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Tio

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A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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1 year ago •

Tio
1 year ago •

So, I like a lot Kdenlive and am proud to have used it fully for the TROM II documentary. I will praise it more when after the documentary is released. BUT.

Here's a very tiring and frustration situation for me: @Dima correctly pointed out that the interviews are mostly very darkish. An easy fix tho. But Sasha's recordings are over saturated and it just so happens that this girl has these pretty red cheeks (haha) when she is excited, stressed, or drunk. And her cheeks go on and off, from red to pale, for the hours of recordings that we did. To make her look natural I have to tune down just that one cheek. At Dima's advice I started to use masks in Kdenlive and almost frame by frame track her cheek and tune it down. Very time consuming, but seems to be worth it.

I color corrected this documentary so much I feel like passing out at this point.

Back to my frustration.

In Kdenlive if you add effects to main clips, and these clips are in the timeline, then

So, I like a lot Kdenlive and am proud to have used it fully for the TROM II documentary. I will praise it more when after the documentary is released. BUT.

I color corrected this documentary so much I feel like passing out at this point.

Back to my frustration.

In Kdenlive if you add effects to main clips, and these clips are in the timeline, then it can so happen to have these clips DESTROYED in the timeline. Meaning, you have 1 clip say in your Kdenlive BIN. You add 100 parts from it into the timeline on different tracks. Now you edit that ONE clip in the BIN to tweak the colors and realize that 67 of the scattered clips in the timeline look like this:

Instead of this:

And the only way to fix is to drag these clips to another track, if you have space left....and many clips have all sorts of stuff on top of them....

Imagine now checking the entire documentary tracks for such errors...

I feel like going insane. After working the entire day, now to get it all fucked.

Here's another fuckery that I get:

And I didn't even touched that video yet....

Truth is, you can't simply color correct in Kdenlive. You have to color correct then check your entire timeline for errors, then export and check what you exported again to make sure it did not render it badly.

For projects like TROM II, Kdenlive can be a massive pain in the ass.

And this was an issue for the past 2 years. I reported it countless of times....

Nothing annoyed me more than this color-fucking-correcting for this documentary...I wish I made it in black and white.

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio • 1 year ago • •

> I wish I made it in black and white.

Damn....

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Rokosun

in reply to Rokosun • 1 year ago • •

So does this mean you still have to work on the documentary for color correction? I thought you were finished.

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Tio

in reply to Rokosun • 1 year ago •

I thought so too but it is Dima's fault! haha. No but he is right he sent me some samples of how I should do it better and in some cases it is a big difference. It is fine. I may release it in June anyway for a plethora of reasons so that I do not rush with it. But if so I'll send it to you and a few other close friends in May anyway.

I want to talk to the trom friends maybe it is a good idea to release it with a few subtitles, meaning in a few languages.

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Rokosun

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Yeah there's no need to hurry with this, most of the main work has been done so that's great.

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Roma

in reply to Tio • 1 year ago •

It would be a pleasure to help with russian subs 😉

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Tio

in reply to Roma • 1 year ago •

Ohhh I was about to just ask you that hahaha. That'd be fantastic! See this post social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…

TROM

2023-04-26 19:12:16

TROM II Documentary Updates and Release

By @Tio
I've sent the documentary to those who were part of it. They all watched it and provided a ton of feedback. What was absolutely surprising to me were their reactions overall. I am still unable to compute why they thought so positively about it. You see I have edited this documentary a thousand times so I was unable to understand it anymore. I did not know if it makes sense or not.
So maybe it is good?
I can tell you that their comments range from "Tio deserves and Oscar" haha, to "this documentary is a masterpiece", to "it's a brilliant work" or "the best documentary ever". This seems quite a lot for me to digest but they keep on telling me that. @Georgi watched it first, she could not wait, and digested it in one go sending me tons of feedback while watching it.

She bought a pizza and she said she was so captivated she could not eat much hahah.
@Sasha came in the second place but just 1 hour later than Georgi haha. She 'forced' me to re-watch it all in one go :D. She was so amazed and happy she kept on telling that to me, to the point of me being confused and thinking that she exaggerates. I even asked her to please not exaggerate. haha.
Don't be deceived!
Now, please do not let these feedbacks, some of which were public, influence you when you'll watch it. These people took part in the documentary, they agree with these ideas, and we are very close friends. I keep on saying to lower your expectations even now when you see these first reactions. Please! I am 1 guy, with 1 laptop, and this is the first time I had to record for a documentary and do it in this fashion. Put it into that perspective please. Their reactions and feedbacks are valuable (very much) but I do not want to make people have big expectations from this documentary.
Ok. So these guys also had a few criticisms but way less than I expected. Some 6-7 people watched it and 2 said there are a few "boring" moments in the first part of the documentary. Others said that was their favorite part and not boring at all. One said in the last part we repeated a few things, quite a minor offense ;). Lastly @Dima had some good inputs about the colors of the recordings. Most are ok, but they need to be improved and I am doing it now (again....I improved the colors so many times idk what colors are anymore haha).
But that's all the criticism so far.
The PLAN.
On 20th of May we have that special TROM Meeting. We had one in 2019 after I released the book The Origin of Most Problems. It was great to see all of these wonderful brains together.
For TROM II I still have to do a few things: color correct that may take a week or some 10 days; make a trailer - and I want to make a very good one so this can take a week or more; make a poster (easy); do the sources (time consuming); prepare tromsite.com for the release.
With these being said, I should not force myself to do all of those before the May meeting and quickly release just before that. I want to enjoy that meeting and not think about the release. Plus would be fantastic to make an english subtitle that we can then translate in several languages and release TROM II with them. Wouldn't it be better to release TROM II in a few languages? I think so.
Therefore when we meet in May we can also work on some of these things. Let's do this well!
Release.
I think the best would be to release in the beginning of June. With a good trailer, in multiple languages, better color correction, and all that. This is entirely doable. I do not know the exact date, but should be in the first half of June FOR SURE!
I am quite excited about the release :). And I may try to make the trailer in May. Will keep you posted!
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