Thursday, July 31, 2025

Subtitles Complete, Argus v1.57, How Lonely

Woke early, completed the remaining subtitle videos by 12:00, then moved to an update of Argus. I made a few small changes, and one bug fix where correctly imported values were reported as not imported. I added to feature to return the quantity of values imported, and added 'guide' tracks, which are not played or shown. They behave as though muted, but are not affected by soloing or all-tracks-on commands. These are useful for guide data, events to highlight key frames (in this case, the frames the vocals for each line appear). Guide tracks are one of the better features I added to Prometheus, so now added in Argus too.

After re-listening to my music when working on these videos, I decided to, yet again, tweak some mixing. In particular I've raised the high-pass on the 'How Lonely' vocals and it instantly made the song better. I think I need to generally set this higher than I typically do. It can depend on the type of song. Richer vocals work better on slower, or more intimate or more spartan productions, with higher frequency vocals for busier pop productions.