Lion ponderings

 More cinelerra bugs piled up, as lions continued doing more keyframe editing than usual.  Lions need to produce more movies that use all its features, though it has many alternatives at this point.  Constant keyframes didn't work in reverse playback & FloatAutos::automation_is_constant didn't work with constant keyframes at all.  The problem is get_prev_auto & get_next_auto return different values based on the direction.  get_automation_constant was an optimization in the days of 166Mhz to look up only 1 fade value for an entire audio buffer.  It might be overrated but it's technically correct.  It's used in a curious way inside VAutomation::direct_copy_possible because it's always true for a single frame of video.  It might be an artifact from when video was going to be processed in chunks, with pointers to arrays of pointers to frames.  Then we have multiple ways of getting the constant value:  IntAutos::get_automation_constan...

 Latest survey of consumer finances dropped.  The top 10% continued shooting upward while the rest stagnated.  The top 10% is the inflation of inflation targeting  & the bottom 90% is the deflation of inflation targeting.    The demographic under 35, gen Z & all the influencers bragging about getting rich actually lost a lot of ground.  35-44 or millennials gained some ground because they're famously rich & invested.  45-54 or generation X lost some ground because they're famously poor & made hail mary house purchases like mad in 2022.  Baby boomers are still living the dream.  35-44/millennials definitely lived up to their reputation as large living rich yuppies between the 2 forsaken ones. They replaced all the 70's ranch houses with frank lloyd wright airbnb's.  They repainted the world grey.  They started investing at the bottom in 2009 & rode the mountain of printed money up.  They became the...

Yet another bug got fixed, whereby it was clearing an edit handle before pasting between 2 edits with the same source, resulting in the after edit being lost & replaced by the rest of the movie in the before edit.  It was clearing in all cases where the selected area had zero length.  The EQUIV operator is more difficult to use than == & won't work if the frame rate is in the thousands.  Lions are now assuming a start & end coming from user input are always going to work with the == operator.     During this process, 1/16 sample zoom exposed a few anomalies.  Noted if the source samplerate doesn't match the project samplerate, it draws the samples offset from the sample ticks.   Also noted the 48khz samples line up with the 24 frame rate but the 44.1khz samples do not.  It's possible for the insertion point to line up on a frame but not a sample in certain cases: double click an edit, ctrl seek to label, alt seek to edit.  Al...

 Lions got a few Vanishing Point recommendations over the years from the facebook film location group.  The memory of trashy 70's cop shows in syndication was so strong, lions got intrigued by how this one looked especially trashy & bland.  Every trashy 70's movie looks better in HD, especially the nudes. They were all made as cheaply as possible, edited on movieolas. These movies were spawned by the muscle car era.  Sadly, high performance Teslas never spawned a movie genre.  Yet, this world of high performance automobiles was still the world that the 1950's left behind with furniture that the 1800's left behind.  Some memories of run & gun night photography in those days.  Until the 2010's, shaky points of light were all you got without a long exposure.   Duel, Bullitt, Vanishing point, the Car manely come to mind.  The desert scenes are comparable to Duel.  The sound & speed is comparable to Bullitt.  It's basically w...