Lovely piece of software.

What content comes in 10-bit in the first place? HDR is just becoming a thing and I'm pretty sure that's restricted to UHD Blu-rays.

A significant amount of content coming from a recording monitor for professional cameras, or in-camera itself, usually in ProRes/DNxHD form. Using an NLE for transcoding is miserable, and ffmpeg doesn’t have the most intuitive CLI syntax for people who just want quick buttons to press.

Pro-world also uses transcoders, and not everyone likes/is able to use Adobe for that.

I'm surprised people working with professional footage don't have better tools for that but fair enough.

Oh, there definitely are better tools out there, I’m just saying where the source material is coming from. Transcoding specific apps are relatively far and few between, so we end up having to use use other apps for this at times. Handbrake, ffmpeg, Apple’s Compression (is it still alive?), Adobe Media Encoder, etc. Having to use DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Medi Composer, etc to create proxies or flip between formats is overkill and time consuming.

>Apple’s Compression (is it still alive?)

Yes. Why wouldn't it be?

I haven’t been on Apple’s site in a long while (or on a Mac). Wasn’t sure how Compression and Motion were faring since FCPX came out.

FCPX has been going from strength to strength since the release, with a constant stream of big updates, and winning lots of hearts back from the FCPX backslash.

This is also interesting: https://offthetracksmovie.com/

(Interesting factoid: the same person spearheaded and designed all of FCP, FCPX, and Premiere)

In my experience, 10-bit also gives better results when transcoding, for instance smoother gradients and less banding.

From my understanding, if the raw material is 8-bit, simply using 10-bit won't help with banding unless you also use some de-banding or smoothing filters together.

I don't fully get the syntax (I've had a tiny bit of Scheme experience) but wow that's awesome.

Do you have tips for text manipulation? Whenever I make dumb memes it's a pain to move around text on GIMP.

Experiment with the move tool setting that moves the active layer rather than moving the layer you select with the move tool. This can be really helpful with text.

This one is more obvious maybe: I also found learning the keyboard shortcuts really useful when working on a web comic.

I personally prefer inkscape for working with text. It's imperfect, to be sure, but I like it a hell of a lot better than GIMP.

You _can_ do it with libreboot on ancient thinkpads, but it requires a decent time (or money) investment and some know-how. https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html

I'll admit, I feel somewhat smug over this after being talked down to by BSD guys. Regardless, I'm glad we can all enjoy a shared codebase for an amazing filesystem.

The Newspeak phrase "Double Plus Good Duckspeaker" from George Orwell's 1984.

Check out GuixSD if you like Guile Scheme REPLs when something breaks! I also recall OpenBSD and FreeBSD dropping to debuggers on kernel panics.

Redox has made way more progress than I ever thought it would, so who knows?