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Resolve isn't special in what it's doing. This is a regular workflow that works like this in all software and isn't automated at all like you are claiming it is. It does not "prepare your audio". Bye

efilifeon OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

> Audio dynamic compression means something different from file data compression.

This is what I was trying to say. "You being at a -8 LUFS will not cause any more compression compared to you being at -14. "

You ignored my points and bring up something unrelated. The guy in the video shaved off 1 or 2dbs if I remember correctly, which would be barely noticeable. And Resolve didn't do this automatically, he had to manually measure LUFS, insert a limiter and dial in the settings. Not sure what's your point is. LUFS is designed in such a way to give a reliable metric on loudness. The reason compression is abused on TVs is because they use a naive dB metric in the regulations (iirc) so it's possible. YouTube doesn't do this. The use LUFS as shown in the video, that again, gets automatically adjusted to compensate. What the video shows is NOT AUTOMATIC (the worklow is not simple, nothing special nor baked in), and arguably pointless.

efilifeon OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

Am I missing something? This is a very regular workflow that works the same in all software. It seems to provide you with a LUFS meter, then you manually adjust volume to what youtube expects you to.

> normalize audio in a manner that survives YT encoding.

> Discover how to avoid YouTube's compression and achieve crystal clear sound.

Youtube won't audibly compress your audio. It will just turn it up or down to the desired LUFS level. You being at a -8 LUFS will not cause any more compression compared to you being at -14. I'd argue that this video is misinformation presented as something useful.

efilifeon OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

What do you mean? Like it can export audio to a separate file?

efilifeon Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

Now we are curious what game it is

efilifeon I'm becoming AI-blind

I experienced the same lately. Even dug some of my old posts where I put in the effort and formatted them using reddit's markdown. Wouldn't dare it today

efilifeon Consumer Rights Wiki

Aren't you misremembering? I checked the first webarchive snapshots of this site and the site is almost the same as today https://web.archive.org/web/20251001004605/https://fulu.org/

Does the site feel AI-generated to you?

Also I may be dumb but I can't find the thread you are talking about, anytime the site got posted it got almost no traction: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit, I think I found it:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739271 I'll read it soon. Another edit: this isn't it.

>I think you're reaching to defend the guy

I think you don't understand my intentions even though I explicitly stated I don't care about the verdict. I don't care about defending him for the sake of defending him. I defend actions I deem reasonable regardless of who is doing them. You haven't addressed the points from my previous comment, and only picked one so I can't comment much more.

>IIRC he had the same excuse about not wanting to be delisted by Google

Do you know where I can find him saying this? I'm not requiring you to send me the source, just point me in the right direction. I am always happy to change my opinion when new facts emerge

efilifeon Consumer Rights Wiki

He said that it sucks and we all know it does. I think there's a big difference between vibecoding a product in a week and blogspamming to promote it and running a legitimate business for the past 15 years, and suddenly getting delisted by google. After fighting to get his site back on Google for a YEAR, I can understand his frustration - and would probably do the same. According to him he tried every single legitimate option before finally succumbing.

I have no dog in this fight, I disagree with some stuff that he says, just so you know.

And what's his other project that you keep mentioning? I haven't heard of it yet.

Addendum: the argument of trying to grow hia business may not be valid, as he mentioned that he voluntarily (iirc) shrunk his business lately

efilifeon Consumer Rights Wiki

Watch the video, he shows what was on the website. Additionally, it only recently fell off google while it was in perfect standing for many many years.

efilifeon Consumer Rights Wiki

he explained why he does that. In short, he was fighting to be displayed in search results by having legitimate content on the site for months, but the traffic was dying day by day and killing his business. He then asked Gemini to write him some bullshit SEO and went back to the 1st spot on google. Look for the video on his channel, it's not as bad as it looks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc

I found this but keep in mind there were more videos about it. Let me leave the description of the video here:

Google delisted my business for almost a year. Professional SEO couldn't fix it, creating a new site didnt help. What finally worked was having AI rewrite my authentic content into corporate-friendly bunk. I hate that it worked. This video took me a month to make because I felt ashamed of my decision.

efilifeon Claude: System Prompts

About your second point, how is it done today?

efilifeon Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

isn't this happening already? There's the concept called "thinking" where the models talks with itself before giving you the final answer

efilifeon eigendrum

Same. I no longer tolerate this bullshit

efilifeon Shade Map

Possibly didn't have the time to comment on this yet. Last comment is from 10h ago

efilifeon Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

Clickbait. Title makes it sound like they pay them directly to promote the platform, but they get paid through facebook content monetisation program

efilifeon Taste Is All That's Left

There's even a typo there, a space on one side of an em-dash and not on the other. I'm serious, noticing this makes me believe it's 100% human written

efilifeon Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

And I thought that this was going to be about the number PI

efilifeon The More You Buy, the More You Lose

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haven't even had a chance to read a word