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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • We liked to get a bungalow somewhere in a rural area and stay in the same one for the whole duration, so it becomes a base from where you to day trips with the car, which becomes your second base where all the necessary stuff is with you all the time and where the kids can sleep if necessary.

    Not moving between hotels removes a lot of stress already. And then don’t try to cramp too many things into a day, it’s just a rural area, you don’t need to see every single tourist attraction there. Instead explore the local area around the bungalow. Find a local playground, look at the local animals, find the local restaurant and convenience store, etc.



















  • Right now https://jeena.github.io/recoder/ which I just released and here is why (copied from the website):


    🎬 Why Recoder?

    I used to edit family videos in Kdenlive without a problem — it handled footage from all our devices without complaining. But then I switched to DaVinci Resolve, and suddenly nothing worked right. My Sony Alpha 7C, my Galaxy S24, and my wife’s iPhone all produced files that Resolve couldn’t handle without transcoding.

    😤 Too Much Fuss, Too Many Steps

    Every time I wanted to edit, I had to hunt down the right ffmpeg settings and manually run them on each video — a frustrating and repetitive task.

    My typical workflow is simple: I create one folder per event on an external HDD and drop in videos from all our cameras. A script renames the files based on the date and time so I can easily sort them. But for Resolve, everything has to be transcoded to DNxHD — which only supports resolutions like 1920×1080 and 1280×720.

    🔄 Vertical Videos? Extra Pain

    That also meant vertical videos couldn’t work. So now, I rotate them during transcoding to preserve resolution and rotate them back in Resolve during editing.

    ✨ Enter Recoder

    I built Recoder to automate this annoying step — so I could spend more time editing memories and less time fiddling with command-line tools.