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KDENLIVE – free Non-Linear Video Editor
Read more: KDENLIVE – free Non-Linear Video Editorhttps://kdenlive.org/en/about/
Non-Linear Video Editor. It is primarily aimed at the GNU/Linux platform but also works on BSD and MacOS. It is currently being ported to Windows as a GSOC project.
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Beyond the Uncanny Valley of human realism
Read more: Beyond the Uncanny Valley of human realismhttp://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2012/01/beyond_the_unca.php
http://www.androidscience.com/theuncannyvalley/proceedings2005/uncannyvalley.html
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/07/other-side-of-uncanny-valley.html
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Finn Jager – From HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) iPhone to a Multichannel EXR
Read more: Finn Jager – From HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) iPhone to a Multichannel EXRFinn Jäger has spent some time in making a sleeker tool for all you VFX nerds out there, it takes a HEIC iPhone still and exports a Multichannel EXR – the cool thing is it also converts it to acesCG and it merges the SDR base image with the gain map according to apples math hdr_rgb = sdr_rgb * (1.0 + (headroom – 1.0) * gainmap)
https://github.com/finnschi/heic-shenanigans
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OLED vs QLED – What TV is better?
Read more: OLED vs QLED – What TV is better?
Supported by LG, Philips, Panasonic and Sony sell the OLED system TVs.
OLED stands for “organic light emitting diode.”
It is a fundamentally different technology from LCD, the major type of TV today.
OLED is “emissive,” meaning the pixels emit their own light.Samsung is branding its best TVs with a new acronym: “QLED”
QLED (according to Samsung) stands for “quantum dot LED TV.”
It is a variation of the common LED LCD, adding a quantum dot film to the LCD “sandwich.”
QLED, like LCD, is, in its current form, “transmissive” and relies on an LED backlight.OLED is the only technology capable of absolute blacks and extremely bright whites on a per-pixel basis. LCD definitely can’t do that, and even the vaunted, beloved, dearly departed plasma couldn’t do absolute blacks.
QLED, as an improvement over OLED, significantly improves the picture quality. QLED can produce an even wider range of colors than OLED, which says something about this new tech. QLED is also known to produce up to 40% higher luminance efficiency than OLED technology. Further, many tests conclude that QLED is far more efficient in terms of power consumption than its predecessor, OLED.
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Patrick McIntire – how much real money does a $25 million film that grosses $100 million at the box office make?
Read more: Patrick McIntire – how much real money does a $25 million film that grosses $100 million at the box office make?Patrick McIntire
Motion Picture Producer at Universal Pictures & Part Time Instructor at UCLA“So how much real money does a $25 million film that grosses $100 million at the box office make? Not nearly as much as you think…
First off, the exhibitor (theatre chain) takes 50% on average of the box office receipts. So now your $100 million is down to $50 million. Then there’s the distribution fee, which domestically averages about 30% (in this case, about $15 million). This brings your $50 million down to about $35 million. But we’re not done yet…
P&A (marketing) averages roughly the same amount as the budget of the film worldwide, or about 60% of the budget domestically (US). This varies depending upon the performance of the project. But we’ll use the average (60% of $25 million (the budget) is $15 million). This is then taken from the $35 million, taking you down to $20 million roughly. A far cry from the advertised $100 million gross.
If the project was privately financed (equity investor or investors), they get first monies in and first monies out. At a $25 million investment, the remaining monies go directly to the investors. Leaving $0 initially for producers. Yes, ancillary rights will make up the losses (cable, streaming, airlines, etc.), but this is to show how a movie’s box office claims are not as they appear. Studio films with larger budgets see much higher costs and often don’t turn a profit at all. Profit sharing (backend) can be next to nothing if the film is a bomb. This is just an example and only takes into account domestic box office. But it’s meant to show how misleading a film’s advertising that claims $100 million at the box office can be. Gross receipts are exciting to share. Net receipts? Not so much.”
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“this equation needs add the variable that in the majority of studio film and tv projects, the taxpayers of the municipality where the production is based and posted pay up to 40% of the cost of the production in the form of a rebate and other financing incentives while the profits on the movie are taxed in another location usually chosen to minimize tax liability.“ -
11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
Read more: 11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
http://io9.gizmodo.com/11-of-the-weirdest-solutions-to-the-fermi-paradox-456850746
From the Nebula Award-nominated short story, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson:
“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”
“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?”
“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”
“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”
“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”
“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”
“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.”
A little while later:
“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”
“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”
“I thought you just told me they used radio.”
“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”
“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”
“Officially or unofficially?”
“Both.”
“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”
“I was hoping you would say that.”
“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”
“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’
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Govee Ambilight TV setups
Read more: Govee Ambilight TV setupsAmbilight is a trademark for the immersive lighting technology that Philips launched in 2004, with lighting on the rear of the TV that reflected on-screen content. To date, they’re the only manufacturers to build this technology into the TV itself.
www.makeuseof.com/tag/minger-ihoment-tv-backlight/
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