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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by ericlnz
Music can help. When humanity along with its problems eventually disappear from this planet I visualise the sound of a great orchestra and haunting human voices closing the final curtain on our existence.
"Last Kiss Goodnight", a track by Kevin MacLeod always haunts me and you can hear it here, along with some pretty pictures to accompany it. https://vimeo.com/98603064
The article states "as a way to create more daylight hours during warmer months"!!! Doesn't say much for the intelligence of the writer. More daylight hours comes from the earth's orbit not from moving our clocks.
In NZ we are permanently on by half an hour and in summer another additional hour. I wish we just compromised by being permanently on by an hour so I didn't have to adjust clocks and other gadgets twice a year.
Yes Albert, the situation gets more depressing every day.
Another "Garden" video - Eden Garden https://vimeo.com/74812556. Again I probably posted it a few years ago on the old Serif Forum.
It's quiet on this thread at the moment. The current world situation doesn't help. But then I grew up in a city that was considerably bombed and what I see on TV brings back memories, also of the cold war period. So I'm not motivated at present.
Anyway here's an old video, a 2014 "Garden" video which I probably posted back on the Serif forum. It's a bit different to Albert's NT Visits - Ngatea Water Garden https://vimeo.com/84111231
I still have WebPlus X5 which I used for my personal website a few years ago. Unfortunately Webring where I had it have disappeared and I haven't found another free hosting site where I can upload pages to. Most free sites require you to use their web creators.
But then websites are becoming a thing of the past as nowadays folk prefer to use Facebook etc.
I still have DPX5 installed on my Win 10 desktop. X5 is probably 11 years old now judging by the dates on its startup screen. I rarely use it nowadays as I don't have much use for vector drawings. It came in handy last year helping a daughter with something which I needed to open in DP. I cannot now remember what it was, but then I get frequent requests for help most of which require work in PhotoPlus.
This section of the forum looks deserted. So I'm just posting to say that for the occasional photo editing that I do PhotoPlus X5 still serves me well along with PhotoPlus Organizer.
I'm confused. You mention a pc not tablet so don't you have a proper keyboard you can type on?
I've been up to the Sky Tower restaurant in years past. It revolves while you eat. I'm not good with heights.
Another short village trip. This time on a ferry across to the city.
One advantage of the van trips is that you aren't driving. As drivers we miss a lot. For example I've driven up our Northern Motorway near here hundreds of times but only now, as a passenger, noticed there is a totem pole not far from the motorway. Apparently it came from Canada https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/ … /id/33789/ As a driver I never noticed because I'm looking ahead. It's visible on Google Street View.
Albert, you will find the music here
Possibly Serif and YouTube got it from the same source.
Interestingly I've recently noticed a local TV station using background music which I recognise as being on an "Amateur Cine World" (UK magazine in the 1960s) copyright free for amateurs mood music LP that I purchased in UK in 19667/68.
I wasn't the only male resident on that trip. There was one other. Most Village "Out'n About" trips do have mainly female residents participating. On occasions I have been the only male, apart from our driver. Many of the ladies have husbands/partners but you don't see much of them. Their males prefer to play bowls or spend time in the workshop (mens' shed). The workshop is very well equipped with gadgets that are way beyond my DIY. Reminiscent of the TV "Repair Shop".
Thanks Albert for Sheffield Park. Very colourful. Again I recognise the music - Afterglow from Serif's MVPX6 QuickMovies. We have similar tastes in music as I've used it but forget where.
Another short video of a recent Village trip. A bit of chit chat in this one but it shows what many of our beaches are like. Very different from Brighton Beach. No deck chairs or sticks of rock to purchase.
Mahurangi Regional Park https://vimeo.com/676696663/a352d1d480
I’ve just stumbled upon this lovely little clip.
So much like a large pussy cat.
There’s just one tiny problem, Eric: you omitted the all-important string of smilies when you quoted me.
Sorry but it's because they mean little to me. They're just funny faces. The meaning of most isn't apparent. When using your page of smilies I have to look at the file name to find what it is.
When it arrives he will upgrade his laptop toWin11 and see how it goes with our Serif programs
Thanks Vicki. I look forward to John's experience in due course.
It's Win 11 that I am interested in not XP. Forward compatibility, not backward.
Problem is new, off the shelf PCs, will have Win11.
By now there are a few Win 11 users. Any here who can give their experience with Serif Plus products and this new OS. I'm particularly interested in:
Movie Plus X6
Page Plus X8
Photo Plus X5
I don’t think I’d be too happy about a Snow Leopard jumping out at me!
Whilst I do agree I suppose that you could say that about lots of species of animals in zoos that are not in their enviroment ?
Yes, but the Snow Leopard jumped out at me when I saw it. Looking at it closely it appears to be in a cage of some sort not an open area as many zoos nowadays try to provide.
Reminds me of the video I made six years ago https://vimeo.com/143450885
Of technical interest - the bear is a full plate monochrome print that I still have and the PIP video clips at the start are from my 8mm "off the screen" captures.
Yes well taken but very sad. Snow Leopards belong on the mountains in their natural environment not in a cage in UK. Surely a "Wildlife Oasis" should be providing a better environment?
My last Super 8 camera was a Canon 512 sound Camera that took prestriped film. I only put a couple of cartridges through it before retiring from film making in 1981. 25 years later I got interested again when a 4MP still camera I got also took video. Only low quality but enough to get me hooked. I missed out on the days of VCR recorders and the problems that apparently went with them. I rejoined my old cine club after a 25 year absence. My first meeting with many remembered faces was like stepping into a time machine.
As for projectors one of our members keeps his Elmo GS1200 going but he has managed to get his hand on many spares. Plus he has a workshop and equipment and as a retired sewing machine repairer understands machinery. With any old equipment nowadays it's the situation with spares that's the potential problem. But having said that it's amazing what you can find on searching the net.
Actually all my transfers were done projecting onto a small screen and capturing with a SD tape camera. The quality varies depending on the quality of the original. My early Std 8 with a Sankyo 8CM camera are my best. Later Super 8 with several cameras including a Canon 814 were never quite as good.
If I redid them all I could probably improve my captures but I've only one Eumig projector now and it's not working properly. Fortunately when I did my movies, which had the audio on stripe, I still had my original soundtracks on tape reels and still had my Akai tapedeck. It's now about 16 years since I did them all.
Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by ericlnz
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