#also corrections for the basque part are always welcome

[guillemelgat]

Song eight from my translation of Junteu-vos by el Diluvi, featuring Huntza which means I got to translate some Basque too (into both Catalan and English)!

On estan tots aquells que “Al Vent” li cantaren? Where are all the people who sang “Al Vent” [“To the Wind”]? On estan les cabòries que sempre rondaven? Where are the worries that were always going around? On estan cada veu, cada crit, cada plor? Where is every voice, every cry, every tear? On estan les cançons, les de cor, les d’amor? Where are the songs, the ones from the heart, the ones about love? On estan els camins que a la lluita ens portaren Where are all the roads that brought us to the fight per lluitar sense por? to fight without fear?

[ TORNADA: T’escoltaré, quan t’aboques a l’abisme I’ll listen to you, when you’re staring down the abyss T’escoltaré I’ll listen to you I lluitarem de la mà contra els dimonis, And we’ll fight hand-to-hand against the demons, i lluitarem and we’ll fight ]

Non daude kantatzen zuten txoriak? On estan els ocells que cantàven? Where are the birds that used to sing? Non inoiz kontatu gabeko elezaharrak? On, les llegendes mai contades? Where are the legends never told? Non dago jendea mugitzen zuen haizea? On està el vent que mou la gent? Where is the wind that moves people? Non pasatako momentu guztiak? On, tots els moments passats? Where are all the moments that have passed? Borrokara eraman gintuzten bideak? Els camins que se’ns van emportar a la lluita? The roads that carried us into the fight? Beldurrik gabe aurrera! Endavant, sense por! Onwards, without fear!

[ ERREPIKA: Entzungo zaitut, amildegian heltzean T’escoltaré, quan arribes a l’abisme I’ll listen to you, when you’ve come to the abyss Entzungo zaitut  T’escoltaré I’ll listen to you Eta borrokatu itzalen aurka batera i lluitar contra les ombres a la vegada and fight against the shadows at the same time Borrokatu lluitar fight ]

Embriagant-nos de goig jugarem amb el foc; Getting drunk on joy when we play with fire; entre espurnes de llum la tristesa s’allunya. between sparks of light sadness goes far away. si l’ahir es el hui i el demà ja vindrà, If yesterday is today and tomorrow is yet to come mirarem a la nit, brindarem amb la lluna. we’ll look into the night, we’ll toast with the moon. Abrigats amb records farem fora els enyors. Wrapped cozily in memories we’ll drive out longing La nostàlgia esta nit ens serà inoportuna. Nostalgia will be unfitting for us tonight. Lluitarem sense por! We’ll fight without fear!

[ TORNADA ]

#enjoy!! this lovely bilingual piece!!! #it's so good!!! #i love it!!!!! #also corrections for the basque part are always welcome #(and the catalan part too but i'm usually a bit more confident about that) #catalan #basque #la vida sense queue #come together el diluvi #music #translation #catalan:general #catalan:music #catalan:translation #general:music #general:translation

[ethelphantom]

Crimson as a Rose, chapter 2

Hello again, I have now finished the second (and for now, the last) chapter of this thing that somehow went from like 600 words to over one thousand while editing. Oh well. I hope you like it. It’s a little happier than the previous one I swear.

Also, like said, this is the last chapter for now, which means that if either I get inspired to write more or you guys suggest what to write, I’ll do more of it. Maybe something from Mari’s POV.... Hmmmh... So like yes you can most definitely send me any ideas you may have either through asks or then messages.

Oh yeah and thank you so much for the awesome reception this got both here and on Ao3 like???? I’m crying here ok??? You guys are so sweet. Like, over 100 notes in a little over 24 hours and like 11 new followers is so weird and amazing but I’m grateful for each one <3

This is Maribat, ship being Jasonette. Don’t like, don’t read.

On Ao3 || Chapter 1 || Part 2 || Part 3

Years later, someone knocked on the door of their shared apartment. He had moved in with Marinette a few years earlier. Both their roses stood proudly on the table in a vase, always together. Jason’s rose had long come together even if it was still missing a few petals — but that was fine. So was hers. They survived together.

“Are you expecting someone, Sunshine?”, Jason called to the kitchen where Marinette was baking something yet again. While it was completely normal for her to randomly start craving things and just straight up go bake them at any time of the day, today it had been a little more than strange. Marinette had literally shot up all of a sudden and ran to the kitchen to bake accompanied by a few carefully selected curse words and a frantic and irritated “mon dieu”. Inviting guests and then proceeding to forget about it would get that reaction out of her, definitely.

“Oh yeah. Could you please open the door for me, Jay?”

“Anything for you, my sun", he replied with a smile on his face.

A tall man with dark hair and black sunglasses stood in the doorway, looking like he wasn’t sure whether he was in the right place at all.  

“Is this the house of Marinette Dupain-Cheng-Todd?”, the man asked, trying to look behind him, probably to get a glimpse of his wife. His French was accented, and Jason could have almost bet he was from the US as well. It sounded a little too familiar though, so he was quite sure the man was from somewhere near where Jason had once lived.

“Yes, this is her husband”, Jason replied, trying not to snarl at the man.This was Marinette’s guest, it wouldn’t do him good to snap at the stranger. His Sunshine wouldn’t be too happy about it.  

“That is wonderful. Could you either let me in or ask your wife to come here? She told me she wanted to talk to me about something important, something concerning one of my children.”

That took Jason by surprise. This man’s children? Could—

No, he trusted Marinette. She would have told him if there was something as big as a child of hers before they got married. She wouldn’t hide such a thing from him.

“Oh, Monsieur Wayne, you’re here! Great to see you’re on time. Come in, Jason can show you where the living room is, I’ll be there soon!”, she said happily and went back to the kitchen.

(Bells started ringing in Jason’s head. The name Wayne sounded way too familiar. Why couldn’t he remember where he knew it?)

Jason took the man to the living room, about to leave when his wife yelled at him to stay there as well. She wanted him with her. That was comforting to know. It reassured him that there was indeed nothing going on behind his back, though he knew Marinette would never do anything to hurt him on purpose. He had simply been hurt too many times, it was natural that he was cautious. It was also okay to be that way as long as he didn’t let it control him.

(Or, that was what Marinette had told him anyway. Multiple times.)

When she returned, she had a platter full of red and black macarons with her. With a sweet smile, she offered both of them macarons before gesturing for them to sit down. She herself sat next to Jason and put a hand on his thigh, stroking it gently with her thumb. Jason pulled her closer to him.

“So, Mrs Dupain-Cheng-Todd—”

“Please, call me Marinette.”

“Marinette, then. You contacted me and told me you know my son that I lost years ago? The one that I thought was dead?”

“Yes.”

And then Jason found the same, mischievous grin he’d gotten to know during the past years on her face. “This here is Jason Todd, my husband. Your son.”

The man gasped and took off his sunglasses. The piercing blue eyes met his, and he finally recognised this man.

Bruce Wayne.

His adoptive father that gave up on him.

And Marinette had brought him into their home.

Jason was ready to stand up and leave, angry at anything and everything he could think of, but Marinette held his hand tightly in hers, not leaving him a chance to go. He could probably get away even then, but there was no way he was risking harming her by doing it. There was absolutely no question about it, so Jason sat back down. She rubbed the back of his hand softly, calming him down a little.

“I think there’s been a misunderstanding — or multiple of them — and I want him to be whole again. If what is needed for that is to mend what was left broken after that , I will do my everything to help that happen.”

“You are truly a kind person, Marinette.” Turning back to Jason, his gaze softened and he smiled. “Jason? Is it really you? You aren’t dead after all? I— I thought I lost you forever.”

“Well, clearly not. Don’t pretend to care now — you didn’t care back then”, he spat, only to receive a glare from his wife.

“Jason, don’t be rude. What have we talked about assuming the worst of people? Your rose is still incomplete. Mine will never mend because my master died, but yours can still be healed. I want you to be happy. I’m sure there have simply been too many grave misunderstandings and a lack of communication on both ends, but those can be corrected if you just talk them out ”, she said in Basque.

It was a language they’d decided to learn in case they needed to talk about anything more private in front of others since there weren’t many who spoke it. Of course she used it in when talking about their roses. She knew how uncomfortable it made him to let others know about the roses and she respected it. When he’d told her the first time, she’d simply nodded and went to find out what language they could learn to be able to talk about them without needing to be afraid of others finding out most of the time.

And she still kept it on in front of his father.

“Fine. I’ll do it for you”, he replied again in French. A smile found its way to his lips as his wife shot a bright smile at him.

“Jason, I swear, I did care. I still do. I would have not come all the way to France if it wasn’t for you, if it wasn’t because I care about you”, Bruce said and swallowed down a lump in his throat before he spoke again. “I was devastated when I found you dead and blamed myself for a long time for it. You were and still are my child, and it was horrible for me to lose you. I’d love to have you back in the family, but I understand if you want nothing to do with us and especially if you never want to come back to Gotham. It would be good enough for me to hear from you every now and then. I’m sorry we made you feel like you couldn’t return to us.”

Jason sighed. He didn’t know what to think of his father. On one hand, he wanted to believe Bruce was telling the truth and meet the family he left behind long ago to build a new one again, but on the other hand he was ready to throw him out of the house and tell him to never speak to him again. That would definitely upset his wife as she had probably had to do quite a lot to convince Bruce Wayne himself to speak to her because she wanted to help him heal completely.

But, even though he was more inclined to go with the second option, he chose to get to know his family again, if only for Marinette.

“Fine. I accept your apology, though I’m not ready to forgive you.”

“That’s alright. I didn’t expect you to be.”

“I’m not doing this for any of you though, I’m doing it only because Marinette put so much effort into organising this, you understand?”

“Of course.”

Bruce smiled at him and Marinette squeezed his hand. Something told him he had made the right choice, albeit the hard and irritating one.

And well. They did solve things. It was slow, because god was there a lot of baggage and so many deep grudges, but after a year or two, Marinette and Jason were waiting on an airport, ready to go to Gotham. Go back to the place Jason had sworn he’d never set even a foot in again.

But he was going with Marinette — who’d promised not to leave his side as long as she had any say in it — to meet his family again, the family that apparently did not give up on him. The family that grieved him for a long time but couldn’t just show it in public. He was the luckiest man in history to have met Marinette and have her fall in love with him. She kept going out of her way for him, to make him happy.

Maybe, just maybe, he’d be alright with this.

The two of them stepped out of the airplane only to be greeted by a huge welcoming committee that was the official Wayne family, as well as most of the honorary Waynes. Jason looked at Marinette, who simply smiled at him and squeezed his hand for encouragement. They would be fine, and most importantly, they would be together.

With their roses in their hands, Jason’s finally missing none of its petals, they walked up to the family that welcomed them with open arms and smiles (mostly, anyway, because they decided not to pay attention to the scowling young man that looked the most like Bruce). To the family that didn’t care they came to meet them only now because they had come anyway.

To their family.

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[houseofmind]

2 Year Anniversary PD Update

A lot has happened since I last brought you up to speed with my life and academic endeavors. Given that my last update post was over 2 years ago, I wasn’t sure where to start. With that said, this post has been opened and worked on (and opened and worked on, and so forth) so it’s a long one :X If you’re new, welcome! Also, please be sure to check out the list of things I learned during my PhD. 

Spring/Summer 2016

Briefly, I moved to Pittsburgh about a week after that update post. I crammed as much of my stuff as I could along with Fausto (my cat) into a rental car and drove to my new place amidst a snowstorm. I made it there safely (although I had to make an overnight stop that I swear gave my cat anxiety). My new home exceeded my expectations (2 bedroom, living room, kitchen, basement, washer/dryer, short commute < $1,000), but leaving NYC and most of my friends was bittersweet. 

I went into lab the next day after arriving in Pittsburgh. THAT felt really weird because it was when reality hit. New job, new role, new boss (and new style), new techniques, new approaches, new life basically. My first challenge in the lab was learning the “bread and butter” technique: in vivo extracellular recordings of VTA dopamine neurons. Initially, this scared the shit out of me because I had 0 electrophysiology experience so I was worried about how long it would take for me to be decent and start collecting good data. I was trained by the RAP in the lab; I shadowed her for a week and copied down as much as I could. Then, I did an animal every day for a month. That’s about how long it took for me to get comfortable. (Side note: if you move to a lab and need to learn a new technique, my advice is to attack it aggressively until you learn it!). At the beginning I encountered problems such as having my animal bleed too much, giving too much anesthetic, taking too long (a whole day for just one surgery), making bad electrodes, not being able to find dopamine neurons, etc. The really cool part was seeing myself get better: not making the same mistakes, being able to correct mistakes when they happened, becoming faster and more efficient, optimizing my procedure. It was a great reminder of why I love doing science and that I am capable of learning new things :]

Then came the part where my advisor asked me to think of projects related to his prior work and funding. Call this my second challenge in the lab. He suggested a “safe” project and a “pie in the sky” project. I really appreciated his flexibility and willingness to have me choose projects and questions that I cared about, while also offering his guidance and steering me in better directions. After I pored over his grants and (then still in press papers), I came up with 2 ideas and presented my experimental design to the lab. Next, I got to work! During this time I received funding from a T32 program within the Psychiatry at Pitt, which would cover my stipend until I was able to secure my own funding (more on this in Fall 2015). 

Work was interrupted for a couple of days in May that I took off to attend my graduation in NYC. My parents and one of my brothers were able to fly in from Puerto Rico and I was really pleased. I am the only (and first!) PhD in either side of the family so I could tell that this was a big deal to them and that they were really proud of me. Obviously, this made me feel proud of myself :D

Here is a pic of me on graduation day:

After I came back, it was time to get down to business. My first cohort of “real animals” was ready for all the single unit dopamine (DA) neuron recordings I had to do. Even though I had only been doing this technique for ~2 months, I managed to get some interesting preliminary data that my PI was enthusiastic about, he suggested I write an F32 (NIH postdoctoral fellowship grant). For the August deadline, meep! Most of June and July was spent working around the clock to not only gather and analyze the data, but also write the proposal. IT WAS INSANE. During this time, I also traveled to San Sebastián in the Basque Country (within Spain) for the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) meeting. It was my first time out of the country since 2013 and it was quite exciting because I was awarded their dissertation prize! I was only there for 4-5 days but I managed to hang out with my PhD advisor and conference buddies, gave a talk on my dissertation research, meet some pretty cool people from all over,  take in some breathtaking views, eat pintxos, and go to the beach. I guess you could call this my “vacation” over the summer. Finally, the last exciting thing to happen over the summer was that I received an invitation from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) to attend their annual meeting in December (more on this below). 

Fall/Winter 2015

After submitting my grant, I continued to perform experiments related to my F32 proposal project. I also started generating animals for another project in which I would look at the effects of chronic mild stress (i.e. depression model) in a neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia-like deficits. I also got the grant score for my initial submission, which I knew was not within funding range so that meant resubmission in the spring. What can you do? During this semester I participated in the weekly career and research development (CARD) seminar, which is oriented towards helping postdocs gain the skills necessary for transitioning into an independent research position. This was required for me to get the T32 $$$, but I would strongly advise anyone who has access to these types of programs to attend! Topics covered included but were not limited to: how to negotiate, conflict management, how to prepare a job talk, authorship, mock K review process, etc... There is also a writing block portion of the seminar in which participants are divided into topic specific mini groups and get feedback from at least 2 other faculty on a weekly basis before grant submission. Besides being able to cultivate a positive and professional relationship with my T32 director, I’d say that the CARD seminar was the best thing about participating in this T32 program. 

In terms of travel and meetings, I attended the SfN 2015 conference in Chicago and I’ve got to say that my experience there was so positive it even made me change my mind about Chicago!!! It was the first time I was attending this meeting without having a poster so I focused on trying to meet the dopamine/electrophysiology folks and attending all the socials I could fit in :D Right after SfN, I went to NYC to visit some friends still in grad school over Thanksgiving. I cannot stress how important it is to keep in touch with your friends and make time for them. Anyhow, I got back and then it was time to fly down to Florida for the ACNP meeting. This was my first official presentation as a PD so I was really nervous (also presenting a new technique, new project, new everything!) but my boss was really supportive and the people that came by my poster were kind, insightful and encouraging. The location is also superb and the science top notch, I think this has dethroned Gordon Amygdala as my favorite meeting (most of those people were here anyway!) and I will definitely keep applying for that travel award for as long as I have to. After ACNP I flew home for Christmas and got an invitation from my advisor to co-author a review paper w/ another PD in the lab. This paper has been published already and can be found here. 

Spring 2016

I basically spent the spring working on additional experiments for my main project that I thought were necessary after presenting at ACNP and getting feedback (i.e. extra controls, increasing n, diff stats, etc...). This was a good thing because I also used some of that data for my F32 resubmission, which was due in April. As I wrote that sentence I remembered that this time was particularly busy for me in the lab as the cohort of animals for my other project (MAM-CMS) was born and I was running 2 behaviors + recording all of these animals (8 group total). It was so crazy busy (yet productive) that I swore to myself never to schedule that many experiments for the same couple of months ever again. 

Summer 2016

I presented a new and improved version of my main project poster at the Society for Biological Psychiatry in Atlanta. This was very cool because I had never been there (omg the aquarium!) and I got to reconnect with a lot of people I had met during my PhD but had not seen since the start of my PD. Apparently they really like this meeting and it is one of their go-tos. One of these people was my PhD advisor, whom I worked with on trying to wrap up and expedite my remaining PhD papers. Another person was another female minority graduate student that I knew during my PhD at NYU. It was great catching up with her and hearing about all the great science she will be doing in her PD lab and how the transition was for her. I remembered thinking that there are many paths that can lead to the same outcome, and feeling at peace. 2 interpersonal crises later, I received the score for my F32 resubmission and it was so good I A) almost fell off my chair and B) started crying (like, really). If you’re anything like me, you probably already know that you cannot have it all. It always feels like either I’m great in my personal life and so so at work or I’m killing it at work and everything else has gone to shit. To me, the score meant funding was pretty much a given, so it tipped the scales back to the killing it at work scenario and I settled for being happy with that and harnessing what was left of my happiness into that new positive direction. You can read about my F32 project here. I spent the rest of the summer celebrating my birthday, good fortune and prepping my first PD paper for submission. Also, I GOT A CAR! For the first time in nearly 7 years since I did my PhD in Manhattan and lol cars in NYC. 

Fall 2016

Remember that slump I mentioned I was in at the beginning of the summer? I decided to get over it by taking a solo trip to Thailand :] That is a post in itself (which will likely not end up here) but it was truly a once in a lifetime trip. I liked that it was hard (+16 hours to get there), new (first time ever in Asia) and was something totally out of my comfort zone. I met people from all over the US, rode elephants, visited UNESCO world heritage sites, learned about Buddhism, bar-hopped in Khao San Road and the red light district, shipped in a professional masseuse from the temples for a full body massage, ate weird food, etc. etc. Some of these pics can be found my scrolling down in my IG.  I feel like everyone should do something like that for themselves, at least every once in a while. I also learned that culture shock is funny because it can happen once you get back from your trip. I had a soft meltdown upon arriving at JFK and spent my first night back talking to a friend/processing everything I had witnessed. Can’t wait to go back and this time make it to Krabi or Phuket! 

During this semester, I also submitted my initial paper for my main project and added experiments to my secondary project. In more exciting news, I published a first author PhD paper on the effects of early life stress on social behavior and neural activity in cortical and limbic areas. You can read it here. I also got a travel award to present this work at the Society for Social Neuroscience in San Diego jus prior to SfN 2016, where I presented my first SfN poster as a PD. I was overwhelmed by the positive response and I got to do a podcast w/ Deb Budding from Neurocurious. Even though I was dead tired and delirious from my poster session being immediately before, it was SO MUCH FUN <3 I just checked and its still not up but will link it here when its available! SfN 2016 was followed by ACNP 2016 (first time presenting my MAM/CMS data, now DEFINITELY my favorite meeting), although I flew down to Florida early so I could make it to Art Basel (basically a conference, but for art!). I had such a great time that I almost forgot that my paper was rejected :( When I got back to Pitt, I focused on collecting data for the last experiments in yet another (small) project (that I have not mentioned previously yet). Then I went off to Puerto Rico to spend NYE w/ my family and friends :D

Winter 2016-2017 (aka where am I now)

I published another PhD paper. This one is a co-first paper and I’m really proud of it because it represents an effort by our group to incorporate techniques used in humans to facilitate translation of findings between animal models and humans. 

I revised and resubmitted my previously rejected paper. System says it’s still under review so we’ll see what happens... 

I submitted a grant based on an idea I had last fall that ties in nicely with my current work (pitched the idea to advisor at SfN 2016, luckily he agrees it is interesting/worth the shot).

Collected prelim data for above-mentioned grant.

Organizing the outline for a review I want to write that’s related to my grant. A colleague/mentor gave me the idea to do this since it’s a good chance to get a publication of all that lit search you did anyway! 

Put in 2 travel award applications (1 no, 1 still waiting) to present my work 

Nearly done collecting data for that random project 3 that slipped my mind for most of this post. I think this is because it’s not my main project and its a follow-up of someone else’s project. Presented this data at lab meeting and got some feedback about graphing/analyzing data. Working on this and aiming to submit by early summer. 

Traveling to Boston in 2 weeks to present in the Poverty and the Brain symposium at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting

Accepted a position as an ad hoc member of ACNP’s minority task force in order to help increase the participation of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in the college and to help retain them

Accepted a position as Review Editor in the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 

WHEW. I finally got it all out. There you have it, what I’ve been up to since starting my postdoc and why I haven’t been more active on Twitter/here. Hopefully it goes someways in attenuating my I-should-be-posting-more-guilt :P 

Also, please feel free to write if you have any questions about PD life, the grad to PD transition or anything else you have read about here : ) In case you didn’t know, I started this blog as a grad student who DID NOT think they were going to make it in academia so the fact that this blog is still alive and so many of you still follow it/engage motivates me to keep it going for as long as I can. Maybe one day I’ll have a job and can look back at everything that led to that there. That’s the dream. Until next time! 

xoxo

Dr. M

#science #neuroscience #outreach #scicomm #scilife #lab life #women in science #stem #life of a scientist #me #academia #flashbackfriday

[lorrainecparker]

Blackmagic responds: Yes to Castilian & Mandarin; no to PsF removal

After its obscure press release at NAB last week, Blackmagic has now clarified that its Video Assist’s new updated firmware indeed includes Castilian & Mandarin (among 9 other languages), but does not currently include Cantonese, Catalán, Basque, Galician, PsF removal or reverse telecine. Blackmagic says that it will be adding more languages later. What does this situation mean to you? The first issue obviously depends upon your language needs or preferences. The second pair of issues depends upon whether your camera can output native pure progressive over HDMI or SDI at your desired framerate —or if not, whether you are willing and able to compensate for the pseudo-interlaced recording in post, via a workaround, or perhaps choose a competitive device from Átomos or Video Devices which can take care of this issue before recording. Ahead I’ll go into detail about all of that, and give you examples.

Languages

Even though Blackmagic was obscure about the languages included in its initial press release about its new firmware for Video Assist, it is now clear that the languages are:

Castilian (the most widely used Spanish language worldwide, but certainly not the only one)

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Mandarin (the most important Chinese language, but certainly not the only one)

Portuguese

Russian

Turkish

Blackmagic also indicated that it would be adding even more languages, but didn’t indicate which ones or when.

No PsF removal or reverse telecine in Video Assist

Even though back in 2015, Blackmagic was looking into this issue, the company is apparently no longer doing so, since it confirmed no such capability of PsF removal or reverse telecine in Video Assist.

For those we are new to this topic or require a refresher, here is an executive summary:

Almost all standard definition video is/was interlaced, where each video frame is/was divided into fields (which have half of the spatial resolution of a frame). Interlaced video complicates things, considering that some interlaced video formats have a different dominant field. In addition, interlacing adds artifacts and makes compression more complex. On the other hand, all 4K (both Cinema 4K and 4K UHD) and some HD formats are truly progressive, meaning that they consist only of true frames, without fields. However, while some HD video is truly progressive; some HD video is authentically interlaced; and some is HD video progressive disguised as interlaced video. Most HD cameras and camcorders which are capable of imaging and even recording true progressive internally, are sadly incapable of delivering true progressive via their HDMI or SDI port, while others are capable of delivering true progressive video via HDMI or SDI port at some framerates, but not at others… and some can’t output pure progressive at all, even though they can record it internally. In those cases, those cameras deliver the progressive video via the HDMI or SDI port disguised as interlaced video in either two different ways, depending upon the original framerate, as indicated below:

23.976p (aka “23.98”) via a telecine pulldown at 59.94i, using a 2:3 (aka 3:2) pulldown

25p via PsF as 50i using a 2:2 pulldown

29.97p via PsF as 59.94i using a 2:2 pulldown

As I have covered in several past articles, manufacturers like Átomos, NewTek and Video Devices (a brand of Sound Devices) have recognized this issue and have all added the function to reverse this undesired phenomenon caused sadly by many camera manufacturers. All three mentioned companies do this the correct way, without de-interlacing, since de-interlacing a disguised progressive signal degrades it unnecessarily. In most cases, it is necessary to indicate to the device —manually— that the particular source is PsF or telecine.

To be clear, the absolute best scenario is have the camera output pure progressive directly via HDMI or SDI. The second best way is to have the device (i.e. from Átomos, NewTek or Video Devices) properly perform reverse telecine or convert PsF into progressive before recording. The third and last solution is to follow the instructions in my PsF missing workflow series, which up until now include 10 parts.

If you are going to record 4K UHD

If you are recording 4K UHD using the new Video Assist 4K model, you have nothing to worry, since 4K over HDMI is always progressive, so there is no issue to record progressive in this case. (The Video Assist 4K only offers 4K UHD, and does not offer Cinema 4K.)

If you are going to record 720p

If you are going to record 720p59.94 or 720p50, there is no problem with either Video Assist.

If you desire to record 1080p

If you are lucky enough to have one of the few cameras that can deliver pure progressive over HDMI at your desired framerate, then you may certainly consider a Video Assist from Blackmagic. However, if your camera is incapable of outputting pure progressive at your desired framerate, you might consider purchasing one of the similar products from Átomos or Video Devices (a brand of Sound Devices) to avoid the hassle and/or possible human error of the workarounds in post. I am truly surprised that Blackmagic has chosen to ignore this known issue and feature, while its primary competition has addressed and solved it.

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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 15

[ original post with full list of challenges / other posts by me for this challenge ]

Today’s Challenge: Read a fictional story. Take note of what kind of speech is used (like poetic or writing techniques specific to the language) when telling the story.

Here is the story I read for today, which I think is intended as a kid’s story, but I still didn’t understand half of it. Because of that, and also the fact that I’m not advanced enough to analyze the story on a higher level, I decided to switch stuff up for today and translate the words I didn’t understand and to try to write a short summary of the story. Here’s the result:

Unknown Vocab:

alargun - widow

bizkor - smart/clever

inozo - lazy/idiot

senar - husband

puska - piece/portion

alegia - indeed/in other words

zaindu - to look after/care for

banatu - to split up/divide

bizkar - back (body part)

izutu - to scare/frighten

zaldi - horse

lera - sled/sleigh

ipini - to put/place/lay

zalgurdi - carriage

dotore - elegant

azaldu - to explain/show/appear

baztertu - to move out of the way

ozarkeria - insolence

sumindu - to anger/enrage

zigorrada - lashing/punishment

eztanda - explosion

gurdi - cart

pope - Orthodox priest

apaiz - priest

ezti - honey

poto - can/pot/vessel

koilara - spoon

upel - barrel

ezkutatu - to hide

esnegain - cream

eskailera - stairs

lasterka - running/rushing

irten - to go/come out

tori - here you go!

lurperatu - to bury

konformatu - to conform/be satisfied with

emazte - wife

nekazari - peasant/farmer

salatu - to confess

epaitu - to sentence

Ipuin hau hiru anai errusoei buruzkoa da. Biak bizkorrak dira, baina haien anaia inozoa da. Haien ama hiltzen da, eta orduan anai bizkorrek herentzia banatzen dute, baina hirugarrena ahazten zaie. Hau bere anaiek dirua eraman badute azaltzen duenean oso haserre dago, eta haien ama hil zutela oihuka esaten du. Hura isiltzeko diru asko ematen diote. Orduan, anaia Moskura joaten da eta jaun batekin topo egiten du. Sumintzen du jauna eta hark anaiari zigorrada egiten saiatu da, baina amari jo egiten du eta berriro anaia oihuka egiten hasi da. Jauna diru ematen dio isiltzeko. Azkenean, anaia pope bateko etxera sartzen da, eta berdina egiten du, baina popeak bakarrik ehun rublo ematen dio. Gehiago eskatzen dio, baina ama lurperatzeko eskaintzen dio popeak, eta anaiak konformatzen du. Bere etxera itzultzen da, eta bere anaiei ama saldu duela esaten die. Horregatik, bere emazteak hil dituzte eta merkatura ekartzen dituzte. Han, guardiek atxilotzen dituzte eta Siberiara bidaltzen dituzte.

Corrections welcome, as always!

#it's also apparently a russian folk tale so i learned a bunch of russia-related vocab #i don't even know anymore #advanced learner challenge basque #basque #vocab list #language month #language practice #basque:general #basque:challenge #general:challenge #basque:reading #basque:vocab #basque:practice #general:practice