I am placing a hold on new videos until this new computer arrives. The goal is for all videos going forward on YouTube will have a 4K option. My issue has been anything beyond 1080p FULL HD bogs down my system and it's impossible to edit. Even the 1080p stuff is so slow that something just had to give.
I've been slogging along on machines that were made for internet surfing, not professional video production. The catalyst was buying a new 4K action camera and deciding to shoot in 4K at the recent Dallas Guitar Show. While I had 4K capability all along with my Sony AX53, which I used over the bench, I didn't see a need to shoot in 4K for amp repairs. It just didn't seem worth the additional time and disk space. Plus, 1080p always looked pretty great to me, especially on the devices most people watch on, like phones.
Deciding to shoot all that video in 4K was an attempt to see how good the camera could be at full capability. Little did I know, when trying to compress that video down to 1080p for editing, my computer would take abut 5 HOURS to render about an hour worth of video, which was the straw that broke the camel's back.
So here's what I got coming. It's an MSI Katana. They bumped the price up by almost $200 AFTER I bought it! Mistake in the listing??? I'm guessing yes. Before spotting this one on Amazon, I bought n HP Envy with the same i9 processor, but with a lesser Geforce RTX 4060, 32gb DDR5 RAM, a 120hz monitor, and 1TB SSD. It was a nice machine which would have worked, but after tax, it cost over $1600. So the Katana for $1400 AFTER TAX looked like a steal. I sent the HP back today and bought the MSI instead. I splurge so rarely on anything that my credit card company put a hold on the payment, flagging it as possible fraud. What's worse, they didn't send me a text letting me know. Only an email (which I never check). Luckily I caught it just in time before they upped the price on the thing. PHEW!
I posted this as a live stream earlier today, but as with most of my more controversial live streams on YouTube, I usually either take them down or put them behind a paywall within a day so as not to give my enemies an easy way to attack me. If they want to attack me, I would rather make it slightly harder for them. As I say in the video, whether someone is Jewish is not material to me. That fact alone does mean I cannot be someone's friend. I have Jewish members of my extended family, in fact, who I love and would also fight for. But when Israel (which happens to be a Jewish state) starts behaving like a mafia and using their collective power to attack people I care about to deprive my family of power or access to resources, I start to get angry. Now you're acting like a mafia. Now you're fucking with my world. At some point we have to fuck back. More to come on this as my thoughts evolve, but at this point, I'm seeing no good way forward other than punishing the GOP who take their ...
Not sure if this is something I'll ever publish on the channel, so I thought I'd include it here as an exclusive. Enjoy!
In this video, I put on the cloak of a preacher and talk about why the modern state of Israel spoken about in Genesis 12 is NOT the same as the modern state of Israel we see today and why this idea that we should never oppose Israel is a false teaching. I will back my argument up with Christian scripture. This is something I've never attempted to do before - offer up a Biblical teaching. I do not feel qualified at all. In fact, I am probably one of the least qualified preachers on earth. But maybe that's why you should listen anyway. If you have more to add, or if you have a rebuttal, feel free to comment. I'm all ears and willing to learn more.
BTW, I can’t wait to hear you excoriate Fender going the way of Gibson.
Gibson: “We screw over independent guitar manufacturers.”
Fender: “Hold my beer.” 🍺
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