me: Hey, the D7100 with these particular lenses over-exposes by exactly one stop when not wide open. Nikon’s Support Website: Cool story bro. Got any pics? Me: Sure, here they are… Nikon’s Support Website: Sorry, all attachments have to be 10 MB or less. Me: U wot mate? … Me: Okay, I put them up on … Read more