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Alfred wrote:
ericlnz wrote:

Poor birds.  The nuts are bigger than the mesh holes so they couldn't get them out in one piece.  But then they are woodpeckers!

If the mesh holes were that big, the nuts would fall out and/or the local squirrels would take them all.

The Bluetits simply go down in the top and pick them out !

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Living in the sticks in the UK does have it's advantages, this year we have a woodpecker family nesting in a nearby tree. Here are a couple of them that I filmed today.
https://youtu.be/VDnunDQS15M

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Albert Ross wrote:

Thanks William

Another one you may be interested in was our visit to Sissinghurst castle garden last Monday, just over nine minutes in length https://youtu.be/xKm-WY050iU I hope you like it.

A nice peaceful and colourfull video well done Albert, you were lucky with the weather.
I took my wife out last Friday to Rye, and of course it just lends itself to photography. I don't know when I will get round to editing it as we are off to warmer climates for a while.
I had arranged to stop off at a pub on the way home and had pre informed the lead singer (who is a mate) to sing "Happy Birthday" to Sue when we walked in as it was her birthday, and he did. However, he then said "have you got a camera with you and can you video one of the numbers" ? I said that I have and will but I haven't got my audio recording gear or a wide angle lens with me and it was a small bar. I know that the audio is important on filming bands but I  just turned the AGC off and set the sound level like I would on my audio equipment and gave it a go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XQu63sJvX4

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Nicely put together Albert, we have never been there although it's not too far from us when we are in the UK. Lets face it the weather is everything when visiting such places and you were lucky on one of these "rare days"
We went to Hever Castle on Sunday that is just up the road to us and saw it in all it's glory in perfect weather as well. I did take a camera with me but I don't know if I will find time to edit anything as I have another long standing "thing" on at the moment that I must attend to ! We will also be using our other premises soon with pretty well guaranteed weather for a while.

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Albert Ross wrote:

Nice video Gordon.  I contented myself by driving another Ford, a Ford Classic, if you remember them, it looked a bit like the big brother of the Anglia what with the back window looking just like the Anglia in its design. Happy days...

Yes of course I remember the "Consul Classic" we used to fit both of the engines (1340cc & 1500cc) from them into Anglia's.  The raked back window of the Anglia and the Classic was designed so that the rear seat passengers could sit comfortably with their heads leaning back.

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I used to race Ford Anglia's for years, and as there was a "Classic Ford" show near me I went along and made this video for a local club that was showing them. The weather also showed a marked improvement from the last few months !
https://youtu.be/lINi1ZOmcYg

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Johnk   Just a thought you could download "Video Proc Vlogger" for nothing that will edit just about anything, and it doesn't have any water marks. I often use it to get me out of problems.

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Johnk wrote:

My wife used the same SONY Handycam to film a talk just recently and MovieplusX6 won't accept any of the files.

Are you using the same computer that you have had MPX6 installed on when it worked OK or not ?  I can even edit 4k on MPX6 on mine but obviously cant export it at that high a resolution, however I can get away with rendering a lot higher than 1080p

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Johnk wrote:

MoviePlus V6 Problems
I am having a lot of bother with MTS files, I have loads of them from videos I shot on my SONY video camera 1n the1990s.
Every time I load them into MoviePlus I am told that they are locked and I need to contact someone at Serif to unlock them before they can be accepted for editing into the program. And we all know how useless that is.
Can any wise person help me out in this please?
John

Is this only old MTS files ? I have just tried with an MTS shot that I took just now with my Sony camcorder, and it's fine !

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pberk wrote:
GStree wrote:
ericlnz wrote:

Gordon The link gives "Video unavailable.  This video is private"?

OK all fixed. I am getting old !!!!

Nice work Gordon .. I assume you did all the shooting, editing and sound.  One-man-band?  Amazing what can be done today.

Yes and all the gear you need these days is to hand, and cheap in comparison to years ago with film cameras/tape recorders/leads everywhere/developing costs/editing, it just took ages to make even a half decent film as you well know. Now it is possible to make a good video with a phone (but they do have their limitations at the moment) and of course you can see the results instantly, plus you can waste as much footage as you like !!
There is another one next weekend but unfortunately Sue & I won't be there.
https://i.postimg.cc/94kLPxFR/Hippy.jpg

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ericlnz wrote:
GStree wrote:

I still like some of the old hippy music and some of our local musicians in Spain can still play it. I filmed this at a local bar a couple of years back to entertain the OAPS (including me) !! and yes that is my wife who appears at the start !
https://youtu.be/naaKfCyd5qg

Gordon The link gives "Video unavailable.  This video is private"?

OK all fixed. I am getting old !!!!

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I still like some of the old hippy music and some of our local musicians in Spain can still play it. I filmed this at a local bar a couple of years back to entertain the OAPS (including me) !! and yes that is my wife who appears at the start !
https://youtu.be/naaKfCyd5qg

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ericlnz wrote:

Short 5 minute video from a recent village trip.  "Donkey Delights"  https://vimeo.com/943170484

Yes I enjoyed that, a very different pace of life compared to me at a mere 77 years of age as I was at Brands Hatch at the weekend filming a friend !!

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It just keeps raining and raining, I just cant imagine it ever being sunny/warm and dry again ? This is just a quick walk out of my gate to the open countryside, I often do it simply to get a clear head and try and forget what is happening in this crazy mixed up world that we find ourselves in.
https://youtu.be/3_QOnGtWmcU

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Albert Ross wrote:

Looks a bit soggy Gordon - I can empathise, to an extent.

Your video reminded me of the video I took down at Grays Riverside Beach back in 2021, at least it wasn't my responsibility to clear the mess up. https://youtu.be/6jCpdjBQ1fU


Yes at least it didn't get into the house this time ! we came back from Spain one year and our kitchen floor had a coating of mud on it!! on that occasion it was caused by a road drain being blocked up further up the road that sent water across the lawn on the other side of the house. I must admit I am getting a little fed up with the constant rain we keep having. Regarding your video, you obviously had to change what you probably intended to film for a day out and sometimes it can make it a bit more interesting.

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Alfred wrote:

Nope, nobody at all! Sorry, Gordon, but you’ll just have to get used to talking to yourself

Working for myself for years on my own I am used to that !

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ericlnz wrote:

Thanks Gordon, it's obviously spring for you.  I didn't spot any flooding?

Perhaps I imagined it !! ? https://youtu.be/L6Uu8OEwZGw Sorry about the noise, but we are on Gatwick approach !

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Hello Hello ! is there anybody there ?
Well at this moment instead of being in sunny Spain with a serious water shortage we are at home with too much ! So much so that our garden got flooded when a water drainage pipe that runs through our property got blocked up. I am still in the midst of sorting that out and did a quick walk around the garden with the old handheld camcorder. https://youtu.be/hrqeRuo8-68

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A big part of my life from 1968 until 2012 I was involved in motor racing and was quite successful. I won approximately 300 races along with 2 British championships and held the lap records at most circuits that I raced at, including the UK/Ireland and Spa in Belgium.
Obviously I couldn't film the races that I was in but I did sometimes use a GoPro inside the car in later years.
This is a film that I made back in 2015 after I had hung up my crash helmet and a lot of the guys that I used to race with are in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzNv9dkRb2E

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I haven't been filming much lately as I am trying to sort out a flooding problem with our property in the UK.
This is a video that I decided to make at the last minute at one of our local "haunts" in Spain to show what we get up to. It's a different way of life (and certainly cheaper) however with the water shortage this year it may not be as it has been for a long time unfortunately.
https://youtu.be/QglYN3ANOQ4

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Alfred wrote:
GStree wrote:

Is there anyone out there !!!!!

I’ve been wondering the same thing, Gordon! Maybe it’s something to do with the equinox the other day.

At this moment I am in the UK with problems of flooding of our property. The crazy thing is that in Spain we have the opposite with a serious water shortage. We have restrictions and this is in what is effectively spring and coming into the holiday season !
We have been flushing our toilet with buckets of water from the swimming pool for quite a while and we are not allowed to refill it. It's just as well that we have a much larger pool 2 minutes walk down the road, it's called the Mediterranean Ocean !

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Is there anyone out there !!!!!

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Couldn't agree more, editing is a doddle ! I too started when I was still at school with 8mm "proper" film. It was time consuming and could be expensive but was worth it when you first dimmed the lights and showed it to the family. I was lucky in that I knew someone that worked at Kodak who used to give me some odd lengths of 16mm B&W film that I used to split down the middle and re perf it when I had my old clockwork cine camera. I used to develop it as well.
The thing was that you used to have to take a lot more trouble to get it right back then, whereas now you can instantly see what's happening through the lens and adjust it on the fly. I had a load of tin tacks in a row inside of a wardrobe door to hang the edited 8mm strips on ready to stick together and would often make 400 footers !  Thank Christ all that is in the past !
I then went on to various S8 cine cameras including sound, and then to video cameras with separate VHS recorders/8mm tape camcorders and finally getting to where we are now. The picture was early 80s I think ?
https://i.postimg.cc/gr0tR5sK/Gordon-Video.jpg

Although I haven't suffered from any other major problems with X6 there is one thing that I would recommend to anyone using Movieplus, and that is to often click it off to copy the video that you are making, especially if it is long with lot's of video and audio tracks/transitions/effects etc. This is really important when you are ready to finally export it ! as I don't think that I am the only one for the program to suddenly stop working. I know that you can recover some of it it but not the last things that you have done.

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ericlnz wrote:

Our hot sticky weather continues.

A recent visit to an historic home, Highwic.  Well historic for NZ but fairly modern for those of you with older histories.

https://vimeo.com/916153261  or  https://youtu.be/RovAiHXAnSo

The Devon connection is interesting for me as my mother was born in Devon at "Up Exe Rowe R.D".  She was only there briefly as her family moved to London.

Eric, l have always been interested in any of your well made  films of places in NZ as I do have relations over there on my fathers side.
I have never been, but my dad did go over when he was 95! so I still have a few years left (God willing).