The workflow was to take established images of people eating in competitions and inpaint faces and fecal matter into them using inpaint and inpaint sketch. SD is not very good at depicting poop, but one can describe the foods in a manner that will look like believable feces. Prompts saying things such brown chocolate chicken wings.

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In a nutshell it is a style that is rotoscoped over other video using several AI techniques and drawing styles trained into the software being used. This was done using Toon App for key frames and EB synth to blend and create the frames in between.

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Captain Picard has recorded a rather interesting Captain’s Log involving Geordi La Forge of Engineering and his return with a red MAGA hat…

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Workflow is SDXL 1.0 with SDXL VAE and Refiner. SD1.5 and SD2.1 inpaint. Reface and Face App.

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This week is putting the final touches on a few web components for our veterans outreach website. I needed to make a short video to put into the website and decided that it would be best to simply have a stock graphic video of an American flag waving. With that stock video I did a voice over and burned captions of the voice over on to the video.

Typically, I would get the camera and tripod to go outside and film this with a lavalier for audio. I decided against that because I have put my face on so many materials for the organization, that I feel it may be oversaturated at times. My voice is known, but it can easily be disassociated with my face over time so I felt this would be a better approach. It would also cut time for post production of both the audio and the video.

I grabbed the stock footage from the Envato Elements subscription that I currently have.

The week had two interviews for the podcast, but only one is being released. The release is being done as such because it has dated material to promote an upcoming event. The organization also needs extra podcast material to last over the winter/holiday break as I will be taking that time off to be with family while they are on vacation. So, the material will be edited and scheduled for release one a week for the next several weeks.

There isn’t much else to add for this week as things are winding down for me with school and the work needed for the time frame. I have zero plans to make an special edits or do any special compositions. The footage I had from the Texas Hemp Summit was practically a wash. I needed more footage of what could be considered b-roll and my camera was failing in the middle of the Sid Miller speech. I may be able to make some shorts out of it for YouTube but that will be about it.

This time and the next week are also about focusing on putting together the portfolio for the internship credits.

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This was basically a dead week. Its Thanksgiving. Sunday I did the news review which covered a bill sent to Biden’s desk regarding research. That covered an article that I did the previous week. That news segment also covered the fact that the Texas legislature has already started filing bills for the upcoming legislative session. Monday was basic preparation time for our upcoming live stream

Tuesday was our first ever live streaming podcast. Instead of just recording it and editing it for later, it went live on our platforms. From there it was uploaded as of writing this (these are written on Sunday’s to follow up the week of work). I figured with this version there was no reason to do any edits because it was already on other platforms and would should obvious differences between versions.

Thursday had me putting in an hour because I needed to create an image post to share on our socials. Usually we have something ready and one of the other members takes care of that. That was not the case, so I stepped in and made something to post on our Facebook and Instagram to address the holiday.

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This week was nothing special in the way of editing. I was able to cut out a clip of Sid Miller speaking at the Texas Hemp Summit and spent time researching how I could make the audio salvageable. There was a lot of echo in the conference room where the speakers were at. So this was really a lot of reverberation off of the the glass and walls in the building.

I learned that Adobe Audition has a noise reduction special effect called de-reverb. This actually worked out quite well after making a few adjustments to get the best quality I could. Had I likely been in a different area of the building, this effect would have been amazing. The reality is that anybody who wanted to professionally record would have set up a mic at the podium where Sid was speaking. That wasn’t practical though because not every speaker was at the podium to talk.

I spent most of the day Sunday finishing up a decriminalization website project made in bootstrap. Part of that included placing an interview video embedded into the website. I made this easy on myself and filmed myself in front of my greenscreen with my web-studio program doing a chroma key just like our podcast. The questions came up as text and I would answer them. I used a wired lavolier that I own and plugged it into my audio interface to get quality audio.

As well as to make sure levels were fine the entire time I used my in-ear earbuds on my non-visible ear during filming. I ran the wire into my shirt down my shoulder and out the sleeve where it was not visible. As, always with items like this I take the audio out of Premier and process it through Adobe Audition to make it clear and level.

Our podcast guest did not show up again this week, and with no backup episode had to grind on through with my co-host to do a basic monthly/seasonal update to follow up on election items. The Saturday saw me attending an event in Austin, the Texas Hemp Harvest Festival. That was more of a meeting with the owners of the event and vendors to network while being able to enjoy myself.

Hopefully though I will be able to get footage together to make a quick montage of the Hemp Summit speakers.

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This week has been working primarily on a Bootstrap website as a class project that I designated to be for the non-profit. That way the work that I would be doing for the classes would be put towards my internship time. This helps keep the amount of time I have to work on multiple projects down, while still keeping my grades up and availability for personal time to wind down.

For the site I decided to do an updated version of a case for decriminalization using the data segment from before, but adding updated numbers. The site included an article about the disparities that Texans can see in arrests, prosecutions, jail time, etc. There are interactive data visualizations, an interview that I filmed where I answered some questions, and some information on the ethics of the concept.

This week I also had to take a trip out to Texas A&M for a Hemp Summit. So, I had a two-hour drive from Austin to College Station, and a two-hour drive back. And the first day was a summit and then a get together to network and socialize, which was well spent talking about marketing and creating short form media content for social media.

This was an exhausting trip as the event was all-day on both days, with some after-time for discussion. It didn’t help that both of my batteries for my video camera decided that they would no longer maintain any charge. So, now I will have to look into investing money into new batteries. Perhaps this is an opportunity to get bigger better batteries as the camera does have the opening for such batteries.

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I will say that it is frustrating that the material being recorded can still have the opportunity to be botched on the video side by the platforms being used to record said video. This happened with the latest episode of our podcast. The video recording side took the audio in at a level that caused it all to be clipping. Luckily I have my own hardware side audio recording that did not do that.

the video side though is not recorded locally and therefore is recorded as the server receives it from the guest and from the host. This means that the video and audio can wind up going in and out of synch. I edit the audio with the video to occasionally come back into sync. That little bit takes a lot of time and doing it for the whole video can take a day’s worth of work. I have other pressing things to work on and the organization is not that concerned about it.

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