u/notrealtea

I started a YouTube channel recently and I’ve been filming with my iPhone 15 because it’s the only camera I have. I’ve been surprised at how awful the experience is of exporting the videos from my phone to my PC. The videos look good on the phone but after I export them, everything looks washed out. I’ve looked up so many tutorials on dealing with this over the past few weeks and nothing has really solved the issue. I’ve tried so many setting on my phone and in Davinci Resolve and it always looks awful.

Today I filmed for an hour and a half straight and I got a weird error when I tried to export it to my PC. I spent an hour trying to fix it and just couldn’t get the file open. Then I tried to just edit the video on a MacBook and I ran into another problem.

I eventually came up with a weird workaround, but I’m sick of dealing with stupid stuff like this. I was planning to make videos with my phone for a few months and then buy an Osmo Pocket 3 because the 4 isn’t available in the US. But I just found out that the Xtra Muse 2 exists, so I’m not sure if I should wait until that comes out. I really don’t want to deal with filming on my phone anymore so it probably makes sense to just buy a camera now, but I’m not sure if I’d regret not waiting to get the Muse 2 since that’s an improvement over the Pocket 3.

What do you suggest?

For the past couple of years I’ve worked in a job where I had to wear a company uniform. I’m going to be starting a new job soon and they have a business casual dress code. It’s cool that I’ll finally be able to choose my own clothes to wear to work, but I’m not really sure how to dress.

The email that I got for starting this job mentioned a business casual dress code but they also stated that you can’t wear hoodies, ripped jeans or shirts with inappropriate graphics. Reading between the lines here, it seems like they’re saying that it’s okay to wear jeans or t-shirts as long as they’re presentable.

When I look at business casual look books online, it seems like most people just wear plain polos, solid color dress shirts and chinos or dress pants. What other types of clothes can you wear to work that actually display some personality while still being professional?

I’ve had a Planet Fitness membership in two separate periods of my life but that last time ended two years ago. I want to go back to the gym again and try to successfully gain muscle for the first time ever. One of the issues that I’ve always had at PF is that I’ll look up a decent routine for beginners online but when I got to the gym, all of the weights or machines that I want to use are being hogged by other people the entire time. Then I end up just doing random machines and not making any progress and I eventually quit.

I want things to be different this time around, so I’m thinking about getting the black card membership so I can visit different locations in my city instead of going to the same one I’ve always gone to. Do most Planet Fitness locations have the same issue of people hogging the weights? How can I get a good workout if the weights that I want to use are occupied by other people?

There have been nonstop delays in the past couple of weeks. I always leave my house for work half an hour early in case of delays and yesterday I was still 20 minutes late. On the way home, there were more delays and I got him 20 minutes later than usual. Today I got to my station and there was an insane amount of people waiting for the train. Then we got an announcement about some type of issue on the line and I had to take a different train instead.

It feels like constant delays are starting to become the norm now. What’s going on and what is the MTA doing to fix the issues?