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I can understand this, but I am left with no real options.
The software I use most is all of an older vintage (around 10 years by now). I might go and get some newer (offlineish) versions, though, before all is abo.
Da Vinci Resolve is also free and has everything you could possibly need unless you are Thelma Schoonmaker. It also makes proper use of your GPU!
Like FCP though, actual Hollywood use it, so it's aimed at that audience and therefore quite a steep learning curve; if you just want to cut across various timelines it's really easy once you realise what they've done is stick with the way a physical cutting room worked and you can make simple things at pace, just don't be tempted to go fiddling with the clever stuff unless you are really ready for a rabbithole.
 
Superfuntimes with DSS last night - found a moon so small that I got 89% coverage with one probe. Had to be 89, didn't it...

I beat the efficiency bonus on terrestrial planets regularly now. I feel like when you do a sixer in five you should get an efficiency bonus on the efficiency bonus.

Painting all these circles on spheres and observing the results feels like it would make a good PhD in topology. Perhaps I should rename the AspX to Poincare.
I went looking for a good historical thread on DSS and couldn't really find one that talked about the way it works post-U14... so I made one.

 
Who had the idea of the PDF format? Just wondering, as Adobe seems to have a big edge in that area.
Corel created that but it wasn't called that at the time. It was a compressed document file for Wordperfect back in 1979. It was later modified by several different companies but Adobe capitalized on it by making it compatible with its Postscript Drivers for digital prepress RIPS. Distiller was able to reverse engineer a post script file back into the document from which it came while embedding fonts to prevent font errors.

It was a really big deal back in the 90's.

I remember when Postscript level III hit. You'd have thought we had discovered fire or invented the wheel. It was THAT good.
 
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I went looking for a good historical thread on DSS and couldn't really find one that talked about the way it works post-U14... so I made one.

I'll keep an eye on that thread, maybe someone knows something I hadn't found out yet.
 
Corel created that but it wasn't called that at the time. It was a compressed document file for Wordperfect back in 1979. It was later modified by several different companies but Adobe capitalized on it by making it compatible with its Postscript Drivers for digital prepress RIPS. Distiller was able to reverse engineer a post script file back into the document from which it came while embedding fonts to prevent font errors.

It was a really big deal back in the 90's.

I remember when Postscript level III hit. You'd have thought we had discovered fire or invented the wheel. It was THAT good.
Useless fact:

I worked on an alternative to PDF, sort of a pre-cursor, called Glue. It was only available for the Macintosh, and it was fairly popular for a short while. At the time it was (I think) the only way you could print to a document that could then be viewed without owning the original program that created the document. Just like PDF today, only it was Macintosh only.

Once PDF became available, Glue quickly went by the wayside. I enjoyed working on it at the time, though.
 
On a different note, a little something space-y from Boris Blank:
That's reminiscent of a CG rendering I saw of the mini space station the ESA and NASA wants to build in orbit around the moon. Maybe that's why their going to let the ISS burn up in the atmosphere and use the money for that, I always thought it would be cool if they built a telescope on the moon.
 
Ah, Kraftwerk... For a long time, all I knew of them was the "Radio Activity" album. And one or two songs that were quite popular in the 80s. I stumbled upon the audio cassette of "Radio Activity", because my portable cassette player (same concept as the Walkman, but cheaper) had a worn out rubber transmission belt and the only place that had some replacement parts happened to have an ad for the album in their store window. I knew Kraftwerk from that popular song I had seen on TV and as I liked that song, I left the store with a copy of that album and some rubber belts for my cassette player.
 
That's reminiscent of a CG rendering I saw of the mini space station the ESA and NASA wants to build in orbit around the moon. Maybe that's why their going to let the ISS burn up in the atmosphere and use the money for that, I always thought it would be cool if they built a telescope on the moon.
As far as I know, there are some ideas (or even plans) to build a telescope on the moon...
 
Ah, Kraftwerk... For a long time, all I knew of them was the "Radio Activity" album. And one or two songs that were quite popular in the 80s. I stumbled upon the audio cassette of "Radio Activity", because my portable cassette player (same concept as the Walkman, but cheaper) had a worn out rubber transmission belt and the only place that had some replacement parts happened to have an ad for the album in their store window. I knew Kraftwerk from that popular song I had seen on TV and as I liked that song, I left the store with a copy of that album and some rubber belts for my cassette player.
Kraftwerk... pioneers,

Trans Europe Express, Autobahn, We Are Ze Robots. Influencers of a lot of electronica, even today.
 
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