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!
Here are some unused outtakes from my recent video. This is me jamming to see what comes out, while in the process of writing the demo piece at the end of the video. At one point, I did use a section of this jam as the intro of the demo, but unfortunately my AT4040 mic into the interface malfunctioned and rendered most of that stuff unusable in the end. This is just what was picked up by the onboard camera mic. Some of it was actually pretty decent. I felt inspired anyway. When I feel like I'm jelling with an instrument or amp or whatever, I like to just let the camera and mics roll and see if anything is worth keeping. Sometimes magic happens, sometimes nothing seems to be worth a single solitary shit. Most of the time, it's a mixed bag. It's funny listening back to stuff like this as the guy who did it, I can always predict where I'm probably about to go with it, even if I don't remember specifically anything I played. Funny how the mind works like that. As for the onboard camera ...
Here's the video of Routh's collected tweets if you'd like to comb through them. https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1835452723929457000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835452723929457000%7Ctwgr%5E17672e4635927c4505689a4865f3cd0e62c6f309%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fposts%2Fdemocrats-accused-of-incitement-after-second-attempt-on-trumps-life
I'm sure everyone has by now seen that explosion in the Oval Office today between POTUS and Zelenskyy. Well, I'm certainly no fan of Marco Rubio. I think he's a neo-con and a RINO underneath his newfound MAGA cloak, but I have to admit, he is ON POINT in this interview. He made mincemeat out of this warmongering, airhead woman. And to all my friends...there might be legitimate complaints here and there with President Trump and how he handles things, but this isn't one of them. The man is trying to negotiate a peace and keep the world out of a major World War, or at the very least, keep us out of a protracted regional quagmire which could cost trillions like Iraq and Afghanistan before it. The left, particularly, needs to find its anti-war roots and listen to when this man is saying, rather than prejudging everything with the limited information supplied to you by media outlets which have been proven to have been on the deep state payroll. Zelenskyy's argument has been that they tried a ...
