u/NomadJago

Coming to NOLA in October, will need to book 3 nights hotel lodging. I would like to keep the cost down to $250/night including all taxes and fees (btw, what the heck is the "fees" I see added to a potential hotel reservation cost when I looked at the Hilton Riverside online?). Hoping for a quiet safe hotel, clean, with a microwave and mini fridge, 2 double queen beds.

I do not want noise of any french quarter late night partying and music, but we do want to visit the famous cemetery where movies have been shot, see a voodoo shop and a tarot card fortune teller, get picked up for a swamp tour, have a beer in a french quarter jazz club.

https://reddit.com/link/1unbrrg/video/ecx0krf0d8bh1/player

 Please do not judge my composition, I am not looking for composition feedback. Only showing that Musescore can be used for scoring. I scored a short 1 minute film clip (a supernatural horror scene from the movie Rings) only to show to myself how Musescore can be used for scoring film. Not at the level of a DAW, but I feel film scoring on Musescore (4.7.3 in this example) can be great for a first pass before exporting to xml and importing into a DAW for advanced mixing and mastering if needed. This is a lot cheaper than using Dorico, in fact Musescore + VLC + VLCsync plugin is free! I did use a couple of VST3 instruments (e.g. Kontakt::FORZO by Heavyocity for Horns as I wanted some special brass effects) as Musescore allows using VST3 instruments (BBCSO, Hans Zimmer Strings, Kontakt and its instruments, etc).

This is a quick example, not what I would do for an actual gig. I am in no way associated with this film, my composition is purely for educational purposes (fair use act) and to show how using the free open source video player VLC, in combination with the free VLCsync plugin for Musescore, allows scoring somewhat like a DAW. (I tried the paid MuseHub app Vienna Video Pro but I did not find it useful, your mileage may vary, and after trying VLC I much prefer VLC; markers and hit points can be added to a score using staff text if needed)

I really like composing in a notation editor like Musescore, to see the structure and clarity of chords, intervals, and more. Note: I intentionally composed more music using more tropes for horror than I normally would, as my goal was to see if I could score a cue using typical supernatural horror music tropes in Musescore. Please do not judge my composition,

2 Timothy 3:16 states that "All scripture is inspired by God" (Greek: theopneustos), which literally translates to "God-breathed" or "breathed out by God." But what does that really mean? What 'scripture' is inspired by God, and how do you know which writings (scripture) are inspired by God?

EDIT: Please share this post with friends and family who vote in Duluth!

What if everybody spread the word to email our Duluth mayor and also city council members to say get rid of flock cameras in Duluth or we will vote for whatever candidates decide to rid Duluth of flock cameras? One city at a time-- at least we could start in Duluth. The next mayoral race in Duluth, Minnesota, is scheduled for November 2027. Mayor Roger Reinert was elected on November 7, 2023, and sworn in on January 2, 2024, to serve a four-year term. As Duluth holds mayoral elections every four years, the subsequent election will occur in November 2027, with a primary likely taking place in August of that year.Duluth City Council elections in Duluth, MN, are held in even-numbered years, with the general election on November 4, 2025, and the next scheduled general election on November 3, 2026.

Mayor and City Council members:

rreinert@DuluthMN.gov

https://duluthmn.gov/city-council/

Anybody know of an email address to contact our Mayor? His webpage has a phone number, but I want an email address. (There is a link to Facebook for him but I do not have access to Facebook because I refuse to give up my private biometric data specifically a video selfie to FB)

EDIT: I returned the product to MuseHub, got a refund. I am going to stick with the free VSL Sync plugin that uses VSL video player. The product, for me, is unusable. This is what I said for the refund" "Software is so buggy it is unusable. When the GUI video window is visible and playing the video, the musescore playback lags and stutters horribly; the only way I could make it work was using the popout (VLC?) video player option and hiding the main app GUI video window from the screen. Not worth $150 given the buggy almost unusable nature. My system is Ryzen 9, Windows 11, 128GB RAM, SSD internal drives, GeForce 1600 O.C. 6GB GPU, installed latest nvidia geforce drivers but it made no difference. You have a graphics video playback issue in your GUI."
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I purchased Vienna Video Pro (VVP) yesterday to use with Musescore Studio. I have 12 days or so to figure it out before keeping it or returning it. Already frustrated with it. I loaded a 4 minute mp4 video clip and it syncs with a MuseScore Studio 4.7 composition (empty measures for now, but plenty of measures, maybe 100 measures).

The problem is that the video plays for 23 seconds then stops playing. Obviously that makes the plugin (VVP) useless if I can not solve this problem. This only happens when I click the sync icon of VVP; if I unsync VVP so that the video simply plays in VVP (and the musescore composition remains still/silent) then the full 4 minute video clip will play without any unexpected stop.

EDIT: I just tried a different video clip, mp4 rendered clip rendered from DaVinci Resolve, a scene from Rings. For this video clip playback prematurely stopped at 45 seconds. If this is the state of VVP software then for me at least it is junk for film scoring in Musescore. My PC is not the problem-- Windows 11 x64, 128GB RAM, all SSD internal drives, Ryzen 9 cpu, Nvidia GeForce 1600 Super GPU.

Secondly, what are "streamers"? The software use guide keeps referring to streamers, and the GUI interface has a track to add "streamers", in addition of course to video tracks. I have been editing videos for a couple of decades and I have never encountered the term streamers as it refers to editing videos.

I applied for a Mastercard credit card, and at the end of the process I was told I needed to provide a selfie video verification. I refused, ended the application. Is this what we are in for here in the USA, loss of our biometric private data? Should I just provide the video selfie for this, and for Facebook? My pension account also wants a video selfie. What happened to our rights as citizens?

Curious if anybody here as seen the UMD planetarium show currently happening, on the sun? Wondering if it is worth seeing, or is it more of a lecture? Is the simulation good or not?

I am looking to get an ethical credit card (USA) but every one I find when googling seems to be outdated links and the card no longer exists. Anybody know of any that actually exist? Something ethical, like plants trees, lowers carbon footprint, helps wildlife, helps impoverished people, etc.

It used to be possible (MS 3) to route midi in real time to a virtual midi port that could then route midi in real time to a DAW. That feature seems to have disappeared in MS 4. Is it possible to bring that feature back, so that a composition in MS 4 (and presumably MS 5) could take advantage of much higher quality instruments (VSTs) in a DAW including the dynamics (p, f, mp, etc) and cresc decr in MS notation?

Yet to purchase Vienna Video Pro off MuseHub, for film scoring. The product says the plugin video window can pop out; does that mean for example that the VVP video window could be dragged to the display of a second monitor?

I use a daw (Reaper) but more an more I like at least initially composing music in Musescore Studio. Today I just learned about a product for scoring film using Musescore Studio, looks interesting, I have yet to buy it as I just learned about it and I would like to see user reviews before coughing up cash. I am excited for Musescore 5 which will looks to seamlessly work with VSTs much better, possible embed a sequencer, but the sounds are getting a lot nicer with MS 4.7. I like the notation structure for composing, though nothing beats the sounds in a DAW. (some famous film music cues, heard using in Musescore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5uakQZmf0U)

https://www.musehub.com/plugin/vienna-video-pro

https://preview.redd.it/xkq0q72f4v8h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=61d5a0b56ade3dff5b54edff868133c317209b30

Which products are eligible for refunds on MuseHub? I see that the refund policy states: "Courses/Tutorials and Sample packs and individual samples cannot be refunded"

What type of products are considered "sample packs" or "individual samples"?

Is e.g. a string library considered a sample pack?

https://www.musehub.com/muse-sounds/berlin-strings

Would Vienna Video Pro be a refundable item?

https://www.musehub.com/plugin/vienna-video-pro

If I do not renew my Amazon Prime (renews in a couple of weeks, currently set not to renew), will I be able to do free returns on items or are free returns only for Prime members?

I am think of doing the family / sharing plan for Prime membership. My Prime membership expires in a couple of weeks but my best friend and roommate is keeping her Prime membership. I could get added to her plan. But would my credit card be exposed to her for potentially being misused? How does that work?

I was just going to stop using Prime, but I would miss the free returns, and like most people I do a lot of returns of items. I assume I would be giving up free returns if I just stopped paying for a Prime membership. Thus my interest in using a shared Prime membership, be on her plan.

Curious how many atheists here tire of debating Christians, and trying to show them the fictional nature of their gospel story and Jesus's resurrection and miracles and such. The more I read material on the certainty of the fictional nature of it, and learn of the atrocities of the Christian God, I want to share it with Christians to try and get people to stop believing nonsense. But Christians always come back with horrible logic, and their faith, and a dozen other excuses. Do you get tired of this, and what keeps you going or what caused you to just let go of trying to end the beliefs in fiction? How do you deal with this?

Have any events from the gospel of Mark been verified? Particularly magical or supernatural events.