Michael Verdi

  • Figma Prototyping

    I’ve been working on a prototype for work this week. I’m using Figma’s variables and conditions to make something that’s pretty complex. The problem I’m running into today is that the Figma UI hides all of the code you’ve written so it makes it really hard to find mistakes. My big idea – type it all out and place it on the page next to the component that contains it.

    This is the code that runs when click on one of the buttons in the prototype.

  • Joe

    Rebecca and I went to San Antonio last weekend and I got to hang out with my brother. I don’t think I’d seen him in over a year 😢.

    Joe – 2024

  • 2024 Eclipse

    The sky cleared up just moments before the start of totality.

    The audio consists of me and Dylan saying “fuck” a bunch of times.

  • Spatial Video Editing workflow

    • Convert MV-HEVC into Left & Right videos.
      • Drag video files out of Photos. Put them in a folder with “Left” and “Right” subfolders. CD to the directory and use this terminal command to make L & R files to edit.
        • Requires the Spatial command line tool by Mike Swanson (I installed this using Homebrew so the spatial commands below are not prefixed with ./
        • for f in *.MOV; do spatial export -i "$f" --vcodec proRes422 -o "Left/${f%}" -o "Right/${f%}";done
    • Edit your video in DaVinci Resolve Studio (need the paid version)
      • Project settings – 1920 x 1080, 30fps
      • Create a “Left” and “Right” bin and drag the corresponding clips into each one.
      • Right-click the master bin and choose 3D stereo sync. Pick the left and right eye folder. Set the output folder to the master bin. You should end up with a bunch of clips with 3D labels on them.
        • There is a bug in DR. My clips get paired with the wrong clip unless I sync one clip at a time. Super annoying.
      • Now you can edit as usual.
      • When you are done color grading – use the 3D tab on the Color page to adjust the alignment and 3D depth.
        • Use the stereo alignment tools if you have vertical mismatch.
        • You can use the convergence setting to make things farther out or farther in.
      • Finally – export a left eye video and a right eye video.
    • Convert Left & Right videos to MV-HEVC
      • Run this terminal command on the L & R videos you exported from DaVinci Resolve:
        • spatial make -i LEFT.mov -i RIGHT.mov --bitrate 20M --cdist 19.24 --hfov 63.4 --hadjust 0.02 --primary right --projection rect -o VIDEO-spatial.mov
      • When finished, drag the video to the Photos app where you can access it in AVP.

  • Spatial Videos

    I got an Apple Vision Pro a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been enjoying viewing the spatial videos I shot with my iPhone. This weekend I finally got around to learning how to edit them. It basically involves splitting the video into left and right files; combining & editing those in DaVinci Resolve; and then transforming the edited file back into Apple’s spatial video format.

    If you’ve got an Apple Vision Pro, download these and open them in the Files app. If you’re not using an Apple Vision Pro, these will play as regular videos.

    Cats

    Three, 3D Cats. 95 MB

    cats-spatialDownload

    Snow in
    Dallas

    We got some snow in January.
    53 MB

    snow-spatialDownload

    Rowing

    Rowing practice on White Rock Lake.
    153 MB

    rowing-spatialDownload