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If you want a synth you can buy that has a similar playing style, you could check out the Modern Sounds Pluto: https://www.modernsounds.co/pluto (the original run is sold out but y…

There are quite a few cine cameras that are more than 10x this amount, and there are a few that are 100x. For example, there are Panavision cameras that you can only rent direct fr…

who cares

There's lots to laugh at here but my favorite dumb part is talking about wages and wealth inequality: > But the good news doesn’t stop there. We also get higher wages. This is beca…

Mac Mini with M2 Pro

Ah yeah forgot about V-Ray. I haven't tried Redshift on Metal, nope; all my work has been Renderman and Cycles recently. Curious to hear how well it works, people online seem to sa…

Octane, Redshift, and eevee/Cycles all work on Metal, and Renderman and Mantra are CPU-only for now -- RM/Mantra have beta-versions that are GPU enabled, and Karma is nvidia-only a…

If I received the second email there I would think the sender was a psychopath

Most big-budget feature films are cut on Avid and that's been the case for a while now; for indies my impression is that it's 50/50 Premiere and Resolve, yup.

The workflow many post-production studios use for editing/grading is to keep files on a NAS with proxies (i.e., lower-quality transcodes of the video clips in the edit) on a local …

There's a crazy downside to make_shared that I learned recently because of this: if you have a weak pointer to a shared thing, and the refcount for the shared thing drops to zero, …

There’s Geometry Nodes now which let you write smaller procedurals that you can combine together the way you’re describing: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geome…

Do you have a link for the HDMI dongle thing?

'12, same

I don't think it's "supposedly", they're all GenZe-branded.

I love Scoot but I'm still peeved at the way Bird handled rolling their scooters out in SF. I trusted Scoot to do the right thing when it came to engaging the city and making sure …

I'm probably going to buy it; I do 3D animation/simulation stuff that gets huge benefits from parallelism, and it sounds like the Ryzen 9 beats everything other than the top-line T…

Architecture/immersive media previz seems to be all C4D + Octane, and I've seen lots of the same in 3D motion graphics as well (although I'm less familiar with the field).

There's Octane, too, which afaict is used a little more than Redshift, at least in my circles. Adobe Media Encoder (and by extension Premiere and AE) can do multi-GPU rendering as …

Not deleting OpenGL support would be nice, too.

Extremely unreliable; I've only taken the Lake Shore Limited and California Zephyr, so I can't speak for the whole thing, but I'd say I had cell reception about half the time, mayb…

I'm not colorblind, but this is almost illegible to me: https://i.imgur.com/izGP46r.png This is the luminosity of that mapped to grayscale. You can see why it might be difficult fo…

My guess was going to be 09 f9 11 02 9b

But they haven't robbed the anti-vaxxers of their platform: they've let them keep their platform, but have decided to not give them their money. They aren't silencing the group at …