[Mark Suszko]

I bought Affinity but it may be that my “reflexes” from using GIMP and Photoshop are making it harder for me to grasp Affinity’s User Interface. I guess its just something I have to spend more practice time on.

BTW no matter what i seem to try, my iMac fights me tooth and nail when i try opening GIMP. Nothing I try in setting the permissions and security seems to “stick”. Half the time, the OS just refuses to let me open it.

[Mark Suszko]

Well, no clean edge if you don’t first add a diffusor to those LED’s to make it seem like one bigger point source, anyway. But in a wall-washing application, is it that big a deal?.

[Mark Suszko]

You’ll have to show me how to apply the tape to my back and knees then!

[Mark Suszko]

The gray sky is actually going to make luminance keying easier. One thing I would suggest is, using a 2-step process: make a separate layer of the track and push the brightness and contrast settings to make the sky as even white or gray as possible, and don’t worry that it’s spoiling the quality of the rest of the shot. All you want to get out of this layer is a clean matte.

Then you extract that matte by inverting it, and add it back to a “normal” layer of the tulips pass, and now with those two tracks wedded together, you can key in a bare blue gradient in only the spots where sky would have shown thru. To make that sky better, yes, you will have to add a tracker, then a layer with clues and blue sky.

Some folks will do this in a 3-d comp so they have more control of the angles of that sky shot.

[Mark Suszko]

Apply a “wiggler” expression to the rotation? Also, the iris would be constantly opening and closing a little; that could be faked with a wiggler on the scale of the iris layer (if the eye comp had one, that is)

In each case, we’re talking very subtle amounts of variation.

[Mark Suszko]

Larry Jordan also liked this product, he gave it a review some time back.

[Mark Suszko]

You say it’s a mock-up… maybe the lights are on dimmers you can access and crank up to full? Then adjust iris to compensate?

[Mark Suszko]

Sounds great. Can you also get them formatted as .srt for captioning purposes?

I’m still using Youtube to auto-caption/transcribe, then I have to manually add capitalization and punctuation corrections and fix the occasional zen koan that pops up when the audio isn’t clean or the speaker mumbles or has an accent. But it’s free.

[Mark Suszko]

Would using drop zones help this problem?

[Mark Suszko]

I read elsewhere that the SSD memory in this cheesegrater is not an m2 connector but a proprietary variation on the standard connector, so if you want to add or upgrade the SSD’s, Apple will be your only source on that. Unless and until someone else copies that connector.