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Sunday,  09/29/24  10:15 AM

Among all the amazing capabilities of Perplexity* and honestly, c'mon, it is amazing, right? one of the biggest for me is that it has completely replaced online help.  For some time now we were sure that Google was always better than a product's own online help, but now Perplexity is amazingly better. * if you're not using Perplexity instead of Google as your default search engine, you're missing out I'm editing a video with Adobe Premiere - a timelapse of the Lighthouse Century I rode yesterday, since you ask :) - and wanted to know how to change a video segment from 29.97fps as recorded by my GoPro to 1fps as I want it added into my video.  So I asked Perplexity*: "Adobe Premier how do I change the frame rate of a segment" and it tells me to use "Interpret Footage".  Well that's a good answer but not the one I want, because it changes the segment's duration, so I next type** "without changing the duration" (leveraging context) and it tells me "use the Posterize Time Video Effect" which is exactly the right answer.  Saved me many many minutes, and essentially makes Premiere itself more powerful, since it opens up many more of its capabilities for me. * by "ask" I mean, "typed into my browser's search line" ** by "next type" I mean, "typed into the Perplexity chat below the search result" And you know what Perplexity costs? $0... What a time to be alive!

 

Lighthouse Century, still

Sunday,  09/29/24  10:44 AM

I'm still riding Centuries, and yesterday rode a nice one: the Lighthouse Century from Morro Bay up PCH to the Piedras Blancas lighthouse, through San Simeon, and by the Elephant Seal overlook.  To get to 100 miles the organizers start with a nice little jaunt into the hills of Paso Robles; beautiful wine country, if you can take a minute from climbing to take in the views. Yes, it was a great ride, and yes, I am quite proud of myself for being able to ride a Century in under six hours; "only" 5,200' of climbing... but still! I've been playing with the various ways to record video of a ride from my GoPro, and this little clip contains several of them: straight video, speeded up, time lapse pictures, turned into a video, and "posterized" video to turn it into effectively a timelapse sequence.  Not sure yet of the best way.  I do like taking pictures during the ride and embedding them; for all that the GoPro is amazing, the iPhone pictures are better yet, and you can really see the difference on a cold and cloudy day.  And with my phone I can shoot "sideways", whereas the GoPro is always pointed "down the road".  Onward!

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