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Sidelobe / duplicate_line_xcode.md
Last active February 3, 2023 08:10 — forked from emotality/duplicate_line_xcode.md
Xcode - Duplicate Line key binding

Xcode line duplication (without overwriting your clipboard)

I find this shortcut extremely useful in Xcode: duplicate one or several lines without losing what you have on the clipboard.

Bind keys to duplicate lines in Xcode

  1. To add custom key bindings in Xcode, you have to edit this file (su privileges required): '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Frameworks/IDEKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/IDETextKeyBindingSet.plist

I add the following new key at the bottom:

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Sidelobe / Video Wall for Art Installation.md
Last active October 28, 2024 20:23
Preparing a video art installation in 32:9 format on 2 projectors

A Video Wall for an Art Installation

A video artist approached me with the following problem: she wanted to play back a recorded performance art piece in "double-wide" format, i.e. two 16:9 videos next to each other.

The video was recorded with a 4k camera (3840x2160 resolution) and then edited and cropped to produce a 4k video file, in which only the "middle vertical slice" contains information (letterbox). After discussing several options, such as using a single 4k projector with a cropped image, we settled on using two FullHD projectors next to each other. Financial considerations played a significant role as well.

Playing back a 32:9 format video on 2 projectors was deemed as too fickle / difficult without using specialized hardware (video wall controllers) or software (e.g. Multi-View HD Pro 2. 2 older mac minis that were lying around seemd good candidates for the job.

The tasks at hand were roughly the following:

  1. [Cropping Videos with FFMPE