lewis in the land of machines

Pro Tools: making a vocoder in the mixer without plugins -

using EQ3s to split bands then sidechained Dynamics 3s as envelope followers/VCAs

Pro Tools: going full screen and removing all window border clutter with AutoHotkey -

because my screen is tiny.

Nuke: crop to aspect ratio -

standard stuff standard stuff

Nuke: dissolving between multiple inputs -

for fading between stills in a time-lapse style, or whatever

KDE4: removing zombie ghost icons from taskbar -

if you add a launcher icon thing and it appears as a gap with no icon and you can’t delete it, edit

~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

and remove the pertinent sections (usually two, one with the path to the .desktop file and one with some position settings) then

pkill plasma-desktop;plasma-desktop&disown

Total size of folders with a particular name -

find . -type d -name 'qube' -exec du -s {} \; | awk '{print $1}' | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/.$/\n/' | bc

Wacom: switch mapping from screen to screen -

Crude as bro:

Logging NFS file accesses -

for two seconds only, to dmesg.

Nuke: automatic layer precomp Write creation -

Makes .tga fill and matte Writes nodes in the precomps folder, saves the script with _r01 on the end

Nuke: rotating to follow a 2D motion path -

good for animating kites. But not their tails.

Nuke: Distance and Mix -

poor man’s CHOP networks, part one. Hook two Axes or Cameras or whatever to this Distance node, get the distance between them. Hook two Distance nodes to this Mix node, get a mixture of the two.

Nuke: life is too short for complicated relighting -

takes normals in your N channel, outputs lambert shader of an infinitely far away point light in rgba

Nuke: looping -

repeat a time range forever

Bash: copying every 24th frame to a new sequence -

Good for shortening long DPX sequences to test encodes

Nuke: setting knob values on a bunch of nodes -

bored of typing this six times a day