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Living Room / Re: Hardware and software for quality youtube podcasting (for boardgaming)?

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2017, 12:42 PM »

Anyone have any experience with recording from multiple cameras and keeping them all synchronized while switching easily between them for the final production video.. Im interested in a workflow that doesn't involve a huge amount of "work".

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Living Room / Hardware and software for quality youtube podcasting (for boardgaming)?

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2017, 09:36 AM »

I am curious about the idea of recording some videos of board game playing/reviewing..

What I have noticed when watching some youtuber's channels is the vast difference in "quality" of the recordings, and how much of a huge difference it can make in my enjoyment watching them.

The ones I really love have crystal clear audio, great lighting, etc.

An example of one of my favorite board game channel's is "Game Night":

Now I know they have multiple cameras (including an overhead one) and lapel mics, and they must have some good lighting as well.
What a joy it is to watch their videos.

Another example of fantastic production quality is "Watch it Played":

Listen to that clean audio and look at that good lighting.


Not to single anyone out, but to give a few examples of some lighting/sound quality that I'd like to avoid:

So I'm looking for any thoughts/recommendations of hardware and software and tips and tricks to getting good production quality in videos, especially with regard to sound.

Any thoughts?

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: My Android Apps for NANY 2017 -- All in One Place

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2017, 05:25 PM »

Latest stats:


Looks like WhenLast must have gotten mentioned somewhere, though I can't figure out where.

Thanks to whoever took the time to rate the aps!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: White text gets white shadows?

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2017, 09:41 AM »

Hmm.. Have you tried messing with the "Appearance Skin" option on the main options tab (topmost node in configuration dialog).

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CSearcher - A simple and fast free non-indexing search program.

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2017, 05:19 PM »

Very nice 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Add Border To Image Isn't Adding a Border :o(

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2017, 04:43 PM »

Border gets added with color and size specified in options -- perhaps its adding it but you don't see it?

It's also possible there is some transparency effect?

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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2017, 03:22 PM »

It's long overdue for me to learn some basic personal finance/investing/saving subjects.

For me I need book though.  So if anyone has any amazon.com book recommendations I'd love to hear them.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Recent Screen Shot List No Longer Appears In Left Pane

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2017, 09:33 AM »

Something odd must have happened as nothing has changed in this regard.

The thumbnail panel always shows the screenshots whereever they are being saved to, so you don't have to remember to set the directory.

There are a couple of things you can try.  If your thumbnail panel isn't even visible at all, then you just have to enable it.  But I'm reading your post to say it's visible just not showing new screenshots.

Try clicking in the thumbnail panel and hitting F5 to refresh it.

If that still fails, I'd like to suggest you try a reboot.  The thumbnail panel is basically an instance of windows built in file explorer, and there are some rare cases where that will fail to update, and a reboot should rule those out.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Always ontop

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2017, 07:30 AM »

Fingers crossed. 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Always ontop

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 06:04 PM »

Can you try redownloading -- I was having trouble with ontop behavior and i made some minor changes which i uploaded a while ago but without officially updating published version numbers.
It should be 1.149.04.

See if that helps.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS Error Boxes and I do not know how to fix

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 04:08 PM »

Well it's not that it's not good -- you can absolutely migrate your old data file and settings to a new machine.
It's just that depending on how it's done you could end up in a situation where CHS is trying to save files where it shouldn't.

So, the things to check for are the configdir.ini file in the CHS program files directory -- that file might be telling CHS to try to save the data files in the program files directory, which you don't want it to do.

Can you get into the options of CHS? If so make sure you are using the latest version of CHS and see what it says at the top of the Statistics tab regarding where your database and temp file are stored.

Another thing you might try is this: exit chs, then go to the CHS program files directory and delete any your configdir.ini, or configdir_default.in (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell\ConfigDir.ini)
(BETTER YET WOULD BE TO RENAME IT OR MOVE IT SO WE CAN LOOK AT IT LATER IF IT SOLVES THE PROBLEM)

If that still doesn't solve it, and you don't care about your existing database, go to your MyDocuments/DonationCoder directory and delete your C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\DonationCoder\Clipboard Help+Spell folder.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS Error Boxes and I do not know how to fix

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 03:50 PM »

I forgot to ask if you had migrated your chs data or files from another computer to your current one?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS Error Boxes and I do not know how to fix

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 03:39 PM »

Can you try this:

Download the PORTABLE version of CHS, and unzip it into a new directory someplace you have write access, like a subdirectory of your MyDocuments folder or the desktop.

See if that version runs ok.  That will give us some clue as to the nature of the problem.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor - Auto Capture modes

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 03:37 PM »

Yes, I'll echo that -- if there is ANY way you can get those numbers short of having to use OCR, you should.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Always ontop

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 03:20 PM »

Can you check your about box and tell me what version it says you have running?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor - Auto Capture modes

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 02:59 PM »

You don't want post capture options (that's used if you want some external tool run automatically on every separate capture, like emailing it, etc.) .. you just want to do a scrolling capture.

You say 600 images but then 60 files.  Is it 60 or 600?

60 images should be manageable with a single scrolling capture.  600 is a different matter.

Try the scrolling capture function.  And I encourage you to try the MANUAL scrolling capture if you have trouble getting the automatic key sending options to work.  Manual will will have you pressing PageDn and PrtScr after each capture.  Then SC will help you stitch the final result together.

Try it with 10 pages and see how well that works before you try 60.

After that you'll have a single tall image, you can then save that to a pdf if you like, and OCR on that pdf, though it would seem more logical to OCR the image directly.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: My Android Apps for NANY 2017 -- All in One Place

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2017, 07:22 AM »

Latest stats for anyone who is interested:


If anyone is using and likes one of my apps please do take a moment to rate/review it! 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Hands Holding" mask/frame combo...

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2017, 04:25 PM »

They should still work.. Let me go investigate why they might not be.. I may have changed the way the files are named and not updates the help file in the right place.

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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what are you now using instead of Outpost?

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2017, 03:51 PM »

I was a big fan of Outpost.. I've moved on to AVG's Internet Security, combination Firewall and Antivirus, $69/year for use on unlimited devices, and I install it on my desktop and laptops, etc. (maybe a good choice for a family to install on all of their devices).

It is not perfect -- it's not quite as well suited to very fine grain control as Outpost, but it's interactive mode does offer the same basic approach -- alerting you when a new app tries to connect in and out and allowing you to set per-application rules, etc.

Before that I liked eset's stuff, but it was too unstable and led to occasional blue screens -- frequently enough that I gave up.  AVG has been reliable for me.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Need Help

« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2017, 07:55 AM »

I'm not saying that downloading or recording video that you can watch is illegal -- I was just commenting on n8wachT's post, making a file available and saying it was illegal, which is not something we condone here.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Need Help

« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2017, 07:28 AM »

It's great that you are helping the requestor, but please do not post illegal items on this website.
I'm sure the original poster would be interested in understanding how the link was found though.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2017, 10:06 AM »

That was really wonderful. 

Does anyone know of any more similar such opera performances?

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Progress Bars of Life Android

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2017, 08:47 AM »

So the yearly repeating stuff like birthdays and christmas is working as planned.. It's just the user-defines intervals that you want added?

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Progress Bars of Life Android

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2017, 08:18 AM »

My desktop version allows such things -- for simplicity i left them out of the android version, but i will try to add them, probably as a new "type" of bar with more options.

Can you explain your first comment about "For yearly bars, I've set some up for Christmas and birthdays, there's a Repeat (yearly) checkbox, so the 'event countdown' bar-data is updated after it has passed."

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: FileFillerExtended (dummy file generation tool)

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2017, 04:31 AM »

Hi jabut!

You just missed the official deadline so your app didn't get included into the list of entrants, but we'll just add it to the list now and you'll still get your coffee mug