What people do

[loopyloops]

Is it inappropriate to ask what people do who are here on the forum? I find it interesting and assume people come from all walks of life - I'd assume some work with video but maybe not. I'm a music publisher.

[Shinigami-Sama]

student, currently under lots of stress, such is the life of a student
I work with anything that intersts me, making OGMs brought me here, I"m currently studying to be a sysadmin, but I dislike the course, and admin jobs ae scarce it seems, so I"m going to switch to web dev course next year I hope

[Mug Funky]

I'm a music publisher.

could have guessed with a name like "loopyloops" :)

i encode anime to go on region-4 DVDs. also do a fair bit of A/V mastering/remastering and even restoration where i can (not as glamourous as it seems though... i'm at the mercy of the tools available, but avisynth = good, adobe audition = okay, premiere pro = bloody awful).

however, right now i'm trying to wrestle a mac into submission, but it's not working too well :mad:

[Shinigami-Sama]

I"ve found you have to trick macs into working, like small children

I also forgot to mention I'm a bladesmith and a native art carver, and I'm trying to some C and scripting also
and yeah

[loopyloops]

I"ve found you have to trick macs into working, like small children

I also forgot to mention I'm a bladesmith and a native art carver, and I'm trying to some C and scripting also
and yeah


Would most folks on this board be PC leaning?

[Sirber]

I'm a web programmer and a server administrator.

In my free time, I engineer, design and sell strawberry... herr GUIs :D

[spuddog]

tool and die maker

[MACC]

What I do for a living is in the Visual Graphic arts field. But I also do other things aside from this such as making strange and odd musicial arrangements.
Some I have online others I do not have.
This is all I will post since its a big list of things I do.

[loopyloops]

Very interesting - nice and diverse - lots of Canadians...

[jel]

Is it inappropriate to ask what people do who are here on the forum? I find it interesting and assume people come from all walks of life - I'd assume some work with video but maybe not. I'm a music publisher.there was quite a lengthy thread that was still active until september last year, that you may find of interest. primarily started to find the age of the doom9 forum user many posts offered other personal information, such as occupation, marital status, etc

the thread can be found here:
How old are you? (plus Meet and Greet) (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=65048&highlight=occupation)

not sure if i answered in that thread or not, so for the record
31 years of age, working since graduationg in 1996 as an architect, recently engaged (which might have been influenced by the 7 day permanent hangover from x-mas to new years :D )

[Shinigami-Sama]

there was quite a lengthy thread that was still active until september last year, that you may find of interest. primarily started to find the age of the doom9 forum user many posts offered other personal information, such as occupation, marital status, etc

the thread can be found here:
How old are you? (plus Meet and Greet) (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=65048&highlight=occupation)

not sure if i answered in that thread or not, so for the record
31 years of age, working since graduationg in 1996 as an architect, recently engaged (which might have been influenced by the 7 day permanent hangover from x-mas to new years :D )

those hangovers own don't they :D
but it is amazing how much personal information that people will divulge online isn't it?

[loopyloops]

there was quite a lengthy thread that was still active until september last year, that you may find of interest. primarily started to find the age of the doom9 forum user many posts offered other personal information, such as occupation, marital status, etc

the thread can be found here:
How old are you? (plus Meet and Greet) (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=65048&highlight=occupation)

not sure if i answered in that thread or not, so for the record
31 years of age, working since graduationg in 1996 as an architect, recently engaged (which might have been influenced by the 7 day permanent hangover from x-mas to new years :D )


Congrats!! I'll check that out youngster (I'm 38 - or 39 if you count my birthday in early January).

I'll also divulge that I live in Sherman Oaks California - anyone else from L.A.?

[setarip_old]

but it is amazing how much personal information that people will divulge online isn't it?Only if you believe everything that you read ;>}

[Shinigami-Sama]

Only if you believe everything that you read ;>}
lol
its the internet, they could put up real info and no-one would beleave them I bet, hell I bet not many of you would beleave me that I"m a bladesmith native carver and 6 foot 5 inch but I am :P

but I agree, especialy when younger people start talking about themselves, you older people dont seem to care to much :P

[Sirber]

@Shinigami-Sama

Any pictures? ;)

[arch_angel16]

22, computer science student doing wireless work in Waterloo.

Hey Shinigami, I agree with you about Sysadmin work...it's a dying field. If you can get a job, cool, but never count on it to last long. Switching to webdev is just as bad, really, since you're joining a field with even more competition than IT work (unfortunately, any idiot with a bit of knowledge can claim to be a webdev or sysadmin). You *may* want to look into authoring...it takes the skills generally needed by webdevs and concentrates on content instead. (ie, electronic doc writing).

[Shinigami-Sama]

@sirber
I can pm you one of me working a knife handle that was taken last year

@ arch_angel
yeah, I only need to save up about 10grand and I can take over a local pc repair shop in my hometown, I can get the rest of the capital from family so doing this kinda work is only temp anyways :P

[loopyloops]

could have guessed with a name like "loopyloops" :)

i encode anime to go on region-4 DVDs. also do a fair bit of A/V mastering/remastering and even restoration where i can (not as glamourous as it seems though... i'm at the mercy of the tools available, but avisynth = good, adobe audition = okay, premiere pro = bloody awful).

however, right now i'm trying to wrestle a mac into submission, but it's not working too well :mad:

From which region do you encode from? I take it it's not that straight forward, i.e. some converesion, press a button, tool?

[Mug Funky]

From which region do you encode from? I take it it's not that straight forward, i.e. some converesion, press a button, tool?

well, we don't encode straight off DVD if that's what you mean... that'd be a tad too lossy and quite unprofessional. source is usually Digibeta, sometimes beta SP (that's good because they work in the digi decks - same tapes but analog), occasionally DV (25 and 50) and increasingly we're getting stuff in on hard disks.

however, i've had to do some restoration work as well, and in those cases we take whatever's available and combine the best parts of all of it (even VHS or bootlegs).

but most of our material comes from either Japan or the US (or Japan via the US most often, in the case of english-dubbed anime). we do stuff from and for all regions though.

as far as the process goes, the bulk of it is tape-op stuff. there's another guy here who does most of that. just a matter of loading tapes, cueing them on the computer, patching the right outputs to the right inputs and hitting "encode". the computers remote-control the decks and it has to play through to the mpeg-2 card (2-pass of course).

most of the stuff i do is software based though - capturing tapes losslessly, then doing more specialised standards conversion with avisynth (it's the best thing out there for this stuff, really). then encode using a regular mpeg-2 encoder program. my job's fast becoming that of "mastering engineer", except for both video and audio, and for more chaotic and lower paid :)

[m1ckran]

I'm currently just enjoying being alive. Doing simple everyday things gives me satisfaction due to my ill-health. I get tired watching cricket!

Previously, I was a bus/truck driver for many years before buying an Atari 800 computer. I taught myself how to program it and got so addicted that I took a degree course in computer science and found work as a programmer.

Getting a bit bored with IBM RPGIII, I moved into networking and, in a team of two, designed and installed the company network. Originally it was Banyan StreetTalk and BeyondMail running over Netware (for parent-company compatibility) but later we went the Windows way.

I'm considered to be a true IT Professional in the UK, having a BSc honours degree and two major heart attacks to my credit! I've noticed, though, that IT is an industry in recession with huge volumes of work now being done abroad. Far fewer students are enrolliong for computer-related courses because work prospects are so poor.

Still, I always find something on this site to interest, entertain and inform. Thanks to everyone who contributes (even the grumpy sods).