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Official Lemmy account for MetaStatistical @ YouTube.
(I did have an account on @lemmy.film, but RIP.)
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
It’s kinda of a generational issue, though, because people are borne into this new world with new habits. It’s no longer paying attention to a single piece of media on a TV, but instead, turning on something in the background, while watching or reading something else on a phone.
I don’t really understand it, even as somebody with ADD. If you don’t like what’s on TV, change it or move to a different room while you read on your phone.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
Even with places like YouTube, where LUFS level is strictly defined, there’s sooo many creators who have no earthly idea what LUFS is, which levels YouTube enforces, and how it corrects for it. They post their videos with quiet narration and wonder why viewers get annoyed at all of the turning up and turning down of volume on each video.
See, YouTube enforces LUFS on videos by reducing volume on loud videos down to -14 LUFS. But, it doesn’t do anything to quiet videos. If you ever bring up the “Stats for Nerds” and look at the “Volume / Normalized” value, you might see something like “content loudness -5.9dB”. That means it’s -5.9dB quieter than it should be, and the creator should have amplified the video to normalize the volume levels before uploading it to YouTube.
So, you end up with a video that’s about -6dB quieter, and you have to turn up the volume to actually hear the narration. Then your TV or whatever device you’re watching will get blasted by the next video, which is properly normalized at around 0dB, and you’re forced to turn the damn volume back down.
YouTube has finally started to acknowledge the problem by introducing the Stable Volume feature. But, really, creators should educate themselves on how to properly mix their audio. I know editing is hard and there’s so many moving parts to deal with for YouTube uploads. But, audio quality is everything in a YouTube video. Nobody cares about whatever random B-roll video game footage, or PowerPoint slide presentation, or watermarked stock images, or videos of you presenting the narration with a lapel mic tied to a tree branch you’re using on the video side. It’s all about narration and audio quality.
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 2 months ago:
Sparse gameplay, tied together with lots and lots of implied worldbuilding in a lore book that contains most of the story. The gameplay was okay when you got to it, but there was far too much written story locked up, instead of “show, don’t tell”.
Also, the game wants you to finish six tournaments before you get any sort of decent ending.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2 months ago:
This is why large corps often still use decades old software that may be terrible by that point, but impossible to move away from.
And sometimes those large corps slowly die off because of those decisions. Technology moves so fast that you can’t afford to be a dinosaur using 20 year old software.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2 months ago:
Didn’t stop me from switching to Linux for my entire workflow. Industry standard is just a phrase. It doesn’t truly mean anything when viable and real alternatives exist.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2 months ago:
I don’t mess with it enough, but DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion is rather powerful.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2 months ago:
With GIMP 3 and DaVinci Resolve 20 out there, this seems like a very bad idea.
Something something slips through your fingers something.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 3 months ago:
Not yet, but I plan on trying it out soon.
I never really understood the hate for GIMP 2. What didn’t you like about it?
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 3 months ago:
Proud user of GIMP and DaVinci Resolve. These tools work great, and I really don’t see a reason why I would want to switch to anything else.
Fuck Adobe.