The book that I have about Eddie tells stories about a lot of the films that he was involved in, and I think that "Crossed Swords" is mentioned ? I'll have a look when I go back in a few days as it is in the UK. It's an interesting book and obviously tells what sort of things he had to do before the "computer age" came in and put a stop to most of it. Now we all expect totally amazing things in films that are made with Graphic Imaging by someone sitting at a desk.   I may have mentioned that I know a guy that lives close to me in the UK (Tim Porter on Wiki) who is one of the main editors in the "Games of Thrones" series and this is yours truly holding one of his "Emmy's"

They may look brown as this is on the edge of the Tabernas desert, however amazingly stuff still grows there, also there is a forest further up in the mountains.
However there is a SERIOUS water shortage as we have had very little rain for the whole year and several of the big lakes and reservoirs have actually dried up ! luckily we get our supply from the desalinizing plant at Carboneras that is the next big town down the coast. Incidentally David Lean's prop master Eddie Fowlie lived there and ran a hotel until he died a few years back. I have a signed book of his exploits and a lot of Lawrence of Arabia was actually filmed just down the road, and there is a memorial statue of Eddie in the high street. 
The zoom is very good on the Sony camera and I was using it hand held all day. Believe it or not I converted the 4k to 1080p mp4 with Moviplus X6 ! You have to do it in single short takes as there is not enough memory to do a long timed shot or a complete batch. You can do it in VLC media player but it is nowhere near the quality of Movieplus, also the free online ones weren't as good either, but they could all do batches.

Eric I do like that video, well thought about and edited.

Sorry that I haven't been on here for a while, however when we came back from Spain I found that the weather back in the UK was appalling and wondered why we had bothered !
I was sitting at home and looking out of the window at the pouring rain and happened to look at the price of flights to Almeria back in early November and found a couple of return tickets for £35 each !! yes £35 !! so it was a no brainer. We flew down on the19th of November and will be back on the 14th Dec only to fly back down on the 31st. 
I haven't been doing much in the video world but we are often going for what I call "a lost drive" in our area in Spain. This one starts up in the hills and mountains a few miles inland from our coastal home and finishes in Sorbas in the evening and shows a lot the amazing family run pottery that has to be seen to be believed !
One slight problem that I did have is I foolishly left my camera on 4K for all of the mountain scenery on the first part of the video and only realized it when we got to a small hamlet to film the tiny church.
As I haven't got any 4K editing software on this laptop that I use down here I had to convert it to 1080p to edit it, but it wasn't "that successful".
That's my excuse anyway !
https://youtu.be/-zxCxDxMTHA

Looking at the "second person" I thought that you had "flipped" the shot over in 2D in post so that your face was different, as certain marks on your face seemed to be reversed.

Sorry I have only just seen this, I would have loved to have made things like that, but I'm afraid that I am too long in the tooth to learn.
Obviously some good work with filming/editing and a good understanding of film language. The "Twins" film I enjoyed as well.
And as you say things are so easy with modern digital equipment compared with cutting and splicing 8mm film that was expensive and so time consuming, especially if you didn't get it right the first time and had to re-shoot scenes on a different day/lighting etc. Although I did use to break the ratchet on the S8 cassettes and rewind the film to add effects with double exposure, and before that I used to develop my own 8mm B&W film when I was at school. I had a friend whose father worked for Kodak who would give me small amounts of 16mm B&W film that he would splice down the middle and re-perf so I was lucky.

Well for the last six months I have been using a Panasonic HCX 2000 camcorder, I bought it on a bit of a whim while I was looking on line. I found one that was still in it's box actually unused and still in it's individual plastic coverings. It was up for auction on eBay and I put a silly low price in more to see the result than actually buy it, and much to my surprise I actually bought it for well under 1k !
It is a good bit of kit for what I paid and I really like it.  It is not the camera that I use for my films of music groups/bands in Spain as it is bigger and heavier and not practical for the hand held shots that I use, also I travel really light on our frequent trips.

The lady in question was actually the organizer of the whole event, she is one of those people that goes out of her way to help anyone who is genuinely having problems. She is also a trained physiotherapist who is a great help to us OAPs. This particular event had a quiz between the numbers being played and all the questions were on her phone.

I may have done I can't remember though !

You probably spotted me in the wide shots on the GoPro ?
Well this picture is a blow up of yours truly that I took off the wide angle GoPro that I run for the whole time when filming such things, and the only fake thing on me was the arm tattoos for effect on the day.
That is my own long undyed hair that hasn't gone white like my beard over the last 77 years, but I am not going to try and grow it as long as my wife's who hasn't been to a hairdressers since she was 15. However we do "trim" each others hair now and then.

Well hopefully if we are still here in this crazy world next year, we might be able to enjoy spring in the UK !
Sue and I used to fly or drive over to Holland for several years to have a look at the Tulips, and the amazing festivals that are put on in certain villages where the people make a complete amazing mosaic pictures and three dimensional things from tulips of faces/cars/houses or "anything" on their lawns/walls or on "anything"
We to have a Magnolia tree in our garden in the UK that is terrific when in bloom but unfortunately only lasts a short while, especially if it's windy
I enjoyed watching the video Eric with those colours as I am watching it in Spain where the weather is still very hot, and not too much on the floral side looking brilliant.
The bougainvillea seems to be the stable plant that is in most gardens and roses that grow all the year round as long as they get a drink now and then!
Filming wise I have only been making videos for local bands unfortunately, so although I do have every intention of driving into the campo on one of my "lost drives" to get some inspiration, the 40c plus temperatures that we have been having seemed to "quell" things down !
Heading back to the UK in a few days time to see how things are, although my weather app has shown "frosts" in our village.