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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by ericlnz
Oh dear. Bazhawkeye I've only just discovered your September PM. Alfred - I hadn't noticed my PM had gone bold. Perhaps it need to be a flashing colour?
Anyway Bazhawkeye I took DPX5 off my Google Drive a while back. Do you still need it? If so I'll find it and upload it again.
As we will be in the UK for a while we went for a walk down the back of our house yesterday as the floods have receded. As usual I had my old Panasonic 990 in my pocket to capture a little part of our surroundings.
https://youtu.be/BiOxnoUzd1s
Thanks Gordon. Looks a lot different to Spain.
A bit more on the Cruise Ship problem
TomH - Chad appears to currently have X5 working on his laptop so provided he exports the unlock codes he should be okay. The only problem is that if later on he needs any that weren't unlocked he's out of luck.
Alfred - it was DP I shared? Anyway I've found my MVPX5 disc and have uploaded the contents of it plus the last X5 patch as a zip file to Google Drive. When Chad returns I'll PM him with the link. Would you also like it?
Chad - I've just realised MVPX5 uses codec unlocking so urgently export your unlock codes from your old laptop while you can then store the small file somewhere safe. You will need it to import the codes to a new installation. Without the codes, which are linked to your license key, any new installation is useless. Serif shut down the unlock codes server a while back.
Go to Tools/Options/Advanced and click on "Manage Unlock Codes". There click on Export. I'm looking at X6 but I'm pretty sure X5 was the same.
Where in the world are you?
Hi Paul, The Cruise industry appears to be doing well judging by the numbers calling here recently.
As for fungi which are alien to our harbours we don't want them, neither does Australia. Introduced species, albeit fungus, can cause havoc with native species. It's bad enough that the warming seas are bringing down from tropical areas species of marine life which normally don't live here.
Thanks Paul. 2013, a lot has happened in the world since then. Glad you enjoyed your visit.
My village has lots of lights at Christmas. I didn't video any this year but did last year "After Dark" https://vimeo.com/660068834
Thanks Gordon and Sue. Another warm, humid day here. No snow unlike in the US at present.
What type of file is your "long file" and what type of audio stream does it contain e.g ac3, aac?
Thanks Paul. Did we see you three times - in a suit then orange then blue shirt? If so you haven't changed much!
Do you not have credit cards or debit cards in New Zealand, that's how we normally pay for things?
Yes, I very rarely use cash nowadays. EFTPOS is accepted in most places. I still swipe and put in my PIN though. I'm not keen on PayWave or waving a phone or watch etc.
exactly how I managed before these things were invented
Problem is the environment around is changing with technology. For example cheques have disappeared here. They're no longer accepted by banks so how are people who don't use internet or phone banking able to pay? It's especially a problem if you aren't very mobile, or have deteriorating eyesight, dementia etc.
Christmas challenge for film and video makers
Do you remember the first movie you made years ago? Full of errors you wouldn't make now! Can you grab it and post for old times sake? Mine was in Easter 1967 when I went on a "safari" around South London parks "In search of Squirrels" https://vimeo.com/781392655
We don't have squirrels here in NZ. They didn't get here naturally and early European settlers didn't bring any. Unfortunately they brought plenty of other pests which have been very harmful to our native wildlife.
Gordon - Sorry to hear about your friend and sister in law but sadly we are now at an age where funerals become more frequent.
I had a bit of trouble with the last one "Flipper, Splash & Friends"
It's probably unrelated but I've just noticed a "." at the end of the link which I've now removed. I also had a difficult pc yesterday (my time) with nothing responding. The usual problem - windows performing an update.
I've several friends who live without computers although some don't really. They just don't realise that surfing the net on their phones is actually the phone being a "computer". My London based brother doesn't believe in computers. Not being able to email him is a nuisance.
Whilst we are getting nostalgic about film here's another old 8mm one "Flipper, Splash & Friends" https://vimeo.com/781037937
I thought I had it on Vimeo but no and it seems I didn't even have a mp4 version. So I dug out my original avi and ran it through Handbrake. It's a Dec 1970 visit to Marineland, LA on my way from UK to NZ. Travelling with an Aunt we stopped off at LA for one or maybe two nights. It's all I've visited in the US. I've subsequently passed through twice but only the airport.
Thanks Paul. All yours look great.
I did a lot of work with mine on the timeline. Levels, colour correction, sharpening. Plus cutting into sections and varying the play speed to match the audio waveforms of the captured film stripe with the audio from my original tapes. At least I had reasonable audio quality.
I chuckle when some try to make old film look like modern digital. That destroys the atmosphere of film.
Norton Simon Museum 2009 - Thanks Paul. Very interesting.
Here's another film oldie - "Jasons Trip" https://vimeo.com/50749945 Historical as the Camden Town area is now very different. A few years ago I saw a video taken of the trip in reverse and was amazed at the change but then my film is 53 years old! I've checked the rating.
Weird. I never touch the rating when uploading so have no idea why Samoa is different. It's been there for seven years. Anyway I've given it the "All audiences" rating so Albert try it now.
Paul - yes many of the riders will have passed on. It was 53 years ago!
Gordon - I did my transfers around 16 years ago using the crude method of copying with a digital video camera off a small screen onto which the film was projected. The quality varied from good to barely acceptable depending on the quality of the original. 40 Plus was my first and probably my best. Shot on a Sankyo 8CM Standard Eight camera purchased secondhand from Wallace Heaton in 1967.
Albert - try clearing your browser cache as something is screwed up. Which browser are you using and can you try another one?
Is that really your recorded narration 40 years ago? You sound the same.
Yes, when I put my audio visuals and my old 8mm film movies into digital I still had my original reel to reel tapes and my Akai tape deck. Apart from one, my tapes, some going back to the 60s in UK, were in good condition. Most were Scotch Dynarange. I transferred the tape contents to my pc. All my analogue material and equipment has now long gone.
Here's something different again. An 8mm film movie made in 1969 https://vimeo.com/33854096
Sorry Paul, it's a typo. Should have read AWOL (Absent without leave). Possibly not a saying used in your part of the world. I'll correct my post.
Here's something different. As most of you head into winter and here it's a miserable wet "summer" afternoon. A 1981 visit to the tropics.
It's an audio visual (I had 25 years AWOL from movie making). Originally a dual projector slide show with audio on a cassette tape. One track for a speaker and the other with instructions fed to an earpiece that fitted over my ear. This came in useful when I recreated on a Movie Plus timeline. The audio is the original so it's me 40 plus years ago.
My first visit to Samoa in 1981. I subsequently spent two years there in 1982 - 1984. A lot has changed since both there and worldwide. https://vimeo.com/147280337
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