tech and other interesting stuff
Poking and prodding at the Windows API Background There is an issue with cursors being rendered offset for DPI-scaled windows in OBS, illustrated in this video clip: I’ve been looking into this as it was suggested that my proposed fix of letting the user specify an offset amount was more of a workaround of the […]
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Capture, scaling and output, oh my! Background OBS, the excellent media recording/streaming software has a slightly annoying behaviour for me. The cursor in the output is not shown at the same place as in the input- it’s offset., further down and further right than it should be. This gets worse the further away from the […]
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Working on the backlog Background Back in the summer of 2019 I streamed a Europa Universalis IV campaign as Aragon, where I went for the Mare Nostrum achievement (“Restore the Roman Empire and own the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea coast lines.“). It was good fun! I had uploaded some videos to the playlist but […]
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Information is power To process my Subscriber Crown videos for YouTube, I needed a little bit of information. I tend to split up longer videos for ‘ease’ of watching- psychologically, I am to an extent put off by seeing a video that runs to multiple hours. I also think there’s an advantage to coming back, […]
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Pass me the yellow highlighter I have talked about how Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE) is pretty useful for editing conference videos (for example) compared to how it used it to be. As an aside, I seem to remember audio desynchronisation was a particularly problematic issue, the workaround being, essentially, don’t make videos with audio […]
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blOenBdeSr Virtual conferences are popular, but many request a pre-prepared video to explain a paper or a poster. Many conferences suggest using Zoom as means of putting together a short video to explain research. This is acceptable, but with a little bit of setup OBS can produce videos which are better quality and give the […]
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Navigating a series of pitfalls Background: I created a highlights video recently for the monthly subscriber crown that I run. I figured the highlights video itself was worth posting, but I like to have the speech captioned. I’ve previously written a small script to generate the appropriate transparent PNGs for overlaying, but that was for […]
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FoxCam not fully operational Over the last few weeks a family of foxes has been visiting my garden. A friend kindly lent me their Dohiker trail camera. You can see example output above (or here if embeds are disabled). I was interested to see what exactly they were doing in the garden- I’ve seen them […]
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Walking before I run I’m a relative beginner in Blender, having dabbled in the past with different things. I’ve used it to do bits and pieces, like stinger transitions. Having seen a decent simple ‘BRB’ screen on AliMackScot’s stream (Twitch link), so I figured I’d whip up one of my own. Blender is really powerful. […]
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Update 2021-04: There was some discussion of a similar issue over at ffmpeg-user (full thread at nabble). It may not be the same problem, but I found it interesting that Android would produce another seemingly-unrecoverable video I recorded the grinding out of a tree stump on my phone over the course of half an hour […]
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