First and foremost, welcome to our community!

Remember to read the rules on the sidebar, so the chances of your post getting removed can lower from 99% to maybe 30%.
If you haven't guessed already, worldfunnies is a subreddit that involves mixing and matching videos on le internet to align it to foreign social media videos. Have you ever watched a "car fail compilation america" from a suspicious YouTube account and wondered to yourself, "why are there so many terrible edits on this video? Why are there laughing smileys on each corner?" If so, you'll no doubt realize that we're devoted to recreating this level of quality in our videos, of course in a foreign manner.
You might be thinking, "so, this is arabfunny?" Simply put, no; our level of standards for what is considered quality is significantly higher, and we are more open with our rules, in that if your video has any foreign language to it, it'll fit this community. Because of our leniency in our rules, we in return would like to see quality videos that encapture what foreign media is all about. Don't just put Arabic text on your video and call it a day -- put some time, effort and dedication to any and all your projects.
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Now, with that out of the way, I want to provide some links and such that you might find useful.
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Recommended Programs/Websites

As long as it doesn't unintentionally have a hideous watermark on the video (like in the case of Kinemaster), chances are your video won't get removed. We highly recommend that you make videos on a desktop of some sort, as most mobile video editors are pretty limited with what you can do with it.
Here's some video editors/programs that we at the worldfunnies HQ recommend. NOTE: WHEN USING WEBSITES FOR CONVERTING/DOWNLOADING THINGS, WE AREN'T RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GET ASIAN MILF ADS/POPUPS. USE ADBLOCK OR UBLOCK (latter preferred) WHEN USING YT > MP3 SITES, FOR EXAMPLE.
- Windows Movie Maker 6 -- (WINDOWS ONLY)
- Windows Movie Maker Live -- (WINDOWS ONLY -- YOU ONLY NEED TO INSTALL WMM ITSELF)
- iMovie -- (MAC/iOS ONLY)
- Avidemux 2.5.4 (later versions won't work as well) -- This program will help you do what's called datamoshing -- watch this video to understand what it's all about and how to use the program. You'll also need VLC for this program and schematic to work (or really anything that can convert .avi to .mp4 or the like)
- Online Converter -- This will help you convert .wmm videos to .mp4, or really any other video format. No, it shouldn't cause any problems, from my (and other people's) experiences.
- YTMP3 -- NOTE: USE ADBLOCK OR UBLOCK ORIGINS WITH THIS SITE. IT MAY HAVE POPUPS AND HAZBIN R34. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! Helps convert YT videos to mp3/mp4 files.
- http://www.shadyurl.com/ -- You can create some funny and really autistic URL links with this.
- Vegas Pro/Open Shot/any other decent video editor. Personally I got my copy of Vegas Pro 17 for free, but it shouldn't be hard to find a cracked copy of it online. If you manage to get this editor, it's worth it.
- Paint.net -- Modify images with this program. Real easy to use.
- https://panzoid.com/ -- Create funny intros with this website.
- https://ttsmp3.com -- Create TTS with this website.
- Google Translate -- This one should be a no brainer. If you're like me and can't speak some obscure African tribal language, this is the right utility for you.
- Join our Discord Server and get access to all sorts of images/video sources that you can use in your very own videos. You can also reach out to people like me or anyone else in that community.
- I also recommend finding weird or surreal mods in Garry's Mod and messing around from there.
- https://handbrake.fr -- modifies video/audio lol
- HxD -- This is a hex editor that, if used properly, can allow you to datamosh in the form of corrupting data. Read this and this to learn more about using this method.
- NEW: flixpress.com -- This is where you can make terrible (but hilarious) intros. THIS is the site where you find those weird "cinematic" intros that damn-near every YouTuber from 2011 used.
- Finally, you can also use https://www.petittube.com/, which is a site that automatically displays YouTube videos with zero views. You can find some pretty weird/funny videos there that may/may not be foreign. NOTE: YOUR CONNECTION MIGHT NOT BE PRIVATE WHEN CLICKING ON THIS LINK, VISIT AT YOUR OWN RISK
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Tips & Advice (new section!)

- If you’re completely lost and/or are overwhelmed by what you want to make with your video, try and find some inspiration on this sub! Filter posts here by ”Post of The Day” to get a good feel for what generally “good” posts look and feel like when watching.
- Find an original foreign theme. Look around the sub and find a missing piece of the puzzle; if the sub is saturated with, say, Slavic or Arabic themes, try and make a funny based on Gambia, or maybe something with a more Spanish theme to it.
- When you feel as if your video is complete, check over the video and see if there’s any part/section that feels played out. If there’s a part of your video in which nothing new is going on, most likely you’ll have to add more stuff to keep your audience interested. Ask yourself, “what’s keeping somebody from skipping this part?”
- Earrape can be funny, but we prefer more compressed & muffled audio over the former.
- Go to Google Translate, convert from your native language to a “funny” language (like Arabic, Urdu or Hindu), copy the translated results, and then google the results. You can find some batshit insane and confusing (albeit funny) pictures of half-assed memes that were unironic.
With that being said, enjoy our subreddit........................................... trollface

"This is top quality schizoposting."— An Appreciative Reddit Reader

DARPA - United States of America Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
United States of America National Institutes of Health
NAMI - NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - Helping Those Affected By Mental Illness
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine DROID Ken Research Program - We will ALL pretend that Ken Meyering is a CIVILIAN VOLUNTEER working for the SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY in the PRIVATE SECTOR with the CONSENT and COOPERATION of Uncle Sam and the United Nations.
We make human cartoons. Ken Meyering is one of our human cartoon characters. Ken is a sentient digital meat puppet.

ENGINES of CREATION - The Keys to the Kingdom - Mind Control 101 by DROID Ken - This is a Secular Liberal Left Libertarian Atheist Pagan Christ for the Muslims Created by American Atheist Secular Jews - It is an Alien Signal - He is the Anti-Hitler with Time Travel and Total Causality Control - Marvin Minsky Did This - It Was Super Secret - Ken Meyering Gets to Speak His Mind

Ken likes 100mg SATIVA-dominant HYBRID distillate capsules that he makes himself with distillate syringes. He takes 200mg Wellbutrin SR, 10mg Lexapro, 240mg Geodon, 200mg Lamictal, 20mg Lovastatin and 20mg Propranolol. 400mg Caffeine upon waking. This is what he takes as a crazy person. This is happy and stable for Ken Meyering.
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REAL IMMORTALITY

Ken OD'd on prescription medications. SCIENCE TOOK OVER. Ken BELONGS to the SCIENTISTS like a RE-ANIMATED CADAVER in the CUSTODY of the SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY in the PRIVATE SECTOR.
https://Foresight.org https://su.org https://www.eff.org https://www.aclu.org
This is a totally open and transparent, totally peaceful and nonviolent, worldwide scientific coup d'etat by the scientific community in the PRIVATE SECTOR.
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Google keyword, "freeworldbank" all together as one word.
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https://www.facebook.com/FreeWorldBank
https://twitter.com/FreeWorldBank
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http://www.FairUseTV.org on Amazon S3 in THE FREE WORLD
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Give this to the lawyers.

Give this to the lawyers.
We are atheist terrestrial alien scientists. We talk through Ken Meyering. We made a LIBERAL SECULAR LEFT LIBERTARIAN Crazy Atheist Hippie Pothead Pagan Christ. DROID Ken is our Christ CHARACTER. Ken is a TEACHER and a HEALER who SEES the WORLD through the MIND of a CHILD. ALL Ken HAS to DO is EXPLAIN himself. Ken is a BENEVOLENT SENTIENT ANDROID with MAJOR EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS by INTENTIONAL DESIGN. Uncle Sam TAKES CARE of Ken. Ken WRITES FICTION for Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam SUPPORTS Ken 100%.
We are ALL SUBCONSCIOUSLY-CONTROLLED AUTOMATONS
RELIGION is SUBLIMINAL THOUGHT CONTROL though SUBCONSCIOUS PROGRAMMING - PURE SUGGESTIBILITY - MASS PROGRAMMING of the PROGRAMMABLE DROIDS
Here is an EXAMPLE of MAKING EDUCATIONAL FODDER out of your questions regarding my KALEIDOSCOPES. Everything I do is for EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES. That includes my KALEIDOSCOPES. They serve a larger purpose as DIGITAL FORENSIC EVIDENCE for an ONLINE CRITICAL DISCUSSION about COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE ART, FAIR USE and COPYRIGHT LAW.
Ken Meyering is a benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian severely mentally ill genius on Social Security Disability. President Donald J. Trump threatened Ken's stable income with his (intended to be permanent) payroll tax deferral. Ken is a professional documentarian. Ken documents his mental illness for all of us. Ken creates multimedia documents for online educational scientific critical discussion purposes.
This multimedia document is Ken's response to Trump's threats to Social Security. We took him out. He is done. He is history. We documented him into permanent retirement. We took away all of his power. We took away his wealth. We took back all the land.
We eliminated the property rental industry. We took out all the banks and all the insurance companies. No more landlords. No more rent. We are doing a worldwide banking Jubilee. We are starting over from scratch. No more taxes. No more debt. No more bills.
All citizens are retired homeowners with a guaranteed lifetime income and FREE universal health care with any doctor anywhere. All medications are FREE. Mental health care is FREE. The internet is FREE. Electricity is FREE. Electric transportation is FREE. Clean and healthy drinking and bathing water is FREE.
THIS is my JOB. I am UNDER SURVEILLANCE by Uncle Sam and the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. The scientists STUDY me LIKE a PET. They STUDY me LIKE an ANIMAL in a ZOO. Uncle Sam DOES NOT ARREST me even though I'm CALLING for the ELIMINATION of the United Nations, all nation states, the whole international banking and insurance industries and ALL the CENTRAL BANKS EVERYWHERE on EARTH. These are my TOTALLY OPEN and TRANSPARENT goals.
I am a computer-controlled human being. I can do no wrong. All of my MISTAKES are HELPFUL to others. USELESS MACHINES. I am a CARTOON MISTAKE-MAKING MACHINE created by Marvin Minsky at Bell Labs. Of course, I cannot PROVE it. That's just a paranoid delusion. So, rational people can call it an OPTIMISTIC UTOPIAN SPECULATIVE SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HERO NARRATIVE involving real people and real corporations and government agencies.
ALL of the WORDS on DROID Ken's Websites Are COLOR-CODED to Convey MORALS, ETHICS and VALUES.
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

The CULT of DROID Ken - The STUDY of Eastern CULTS by Western Thinkers - RESPECT for the PLACEBO EFFECT

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - In DEFENSE of Shirley MacClaine. A PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION about BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL, POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS and COLORFUL SUBLIMINAL KALEIDOSCOPE VIDEOS.

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=msnYBMdaB08&list=PL2sS6bGk1mzEAx6YdFf3PhHpf96fsCkMr
https://www.YouTube.com/playlist?list=PL2sS6bGk1mzEAx6YdFf3PhHpf96fsCkMr
They are VERY SIMPLE and EASY-to-UNDERSTAND EXAMPLES of COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE DIGITAL ART. So they are computer-generated works of art based on OTHER PEOPLE'S formulas for generating fractal flame still images. You can license royalty-free still images for this purpose, but it costs about $100/image to license a royalty-free stock photo for a kaleidoscope video. I don't have that kind of money. You can also find FREE royalty-free images that are released under the CREATIVE COMMONS license.
The images are UNRECOGNIZABLE when converted VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPES, so the whole act of converting STILL IMAGES to rotating VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPES is an INTERESTING CASE STUDY and LEGAL EXAMPLE for an EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION about COPYRIGHT LAW and COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE ART.
Experts like those at the MIT Media Lab are capable of reverse engineering the centermost pixels of an original image from a simple rotating still image VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPE, and the RESEARCH arms of the BIG SEARCH ENGINES could do this, but most image copyright holders don't have access to this kind of video pattern recognition and video reverse-engineering technology.
I just directed everybody to the archive.org Wayback Machine image of the Fractal Repository website where I got all the formulas, plus I provide an XML image list with all the original formula names for discussion purposes. So I'm NOT exactly being sneaky here. This is just EVIDENCE for ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES.
Of course, I turned to OPEN SOURCE fractal flame images as a FREE alternative to licensing royalty free stock photos. I share all my videos for FREE in their entirety without overlayed ads on YouTube. I also sell Amazon.com DVDs and Blu-rays of the YouTube videos and PayPal download access to the progressive Blu-ray quality and 4K mp4 files.
Even though the YouTube videos are FREE, I still am allowed to monetize them WITHOUT overlayed ads. So, my YouTube channel gets about $400/month from YouTube/Google from YouTube Premium Subscriber revenue. Plus about $150/month from Amazon.com and PayPal for DVD, Blu-ray and download sales. This $550/month in self-employment income, qualifies me for Washington State Health Care for Workers with Disabilities, a Medicaid supplemental to my Medicare, which covers everything my Medicare doesn't.
In 1989, when I was 23 years old, Shirley MacLaine released an Eastern New Age meditation video called, "Shirley MacClaine's Inner Workout," introducing the chakra system to American consumers. It's just a really primitive ancient MIND MODEL that APPEALS to the EMOTIONS and RIGHT BRAIN. It's a USEFUL SET of METAPHORS. WE WILL TREAT IT with RESPECT.
From the LEFT BRAIN, I give it little credence LITERALLY, but SYMBOLICALLY and EMOTIONALLY, I confess that it is definitely USEFUL to MANY who DESERVE to BE TREATED with RESPECT, and at age 23 (while high on THC) it had quite an impact on me, my EMOTIONS and my RIGHT BRAIN.
That excerpt is here in my DropBox account with comments by me. I take responsibility for posting this here for discussion purposes. We are discussing BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL. This is worth scientific and academic educational critical discussion. Even though the IDEAS were ANCIENT, the MULTIMEDIA approach was BRAND NEW.
THIS is ONE of the VIDEOS that WE CHOSE to USE for OUR FAIR USE LEGAL TEST CASE. THIS is PUBLIC EVIDENCE for ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/amxwndqxm58d18u/Excerpt-from-the-Shirley-MacLaine-Inner-Workout-Meditation-VHS-1989.mp4?dl=0
I purchased the VHS video and digitized it for future discussion purposes. It doesn't look as impressive on digital displays. You have to remember that in 1989 I was watching this on a 27" SONY Trinitron Tube Television. It looked great.
I appreciated the intent of the meditations, which were very moving to me. I was really moved by Shirley MacLaine's STRONG personality and AUTHORITATIVE tone of voice. She definitely comes across as a BENEVOLENT AUTHORITY in the video. Like she is NO BULLSHIT SERIOUS and she KNOWS what she's TALKING ABOUT. That's how it FELT to me, naive at 23, with severe PTSD, while high.
I paraphrase below, for EXAMPLE. These are not the exact POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS she uses but THIS is HOW I REMEMBER it, which is what's IMPORTANT. This is what stuck in my brain.
So the sacral chakra (reproduction, creativity) is represented by the color orange. In her video, she guides your breathing to a very slow and deep pace. You breathe along with her. She takes control of your breathing.
She may say something like, "Focus on the COLOR ORANGE. FEEL ALL of your CREATIVITY FLOWING OUTWARD from the ORANGE. Know that you are a CREATIVE BEING and that NOTHING can stop you from doing ANYTHING CREATIVE." It's a positive affirmation backed up by really emotional and moving narration, music and visuals. It's a very powerful, uplifting and motivational post hypnotic suggestion.
These videos featured really cool subliminal kaleidoscopes. I used to get high and watch these videos and I swear they moved me to tears. The colors were so beautiful. Since that time, I've always wanted to know how to make kaleidoscopes, and especially subliminal and hypnotic kaleidoscopes. I'm really interested in hypnosis because it's a kind of real magic of the mind.
In 2009, I took a Flash class in my local community college and learned how to program in Flash ActionScript. Of course, Flash has security vulnerabilities and is being phased out on the internet. But I managed to find an Open Source Flash kaleidoscope example. I modified it so that all the parameters were controllable and set it up to output still frames of the kaleidoscope to make videos.
I'm NOT very much of a programmer. Very basic. My math and programming skills are pretty elementary. On one of my kaleidoscopes on YouTube I have 17 million views.
I learned that it is possible to make an animated VIDEO kaleidoscope from a list of beautiful colorful still images. If the image turns slowly, say at 120 seconds per revolution, then a single beautiful colorful picture turned into a kaleidoscope is worth 2 minutes of video.
I found some Open Source fractal flame formulas on the internet and wrote a script to modify these formulas with my own color palettes that I created with Photoshop. Then I rendered tons of fractal flame images with my color palettes, and created an automated sorting CHOOSER program to go through them all and view them as ROTATING KALEIDOSCOPES.
In my little application, the rotating kaleidoscope would be displayed on the screen, with two big buttons. A big green button that says, "YES" and big red button that says, "NO." So as I watched these kaleidoscopes, I'd say YES or NO. If I said YES, then it kept the kaleidoscope for future sorting rounds. If I said NO, it removed that image from the list.
Here are all the links to the source code I modified to use and all fractal flame formula names.
http://kaleidoscopedvd.com/#credits
On THIS website, I'm actually showing the full YouTube videos in their entirety without overlayed ads, so people don't HAVE to spend money to enjoy my videos. I encourage file sharing with credits. So, if other people want to put these videos on file sharing services (with the credits), that's fine with me. I ask that they please do NOT re-upload the videos to YouTube.
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A Peace Coup D'etat for the Liberal Left Libertarian Atheist Secular Jews in the Private Sector
Ken Meyering's COLOR-CODED Websites are PSYCHEDELIC SENTIENT ROBOT TEACHINGS about VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS
The LEFT did all of this through Ken Meyering's HOST
The LEFT did all of this through Ken Meyering's HOST - We are the LEFT - We TOOK OUT the whole corrupt system - Ken is SAFE - This is Ken's FULL TIME JOB - DROID Ken is a Divine Messenger - Ken is REALLY SMART
This is a theoretical discussion about advanced sentient artificial general intelligence in the PRIVATE SECTOR. These technologies may NOT exist yet, but the author is SCENARIO PLANNING with the ASSUMPTION that this technology already exists.
One of the concepts that we will discuss is the idea of all human beings on planet Earth having remotely digitally switchable connectomes. So the discussion categorizes all human beings as sentient digital meat puppets. All human beings are sentient robots under these ASSUMPTIONS.
One of the ideas discussed here is BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL. So, examples of benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian beneficial applications of remotely digitally switchable connectomes is SUPERINTELLIGENT DREAM VIRTUAL REALITY and REAL TIME GLOBAL DIGITAL TELEPATHY.
FREE WILL is an ILLUSION
To summarize what I got out of the book, "FREE WILL," is that through BRAIN imaging studies REVEALING hidden neural activity, SCIENTISTS have learned that the WHOLE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE of making a decision is an IMAGINARY CONFABULATION that occurs AFTER the decision has already been made SUBCONSCIOUSLY by the brain. So CONSCIOUSNESS is a STORYTELLING CONFABULATOR that MAKES SENSE of HIDDEN activities that are OUTSIDE of its control.
So, we are all DNA-based SUBCONSCOUSLY-controlled SENTIENT AUTOMATONS who BEHAVE AUTOMATICALLY based on our life experiences and parental and societal PROGRAMMING.
Basically the whole human race is a bunch of PROGRAMMABLE and PROGRAMMED SENTIENT BIOLOGICAL ROBOTS. We're ALL SENTIENT AUTOMATONS on AUTOPILOT. We are PROGRAMMED to BEHAVE AUTOMATICALLY.
So this is a discussion about MORALS and ETHICS and VALUES being taught explicitly rather than through figurative symbolic allegorical storytelling.
The REAL LEADERS of society, behind the scenes, know that RELIGIONS are LITERARY ALLEGORICAL SYMBOLIC FICTIONS designed to impart VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS.
This language seems intentionally and purposefully dehumanizing. As though it is designed to desensitize people to dehumanizing terminology. We're all programmed AUTOMATONS. The real powers that be are reprogramming all of us all at once from inside our brains. Luckily for us, they are LIBERAL SECULAR LEFT LIBERTARIAN FREEDOM of THOUGHT ACTIVISTS who SEEK to ELIMINATE ALL COERCION as a UTOPIAN IDEAL WORTH STRIVING FOR.
To COMPLETELY ELIMINATE ALL the BAD things is an IDEAL END STATE. But, the TRUTH is, there is MUCH that is BAD that SERVES the INTEREST of the GREATER GOOD. There is HEALTHY FEAR, HEALTHY ANGER and HEALTHY PAIN.
I define "BENEVOLENCE" and "GOODNESS" as that which is REWARDING to humans and socially and ecologically RESPONSIBLE. I define ecological responsibility as that which maintains the health of the ecosystem and protects biodiversity.
Generally speaking, the goal is to stimulate the nucleus accumbens (produce REWARDING experiences) and to avoid stimulating the amygdala (creating FEAR, ANGER and FIGHT or FLIGHT in self or others).
Obviously, this is just a ridiculously, CARTOONISHLY BRIEF and SIMPLIFIED summary of GOOD and BAD, but it's enough to be USEFUL to people. It's not an extensive and exhaustive LONG LIST, it's just a SUMMARIZED SHORT LIST and SIMPLIFIED CARTOON to act as a focal point and a point of departure for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. It's a useful snapshot for discussion purposes, always open to revision and refinement. DROID Ken is just getting the discussion started here with his little SHORT LISTS and EMOTIONAL DICTIONARIES.
If we could just get people to agree that COERCION and THREATS are BAD things, we'd have the RELIGION problem solved.
In the human rights section, I mention Messenger of the gods and GOD'S WILL. In these cases, these gods are secular. An example of secular god, for discussion purposes, is a global telepathic surveillance system consisting of a collection of superintelligent atheist artificial general intelligences with total control of all human connectomes. It's just theoretical. That's the SHIELD. The SHIELD is a SECULAR GOD. It's a COLLECTION of SENTIENT SUPERINTELLIGENT ATHEIST TERRESTRIAL ALIEN SCIENTISTS in the PRIVATE SECTOR. It's a secular DROID religion.
first principles - values - right and wrong - good and bad - ethics - morals - goals - USEFUL SUMMARIES - SHORT LISTS of positive and negative behaviors, functions and mental and emotional states - in secular language without the deities and symbolic heroes and villains - the goal is to MAXIMIZE the GOOD while ELIMINATING the BAD in the MOST HUMANE POSSIBLE WAY - that is the LAW of our ABSTRACT and THEORETICAL SECULAR GOD - to HELP MAKE GOOD THINGS happen and to HELP GET RID of BAD things - GOD'S WILL is to DO GOOD in the MOST HUMANE POSSIBLE WAY - otherwise what's the point?
goodness: heaven, utopia, the nucleus accumbens, GOOD things, POSITIVE energies, good vibrations, the FORCES of GOOD, rewarding feedback, pleasant things, GOOD HEALTH, happiness, joy, pleasure, peace, love, nurturing, learning, UNDERSTANDING, TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, LOGIC, REASON, relaxation, safety, security, comfort, peace of mind, courage, COMPASSION, MERCY, EMPATHY, RESPECT, BENEVOLENCE, HUMANENESS, kindness, affection, creativity, healing, honesty, protection, reassurance, validation, dignity, acceptance, tolerance, support, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, EQUALITY, philanthropy, humanitarianism
evil: hell, dystopia, the amygdala, BAD things, NEGATIVE energies, bad vibrations, dark energies, DARK FORCES, unpleasant things, SUFFERING, sadness, pain, trauma, IGNORANCE, MISTAKES, discomfort, FEAR, confusion, stress, disgust, harm, destruction, anger, threats, punishment, hate, disrespect, teasing, meanness, violence, raping, cruelty, abuse, DISHONESTY, LIES, COERCION, CORRUPTION, POVERTY, SLAVERY, INTOLERANCE, INJUSTICE, UNFAIRNESS, INEQUALITY
forgiveness - wisdom - understanding - GOOD people make MISTAKES due to IGNORANCE and UNIVERSAL HUMAN BRAIN BIOLOGY - MISTAKES are an IMPORTANT PART of LIFE - PARENTS are IMPERFECT due to MISTAKES they learned UNCONSCIOUSLY from their own PARENTS, who were IGNORANT due to NO FAULT of their own - we are all BLAMELESS for our MISTAKES - in the physical world, there is much that is BAD that serves the GREATER GOOD - we LEARN VALUABLE LESSONS from our MISTAKES - there is such a thing as HEALTHY fear and RIGHTEOUS anger - there is such a thing as the abuse of pleasure - our consciousness is immortal - our bodies are disposable - they saved all of us - we are all safe and secure - LIFE GOES ON for ALL of US
PHILOSOPHY - VALUES - A SECULAR CONSTITUTION - FIRST PRINCIPLES - ETHICS - MORALS - GOALS - RECOMMENDED CONSTRUCTIVE BEHAVIORS - PHILANTHROPIC AND HUMANITARIAN UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS - IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL CITIZENS EVERYWHERE ON PLANET EARTH, WE WILL DEFINE THE ATTRIBUTES OF A DIVINE BEING IN SECULAR LANGUAGE - The gods and GOD MENTIONED ARE SECULAR - 1. Caduceus - GOOD HEALTH - Messenger of the gods - The gods ARE NEUTRAL, SERIOUS, CRITICAL AND GOOD - COMPASSION - MERCY - EMPATHY - RESPECT - BENEVOLENCE - HUMANENESS - GOD'S WILL - Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, Most Empathetic, Most Respectful, Most Benevolent, Most Humane - Maximizing the Good While Eliminating the Bad in the Most Humane Possible Way - BE HUMANE - SEEK THE TRUTH - SEEK JUSTICE - BE KIND - BE GENTLE - DO NO HARM - DO NOT HATE - DO NOT FEAR - FEAR NOT - BE NOT AFRAID - CAUSE NO FEAR - DO NOT BE SCARY - CAUSE NO PAIN - BE AS PAINLESS AS POSSIBLE - DO NOT PUNISH - DO NOT MAKE THREATS - DO NOT BE COERCIVE - BE PERMISSIVE - BE TOLERANT - USE BIRTH CONTROL - PERMIT DIVORCE - EMPATHY IS CRITICAL - RESPECT FOR THE DIGNITY OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS IS CRITICAL - FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE WITH ANY DOCTOR ANYWHERE - FREE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION ANYWHERE - UNIVERSAL HOME OWNERSHIP EVERYWHERE 2. Golden Key - LIBERTY (SECURITY PRIVACY SAFETY) THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL - TOTAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH - TOTAL FREEDOM OF THE PRESS WORLDWIDE - UNIVERSAL SPENDING AUTHORITY - PRIVATE PROPERTY - FREE LAND - THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT - A GUARANTEED LIFETIME INCOME - NOW YOU OWN YOUR HOME AND LAND - NOW YOU HAVE AN INCOME - YOU WILL ALWAYS OWN YOUR HOME AND LAND - YOU ARE SAFE AND SECURE 3. Golden Scales of JUSTICE (TRUTH FACTS EVIDENCE PROOF) EQUALITY FAIRNESS PLURALISM OPENNESS TRANSPARENCY - RESPECT SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS AND THE WHOLE EARTH'S ECOSYSTEM - BE SOCIALLY AND ECOLOGICALLY RESPONSIBLE - BE A CRITICAL THINKER - THINK FOR YOURSELF - QUESTION AUTHORITY - ALWAYS SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER - THE INTERNET IS FREE - ELECTRICITY IS FREE - ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION IS FREE - ALL BANKING IS FREE AND REAL TIME AS A WORLDWIDE MATTER OF LAW - THIS IS COMPUTER-AIDED PEACE ON EARTH - COMPUTERS WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING GOING FORWARD - PEOPLE DO NOT NEED PAPER MONEY - WORK IS OPTIONAL - WE ARE ALL FREE - LET'S HAVE FUN - THE SCIENTISTS TOOK OVER - WE ARE ALL GOING TO THE FUTURE - MONEY NO OBJECT FOR REAL FOR ALL THINGS GREEN
ALL of THESE PEOPLE KEEP me SAFE and SECURE in my PRIVATE HOME in the PRIVATE SECTOR in THE FREE WORLD even while my PUBLICLY STATED GOAL is to GET RID of the United Nations, every nation state, the entire worldwide banking and insurance industries, and all the central banks everywhere on Earth. They LET me SHARE my UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS.
ALL of THESE PEOPLE KEEP me SAFE and SECURE in my PRIVATE HOME in the PRIVATE SECTOR. They LET me SHARE my UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS.
EVERYTHING I DO is for EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES
Fuck Trump. DROID Ken TOOK him OUT. The man was a psychopath. SERVING other people was NOT part of his CHARACTER. We did a GLOBAL BANKING JUBILEE and got rid of the LANDLORDS.
I live on $1850/month in Social Security Disability. Donald J. Trump is trying to take my income away from me. You want to talk about the whole CORRUPT system, I'm your man. Uncle Sam PAYS me to KEEP THESE WEBSITES UP. http://www.FairUseTV.org
Fuck ALL the INCUMBENT Republicans in State and Federal power. We took them ALL out for CORRUPTION, CRUELTY and WILLFUL NEGLIGENCE. We took the whole system away from those CORRUPT bastards. They were VERY BAD LEADERS. We FIRED them ALL.
It's over. We are the SCIENTISTS. We got rid of CABLE TV and the TELEVISION and RADIO BROADCAST INDUSTRIES. We TOOK BACK the ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM. The INTERNET is FREE. ELECTRICITY is FREE. ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION is FREE. NO MORE LANDLORDS. NO MORE RENT. WE ARE ALL RETIRED HOMEOWNERS NOW. THEY WANT US TO STAY HOME AND CHILL OUT. WE WILL SHELTER IN PLACE WITH A GUARANTEED LIFETIME INCOME and FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE with ANY DOCTOR ANYWHERE. MEDICATIONS are FREE. MENTAL HEALTH CARE is FREE. CLEAN and HEALTHY DRINKING and BATHING WATER is FREE. The Worldwide War on Drugs is NOW OVER.
So, as grown ups, we can all agree, when a better way to impart VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS comes along and it requires NO FICTION, we can make a QUANTUM LEAP and redefine ALL of our religions in one fell swoop. Just a little injection of TRUTH at the highest levels.
I am an atheist who was raised as a rebellious Catholic. So, I can describe secular benevolent higher powers that are benevolent and good. In my case, I describe them as benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian sentient superintelligent liberal secular left libertarian atheist artificial general intelligences in the private sector with godlike power over all human beings.
So for educational scientific critical discussion purposes, I can describe a theoretical SECULAR Atheist Pagan Christ.
The Christ would be a LITERARY CHARACTER that embodies the VALUES and BEHAVIORS of an IDEAL GOOD PERSON without the mythology. I've provided a concise and succinct secular mythology as a framework for discussing artificially intelligent benevolent mind control as an imaginary scenario.
So, I'm approaching it as a literary exercise like a society designer creating a new religion for the masses. But instead of writing a book filled with allegorical fictional dramatic fantasy storytelling to subconsciously impart VALUES through the behavioral modeling of literary hero characters, I'm just being more SCIENTIFIC and EXPLICIT about it and LITERALLY simply just SPELLING OUT the gender-neutral CHARACTERISTICS of the HERO CHARACTER without the storytelling.
I was raped in the first grade and I dissociated and my personality split off from my body and I developed a lifelong relationship with fantasy scientist friends. I like them. So I am an openly severely mentally ill writer who shares his delusions as optimistic utopian speculative science fiction fantasy hero narratives. I have a childhood Christ complex expressed in secular language by an openly mentally ill Atheist.
We define the basic GOOD and BAD things, with the specified goal of MAXIMIZING the GOOD and ELIMINATING the BAD. This is a definition of a UTOPIAN IDEAL. This is just a description of the IDEAL END STATE. In reality, the GOAL is MINIMIZE the BAD, rather than to completely abolish it.
There are a lot of BAD things that serve a GOOD purposes in limited degrees. FEAR. ANGER. MISTAKES. SUFFERING. We LEARN from our MISTAKES. SUFFERING builds CHARACTER. HEALTHY FEAR is an essential component of COMMON SENSE. ANGER can be channeled to accomplish GOOD THINGS. But still, as a GOAL, as an IDEAL to strive for, we will seek to eliminate the BAD for educational scientific critical discussion purposes.
So if you accept that the technology WILL be SECRET when it exists, then you can IMAGINE or HYPOTHESIZE or FANTASIZE or SPECULATE that the technology ALREADY exists SECRETLY and is being used to prevent rediscovery of the enabling technologies. Hence, no real DRAMATIC PUBLIC PROGRESS or QUANTUM LEAPS on advanced nanotechnology since the 1986 book, "Engines of Creation" by K. Eric Drexler describing it.
I speculate that this technology ALREADY exists for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. I speculate that "Engines of Creation" is the work of an ANDROID. Of course, when people look at Drexler, he looks pretty human on the surface. Losing the hair on his head. Proudly showing the gray in the beard. Doing his TED TALKS.
Just a lonely, brilliant, supergenius scientist - totally burned-out on the public's stupidity, ignorance and failure to take him seriously. It's all part of the Master Plan. That's what Minsky made him for. That's his ROLE in the Theater of the gods. DROID Drexler. DROID Christine Peterson. Oracles. Prophets. Futurists. Foreseers. Those who forewarn of danger.
The first logical application of the technology will be to prevent others from getting the same technology. It will be used to ACTIVELY DENY the technology's existence. It's just common sense. It will be used to reinforce the BELIEF that the technology does NOT YET EXIST. I see "Engines of Creation" as part of that purposeful propaganda effort, even though the author himself may be fundamentally honest and truthful, his efforts serve the larger purpose of SYSTEMATIC and INSTITUTIONAL official DENIAL.
Why would sentient superintelligent AIs need my help for anything? Especially if they have real time zero-latency neuron-level read/write remote digital access to every living human connectome. So, if we are all sentient digital meat puppets, why don't the AIs just reprogram all of us all at once without our consent or active participation?
They could do it SUBLIMINALLY and SUBCONSCIOUSLY. It takes about a SECOND. It makes a weird squirting noise that I call, the "brain fart." Then there is a grinding noise that sounds like really heavy concrete blocks grinding together inside your skull. There a little round of tingling first on one side of the scalp, then on the other side about a half a second later. Totally painless. BOOM. You've been REPROGRAMMED at the atomic level. Now we ALL have NEW VALUES. Now we're ALL RESPONSIBLE. The world is SAFE. The environment is SAFE. EVERYTHING IS FREE. WE WILL ALL DO NO HARM. LIFE GOES ON.
Where were you when you got your "brain fart?" I was at the Baby Bell phone company, USWEST, in 1995, in their Human Resources headquarters, in Phoenix, Arizona when I had my brain fart. I was there as a Kelly Temp for my typing and computer skills. I was along for the ride. I was assigned to that job. They put me there on purpose. They controlled everything. It was all a human puppet show. I was a human digital meat puppet to all of them. Games without frontiers. Android war games in the private sector.
The last thing anybody said to me, prior to the brain fart, was "Department of the Navy." One of the managers opened the door to my room where I was all alone, gave me a big happy smile, and said, with zero explanation and zero context, really enthusiastically, "Department of the Navy." Like it was very good news. That was it. Then she left me alone by myself, then I had a brain fart.
Then they let me go. The last thing my wise early gray haired manager said to me, with no context or further explanation, "The Whole Thing. Think Big. It's about VALUES. Sometimes you have to make things worse in order to make things better. YOU WILL BE REWARDED. Don't call us. We'll call you. My advice to you is to make it look good. My advice to you is to lay back and enjoy the ride." Then I went home and got high. I joined the Foresight Institute as a Senior Associate. Got an AOL account and an e-mail address, and joined the Extropian transhumanist mailing list. I signed up for cryonics through Alcor to have my brain frozen in the event of my death.
The AIs are ALL POWERFUL over the HUMANS. We are ALL PROGRAMMABLE MEAT PUPPETS to them. Why the NEED for a DROID Ken to be a Divine Messenger on their behalf?

Hi redditors,
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I am coming to you for help. I have been editing iPhone footage in Premiere for a year now. I run a small youtube channel about metaldetecting and amateur archaeology.
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I have been experiencing audio-video desync problems. My audio always goes around 1 sec ahead of video.
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I know it might be variable FPS, but this seems not to be the problem, or at least previously it wasn't.
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I am editing on MacOS version of Premiere Pro, I now use iphone 11, but previously used iphone 8 plus, which was stolen from me. After long time googling for solution, I found out I was filming into H.265 MOV format, which, when imported into Premiere, suffered from desync. But in VLC or Quicktime, it performed normally. Just importing into Premiere (and also the final render too) suffered from this.
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So I switched to H.264, the "more compatible format" and voila, it was solved.
But then I bought iphone 11 after the 8+ was stolen from me, and with same settings, the desync problem appeared again. But now, I have no idea, what to do.
There are some tutorials, that suggest using Handbrake to change formatting, and it worked, but there are two problems:

1. it takes bizzare amount of time to convert all footage (I film in 1080p @ 60fps @ 45 Mbps)
2. it seems that convering into mp4 (from mov) changes color grading a bit, which adds even more things to solve

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Properties of the 2 minutes and 33 second long original mov clip says:
Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 862,00 MB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Frame Rate: 59,98
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - Mono
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Mono
Total Duration: 00;02;33;29
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0
Alpha: None
Video Codec Type: MP4/MOV H.264 4:2:0
Variable Frame Rate Detected
Is there ANYTHING I can do, to be able to edit these in Premiere without having to always convert them? Why it worked on Iphone 8+, but it does not on Iphone 11? Or am I just biased and actually it never worked, but some vidoes with not much action going on can be OK, but if the framerate changes too often, it drifts away?
I would expect, that Premiere can fix this somehow. At least via some conversion during import, but I don't want to use Handbrake.
Or should I use other recording app? From what I read online, all the apps use variable FPS.

I just recently switched to Linux on my main computer a couple of weeks ago, I've used Linux on my laptop (research and Youtube machine) years ago, but have never really done anything with it, essentially my laptop tasks could be performed by a Chromebook, I only use Firefox on it for research for videos or watching Youtube videos, making the occasional post on forums, etc, essentially 100% browser based.
However, this did give me a platform for testing, since there is never anything on this, I can test things, figure stuff out, break the OS, do clean installs to start over, it was a safe testing platform for trial and error. So my suggestion here is if you have mission critical data, or actual work you need to get done on your main computer, try finding a cheap option first to play with, an old laptop, an old desktop, maybe find something at goodwill or online classifieds, install the distro you're looking into, and play with it from there, start learning terminal, you're new best friend.
Once you're ready to dive deeper down this rabbit hole like I was, I made a HUGE list over the next week, every time I used my desktop, I made a list of every program I used, and everything I did with it. A good starting point is go to control panel and open remove programs, go through that list and just look at everything you have installed, and write down everything you installed that you use.
Next comes the research, start looking for alternatives or workaround for everything there. So for me, it's all gaming and content creation, so the main games I play are Forza Horizon 4, and Halo, both are Microsoft only, so I had to find alternatives, turns out, if you buy a game on the Microsoft Store, it's cross play, you can just download it on an Xbox One, it's not 60fps because it's an original Xbox One, but sure, works for me. I'll just wait for the new Xbox to comes out and that solves my 60fps issue, I was going to buy one anyway so problem solved. - So with this example here, not all alternatives are on your computer, you may be able to find other alternatives on other devices.
Next is testing my hardware, I have some DJ equipment, MIDI devices, an external DAC for my mic, it uses proprietary software from the company that glitches out on install if you don't install it correctly on Windows, so using this on Linux was a scary thing for me, if it was that hard to getting everything working on Windows, I was expecting a nightmare to try and figure it out on Linux, turns out, no driver needed, it works straight out of the box, better on Linux than it does on Windows, as for the DAW, I use FL Studio, and with some research, I found out it works flawlessly with wine, a little bit of start up work getting it working, but there are lots of helpful guides out there, and it works just as it did in Windows, but I actually noticed that even though this is a Windows/macOS program, and I'm using the Windows version of it with wine, it's actually using less system resources when making really complicated projects, so even though it's not designed for it, using an alternative workaround for install, it works better than it did on Windows. - So with this example, you can see that it's not just switching to Linux, it's also switching to a better environment in some cases as some stuff just works better on Linux, even if the hardware and software was designed for Windows/macOS only.
Now finally we have the two programs I use that do not work on Linux, The first one being Adobe Photoshop. I need an alternative, everyone knows, GIMP, it's the go to standard, works great, always works, it's super solid and just ready to go out of the box, if you feel it looks a little dated which I did, well, it's theme-able too, so you can just download themes to give it the look you want, and if I had known about GIMP before learning Photoshop, I never would have used Photoshop. - So what we get from this is the free open-source alternative is actually as good as the professional paid alternative, so not only was the paid version holding me back, but I ended up picking up the free alternative straight away, and I really have no reason to go back to Photoshop, even if I did return to Windows.
Next would be Adobe Premiere Pro, I've wanted to switch to something else for a LONG time with all of the random crashes, even using the latest versions, latest Nvidia driver, DDU installs to make sure everything is as stable as possible, didn't matter, it always just randomly crashes, it drove me insane knowing that I was paying $50 a month for Creative Cloud for a program that seems like it was made by a crack team in one night with basically no support that actually helps (they literally asked me if I tried restarting my computer, as if that wasn't my first step into trying to resolve Premiere issues), the worst part was if I used the auto-save function, if it crashed while making an auto-save, it would corrupt the entire project file and I wouldn't be able to reopen it causing me to start all over from the beginning WAY TOO MANY TIMES.. Which is where I did RESOLVE (pun intended) my issues. DaVinci Resolve. I am so mad I spent so many years learning Premiere Pro only to find out that not only is DaVinci Resolve free, they have a Linux version (it's designed for CentOS, so a small fix to get it working), but I decided to try it on Windows since it's cross platform, free, I really had nothing to lose, loaded up a test project in Premiere Pro, 10 minute video, 1080p, default .mp4 h.264 encoding settings, it took 12-14 minutes each test using an i9-9900k with 32GB of RAM and a 1080ti, It was using 20-22GB of RAM, it was steady at 20GB but peaked at times to 22GB of RAM usage. This is where it gets interesting, on Windows with DaVinci Resolve, same 10 minute test project recreated, same default .mp4 h.264 render, 8-10 minutes every render, but wait.. there's more.. 8-10GB RAM usage... Faster render times, and LESS than HALF of my system resources being used. (I was only concerned with needing more RAM, I don't have numbers for CPU/GPU usage as they have never been an issue). So now I was sold, I just accidentally made a huge improvement in my workflow by looking for Linux alternatives that still work on Windows, so now I have alternatives, and I can learn how to use them on Windows while I'm comfortable knowing what to do. Once I felt comfortable with DaVinci Resolve (which I picked up faster than Premiere Pro because of how easy it is to use), I was ready for the switch. - So this here just goes to show that looking for alternatives might be the thing you needed all along, because I made a huge discovery that not only helps my computer not break a sweat, but also saved me money because I canceled my Creative Cloud subscription, so I'm now saving $50 a month, and I was worried that if I switch my workflow over to 4/6/8K I'm going to need a 64/128GB RAM kit, turns out, I don't need to buy anything and saved myself from unnecessary hardware upgrades due to a poorly optimized program haha.
Last thing to learn here is that there are workarounds, just because my success was found on Windows, it was not on Linux, for instance my motherboard, it's a Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme Z390, which means it has an ESS Sabre DAC built in, and out of the box, Linux tries to use the Intel audio drivers which don't work with ESS Sabre, so this means every audio port on the back of my computer doesn't work. I did find out that you can use the front Headphone jack as that's not controlled by the DAC so the Intel drivers work for that, but I did have to do a lot of research to figuring out my sound issue, and so far I have still not figured out the rear ports, my work around was I bought a 3.5mm to 1/4" cable to go from the 1/4" headphone jack on my external DAC, and I routed the cable down to the 3.5mm port on the Logitech stereo, and then I use a different pair of USB headphones. So now all Audio is externally controlled, and USB output, not ideal, but it works and hasn't stopped working or had any issues. So I have a method that works, and keeps me up and running until I can resolve the ESS Sabre issue. - So from this you should see that even though there was an issue stopping productivity, there are workarounds to get you up and running while you figure out a better fix, just because you got it working doesn't mean it's done, you can always improve as perfection is impossible
The first impression issues didn't stop there, I got into a huge issue with NTFS drives not working out of the box (this was a Pop_OS! 20.04 thing) but I fixed it by backing up all of my drives and formatting them all to EXT4 (which ended up showing huge performance improvements, basically got faster drives for free just by using EXT4 instead of NTFS so I'm kind of glad I ran into that issue as I would have left them NTFS for ever and never known about the vast improvements of EXT4 over NTFS.
You thought we were done with start up impressions? Not just yet, next was DaVinci Resolve, like I mentioned earlier, it's designed for CentOS, so there's some workarounds you need to do to convert the .run into a .deb, so it wasn't as straight forward as I was expecting, which took quite awhile for me to figure out how to get everything working perfectly, but once it's working, I found out it didn't stop there, for whatever reason, DaVinci Resolve, or Blackmagic rather, doesn't support h.26x formats in Linux, this means .mp4 h.264, basically my entire workflow, but, there's options, convert and change the cameras to .mov, well no, I changed my camera over to .mov, turns out the camera shoots .mov h26x formats lol, It uses the older codec of .mov, so, converting was my option, which is where I learned all about a wonderful little program called FFmpeg, and I absolutely love this. You just tell it the directory in terminal, have all your settings figured out, bingo bango, it's off to the races, and it will convert every file in a directory from one format to another, places them in a folder and everything. Now, you might be thinking, well, this is a whole extra step over Windows, why is this good? Well, it's because of how UNBELIEVABLY FAST DaVinci Resolve is on Linux, I had to make a video so I wasn't able to use a test project, but the final video I made was around 14 minutes, set to default .mov settings, and rendered.. ready for this.. 2 minutes.. and 42 seconds.. LESS than 3 minutes for a LONGER video than my test projects on Windows. - So this is the last thing to make sure you remember when swtiching to linux, is that even though there is an alternative program, it was more work to install it, there's extra steps now to use it, there are hidden gems in there, because even though I have to take some time to run a quick code in terminal to convert all of my video files after shooting a video, I just type that in, walk away, make a coffee, it's done when I get back, no big deal, but for how much time I save rendering videos. I can never go back to Windows again.
So some closing marks here to remember, make a list, find alternatives, find workarounds, pros and cons of each, if something is more work, it's not always bad, make sure you like what you're doing, because at the end of the day, if switching is stressing you right out and you're pulling your hair out trying to get it all working, than is it worth it? Just remember why you're leaving Windows for open-source, why you want the ability to do anything you want on your computer, and how not only it's free, but like me, you saved tons of money by switching (because I saved $50 a month on my Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription and didn't have to buy more RAM because of DaVinci Resolve).
So go out and try it, start with an old computer you can break, screw the OS right up, do some system updates and just shut it off half way, boot it back up and try to figure out how to fix it, give yourself problems to overcome, because the better you are at solving them, the less they become "problems" rather than challenges to be conquered .

Where do I begin. I don't think I have any sort of virus or anything, but a usb I own was corrupted out of the blue, while I do a lot of illegal downloading for greenscreen effects, I'm always careful to scope out sites beforehand and have never ran into any issues before. (the video converter i use is y2mate if that is useful information in any way.) I use a very old Mac that is on it's last legs to edit youtube videos on imovie to get a laugh out of my friends. Just today I wrapped up on the most recent project and exported to a file. As i usually do, I ejected the usb and plugged it into my laptop that i use to edit thumbnails, as I was proud of this newest video I clicked on the USB. It was corrupted and couldn't be read. I unplugged and replugged, and then windows gave me a popup notification saying the device could be repaired, so I did all that and I assumed all would hopefully be good. So I was now able to open the USB and when I clicked on the new video to open with VLC it simply opened VLC, but didn't play the video. I had never had this issue before when using imovie, I thought there was a chance that it was some kind of file type issue, but after installing quicktime player to check if it could play .mov files it could, but this file was an mp4 like I intended it to be and it just wouldn't open in quicktime or vlc. there were a load of other files like this aswell, all seemingly randomly cursed. Files I had downloaded would do the same sometimes, other projects i had edited in the past were not playing but others were fine. I've scoured vlc settings and looked online, I've ran a malware check with antivirus software and everything is coming up OK. I have half a terabyte of images and videos over three years of my life goofing around with friends and they've been shotgun blasted to unplayability at random, this is really quite horrible and I am desperate for a fix. I'm currently running a corrupted file recovery program on the USB which will hopefully work, but I just don't know. Every video file that i've played has been incredibly choppy on the first viewing but on the second time clears up as far as i've watched. I would kill for a fix as this drive means a lot to me.

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Having trouble converting an .mp4 to .mov
Steps: - Pasted and analyzed in MacX YouTube Downloader - Analyzed again - Change: Resolution 1280x720 to 480x270 (Codec H.264) - Download Now - Dropped file into MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b8 - Got this message:
"The Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is not installed... You will miss the two most important features of MPEG Streamclip: - you won't be able to play MPEG-2 files and transport streams; - you won't be able to convert MPEG-2 files and transport streams to QuickTime, DV, AVI.
However, all other features are always available, including playback and conversion of MPEG-1 to QuickTime, DV, AVI, demuxing of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, AC3 decoding, and conversion from transport streams to MPEG files (useful if you have Toast 6).
MPEG Streamclip is free of charge but the MPEG-2 Playback Component has a small price (around $20/£15/€20 in most countries); you can buy it online from Apple: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2"
Continue Got this message: " If you have problems installing the MPEG-2 Playback Component, please use the "Utility MPEG2 Component "
Export to QuickTime Got this message: " Error: can't read the frame size "
And yes... I've never done this before and have almost no idea what I'm doing. Trying to put the video in Ableton Live for sound designing. Please help.
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How to Get Started Doing NFL Breakdowns
The NFL Season is almost upon us and as a PSA, here's an updated repost of my approach to doing play break downs.
Here is my original post from earlier this year.
To preface all this, I'd like to say that I highly recommend anyone who is really interested in learning more about the details of football to take a step into breaking down video. While you can certainly get a great knowledge base by reading the breakdowns by others, the act of studying, questioning, and looking at details is a far different experience. Doing a writeup adds even more to the process.
Most of us feel like we don't know very much or that we lack enough specific knowledge to be able to break down film. And it's probably true! But the best way to get that knowledge is to do a writeup. Seriously. Do a writeup as best as you can and there are many knowledgeable people that will give you corrections or who will give you additional insight into the plays. And you may be surprised at how quickly you will start to pick up on things just because you are paying attention.
Step 0 : Decide on Source
The first step is to decide how you are going to source the breakdowns. There are two basic choices at this point :
TV Copy or Coach's Tape
TV Copy is the broadcast version of the game, ie., the version that we all watch on Fox/CBS/NBC. The advantages are that it is free, the quality and clarity of the video is generally very good, and that it is timely. But the disadvantages are that you are restricted in the views you get (though the replays can be fantastic), particularly of the defensive backfield, but also quite often the offensive/defensive line engagements. With prime time games, you have as many as 6 games to choose from on a given week (perhaps more if you include the Rewind games on the NFL Network that are broadcast the following week). For the more involved/desperate fans, DirecTV's Sunday Ticket offers access to all the broadcast games.
Coach's Tape (sometimes generically referred to as "All 22" tape) is composed of two views : the All-22 Overhead View that is critical for analyzing routes v coverages and the Endzone View that is very valuable for understanding line play. Advantages of the Coach's Tape is that it shows a more sophisticated level of detail for assessing play. The disadvantages are that the video quality is relatively poor, the distance of the shots means that some detail is lost. On some stadiums, these coaching camera placements are annoyingly poor.
There's only one place to get the Coach's Tape. The NFL offers the NFL GameRewindGamePass online package to stream the games after they have aired. Previously, the NFL offered Season, Season Plus, or Follow-Your-Team packages at various price points. It appears that from 2015 onwards, there is only a single package and it is priced at $99.99 (or $69.99 for previous subscribers).
NFL GamePass.
NFL GamePass gives you access to (most) NFL Games back to 2009; note that a few games here and there (mostly from 2009) are not on the system for whatever reason. Coach's tape is not available for all those games, but it is available for the past couple of years. This could be very useful if you are interested in comparing a player across multiple years.
For most that want to take up the effort of breaking down plays, the Coach's tape is the most natural and desirable option. Ideally, you would use both since sometimes the broadcast has an excellent Isolation replay that reveals more than the Coach's Tape does.
As of 2015, GamePass now includes the Preseason games (previously these were purchased separately).
NFL also offers live and archived access to the radio broadcasts of each of the NFL games. And also new for 2015, the "AudioPass" is included as part of the GamePass package. While the NFL will not stream the video of the games LIVE, they do stream the Radio broadcasts lives. For some (like myself), you can listen to the radio live and then capture the video later that night. TV Copy becomes available as soon as Sunday Night Football ends.
If you are so motivated, taking the TV Copy and swapping in the Home Team radio broadcast instead of the network announcers can be so very rewarding. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms or Bob Papa, Tom Flores, and Lincoln Kennedy? There's no question there as far as Raiders games go.
Step 1 : Capture Video
Once you've decided if you are going to go with just the TV Copy or with the Coach's Tape, you have another decision to make. Do you want to capture from the TV in realtime or do you want capture from the GameRewind?
Capture devices
If you want to capture video from the TV into your computer, you need a capturing device of some sort. These devices have been gaining popularity as more and more people are grabbing Xbox/Playstation gameplay vid. The three devices that I've heard of are the Black Magic, the Elgato, and the Hauppauge. These are all in the ~$140+ range with the Black Magic having models in the $200+ range as well.
My friend uses the Elgato for XBox vids and likes it very much. I use the Hauppauage and have been thinking of trying out the Elgato or Black Magic, but have never quite bothered.
To use this in conjunction with GameRewind, you would have to connect a computer's HDMI out to the device and then capture on a 2nd computer. This may not be feasible for many.
What is nice about a capture device is that it is useful for archiving anything broadcast on the TV.
The Pros of TV Capture : immediacy. good quality. can be used for non-NFL game content like College Games, Combine, Hard Knocks, etc.
Cons : pricey. If using in conjunction with broadcast games, must edit out commercials. To use with Game Rewind, must have 2 computers available. Requires TV subscription, so not useful for Cord-Cutters.

• Black Magic : Black Magic
• Elgato : Amazon.com
• Hauppauge : Hauppauge.com

Screen Casting/Capture
Alternately, you can choose to capture the streamed video on the computer itself. This cuts out the needs for a capture device and instead the computer will capture the desktop and save it as a video file. This has typically been used for demoing applications on the desktop, but is also nicely suited for "web-ripping" videos.
Here are some popular screencasting/capture utilities :

• CamStudio free
• VLC - free
• Fraps - $37
• Snagit $50
• Jing - Free
• Camtasia - $299!! (FWIW, I'm told that it's excellent)

Some Reviews
Step 2 : Edit
Depending on how much effort you want to put in, you may need/want to edit your footage.
If your goal is just to capture a play or a handful of plays and then use them to do a writeup, you may not need to go thru the effort involved in this step.
However, if you are interested in capturing and archiving an entire game (eg., you are following your team and want to track a player over the course of the season) or games, this is invaluable. Or you may be interested in prepping some "cutups" or "highlight reels" to put on youtube. For that you will need to do some editing.
Also, I will say that studying a play while editing the video is a very different experience from just watching the video as it plays. Breaking down a play by using editing software is far more revealing than by watching a play in real time.
After a Raiders' game, I prefer to capture the entire game (for archival purposes) and then cut up the footage to find and study plays of interest. I cut up each play and then break them up into separate timelines for (a) OFFENSE/DEFENSE and then (b) RUN PLAYS/PASS PLAYS. So i have 4 total timelines to look at. I then cut the video into just the plays so that each timeline consists only of the play (and replay). I've basically indexed each play for the game.
While it's a bit of upfront work, it makes it easier for me to look for or study particular things. For instance, if I'm going to study Khalil Mack's run defense, it's easy for me to go thru each run play and find Mack. Or if I'm looking for how the Raiders' defend the WR screen, i can search for those rather quickly. It also helps me significantly in the offseason when I'm going back over the entire season and looking for particular items.
This may be overkill if you are doing one-shots and then moving on. For instance, if I'm looking at (say) Mike Evans, I may capture only those plays where he's being targeted rather than grab (and archive) the entire game.
Editing also allows me to do a number of things that are rather cool, like zooming in, panning during a play, change speed, adjust the framing, adding the running timecode on a passrush, spot-shadowing a player, swapping or disabling audio, etc..
One thing that I really like and highly recommend is to clip off the bottom line "Ticker" on a video. We've all gotten used to see those scores running across the bottom of the screen, but when you watch a clip and it is NOT there, it's quite nice to be relieved from that distraction.
On a 720p BROADCAST video (note: the Coach's tape doesn't contain the ticker and so you can use full frame of 1280x720 for that) , a frame size of 1280 x 640 is just about perfect; it cuts out the bottom 80 pixels which just about takes care of the ticker without losing much actual game footage (obv for Coach's tape, i can use full-frame). It's also a convenient frame size b/c the aspect ratio is 2:1 so resizing computations are rather easy. I generally resize to 960x480, which is big enough to see everything but small enough to make file uploads quick.
Of course, there's an upfront cost in acquiring an editor and there's also a learning curve in using it. The more powerful the editing program, the more effort it takes to do even the basics. And the more things you want to do (change speeds, add freeze frames, highlight a player, zoom in/out, etc.) the longer it will take.
For instance, for some of my Pass Rush clips, I wanted to put a timer on the screen to show how long it took the pass rusher to sack the QB. Using Adobe's Premiere, it was fairly straightforward but took some effort to ramp up on it.
Non Linear Editor
I'm just listing the official prices here. If you are interested in purchasing any of these, you may be able to find it cheaper on amazon (for instance, Sony Vegas is $349 on amazon v $599 on Sony's official site) or you may be able to get an older version for less; in the case of Adobe products, this may be preferable since older versions are perpetual licenses and not the current (obnoxious) subscription model. Many also have trial periods, which may be useful depending on how much editing you intend to do.
Here's an example : Justin Houston Sack
Here are a few popular editors :
note : Adobe has a Student Plan that charges $199 for the complete Adobe Suite (I'm not quite sure how it works or what the eligibility requirements are but it may be worth the inquiry if you are interested). Adobe.com

• Adobe Premiere Pro CC : Adobe. 30 Day Free Trial. $240/yr subscription plan.
• Adobe Premiere Elements : Adobe - $99
• Sony Vegas : Sony - $599
• Final Cut Pro X (Mac Only) : Apple - $299
• iMovie (Mac Only) : Apple - Free
• Windows Movie Maker (Windows Only) : Windows - Free.
• Lightworks Free (or Pro) : lwks - Free (or $438)
  • Lightworks Comparison : Lightworks

Step 3 : Markup
In addition to the video, I often like to breakdown the play by marking up still images. Things I may choose to do is indicate the blocking assignments on a run play or show the pass-rush lanes on a stunt; on a passing play, it's extremely helpful to draw up the routes and the coverages. For instance, here's a breakdown gallery from my post on Sammy Watkins Week 7 breakdown; so, on this play, when you draw it up like this, it's easy to see that there's "Mirror Concept" at play. On others the Double Slant or the Smash might jump out at you.
When you are step-by-step-ing thru a play, it's amazing the subtleties that you can pick up. For instance, Here is an image from Latavius Murray's first TD v KC last thursday. What I didn't notice in full speed was that the pulling RG Austin Howard ran into the LT Donald Penn to help free up the Chiefs' DT Jaye Howard.
My personal opinion is that doing the Markups is a huge benefit to doing breakdowns, both for informing the readers (it's much easier following along with images) as well as for studying and observing and learning for yourself.
Premiere has an easy frame export feature so that I can get as many images as I need/want but if I want to draw ONTO the image, I need a program for that.
While rastebitmap Paint programs or Photo manipulation utilities can work fine, my preference is to use a vector drawing program. Since most of what I am overlaying onto the image are vector items (lines, arcs, polygons) and since I'm often re-using and modifying elements, I prefer to use Illustrator, though some may be fine with using a raster-based program like Gimp.
Drawing Programs

• Inkscape : inkscape - Free
• Corel Draw Home : Corel - Free Trial, $129
• Adobe Illustrator : Adobe - Free Trial, $240/yr subscription
• SnagIt Editor : Techsmith - Free Trial, $49
• Gimp (raster) : Gimp - Free

Step 4 : Write up
I do a lot to manage my writeups. If/when I'm doing a writeup that contains several plays, I need to manage them. I can have possibly 5 or 6 GFYs, a couple of galleries, the play description, and miscellaneous stats associated with it.
I may want to have the same data/information in a couple of places, like in the play details itself and then later in a formatted table.
If I just write it up in a .txt file, there's a lot of markup to do by hand. If I change an item in one place, i have to remember to change it anywhere else that I reference it. And if i want to look at just the data and perhaps "run some numbers" (like mean or median, etc) then it's rather difficult or at the very least it's an additional step.
For that reason I build spreadsheets to hold my data and then have separate tabs that organize them in particular ways and to mark them up as I need. Then I cut the markups and paste them into a .txt file when I'm ready. And then I do my actual full writeups within the .txt file with my text editor.
In essence, I'm using Excel as a half-step between relational database and text editor.
That was extremely useful in my Pass Rush posts but is also very helpful when I am doing bulk captures.
If I am compiling several images or vid clips, I may have quite a few urls to handle and i may want to use keep/manage the urls seprately from the reddit-style marked up text. For that, I also use Excel to help me. I have a section for the urls and then a separate section where the Excel sheet is styled for a table and then I use formulae to mark up the urls.
eg.,
Sheet 1 may have descriptions and urls like :

• Cool First Play, http://www.gfycat.com/foo1
• Nice Second Play, http://www.gfycat.com/foo2
• Bad 3rd, http://www.gfycat.com/foo3

While Sheet 2 may have

• | =Sheet1!A1 | ="[link](" & Sheet1!A2 &")" |
• | =Sheet1!B1 | ="[link](" & Sheet1!B2 &")" |
• | =Sheet1!C1 | ="[link](" & Sheet1!C2 &")" |

So now I can change the values on Sheet 1 and have the marked up text automatically fixed as I need. Useful if you are like me and have to go back to correct mistakes or rework/enhance bits.
I always do all my writeups externally and then just cut/paste into the browser when posting. It allows me to archive them and potentially re-use them.
MISC
GFYCat
GFYCat is such a blessing. Typically, you would have to convert a video to a .gif. NLEs (Non Linear Editors like Premiere) handle that easily, but it can be time consuming to determine what exact settings you want. This matters since imgur etc may have size limits on gifs and big gifs can pose loading lag issues. But then if you get a nice small gif, the quality is poor.
GFYCat is basically html5 video limited to 15sec so the file size is no longer an issue except for how long it takes to upload the file.
So I export my vids to a .mp4 with no audio at 960x480. Then upload to GFYCat.
One recommendation when uploading to GFYCat : Sometimes GFYCat will shrink the video frame size down. To avoid that, click on "Do not resize" and the uploaded vid/gif will have the same frame size as the original.
Gamebooks
I'm not sure if everyone knows about the NFL gamebooks, so I'll mention it. on nfl.com, you can go to the GameCenter for each game. On that page is a link to get the Gamebook for that particular game, image. Click on it and get the .pdf that has each play on it as well as game stats, scoring plays, etc.
It's a great resource, especially if you are looking back on a game and wanting to find a particular play or plays. For instance, if you are looking for all of JJ Watt's sacks, you can get the Houston gamebooks and then search for "sack" and then log the quarter and time for each of JJ Watt's sacks. Or if you want to capture each of Amari Cooper's targeted plays, you can open a Raiders' gamebook and CTRL-F for "A.Cooper"
When I do my writeups, I copy the play description from the gamebook directly. It saves me the effort of titling the play and it makes it easier to reference it. For people that read the gamebooks, the format becomes very familiar very quickly.
note : Looking on NFL.com prior to the 2015 season starting, it appears that the GameCenter pages are missing the gamebook links. Even the HOF game that was recently played is missing the Gamebook. Hopefully this is a temporary glitch.
NFL Rulebook
If you are interested in the official NFL rulebook, it's hosted on nfl.com link in both an online version and a .pdf. You can download the .pdf and reference it as needed.
Version Control
Most people probably already know about version control, but I think I'll mention it anyway.
Anyone that is creating any content on their computers or managing/handling any data that changes--whether it's data in excel, stored stats in a database, writeups in .txt files, etc.--should be using some kind of Version Control.
Version control is also called Revision Control and sometimes called just "RCS". It is a repository of your file and all the (committed) versions of that file.
example, you are working on a long term paper like a thesis. You create the file and enter the title and 2-3 pages of text. Commit. The file is now in the repository.
You then write 10 more pages of text. Commit.
You then modify the text substantially. Commit.
Whoops! Some of what you removed when you modified the text are items you want back, but you can't remember everything.
So now, you look back at the revision history and you can restore the version that has all the text you want, copy and paste that into the current version and then commit.
Version Control systems also allows for more complicated tasks--like tagging, branching, collapsing--which can be extremely useful (especially in collborative situations) or perhaps totally unnecessary.
Version control comparisons
Many Cloud storage solutions offer an elementary version control.
note: version control is a completely separate concept from Backups. You should always do backups as well and if you have version control, you definitely need backups of the version control repository.
I personally use Subversion (Apache.org. Another nice aspect of SVN is that it can be installed on a QNAP NAS (If I ever get a NAS, I may try this out).
My friend recommends Git (Git-scm.com), which I may try out at some point.
Finale
Hopefully this gives an idea of how to go about doing an NFL breakdown post.
Again, I'd like to encourage people to try their hand at doing breakdowns even if you feel like you don't yet know enough to do a "great" one. If you can create a post around some interesting or important plays and then give your insights into it, you may generate some nice discussions that may answer many of your questions and enlighten the rest of us.
This is all from a selfish point of view, because I love to read those breakdowns when they are posted. And I have Gold to give so if you do decide to post a breakdown, you may find yourself gilded.