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Getting to know the new camera

The production workflow on the new camera is very different and I'm having to make some adjustments to get started with it.

Yesterday I changed my shooting setup to have that monitor above my work surface as my reference display. In the past I've used my right monitor(you can see it in quite a few videos) but the new camera outputs YCbCr over it's HDMI port. My Nikon must have output RGB because my DVI monitors has no problems with it. But none of my usual monitors could handle YCbCr. So...

4k Test footage

I've got the camera!

Here are the first things I shot with it. The processing is very extreme with this camera compared to my DSLR so not everything is perfect on this first run in editing. I'm getting the hang of it though. I was able to set Resolve to quarter resolution proxy and edit on my 2GB GTX 960 with "okay" performance. I can do it, but I'll still definitely need to get a new GPU.  

This 48 seconds of footage also took up 21GB! 60fps is massively space intense. This w...

K&F Concept Lens Mount Aperture De-Click

November 2018 Behind the Scenes

This was supposed to go out yesterday but I had some delays.

So funny story about ordering the camera. It was supposed to be a pre-order where they don't charge me until they are ready to ship it. This camera is currently very desirable and people have been pre-ordering it for months. When I placed the order last night, they also charged me. I just assumed that the webpage was wrong and they were going to charge early for this camera. Well, this morning it was marked as shipped. So I gue...

Commodore 5141 Floppy Drive Repair - pt 1

I'm not really happy with this video, but it killed four days to get it recorded and edited and was over 3hrs of footage for just this part so I got to a point in the video where I just needed to stop. It's late due to the problems encountered I covered in the video making it take much longer than I thought and I had some editing PC hardware troubles that are currently being sorted out.

I'm going to wait until ~3hrs from now, or noon Z-7, to make this public since today is my normal vide...

Commentary: LPT Sound Card In CD Drive is Almost Awesome

You'll want to start the audio and video at the same time 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAlkgAaX4A4

LPT Sound Card In CD Drive is Almost Awesome

FINALLY

I was working on the new server and the DOS PC all last week and got over burdened with some other unexpected things I had to take care of.

Commentary tomorrow

MailCall 0x01: Mail from viewers like you!

Commentary: 0x0029.3 - 1/2 yr Update on HP-86 3D Printed Key Stems

You'll want to start the audio at the same time as the video.

0x0029.3 - 1/2 yr Update on HP-86 3D Printed Key Stems

This one took three days just to get it done. Man I hop I never have to work on the keyboard for this thing again.

Commentary tomorrow.

Commentary: Canon TP-8 Palm Printer Calculator Refurb

This time I did it a bit differently, you;ll need to start the audio track and the video at the same time.

Some people wanted to be able to pause or go back to a segment and it was almost impossible before. So now you can because the start time is the same for both meaning as long as you seek to the same time on both it should be easy to get them re-aligned.

Canon TP-8 Palm Printer Calculator Refurb

Commentary: IBM 5153 CGA Monitor Simple Recap

I'm thinking something like this could be a perk for backing at a higher tier. But I'd like to get feedback from everyone on this concept first. I imagine most people wouldn't want to re-watch every video again for the commentary. But maybe if there was a particular video that you were curious about you could and then I would have talked about it a bit more.

Patron Exclusive: Behind the Scenes and Some Thoughts on the Channel

This is just something I really felt like making today.  

I want to re-word off camera what I mean about physical rewards for  patreon tiers. As someone with an engineering mindset I see resources  being sent and received in that transaction. But I see a one time resource being sent and an unlimited resource being received. So it's  more of a cost analysis thing. I still feel really weird about being on  Patreon, and I suspect I'm just not thinking about this the ...

Upcoming Video: Canon TP-8

I want to try something new because it seems like I miss some really obvious stuff when doing research on videos. This is not a replacement for me to do research. I try my best to become as knowledgeable as possible/reasonable for every video I do. It's just sometimes I miss something that seems easy for some people find. So I'm going to let you know what the next video is, why I think it's cool, and what I do and do not know about it. If someone here happens to know something I'm missing or an ...

IBM 5153 Simple Recap

Resolve is so much faster for me to edit in! This is great!

Dual Monitors on an IBM 5150

I want to apologize for the lack of videos recently. I had to go out of town to help some family move and caught something that left me sick enough I couldn't record videos.

I'm back in full swing now though. I already have another video recorded(the recap mention in this one) and that will be coming along soon.

I've switched to using Divinci Resolve as a video editor and it is giving me a much faster workflow than I previously had with blender. It takes a lot of the headache out of mak...

IBM 5150 Tecmar Captain RAM Card Upgrade

The video may be a little over processed on this one, I had to edit this on a computer I don't normally use and the monitor isn't quite up to the task of image correction.

0x0035.4 - ATX2PCjr Final Update

Sharp PC-7000 Restoration

Early Video! MailCall 0x00

Finally I'm getting caught back up!

XT-IDE Setup and DOS Install

I completely forgot to put this up here. I didn't get it done until minutes before it went public. Being behind on videos is getting very tiring.

I'm a good ways into the next one already. My base script is done and I know almost everything I need to do for it. But as a special patron bonus, I'm also making a behind the scenes video on putting the whole thing together. I'm starting from the basic concept and will go all the way through to the final upload.

I don't think I'm on tr...

Floppy Drive Refurbing

Sorry I didn't get this one out early. I had a lot of difficulties in getting it done.

0x0035.3 - PCjr ATX/PicoPSU Power Adapter

Just a heads up:
The website is live with a real link that lets you buy one. The entire site is very much under construction right now so the page is a bit brutalist.

I'm planning on doing a giveaway for my Patrons here with the remaining 4 PCBs I have from the first batch. I'll be doing a post here where everyone can enter if they want.

Linux Setup of Generic Input Devices for Accessibility and Macros

Creative Nomad II: MP3 Player from 2000

Wallpaper Pack

I feel like I don't do enough to show my appreciation for everyone's support here. It really does help with not only resources but it also helps my spirits when feeling low about making videos.   

It's not a lot but,  I rendered out some wallpaper packs for 16x9,21:9, and 16x9x3 in 4k. There are 2 versions with 3 variations each.  

Patreon doesn't have a way of distributing zips so I made it a secure download on my WIP site. The username is "supporters" and the ...

Early Access

0x0035.2 - IBM PCjr ATX/PicoPSU Adapter Update

Complete Redo: 0x0037 - Sony LiveView: The First Smartwatch

This is a complete reshoot of this video with a working liveview!