 Everybody welcome to another exciting episode of logic live. This is episode 25 We're almost six months into this everybody this little experiment episode 25 machine learning with Andy and the new forum with Randy So thank you everybody and again in case anyone didn't see him. No, we have Our friends over at Boris. We're gonna do a mocha pro deep dive today But they need a bit more time to finish perfecting a couple of new features So they've rescheduled for for later in October and I want to thank my good friend Randy Macintee for filling in fun fact The the puppet behind me Is named Randy and so when I told my it's Randy milk is of course and when I told my wife that she asked Who's your guest gonna be on the show this week? I was like, oh, it's gonna be me and Randy She was like, that's it's really we've gotten to ventriloquism at this point. It's been one hell of a lockdown so welcome everybody and Let's get underway This episode of logic live is brought to you as always by our friends at cynicism.io solutions development integration and support Please if you have any if you want to know more about their their remote workflow solutions, definitely check them out at cynicism.io supporting flame artists since 1997 It has been a hell of a couple of weeks here We launched two weeks ago the forum the new forum Randy's gonna talk about that at forum logic TV It's gonna take you on a guided tour of of all of its features and how to set it up. Oh Thank You Jeff fight Be careful what you wish for me You'll see what happens the next time I have somebody need to postpone Randy's gonna take us through the new forum and all of its features and how to set it up Especially on mobile. So I'm looking forward to that It's been really well received I want to thank everybody for all the feedback and all the participation We're really excited about this new little endeavor and taking logic to the next level. So thanks everybody We also launched one frame of white 2020 There are now 30 people signed up for one frame of white and I'm super excited about that There's still plenty of time to participate. So if you would like to Get involved in one frame of white this year Please do of course one frame of white for those of you don't know is the most amazing thing You make the most amazing thing you can think of using only the tools in flame so no outside footage or or outside Models or anything just the stuff that comes with flame and every year. There's a theme this theme theme for this year Is joy because you know if we ever needed something to smile about This would be the time for that and the maximum length for your entry is 30 seconds The contest is running now entries are due on September 30th. Again, that's plenty of time at 11 59 59 p.m my time and Everybody who enters gets a 30-day license of sapphire on OFX you can use sapphire plugins. You can use any of the logic matchbox plugins As part of your entry and you can download a 30-day trial of flame fully functional To use for your entry as well details on everything the rules are all available at one frame of white comm We have an amazing lineup of prizes this year. Okay Beginning with I'm gonna go back. God damn it because I was so excited about this prize that I pushed the forward button First place is a Dell Precision 7750 mobile workstation. This is a kick-ass machine. All right. It's you can run flame on it In fact, I don't know if anybody caught the Autodesk vision series last week, but they were they were certainly showing it off It was Mark Renton was was was talking about his experience with the machine but a 17-inch machine with an NVIDIA quadra NVIDIA quadro RTX 5000 and plenty of RAM and not just one but two SSDs a great machine And this comes to us courtesy of Dell Intel and quadro and our friends at Autodesk So that's first place, but that's not all Second place is a 12-month license of flame third place a 12-month license of flair fourth place and I owe 4k box from our friends at AJA Fifth place is a 12-month license of the Boris Boris FX suite. That's everything that they make Sixth place a $500 store credit to the best stock footage on the internet action vfx.com Seventh place is a set of AirPods Pro from our friends at cynicism and Rounding out at eighth place a $99 gift ticket from FX PhD So don't wait or wait till the end of the show But don't wait go to one frame of white comm now and sign up and become part of flame history Look at that see the music fades out in that too. I got to thank Randy for showing me that little trick there All right, everybody. So again, welcome to logic live today. I really appreciate you being here This is gonna be a two-part show The first thing I want to do is show off a couple of the ML or the machine learning tools That I've been taking advantage of and doing the beauty work and retouching work that I do So I would say show of hands has anybody tried these tools the the machine learning tools Feel free to Let's see, you know, there's a react. I believe there's a reactions button. No, right? Yes. Okay. So Quinn has said yep I've definitely seen some some some comments on logic and on the new forum about this and people had questions And I just wanted to show off how I've been using the new face extraction tool. So somewhere on this machine Somewhere I have flame running allegedly hold on There we go, okay, let's share this and get underway There you go boom All right so I have here and flame a couple of beauty shots from a spot I worked on in the last year or so and Let me go ahead and make a new a new batch. All right little Python plug here I have a Python script that I wrote that I I've made available To to everybody that you can use to customize your own batch group if you like your batches in a certain way with a certain name Just the touch of a button or a keyboard shortcut boom. You got what you need. Let me take these four clips here and I'm just gonna drag them into Batch and we'll dive into batch and see what we got. Okay So let's start with this first clip here. All right As far as the machine learning tools, you know, these things are matchboxes. So if you go to the Your your node bins and go to matchbox and just press M on the keyboard You'll see them all and there are a bunch of them now, you know One's one will create a depth map another is good for sky extraction There are ones that'll give you a mat for the whole human body But we're gonna work on the human face extraction one which has Become my new favorite thing because we do a lot of beauty work at lively So you go and connect this thing go ahead and press f4 and the very first time you do Connect your node to a clip and press f4. It's going to do an analysis, right? It's going to compare this footage to all the training that That the neural net was configured with to try to identify the different features of the face Maybe I should play some vamping music here, right? I'll say keep everybody inspired Now there are a bunch of different tools Oh, hey, we can stop. Thank you music. Thank you fade out button. All right And so by default what you get is this right? I'm going to take advantage of the ultra wide screen here And I'm just going to split this into three. Okay And I'll put the source clip here at context one Move this a little bit. Yeah, right I'll have the output of the matchbox node as context two and then let me make a result here A render and we'll make that context three Okay, right So you can see here right I have By default you get The skin preset and these are all the different presets for the different regions of the face That the plugin or that the ml code knows to to find right? So if you're looking for Just the skin on the left side of the face you can pick that if you just want the eyebrows you can pick this right And uh, it's pretty remarkable what it can find In fact, you know, it would be really helpful. Let me just go ahead and add Another couple of nodes to make this more visible. I'll add a color corrector that gets fed by Uh The matchbox node and we'll plug that into The render to create uh Three so we'll just go ahead and do what we do in every demo, which is provide a little bit of color And this is three here and this is one so you can see here's the original Here's the mat that the ml tool is creating and then here's the result right and so if I were to switch to uh a different Region of the face you get a mat for a different region of the face now These are all great, right? But they're generic meaning they don't really Match up perfectly to every single face that you're using. Um, and and that's just because you know the data or the the uh Machine learning algorithm is only as good as the data that it was trained on This is really really good, but it's you know, it's only so good. Um, and also you can uh combine some of these So let me let me show you a technique that I use and uh, this is especially good since evars here, but um You know by default when you pick skin you get a mask for the skin But it it doesn't protect the nose from any of like the the retouching that you want to do or any of the the skin work that you want to do so um Somebody that would be me Made a suggestion for an area called a shine zone when they were when this was in beta and uh, and uh The guys at autodesk at the dev team were nice enough to add a couple of these. I think t-zone. It was another one. I suggested um Based on uh on my feedback, but what I normally do is I'll take if I'm going to do like overall skin cleanup I'll take this um Output here the one for the t-zone just make a duplication of or duplicate the node. Well, I guess I could have used control Shift d which will duplicate with connections the day I learned that changed my life and um Set this to nose. So now I have a map for the nose And I give you know the flame remembers that analysis. So it doesn't have to analyze the clip again um I'll add these two mats together right and you get a good map for the basically for the The skin or for the areas of the skin that you might want to clean up and you can add as many of these as you want and then normally what I'll do is go ahead and Grab evars brilliant croc beauty matchbox I'll do this Lose this And feed the um Matchbox with this inputted mat. So if I do do enable external mat then what you can see here Is I'm getting uh croc beauty applied just to Well, basically to all the areas of the skin there that I want, right? Which is wonderful, uh, and then the real magic of this though is you know Once this has been analyzed For the skin there for this particular individual then it's kind of set and good to go So you can go ahead and kind of and build a rig you could build like a group that has All the nodes you need in there and then once you pipe in something new Right, you get the same output. In fact, you know, it might be easier if I uh to see this if I Reconnect the uh Color correct Wendy's bombing out here. Here we go. It's a live show. There we go So if you switch the clip you're going to get the same areas Because what the ml tool uh Is doing is is identifying those areas on her face So it's not like tracking or anything and it does a reasonably good job at uh, You know anything that's occluding like the fingers that are coming in Um, or even if we go back to the first clip her hairline It's really impressive, but um, like I said at the beginning, uh, Sometimes you might want an area that uh, either the tool wasn't trained on right or something more specific so, um Let me show you this like uh jeff's here jeff kyle is uh is is here in the audience and uh, we work together at lively and we had Uh a job we worked on A couple months ago where we had a hundred and like 20 shots or so 160 shots Um across four like two minute videos that all needed basic cleanup like this And so we built a rig for each of the uh four talent and we were able to just like Uh factory line is bang these through but um, one of the things that we needed to do was um Change the color of her eyelids. All right, and this has happened Uh, I get this request a lot with a lot of my beauty clients where like, you know, either the look of the makeup will change Things like that. Um, but like eyelids isn't something that's an option here, uh, that in the in the uh The ml tool right out of the box. However, there is an option called input mat Okay, so you could do something like so, right? One of the other ml options is ml human face templates. All right, and if we look at this we get um something That to the untrained eye looks absolutely bizarre, but to the trained eye is clearly like an unfolded uv map Okay, so like this is a template showing you like where on the face each feature Uh is is kind of projected for um the ml tool and so if I were to take this and feed it into um You know, I'll just make a copy of one of these so this is going to get crazy and and please don't judge me on my If Andy Davis were here, he'd be very very mad at me right now. Um Right if I were to change this and let's to input mat Right, then you can see it's mapping All the stuff from that input mat or from that the template file And you can see where the uv stuff gets gets applied, right? So let's say you wanted a mat for her eyebrows. Okay Simple enough You just need to build like a little a little or eyebrows. Sorry her eyelids You just need to build like a little a little uh a little cheat sheet rig to kind of show you Where your painting or where you're drawing so i'm going to take a g mask and i'm going to Apply it to the template file here, right? And then Let me go ahead and comp Sorry that's going to plug into a human face extract set to input mat Right, and then the output of this i'm just going to comp over top of The original footage And we'll send that over here to the side Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and draw a g mask approximately where her eye her eyelids are Okay Forgot to set this to a screen Okay And now I can go back over here and I can adjust The shape of this g mask To approximate or to cover the area where her eyelids are right And let me just do another one on the other side Okay, and so now that I have that Right Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. So this g mask mat here is feeding into Human face extraction because I drew those masks where they needed to go On the template Then what i'm going to get are mats for her eyebrows Okay, so I can take those and Blur that And blur that there we go And we'll just lose this for a second. Let me grab a new color correct I'm listening. Let me delete all this other stuff clean this up a little grab a new color corrector That's some crazy eyebrows right there, but seriously if I wanted to do something a little more refined Okay, so there's new eyebrow a new eyebrow look Eyebrow I keep saying eyebrow a new eyelid. Sorry look for her. Okay that matches her eyes And now that that's done. I can go ahead and pipe any clip in there of her and you get Instant results Okay, and I'm sure you saw it doesn't matter if she's blinking. It doesn't matter any of that um, so boom With boy what two minutes worth of work I now have four shots where the eyebrow look or the eyelid The eyelid look is ready to go This is one of my absolute favorite beauty features now. I use it for everything And a huge thanks to the the dev team over at Autodesk for giving us a feature like this. So Does anybody have any questions? all right, well That my little show and tell with ml human face templates and ml human human face Extraction if anybody does have any questions or anything like that feel free to drop them on the forum Or on logic and we will Continue the conversation. All right. Where's randy at? Thank you, Keith Are you there randy? Quinn that is always a problem There we go. Hey Oh, hold on we've got uh, we've got that, uh 2020 problem here. Wait, did you just lose power in your house? You're you're muted my friend. I maybe I should play a sound effect at this point. Hey randy You're muted there we go well You're no longer muted, but I can't hear you I thank you quince pointing out that maybe I should grab the puppet You can hear randy You can hear randy. Why can't I hear randy? Oh, shit. It was me All right randy come on back. I think we're ready I think that was me Hey, there you are. Hey now. I hear you. That was me That was me in my settings. You gotta let me in on my I've got two users because you put me in the waiting room for the other one And I was uh, oh, that's right. That's right So I was I was missing the demo and I haven't seen the beauty. So I was like, oh, I gotta dial Oh, no, I can see the demo Oh, shit. Well, there you go One of these days, maybe episode 26 will get it right There you are I can't believe it. Oh my god You guys wouldn't you you wouldn't believe if I told you that we um, we went ahead randy And I got together an hour before show time to kind of make sure that everything was working Oh my god all right So now now that now that I've worked out my Uh technical issues Randy is going to take us to through the new forum forum dot logic dot tv Yeah, so Fabulous, um too bad. I'm not a puppet with Sorry There's two jokes I was working up and before this technical thing when one was the puppet one was uh, something about my eyebrows. Um I mean eyelids, um, so I wanted See what I did there This is just too easy now we're we're in this casual, uh Saving Boris. Um So I wanted to talk about the website. There's first off. There's been amazing traction. We've got uh, almost 400 users Last 30 days. We've got about uh, 3000 page views Um, so much positive stuff, uh going on. It's really exciting. Um And I just thought we'd take this time to talk about some of well first Maybe even kind of why we're doing this in the first place because there's there had been a lot of questions over You know, hey, what's wrong with logic on facebook? Um And um, and there's and there's also a bunch of features that I think you know, because it's such a unique forum A unique platform for the forum There's just so much to talk about and so much to look and I think that's easy to miss some of the core features and kind of Why we identified this particular platform as a possible home for logic Um, does that make sense? Oh completely So a couple of first questions. Thank you Quinn can always count on you to Say what everyone needs to say um, so A lot of people have asked, you know, why are we why are we doing this and and just to kind of share My kind of american-centric view on facebook um politics aside the platform itself andy and everyone else at home. It's it's not designed for Permanence It's not designed for long-term intimate um sharing of knowledge It is at its core A disposable platform. I'm sorry a platform for disposable content And the reason it does that So you can come back you can log in and you can check it 20 times a day and see the top 10 things in your feed And they can track you and they can sell you stuff Um, which is really cool. Like if that's what you're into um, but lately 2020, you know with with what is Is Perhaps the biggest threat to our ability To support ourselves our careers and our families You know, we haven't had it. We don't have a community or a platform that helps us in a meaningful way Does does that make sense? Oh completely completely, you know, and thank you for articulating it that way I was I was always hung up on like uh that it was impossible to find anything and that's why I I You know started the logic dot tv website was just right It was almost guaranteed that once a day, you know, there'd be some question that you'd seen before You know, uh on how to do something or where is something and then, you know, I I fell victim to it myself over and over again of you know, I've been the middle of a job And I couldn't figure something out and I was like, ah, I knew this was somewhere And you type the exact search terms into facebook and you'd get you know Some random You know list of posts from the last eight years or something like that Right and that with the inability to bookmark things that you yourself have posted or you yourself would find interesting The only way to find what you need is just to ask it again, which causes a lot of noise And creates the system where the only people that are posting are the people that have that you know first off have You know the insane amount of confidence it takes to put yourself in front of everyone's You know on the top of everyone's feet on their phone And then there's no There's nothing that is new and pure and helpful to those unless you've been doing it so long And you know everyone that you don't care what you look like How how you're you know, you don't care that it's the most basic thing ever because like, you know, it's scary Yeah So anyway, so that's just the bigger picture side of there of kind of why And um And yeah, and who knows like, you know for the for the point for the time being there's been A lot of people that are going there a lot of people that are posting on on both facebook and our site And I know that's a little awkward But we don't quite know what the answer is yet We're just trying to put something out there that we believe in And see what happens and talk to people and get their feedback and change it because it's ours It's our platform. We can do with it. Whatever the heck we want And the best way for for um for you at home You know, if it's benefit if it's a value to you and you're benefiting from it just show up and You know post something like something click on some links um, and even that alone is stuff that we can take back to The people that support logic like cynosis And like boris and then eventually we can give you cool stuff and it's not just like, you know We're the service whereas on facebook You know, you are the product or you are you are, you know, if it's free then You know, then then then you are being sold and so right. It's not cool. It's not without value even though it's free Yeah, that's right. Um, anyway, so I know that's that's just a brief kind of synopsis of of why we're so passionate about this And uh, and yeah, we can you know, if anyone else wants to dive more into that We can but I figured we just jump into some features. Does that make sense? Yeah, totally. Okay um What quincei if you're not the consumer you are The consumed well said amen brother. Amen. So, um, one big thing that's easily missed is the the mobile app So I wanted to kind of show that with you show that for you now And this worked earlier and of course it's not going to work now, but We're gonna So good So good It's like a michael jackson popcorn meme for everyone at home just watching us Okay, um, so, um The mobile app. Well, it's unfortunately we're we're just not called the logic mobile app because We're only two weeks in maybe someday But if you can go to the apple store or the ios or the android store Sorry, the google play store. Um, if you search for an app called the discourse hub Then it's this little guy here Right at the top of my screen You can download this And because we're using an official discourse hosted Platform, uh, we get to use this and it's great because we get notifications all that kind of stuff Um, so it just wants to be able to send you, um notifications and gives you access to your photos and whatnot and your camera Um, once you do that you can add your first site And all you do is you type in our site Just like a cell and connect and continue and authorize And boom now you have access to our site on your phone um So that's kind of it. It's really simple. Um, but once you have that now you can you can control the notifications and the amount of Um Distraction so to speak that come your way and I can show you that now on the on the website Uh, first off, is there any questions on this stuff? It's pretty self-explanatory. I think Okay, let's try the website now Okay So, um, the first thing That I wanted to highlight is the trust system I made a little post about, um, all of, uh, basically the trust system or it's it's designed at first Uh, it's just an anti spam tool at first so that people, uh Don't start an account and start bombing us with inappropriate content pinks, uh, and links and pictures um, and so When you first join the site you become trust level zero, which is new And we have since changed this. Thank you jamie beckwith for complaining about being called basic Um, you're so right. So, um, whilst this post does say trust level new called fortran, right? That's right um, so new basic and member have been, um, replaced with eight bit 10 bit and 12 bit nice Uh, regular is 16 bit float or half float and leaders are 32 bit float just so you just just um You know something that was a little bit more celebratory than being basic Um, so when you are new Or when you're an eight-bit member that sounds terrible. I've never said that out loud before I mean you're just dithering around the site is that what you're saying? That's exactly right. So you only got you only got eight choices of honor off. Um, sorry 200 26 So there's just a few things that you can't do now one thing that someone I think it was andy davis posted recently like I sent him an invite and he accepted He said great. I'm going to share my links and he couldn't send any links Because he needs to spend a few minutes on the site But you know if you do that and you know, we know you because it's a small community Um, first off just give it a couple hours because I usually keep track of everyone and there's when users sign up Like if I know you and I've seen you and heard of you like I'd promote you because Like why the heck shouldn't we we're all your job is not to be an eight-bit Everyone knows we should be working at 10 bit these days. So Um, so that's kind of you know, just bear with us while while we do that But if you drop me a message to you say, hey, I want to post some stuff Just let me know and I'll I'll get you up to trust level one 10 bit just so you can uh, you can participate how you choose Um, so It's just designed to reward and and keep people from you know coming back and contributing Um, and as you get promoted, there are some additional groups and categories that um are available to you Uh, so for example in the categories page There's a few that are are kind of reserved for um people that have just been here more than a minute or two Only so that we can at least protect um, you know So people can you know if they want to sign up and see stuff no problem But after spending 10 minutes on the site, um, they will get promoted and they'll have access to a couple more categories of a water cooler or you know Something like that and there's also some private categories that we're reserving for um, uh for groups of friends to come together and have You know dialogue is meaningful for them. That's that doesn't need to happen in public any questions so far on The trust level stuff It seems good and uh, I just want to reinforce that you know like as randy said We need to figure out a way to keep the the spam out and it's a it's a fluid document. So as As things, you know as we get the feedback we uh, we can certainly make changes to those things But so far it seems to be working as at least as intended Totally and I think the one that the the first My first Concern as an administrator for the site is to make sure that Stuff on the site is helpful um, and You know Sometimes you're not into memes or distractions. Well, guess what? We're going to walk through that right now So you can shape your experience. Um, you know how you see fit so Categories now categories are are both kind of loved and hated um because right now our Current facebook site doesn't have categories But I think they're really helpful When you first launch a log site, you can you know, you just see all the latest and these are here These categories are here They pop up when you post something and and moderators and staff from the site can update these so that if you You know if you forget to um, we'll go ahead and make that adjustment for you so that people at home Um can still have access to things that matter to them. So for the categories Let's say You wanted to you know, you're you know, you just wanted to see tips and tricks and you didn't care about logic live sadly Um, although now that there's a ventriloquist possibly happening. Maybe you'll care more about it Um, or maybe you don't care about between vendors or water cooler stuff. Like you just need The veg not the not the garnish. So under your profile Go into your settings And under your preferences For your notifications and categories So you can and let me turn all these off because this is not how these look This is my stuff So this is the default um, and there's a slight difference between the watched the tracked and the first post and the watched is um Is basically like notifications. So if you come through here and say, um, I want uh flame questions then only Category and only new topics posted to categories will Share with you notifications on your mobile device Does that make sense? Um, if you say turn this off and say tracked and you say flame questions Well, then when you go to your latest page Those will be tracked numerically here So it's still tracking it, but it's not interrupting your world if that makes sense And so that's a subtle difference that kind of got me and that's why you know, I think it's worth sharing that with you now Um, and so I just watch everything watch to get your notifications and tracked Won't get your notifications, but you'll see them when you first log into the site That's correct. And like and there's also um, if they're tracked, then there'll be a small number Um, can you see my cursor waving around? Yeah, yes And thank you Quinn. That's exactly right track will highlight it for you when you visit And it'll show you a numerical number up here with how many of those are are new for you if that makes sense And then the watching first post is great, too If you just want to get bombed with like the first post But you don't want to see all the million replies of people saying hey, thank you You know, what's this, you know, that's so if you want you can just add things to be your First post so for example first post. I just wanted to see the first posts for The effects tools and I don't care about all the replies Then this is how you could set that up and then look if you don't care about Anything let me just freeze some more categories here So if you don't want Anything that is a possible distraction Then you can turn off or be muted for some of these categories That you might feel are distractions for you in your world if that makes sense And so yeah, so have a look and play with this as you see fit Any questions give me a shout There's also things too like if there's some users that you just don't appreciate or you're not into you're like Hey, they don't add joy to my life and you can mute them here Also tags are the same way you can tag Themes or keywords and these are really helpful like maybe you are You know, like if you were an autodesk friend and we do have We do have several members of autodesk group joining us You can tag for you know these tags here. So For example, I'm that's kind of my next evolution of trying to figure out how to manage this And if we have tags like support tag Like I need help even though this isn't an authorized legitimate autodesk site If you're looking for help that you think an autodesk friend might be able to help you with You could add a tag and then they could search for they could watch it. So lots of Power and flexibility, but it does take some figuring out of kind of personally for you to figure out What do you want so you can set this up as you see fit? It's great. That's really great and then if you Let's say Probably the third most Asked question is You know, hey, why are you doing this? We just want Old school flame news, right? So that was back in the day. It was started by Fun fact, did you did you know where the original flame news started? No so The original flame news started in chicago with jeff hueser and mb Really at the original cutters in chicago So cutter studios way back in the day like I think it was a must have been in the late 80s really 90s Um, they had I think it was I was talking with mb about this couple weeks ago I think they had flame zero number three Yeah, yeah, and they didn't know You know, they were still trying to figure out how to fly the aircraft as it was being built so to speak And so they started an email group And that turned into flame news. That's awesome. And I was catching Yeah, I was catching up with mb a couple weeks ago about that and I had no idea um And so many people have you know enjoyed how this new site Kind of is reminiscent of that old email thread and here is precisely how you can Actually set that up a little bit more You know just like that So if you are click on your on your eye and your profile icon go to settings preferences and In your emails then The very bottom here is what's called Enable mailing list mode and if you click on this and you save this then There will be then you'll just get an email blast for every activity from the site And so there's three out there's a couple options. There's sending email for every new post And email for every new post except for my own because if I did it, I don't need to see it in my email again And so you can do this and boom now none of this stuff is You know none of the categories or the watch or notifications are there You're just going to get emails for it So you can deal with this in your own gmail or you know in your own Platform of choice if that makes sense to filter and to respond And you can start new topics and you can reply and you can do things from there So that's a really powerful way to fit into how some of you currently have your Incoming mail and social media sorted in your email. Does that make sense? Oh, totally This is great. I know I mean even just me personally sometimes the it's the it's you know the Overload of notifications and the overload of stuff that I don't really care about this is the biggest turnoff to Any kind of forum or social media platform or anything like that and being able to get this granular is just super helpful I mean for sure And I think that's one of the reasons that that a lot of people turn off facebook is because it's hard to It's hard to see only the things you care about And you turn them off or you don't go there you visit a couple times and many people have Contacted me and they say they just check it before they go to bed Well now they don't have to check it They can have emails ready for them or they can you know just filter Certain topics or categories so that if they just aren't interested if they just don't care if someone posts something That isn't important to them as a flame user They can bypass it. Yeah Okay, um moving forward Badges are an interesting evolution So, um, oh I forgot to fix that. That's my fault. Um, so The badges are Kind of a nod to the autodesk area one thing that was really special about the area is you could see how many artists were we're posting and providing solutions and That was I was always really cool for me like to see and you go over there and you see Andy dill has you know, like is like the top fourth most contributor to the site And the people above him are autodesk employees and he's in front of other autodesk employees It just shows you that someone there Can be trusted and can you know knows what you go through as an artist Potentially and can help you And so the badge system and this is all the default stuff straight out of the out of the box from from our discourse friends So um as we evolve, you know, I'd like to change some of these because like You know, some of these are the the icons are a little Underwhelming for people that work on fancy pictures like we do But you know the first emoji badge though, man That's right. I'm not getting rid of the badge. You could change some artwork and add some things like you know There's some other fun things coming up And so these are just happens to be the ones that I've picked up just because I have to for being you know, one of the guys It's it's my job to look after the site And they can easily be found with Oh Like annie dill's actually got a bunch of funny If you see his Oh, there we go So the badges can be presented On the user's profile page and you can see what they're doing and for example Congratulations, annie dill for being our very first new user of the month That was so perfect. Thank you. I was hoping you'd go with something like this Sorry, thank you Oh man, my life has been changed. I'm sorry randy. Thank you for showing me that I could use my stream deck as a sound board Well, it was carry during the uh summer summer party who had the sound board just queued up and it was so grand I was just it's all carry's fault. So if you don't If it's too childish for you blame carry and so Yeah, I think the badge system is powerful and it helps you just see of what's what's going on out there and the people that are helping you in your world Any questions? I know i'm moving quickly, but there's just a couple more things to cover so far so good out there Yeah, so far so good. This has been great, man. Thank you for for taking the time I mean, I've learned things from watching this cool two more things that I want to talk about so themes they're not Very well labeled here, but these are different themes that you can you can launch I've tried to keep the first five or six Pretty static so that if you like one it stays you can change the themes into It's a little rich using this one, but you know we'll go with it Um, but these are these are designed to help you. Yeah, it's star wars. Oh, I did add star wars. Um This one's pretty ridiculous Oh my god And the very first time if you launch star wars it launches the terms and conditions As the opening title card So you can sit mine Um, you can sit by but if you get lost And this has happened to a couple of users before because um, I've been terrible and I've my My sys admin is is is only improving shall we say? Um, if you go to preferences your little settings tab And then here preferences and interface This is where you can change your theme If you get lost So for example, if you're in Everyone's want to add a new theme and I have to add another theme to link the themes And then you don't get a chance to change the theme and then you don't like the theme and then you hate me And you never visit the site again. I have no fear you can change it here That's my it's my my flame guilt uh coming up But you can also change the size of the text and you can you can adjust things here just to make your your lives easier because some of the themes are You know, unfortunately small and tougher on our on some of our eyes that are are used to just sitting in the dark Mm-hmm. Jeff says that uh, there's a warp, you know a light speed or whatever that happens every now and then Oh, there is there is and um, you know I don't know Okay, this oh he says you have to scroll Oh you have to scroll Okay, we might crash and burn and this may not work. That's okay after after my After my section of this Oh, yeah, nothing. Yeah. No, we're just gonna see if we can break it here Okay, never mind. I was gonna try it. It's really great when you log in for the first time because you can uh You can see there there are lightsabers too somewhere. Oh nice So anyway, um And I'm working on this little feature here, which is hard because I'm not a css person I don't know it. So I'm just faking my way through it But one day I'll have the ability to turn on Um a light in a dark mode For each theme like this one is think is really beautiful. It's just a switch. It's right there So I know it's a small thing, but when you're sitting in a dark room in front of a a dark gray user interface Nothing screams. I'm not working like this Like that Or um as as randy and I found out while we were doing our run through if you have two displays going on Uh, and you have you can put this like nice bright, you know Full white browser window on the other display it acts as a really feel light Oh, oh, yeah, and did you see um, you can do your uh real real time normals remapping? Yeah That's awesome. Yeah, I'll just be jealous with my real time, uh, web-based normals remapping Sorry I feel like this is the only time I could use that joke. Um, okay, just a couple more things I wanted to share. Um, the searching is super good and um Uh, if you are looking Let me go back to my other Theme because I'm so used to seeing it this way. Um, if you're looking for things so For example, um, Andy posted something Um And all I could remember is that donald's rum. He mentioned donald rumsfeld in the post for some reason. Um Different Andy Oh, yeah, that's right Andy dill No, not donald And so well here it is here. So I just typed in the beginning of rumsfeld and this is This is the post that he had made And so the search is pretty powerful and it's fast You can also change options here. So you can search for Let's just ask for Let's say you're looking for the andy davis uh scale post But there's a bunch of stuff and you can say okay, but I wanted to be posted by Andy davis Which is here And there is his under scanning scale and apps You can also search for only the things that you posted Or you know things in filter by category. So the search is incredibly powerful So great And if you knew it was just posted, you know, I don't know four after a certain times you can do that here as well Um Any questions on searching? I know it's an easy thing to talk about but That's wonderful. Okay Um, oh the last thing that I want to talk about were bookmarks. So Uh, for example Well, here, I'll show you my bookmarks. So, um under your profile icon here. There's this little bookmark tab and these are posts and replies within posts that I have bookmarked So for example, um I bookmarked this one from peter and peter had posted This really helpful Little piece from autodesk where it was like the things that typically do best. Oh, yeah, right? And so if you are if you're seeing something like okay cool, um Let's find something that I was interesting in. Oh my god This is so much more helpful than like the adding a plus one or a following to like a oh, yeah Yeah, so let's say, um Uh There's something. Oh cool. So so gram posted something here that I was like, okay cool I need to know about that. So under this little tool triple thing. You can click on the tools and you can Uh, where'd it go? Oh, uh, oh here it is bookmark. So now I have bookmarked just this individual reply And then I can I can set a timer I can say, you know what remind me later on today Oh, that's great Okay, so I can come up to my bookmarks. Sorry here and This post has been bookmarked and it will ping me and give me a notification at five o'clock today that there was something I wanted to do with it like um, write it down or implement it or whatever um and if you are scrolling through and Uh, let's see. Let's find another topic at school. Um Oh, yeah, so jeff or um, eric had this great tip Your day. This was brilliant And if I bookmarked this and I don't need a reminder Because I just wanted to remember it or something technical that I wanted to remember from a long time ago Now it's sitting right here and it's just it's just there and so maybe it's a um a support Support link So like if you're just tired of searching for something then you can bookmark it so tools bookmark and then now You'll never lose your support link or a procedure for restarting Backburner or doing the backburner xml hacks so that your backburner can cash and export Anyway, those are it's a really powerful system. That's um, just kind of gaining traction I love the reminder. I can't tell you how many times that something's come up I find something because I know like hey, it's the weekend I'm looking through or it's 11 o'clock at night that I'm going to be having Uh, a meeting or a session or whatever later in the week. I need to remember that's just fantastic because Oh wow, I didn't even know about that. Oh um, and then there's um, there was one other thing I was going to talk about Anybody have any other questions to feed the uh feedback in in the chat about the bookmark stuff has been really positive. So that's great Now one thing that is um, it's on my radar. It's on my to-do list. Um And this is probably from just spending a little bit too much time on reddit As a educational and inspirational tool Andy not as a time wasting tool. Um If you've ever seen reddit bots that is One of the coolest things about forums. Have you ever seen a reddit bot do its thing, Andy? Uh, no okay, so There's something that's been happening a lot lately where people are posting You know questions that The group has an answer to but a computer could easily solve and um, like for example on facebook, how many times have we seen Can anyone remember the support phone number or how to help you to upvote something in flame feedback? and so This is a huge stretch goal of mine right now and it is expensive to implement But if we have enough people on the site one day I would love to institute chatbots And these are these are bots these are lines of computer code that typically go over the site every few seconds And if there's something that they can contribute to they can they contribute they share they reply. Yeah So if I post something that says why um, hey, um, who How my back burner isn't working like how can I? How do I reset it? You know, why couldn't a bot reply with the friggin procedure to to relaunch using back burner xml Doing the hack where you rename it remove it and it regenerates and all etc So that's really like the next level thing of where This community can go because the users are helpful but a lot of times You know you just need to know what the answer is and you don't need someone to log in to give it to you When it that's already out there and linkable in real time So that's really great randy. I'd never honestly. I'd never heard a positive use for the term bot You know, it's always it's always expressed in like, you know, something that's stealing an election or something like that This is uh, dammit. Andy. We're gonna use it for good and fix back burner. Um, no, right But like other things like conversion bots like millimeters to feet inches or Field of view to whatever or there's there's there's all kind of mathematical bots of you know, you can Anyway, so there's a lot of things that are powerful and possible Um, and it doesn't make much sense to implement it for 400 users But if we have a couple thousand meters, well, then you know, then we've got we have real ammunition of like legitimate investment to help the community That's great Jeff had a question here about, um Maybe getting some bookmark folders as a feature if that's possible just to keep them organized I don't know. We should we should ask out or desk. Um That's a good question. I haven't gotten that far yet Because obviously I have six or seven Um, let me look into that Cool. Let me look into that There's um, there is an incredibly vibrant and and positive theme theme. Sorry Um, community of discourse administrators in the case you're wondering this is a discourse server Discourse is the is the software the underlying hosting and company that that creates Administrators and hosts this server. Um, so in the meantime, if you get lost Or if I take more than 15 20 minutes to respond, you know A lot of times you can ask and you can search for things like discourse solutions like bookmark folders on discourse would be a google thing Um, and because that's what I'm going to do after this call Um, but you know, there are themes and components and add-ons and plugins and those are all things that that we can look at There are even like eventually there are even um slack integrations and andy you and I were testing that the other day If you don't Want to visit another place and you just want everything to just get pounded to your discord. Um, sorry your slack site You know we could look into that There's also jitsi meet integrations for video chats and and video conferencing. So again, those are all things that are out there impossible But you know, we need we need a vibrant active community that's participating and asking for those things So definitely, you know, let us know what you want to see give us the feedback The feedback is is the easiest way to get new things implemented Whether it's like things that aren't working working or new features and uh, please Encourage, uh, you know, any anybody, you know to come over to forum dot logic dot tv and sign up because the more participation we have the more The more it's going to grow So thanks randy. Yeah, I really appreciate it man. You've done like an amazing job getting this thing getting this dream, you know Going turning it from dreaming to reality. So thanks so much for all your hard work Sure thing Sweet Anybody have any further questions? Thank you. Jeff All right Well, let's close this out Thank you randy Let's close this out and uh, as we you know as we like to say here It's now price time at logic dot tv We're going to give away one of these uh attractive and useful logic themed and logic labeled and logic branded phone chargers courtesy of our friends at, uh at cynosis I mean, all right Let's do it That's right. You could be if one of the lucky winner you could be I'm coming back to make some funny sounds You could be I'm gonna stop this music You could be just like our friends carry and Miriam and uh and be the coolest kids on your block With the uh logic phone charger courtesy of our friends at cynosis. So, uh, I am going to share now The uh random name picker That I've been using this is brought to you And actually brought to everyone on the internet by what looks like 24 7 homework help to the rescue and some place where you can buy a mini cooper Everybody needs a job. Okay. So here we go You can't see your screen. Andy. If that's what you're wondering Oh You can't see the share. No This has been a banner Uh, random name picker. There we go Here it comes. I'm the winner of the guys Quinn Richardson ladies and gentlemen Hold on That's it Quinn. Congratulations, my friend You are going to be uh fortunate enough to walk around la with the coolest phone charger known to man. So Quinn Richardson ladies and gentlemen our big winner for this week And of course, thank you to everybody at cynosis for sponsoring Uh, let me show you what we got lined up for oh, andy. Don't forget next week. Next week We're going to do the uh the two sent the two sentence tip. Oh, that's right. Thank you for reminding me We're going to have uh, there's a section a category rather on uh on the forum Randy, do you want to show that real quick? Yes, it's called. Um the two sentence tips, right? Yes, oh, let me just search for it. Let me let me just search search for it. Hey So, yes, two sentence tips. So for those of you, um and and bonus points for actually no bonus points if you do it in the form of a haiku But if you if you and we'll link to this but if you provide a any two sentence tip Like mori just says master tracking that makes everything else easier. Hey, that's a tip. Guess what mori is enters Next week wash your hands before dinner That's right. Um, so yeah, again, you don't have to follow the two sentence thing But you have to keep it you just keep it short and it could be uh, exactly You should be washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap That's two sentences. And yeah, you'll be entered into next week's. Uh, that's uh, Sunday, September 20th, if i'm not mistaken, Andy Yes, it is Cool. So yeah, keep an eye out for that and that'll be when uh, when you get Automatically entered for that drawing Nice Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Okay, so coming up next week in addition to giving that away, we're going to have uh, christoph saplet house coming back To show off some of his beauty techniques. That'll be next uh sunday at 2 p.m If you haven't had a chance to check out his amazing fx phd stuff, please do. He's a fantastic guy. He actually was uh, presenting on boris's uh, What was it virtual ibc last week? Just showing some great tips for for beauty cleanup So tune in for that. We're going to be off on september 27th, but We're coming back in october For one frame of white so october 4th at 4 p.m. Is going to be a one frame of white reunion show and i am Super excited for this. Uh, i've got a bunch of past one frame of white winners who we're going to uh, show We're just going to catch up with them see how they've been doing We've got greg palm alone darin hofmeyer at gabriel garrito and kaylem k. Hill lined up so far and uh, and hopefully I'll have some more to announce so that's going to be a lot of fun And then following that on uh, october 11th. Whoops at 6 p.m. Is going to be the big one frame of white show um Let's This will be the second edit that i do for posting this third. We can't see your screen andy You seriously can't see the screen. We're going to face right now, aren't we? Oh quinn can see it and jeff can see it and they and quinn just won one of these chargers um So yeah, so october 11th at 6 p.m. Is going to be one frame of white 2020. I do have Someone who's going to be a live announcer for that. I'm very excited. I've always wanted to do a live award show And I think it's going to come as close as I possibly can To uh to having that dream realized And then october 18th I'm going we're going to do an interview with amanda elliott. She's a an assistant based out of la and she's uh I'm going to kind of tell her story and and really talk about the role of a flame assistant You know, it's it's really a misnomer to think of a flame assistant as like a junior flame artist She is by no means a junior flame artist and uh to to hear her experiences and her journey Is it's just going to be a great interview. I'm really looking forward to that And then october 25th at 2 p.m. That's when our friends from boris are going to come in We're going to have mary poplin from boris come and do a mocha deep dive So one frame of white is open now Please go ahead and and sign up definitely head on over to the forum and get as many of your friends as you can to sign up And just participate participate participate That's the key to getting the forum going keep me successful This episode and uh, we'll be available up on logic.tv with all the other logic lives For you to peruse. Uh, I'm going to be uh It's going to be a couple weeks before the next logic podcast episode, but I do have one in the work So just stay tuned for that. But if you haven't subscribed definitely check them out It's a great, you know, kind of Another angle on some of the logic content and a great way to get to know some of the personalities Please like and subscribe our youtube channel And thank you as always to cynicism That's it everybody. Thanks so much randy for uh for being the guest this week and for you know All the hard work you've done for the forum. So We will see you next week everybody. Thanks so much