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Shotcut Video Editor tricks

1. When you are importing video from action camera, shotcut will prompt you to convert it into fixed bitrate format. That helps. 2. To reduce fish-eye effect from action camera footage, use lens correction filter and use near-center correction value of 45 and near-edge correction value of 40. 3. Use stabilize filter to reduce shakiness. It won't be as good as a gopro's video due to not having corresponding gyro data. But it will be much better than no-stabilization.

Death of Benq 22" display

Recently my Benq display died. It had already taken a fall and the screen was cracked in a few places. But it continued to work. Then about a year of work from home, it decided to die with picture moving up/down. I got it repaired and it worked for another year or so. And now it's croaked for life. It's not completely dead. But 80% of screen shows alternate black lines and it's not usable anymore. I bought it for about 7.5K INR. And it served for a few years as display for my lightly used Raspberry Pi. Then it was fully used for WFH since last 2.25 years. Now similar displays cost upwards of 10000 INR. That's inflation for you. Anyway luckily I had a 22" Samsung TV lying around unused. And since the company desktop I have with me, does not have HDMI and the TV does not have VGA, I had ordered a VGA to HDMI convertor box for about 500 INR. That purchase saved the day and I was able to use the Samsung TV as monitor. There were few complications though. One was crappy...