The "Help Me!" Thread (Page 2 of 3)

So I picked this lens up from a thrifty for 2 bucks, but I can't figure out what mount it is to see if I can get an adapter to throw it on my M4/3. So I'm throwing it out there to see if anyone can recognize it on sight.

I found myself in a situation where I'm gonna have to start making a lot of international calls soon. Even though I do a lot of typing in English (which isn't my primary language) I don't get to talk much. So if anyone would fancy chatting about randomness on Skype for a bit every now and then so I can get some practice I'd appreciate it

My Skype id is lamer_x23

Will any of these on Flickr do? CC licence, commercial use and modifications allowed.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=bir … ense=4%2C5

Don't worry about the webcam, I don't have one either

Yeah, but the audio pick up on this old one sucks. Not exactly the best for chatting when we are trying to practice English

Gonna agree with the FD mount. There's a small fiddly bit that looks different on yours but otherwise it's the closest match I've seen on a few Google results (and Sam F's pic comes from one of those results, soooo....).

Here's one for my Premiere Pro peeps:
I've shot two performances of the same dance recital. The first show is 6 cameras in one sequence so I can sync them up. Second show, same cameras, second sequence.

The idea is to edit out any mistakes in the dancing by cutting between performances/sequences 1 and 2. So I have a third master sequence with the first two on the Video 1 and Video 2 lines. The pace of the performance was different, i.e. the delays between the starts of each dance number are different, so I have made cuts and slips in the clip(s) that refer back the 2nd show's sequence to sync up the music between the two performances on my master timeline. 1st show is intact, no cuts, as a skeleton for now.

Now my problem is that I want to change my workflow, and bring all of the cameras in to a single master sequence, 12 tracks in all. BUT if I do that I will have to re-sync 6 of the 2nd show's cameras to the other 6. The potential for fucking that up makes me hesitate and wonder why I can't just somehow duplicate all of my cuts and slips previously made on the 2nd show's clips in my 2-show master sequence.

I'm over-thinking this, but there are a lot of cuts to make in a lot of clips if I just take one for the team and start over. I think I can play some save-as games and re-import 6 times to get each camera isolated within a cut-and-slipped sequence, but I'm hoping someone has a simpler solution that I'm not seeing.

EDIT
I figured it was a longshot. For the record: I saved a clone of the project and isolated the two sequences that concerned me. Then I repeated these steps for each camera: deleted out the other 5 cameras, gave the sequences new descriptive names and saved another temp copy of the project, then reopened the project clone. When I had 5 such temp projects, I imported those specific sequences back into the original project and nested them into my 12 cam master. Took a bit of a file size hit, about a 50% increase, but it's otherwise working out well. About 20 minutes to make it happen, including typing up this post.

Last edited by drewjmore (2014-07-13 21:25:24)

Hi there, I'm Alex. PM sent.

Hello fellow writers,

my wife and I are looking to supplement our income through at home work due to medical issues. Are there any places to connect to that pay for writing? I know there are a lot of scams out there, as well as that there is not much that will pay a lot, but anything helps.

So, recently I've been writing two (ish) papers, and a PhD proposal outlining my work. And it's become pretty clear that I have tunnel vision and things that are obvious to me are not obvious to people who aren't part of a phylogenetics (evolutionary trees) lab.

I figure since y'all obviously have an understanding of good narrative structure (podcast... duh), and you're not in my usual circle of friends (who are mostly biologists), somebody here would be interested in occasionally reading through my work?
Not the usual typos-and-grammar thing, don't worry about that. I'd like a non-biologist to read though and tell me "i have no idea what this concept is and you didn't bother to explain it" or "i don't understand the point of what you're doing here" or "this idea doesn't follow, or contradicts, what came before" etc. I wanna make sure that the papers I write have a logical flow to them, and that there is a clarity to my ideas.

Would anybody be interested in that? My work uses evolutionary trees to make predictions about species/communities, and then we compare them to the real world. No molecular stuff, there's a minimum of number-stuff or tedious methodological detail, so don't worry about that. It's mainly trying to tell a story using ideas.

Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful

Phi, I know exactly what you mean. Papers aren't written to be readable, they're written to get published. And the peer review thing... boy howdy, I am not looking forward to getting to that stage and "playing the game".

I really wish we didn't have to be "all business, no pleasure" though. A lot of 19th/early-20th century papers are so convivial and expressive in their language, but they still got science done.

(I know I have to play by the rules for my thesis and getting these papers published, but I also think I'm just gonna end up writing less stuffy versions so my friends can read them.)

Thanks for the offer (I think that's an offer, right?)! I'll try and keep the dryness to a minimum and when I've got a good draft done, I'll let y'all know.

Last edited by Herc (2014-11-12 03:06:10)

Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful

<Curious George narrator> Teague was curious </Curious George narrator>

Yep it's an offer if you want it. Don't get me started on the dreadful state of the peer review system...