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I have a fun Youtube channel call Oddbits – its some radio theatre for the mind & imagination, and some personal videos (Youtube Shorts) that I take at random. Here is the link <\/a>if you’re interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My channel is not very popular, I’ve got 142 subscribers and a handful of videos – but that’s cool. I’m very happy with it. I guess I’m a different type of person – I classify myself as being “real”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I mean by this is simple, if you look at a guy like Joey B Toonz<\/a> listing the video [TikTok and Idiocracy 19] – shows what passes for content these days – can you believe the artist in his video has 7.7 million followers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my channel I don’t want millions of subscribers, followers, etc. – personally, I really don’t care what people think of me or what they think of my channel insomuch as I’m not for everyone<\/em><\/strong> – the “real” people that get me will be subscribed to my channel, I don’t want the masses, I want people like me – I don’t care if they fit into the rest of society – they are important to me<\/em><\/strong>. In addition, to clarify – I hope the Biblical playlists I have, will resonate with everyone that wants to worship the Lord, from that perspective, I do care deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But personally I don’t want to be popular, I don’t want any limelight, or attention on myself – I hate it actually. I hope the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre playlist I have on my channel is enjoyable for listening – for people that want to relax and take a momentary mental escape and take a break for themselves, unlike a movie, you can close your eyes and just listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It kind of makes me want to vomit when I see all these Instagram videos with scantily clad models or women that try to use their looks to get likes\/followers. People trying to prove they are “fancy”, or special – trying desperately to grasp at anything to get more social relevance – I just see that as being pathetic. I taught my kids to treat others with respect and get their worth from being children of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find it funny when people think being popular somehow makes them special… in my world, those types of things don’t matter at all. All the insta-crap is just superficial nonsense. Who is gonna care 20 years from now that you took a selfie or lip synced a video that got a million views? Big flipping deal lol.. \ud83d\ude02. But if you saved someone’s life or helped people in crisis – you accomplished something worth more than any amount of views will ever do. That’s why the people I work with at the medical clinic are very special <\/strong>– they are the real heroes in my world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to the channel – I switched to a newer computer (for testing my work configuration) and I found that I was missing an app that I would need to re-license again. This is the app I use specifically to create the videos for the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre playlist in my Youtube channel, so its important to me<\/em>. I’m trying to save money for my work budget so I used Grok to create a Python application that uses MoviePy and Tkinter – this new Python app is now a local drop-in replacement for the commercial app I had. I hardy use ChatGPT anymore and I never use Copilot, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*I should explain, the app takes an mp3 file (an audio only file) in this case a radio story, and an jpg file (an image file) and creates a mp4 video file by combining the two – so that during the duration of the audio portion, presents the jpg image as the back drop for the video. I do this so I can post it on Youtube as a video; strictly speaking, I could leave it in mp3 format and mark it as a podcast, but I like that categorization of playlist files in Youtube as a visual library. And the background for the playlist is perfect. *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MoviePy is an open source library designed for video processing and Tkinter is a standard library for creating a Python GUI (graphical user interface). It’s not super fast but I don’t really care if it takes 20 minutes or more to create the video. Here is the script <\/a>if you want to run it yourself.. you need to install Python 3 from the windows store and save the file on your computer, then run it like this (from a command prompt) –> python mp3_to_video.py<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve found Grok to be really intelligent – its a very smart AI and if you provide a well structured prompt excluding rabbit trails, it will really go a long way toward helping you out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a great weekend!
Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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