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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by ericlnz
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.
My recent visit to Muriwai Beach was probably the first time since 50 years ago when my Movie Club made this short film https://vimeo.com/50802981. I've probably posted it before. It's a Standard 8 film transfer so the quality isn't the best.
was far ahead of it's time
Yes MVP contained some useful tricks which I've not found in other consumer software. For example audio buses (groups), the ability to set animation keyframes relative to start or end plus other situations, animation of audio FX at clip, track and bus level.
But other software has its own useful tricks. I still have MVPX6 installed and working but nowadays use Vegas Movie Studio 17 Platinum. Sadly it's now a discontinued product as the developers are concentrating on Vegas Pro. What I like about more modern software is their dark interface.
This one I made a few years back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXj2Jv81lt8
Thanks Gordon. I recall seeing it a few months back. It looks a bit washed out. Presumably a camera exposure problem and you weren't able to correct it in MVP?
One I made on the bird feeder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7ZHlo-p7A
Thanks Gordon. Presumably Woody is a regular visitor. What is it he's eating?
Muriwai Gannet Colony https://vimeo.com/674747808
Whilst not as large as an Albatross these majestic birds are amazing.
This is a time lapse I took from our garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrUKxurD15Y
Thanks Gordon. Fascinating clouds.
Gordon, it would have been better to start a new thread for your helpful discussion on cameras etc. This thread is for posting videos.
Alfred, are you able to move posts?
Mobile phones have other uses. As a SatNav when you are out driving, or even walking. I use mine mainly to surf the net. I rarely use it for phone calls.
Unfortunately our local COVID Tracer App doesn't work on my old Android so I have to manually sign in when required and my Vaccine Pass I have printed out. For security concerns I never use my phone for internet banking.
Definitely the end isn't in sight. But what concerns me is that folk have so much on their phone and should they lose their phone or it stop working.........
Thanks Vicki.
They could be on several discs some of which I don't have. Try:
MVP5 Directors Collection
Sound Effects Collection
The Discs for whatever MVP versions you have - MVP1,4,5,X3,X5,X6.
Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by ericlnz
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