This is a fun one. We talk about software engineering “laws”. You may know them by name or by formulation, but it would be interesting to know how many you have encountered in your career...
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In video editing proxies are used in place of high-resolution footage to reduce the strain on your system while editing. It makes timeline scrubbing much faster.
For the podcast, I usually use the BlackMagic Proxy Generator Lite, and create half-res versions of the source files. For combined ~2 hours of footage (one of myself, and another of my guest) it takes about 30 minutes to generate the new video files.
But using this tool also means that I have to manually open the tool, and drag-n-drop stuff around...
I'm already using some trivial powershell scripts to do other bulk conversions, but I've not wired that up for generating proxies. Until today.
mkdir Proxy;
foreach ($input in Get-ChildItem *.mp4) {
$output = [io.path]::ChangeExtension($input.FullName, '.mov');
ffmpeg -hwaccel d3d11va -i $input.FullName -c:v h264_amf -s 960x540 -an $output;
};
mv *.mov Proxy;
I'm using the AMD video card, so I'm leveraging the DirectX 11 for decoding and AMF acceleration for encoding in ffmpeg. This script it only takes about 5 minutes to generate the proxy files, and Davinci Resolve seems to be happy with them.
I still use Lossless Cut to split the files into individual tracks, but pretty sure I can leverage ffmpeg for it as well, sometime in the future.
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How to find better developers for your team. A continuation of the conversation started (and derailed) in episode 46. Touches interviewing and some tangential questions. Check it out.
On giving critical feedback...
In this one we try to answer another question from my colleague, about preparing for your first job, expectations from juniors, impostor syndrome, etc... Check it out!