Lion ponderings

Young lions were so intrigued by the dominant heroine in Spellbound, they actually bought the DVD.  26 years later, an HD print arrived.  Young lion initially saw only fragments while channel surfing.  The higher resolution definitely revealed a hazier, softer view of 1945.   Unsharp only worsens the grain.  The heroine's towering 5'9" tallness & dominance popped with young lion, but he didn't know it.  She was the superstar heroine from Casablanca.  Lions wonder if anyone that tall & dominant would become a superstar now. Young lion thought Hitchcock left it up to the viewer to decide if she was doing competent doctoring or succumbing to female hormones.  Young lion wanted to believe the former but the show in middle age definitely showed the latter.   Ingrid Bergman had affairs with all her costars, in an age before polyamory of the rich was the way intelligent life would survive.   Polyamory of a female zillion...

 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...