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Continue reading →: vid: Dealing with audio recording too low in Final Cut Pro
Well, Final Cut Pro works pretty much like iMovie in dealing with segments that are recorded at too low a level. The big issue is that the maximum increase in volume is 12dB which really isn’t enough. The problem is that I was messing around with an OBS Studio volume…
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Continue reading →: pod: OBS Studio works with VDO.Ninja as Browser Source is like a free Zoom
No really, Vdo.ninja is actually a free resource that does WebRTC which means that all the communications are peer-to-peer and encrypted which is great. More importantly, they support a full 1080p connection so it won’t work in low bandwidth systems, but it is excellent if you are doing podcasts. There…
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Continue reading →: pod: Tuning vdo.ninja Not, Zoom guest host, OBS Noise gate bugs, and Window vs App Capture
OK, if you can believe it, it’s the fifth Podcast with Paul we’ve done and we tried out the first guest podcast so we had me life and then two remote people. Our guess and a new person. This is actually quite a bit harder than it looks, but here’s…
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Continue reading →: home: UniFi Protect Admin Guide for Homebridge
This is complicated, but on the upgrade from UniFi 1.x to 2.x, suddenly the UniFi Protect to Homebridge gateway failed. When I logged in to the dedicated Home application, I couldn’t see any of the cameras. So you have to change the permissions, go to the UniFi OS console >…
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Continue reading →: home: The nightmare that is NordVPN Threat Protection and Bonjour and do not use Localdomain for HP Color LaserJet Pro M478f Printing and Homebridge
OK, I’ve been really struggling with accessing this printer. The HP Color LaserJet would work but every time I tried to use it again, my Mac would say not found. The real clue came when I tried to access my Homebridge at homebridge.local and it worked fine on my phone…
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Continue reading →: Protected: fam: pct2. Pete and Ricky discuss the 1950 and 60s
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Continue reading →: Protected: fam: dct3. More photos from 1950s
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Continue reading →: mac: Like little stones, great Utilities
For some reason, Medium seems to be filled with these little articles about Mac apps and widgets. They are mainly identical (which is why I discontinued my Medium subscription and get most of my content from Mastodon and Reddit these days), but here are some of the great utilities I…
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Continue reading →: home: SmartHome architecture 2025 and will AI save it?
We are finally so close to unifying the many systems in a house that I can taste it. If you think of the homes of say 2000, here are the systems and controls which you can see if you imagine you are coming home with every possible bell and whistle…
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Continue reading →: Mac: HDR for your MacOS and iOS devices
Getting High Dynamic Range (HDR) on your MacOS and iPhone is really complicated. TL;dr is that on your iPhone use the dedicated NetFlix and YouTube applications. On the MacOS, twiddle Safari Develop Experimental Features to turn on VP9 while on Battery and disable Video battery optimization. And yes, I don’t…