Notes for September 8–14

I’m now fully back to work, so there hasn’t been any free time for anything but finishing overdue posts. I have, however, managed to sneak in a few leisurely half-hours in the mornings reading work e-mail from my balcony before my calls start, which has been a great way to enjoy the lingering summertime.

I am, however, pretty certain someone will spoil that for me with more project management calls any day now.

Nevertheless, I’ve spent a few hours this weekend trying to get DaVinci Resolve and KDEnlive to work via RDP inside my Proxmox cluster (for science!) with… dramatic results.

Resolve (which has a reputation of being fiddly in Linux overall) crashed the NVIDIA drivers and the Proxmox host several times, but KDEnlive actually ran surprisingly well with just VAAPI and Intel QuickSync—and it was able to do so directly on my NAS, which saves me time and energy managing video clips and assets.

I have a vested interest in doing video editing “remotely” because my Macs (especially my desktop Mini) don’t have enough storage for handling videos, so this was an interesting experiment. But I suspect I will eventually fire up Final Cut Pro and investigate how good the UX is with network-mounted media (the workarounds I knew about used to require setting up sparse bundle images in the NAS, which is just stupid).

I can always revisit the notion of paying for it again on the iPad and get a thunderbolt SSD, but… why?

Lack of free time to do my projects is one thing, but my evenings are still manageable, so I was somewhat surprised that Foundation ended the season in such a weird way (fine, we all know it’s not canon Asimov, but still… some plot twists just don’t make sense) and pleasantly amused with the end of this season of Strange New Worlds, which is well on its way to be the best modern Trek (although that isn’t hard given recent history).

I’d watch a full original series reboot if this trend keeps up.