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   Simon Jaeger (simon@procrastodon.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 09:29:47 JST Simon Jaeger

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   It would also probably be easier if I could make a script and then reading from it, but I need hands to read and hands to use my devices. So I try to rehearse the script, but end up getting it wrong and recording 500 failed takes because I focus too much on saying the right thing. So then I improvise, but I end up recording successive takes that get longer and longer as I perfect the whole thing.

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     Simon Jaeger (simon@procrastodon.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 09:29:48 JST Simon Jaeger

     I think I would literally pay $1,000 for an app that sits in the background and records microphone, system audio, and system video, then gives me trim/cut capabilities along the lines of GoldWave. I'm always being asked to record demos for work, and I apparently do them really well because they keep coming back for more, but I spend 90% of my time avoiding it, 9% of the time obsessively nitpicking and planning every detail, and 1% of the time actually recording the demo.
     I tried to edit existing video in Reaper, and it works but produces weird, inconsistent results. If I try to actually save it as MP4, I get really low colour" depth and other issues. I just want to open up a video file and cut out all the extra junk and failed sentences. It should not be this hard.

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