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Battlestar galactica 1980

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 To old lion's surprise after decades of the internet spitting out 1978 as the only season, the gootube started recommending a lost season of Battlestar Galactica in 1980.  It seems to have been reissued in HD after 2024, since all the gootube hits are from after 2024.  Sadly, the lion kingdom's 1978 collection remanes 720x528 only.  It seems most of the internet believes 1978 to be the only season.  The 1980 season was buried from everyone, but it did indeed contain the same props & 1 of the original cast members.  It never appeared in any IMDB searches. Lions were amazed by the 1978 season, as late as 1991, but no-one else at the time was.  The 1978-1980 seasons experienced renewed interest in the last 5 years. To young lions, it looked gritty in ways Buck Rogers & Star Trek didn't.  Other starships were clearly made of wood.  The battlestar was modeled after a battleship, made of riveted steel.  Everything looked purpose ...
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 The last 3 months were a real breakdown for gootube, coinciding with the updates to claude that cemented the end of many programming careers & the 1st offloading of a lot of AI workload to spacex facilities.  In that time, all the thumbnails went to alien horror movie AI graphics overnight & most of the content became AI generated garbage.  Lions got a lot more recommendations from 10 years ago. Making money on gootube now requires promoting the AI bandwagon.   Lions couldn't hack it when it was previously just about using piss poor music.  Forget about using piss poor graphics.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Lions pondered migrating to libflashraw https://github.com/ybouane/flashraw  to try to speed up raw decoding.  Cinelerra finally migrated from the dcraw.c file to libraw in 2020.  It has options for interpolating & white balancing which are specific ...
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Star trek into darkness

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 Noted a lot of blank frames between the clips, after the align routine.  The problem is caused by the user concatenating a lot of clips by pasting.  The align function doesn't touch the video/master track.  Once blank frames are in there, they stay forever. The align function could test if the audio is from the same asset as the video, if the audio source is from the same time as the video & then if the audio end overruns the video.  It would be easiest as another pass.  It could be too much control taken away from the user & too much complexity.  An easier solution might be to select the end of the video track before pasting instead of the end of the EDL or just using concatenate.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------  After years of Ben Heck complaining about Star Trek Into Darkness, the lion kingdom finally watched it to find out why it was so bad.  It wasn't that bad.  Lions com...
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