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Some time ago I submitted a question about a mysterious fault I was experiencing. And I owe u/VincibleAndy something of an apology, who actually put me on the right track but I was looking at the wrong setting when I said that wasn't it.

Not only did I have an experience where the exposure suddenly changed even though everything (or so I thought) was switched to manual, but I noticed that when I switched through the ND filter settings, the image brightened or dimmed to compensate.

I thought I had automatic gain switched off, but actually I was looking at the related setting for autom

Using Panasonic HC-X2E, firmware version 1.1 (the latest update as far as I can tell), shooting 2160-25p/HEVC LongGOP in Vlog profile.

I've long noticed that even with shutter speed and aperture both set to manual, if I change the ND filter the image in the viewfinder brightens or dims briefly, before returning to more or less what it was before, almost as if exposure settings were on auto. I've set the viewfinder to convert the image to Rec709 for display, and thought it might just be a side-effect of that.

But today the image brightness suddenly changed as I was shooting. I have a side-by-side comparison here: at exactly the moment I got the shot I wanted,

Here's a frame from an animation. It's dimly lit, but you can see the ghostly black artifacts just to the left and right of the object in the centre.

Currently using Blender 3.6.5.0, rendering in Cycles using GPU Compute. This happens in the first 15 or so frames of the animation: the camera simply sweeps round and (later in the animation) the lights come on.

I've tried changing the number of samples, changing the Denoise settings and even turning Denoise completely off (in fact, the artifacting is visible from the first sample). It's not an issue with the video encoding, because the artifacting is visible even when I render a single fram

I've just received an e-mail from DB saying that a journey I have booked for a couple weeks' time has changed, and if I want to make a new seat reservation I will have to pay for it and then claim the money back.

So far, so annoying, but when I look at the "new" details, they are exactly the same as the journey I have booked: same train number, same departure and arrival times, same everything. I see no notifications about any changes of any kind. When I look up that specific train, it's still showing up as running normally.

Has anyone ever encountered this before? I'm wondering if this is just some kind of a glitch, or if it means that the coach I booked a seat in has been withdrawn.

Beginner here, following this tutorial, although with my own video and objects.

I have, under "Film", set the Transparency setting, and in the Render Preview mode the video shows up perfectly fine.

At the 23 minute mark, the tutor switches to the Preview workspace, and without -- as far as I can tell -- changing any other settings, hits F12 to get a preview of a frame. It renders, first the foreground and then the background, and finally both layers are displayed together with the corresponding frame from the video footage.

But when I try it, the video footage doesn't show up: the 3D objects and the shadow render, but everything else is trans

If you're in Bavaria at 11 am on Thursday, 9th March, you will witness a test of the civil emergency warning system. Don't panic: it's just a drill.

If everything works as intended, you can expect some or all of the following:

• sirens (a continuous rising-falling tone lasting one minute -- a continuous steady tone is the all clear) -- these aren't installed everywhere but are common in smaller towns and villages;
• a notification by cell broadcast (if your phone is capable of receiving them and is correctly set up);
• a notification on any warning apps you may have installed (e.g. Katwarn or NINA);
• vehicles driving through the streets giving loudspeaker announcements;
• notifications po

I'll preface this epic odyssey by saying that perhaps my main question is this: How come adding audio effects to clips causes such painfully laggy playback (at least on my system) even after I have rendered the audio?

My PC is not state-of-the-art, but usually performs tolerably well with the type of videos I make. My latest video is a little more ambitious than usual, so I expected to run into issues, but not to the extent that I actually did.

Recently I've been concentrating on improving the audio in my videos, and recently acquired two AI plug-ins: one to remove echo, and one to eliminate background noise. So I've been experimenting with those, together with the parametric equalizer a

Either today or at some point this weekend, you may be visited by children in costume. They will recite a text and ask for a donation, before writing or sticking a cryptic row of letters and numbers on the door frame.

These are the "star singers"; it's a Catholic tradition, but has since spread to some Protestant areas as well. The children will be dressed as the Three Wise Men, and there will usually be another child carrying a star. One of the Wise Men will probably be in blackface: they are supposed to represent the three Old World continents Europe, Asia and Africa, and since Germany doesn't have the same history of slavery and colonialism as the US, the conversation about blackface has