It’s finally happened, after years of complaining and told “it will never happen”, I got my darn switch statement! And honestly, calling it only a “switch” statement is really underselling it. It’s much more powerful than most people will ever use! You might have already heard...
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HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and Dolby Vision
I have read several articles on the differences between what all these different types of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video formats are, but few address it from a technical standpoint. So lets do a quick high level (not so technical) overview of each: WCG: Wide Color...
Continue reading...Encoding UHD 4K HDR10 and HDR10+ Videos
tl;dr: If you don’t want to do the work by hand on the command line, use FastFlix. If you have any issues, reach out on discord or open a github issue. I talked about this before with my encoding setting for handbrake post, but there is...
Continue reading...Top 10ish Python standard library modules
When interviewing Python programming candidates, my wife always likes to ask the simple question, “can you name ten Python standard library modules?” This is harder than most think, as many people will completely blank out and others will be dead wrong. “Requests?” one poor soul answered....
Continue reading...Introducing FastFlix – AV1 encoder GUI and more!
First, straight to the fun, download FastFlix here to try it out! FastFlix started out to be a small clip and GIF maker for myself, but quickly realized I could expand it for larger usage. And it just so happens that AV1 is an emerging codec...
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