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Sunday,  09/29/24  10:15 AM

Among all the amazing capabilities of Perplexity* and honestly, c'mon, it is amazing, right? one of the biggest for me is that it has completely replaced online help.  For some time now we were sure that Google was always better than a product's own online help, but now Perplexity is amazingly better.

* if you're not using Perplexity instead of Google as your default search engine, you're missing out

I'm editing a video with Adobe Premiere - a timelapse of the Lighthouse Century I rode yesterday, since you ask :) - and wanted to know how to change a video segment from 29.97fps as recorded by my GoPro to 1fps as I want it added into my video.  So I asked Perplexity*: "Adobe Premier how do I change the frame rate of a segment" and it tells me to use "Interpret Footage".  Well that's a good answer but not the one I want, because it changes the segment's duration, so I next type** "without changing the duration" (leveraging context) and it tells me "use the Posterize Time Video Effect" which is exactly the right answer.  Saved me many many minutes, and essentially makes Premiere itself more powerful, since it opens up many more of its capabilities for me.

* by "ask" I mean, "typed into my browser's search line"

** by "next type" I mean, "typed into the Perplexity chat below the search result"

And you know what Perplexity costs? $0... What a time to be alive!

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