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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by pberk
One of my old websites that uses WebPlus x8 is giving me this error: "There was an error generating the navbar"
This error occurs when doing a google search using Firefox and Chrome but not with Edge.
The search listing comes up ok but instead of the hyperlinked text expected, I get this error message hyperlinked. The hyperlink works as normal to link to the website.
It seems that there is no-one on here that can assist me with this and I really need to do something about it as currently, I am subsidising the postage on every item that I despatch, particularly as the 1st class rate has just been increased again.
Perhaps if I put £1 in the Handling charge box and £2 in the shipping charge box, I might achieve it that way.
Might that work?
Can you point us to your website so we can see what's happening?
If anyone has time, here's a tour video of mine about Stockholm dating back to 2009.
Nicely done considering conditions. Those GoPro's are incredible.
Inspirational for us old geezers. Rock on.
This does seem like a Windows error. Research this fix and see if it applies to you.
Can you create a simple, new WebPlus x8 project and save it?
I was looking at a friend's young great grandchildren today and thinking that I was once young like them. Then I thought what will the world be like when they reach my age (I'm 81 in a few days). Probably in a worse mess than it is now.
Eric take heart. I am convinced that your great grandchildren will live in a better world. Perhaps two steps forward and one back but always moving ahead. I'm sure there will be bumps, some very bad bumps, along the way but the future will solve many of our problems and overall more people will be better off. Wondrous things are coming in fields like energy and health and agriculture and transportation and communication. That's my prediction. But I'm 79 so I'm not planning to be around to see if I'm right 50 years hence.
This is a commercial video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9qSaGXFyg&t=561s
I find it scary. We won't be living in a real world soon!
For some folks (who can afford it) this will be entertaining. It might also have therapeutic value for folks with disabilities. I don't see it being a mass market product for some years to come.
I think the real world is still going to be there.
pberk wrote:My latest Cloud Looney Land Adventure
Yet another wonderful creation, Paul! Thanks for sharing it here.
Thanks Alfred for keeping this thing going! It's still a valuable resource for us old Serif people.
I'm still running WebPlus X8, and PagePlus x9 .. if it an't broke, don't fix it
Thanks Paul. Brilliant. Well acted. Where do you get your ideas from? And please what's in the bag?
You asked the "big" question. Where do I get my story ideas? By far, this is the hardest part of doing these little films. I wish I could tell you -- but ideas sort of come to me and I get a start. Generally, I start shooting test scenes and more ideas present themselves. It's a process. If I'm lucky, along the way, the ideas start to gel and mesh into something resembling a story with an ending. Getting a viable ending is the hardest part. Once I have an ending, I start shooting in earnest with costumes and settings.
I do write a script, but I don't stick to it. Remember, this is suppose to be "fun" for me and not work! Along the way, I generally hit a point where I lose confidence entirely and decide that the entire thing needs to be scrapped. But, somehow, I recover the next day and out of the mess I get it done. The most fun is final editing with music, sound effects and little transition touches that bring things alive.
What's in the bag? That's up to you.
My latest Cloud Looney Land Adventure
Thanks Gordon. We have the Australian version of the Swamp Hen here known as Pukeko.
I'm feeling nostalgic tonight so here's something different made six years ago. At Peace - https://vimeo.com/209876674
Nice job Eric. Somehow not depressing.
Thanks Paul. Yes it should look familiar
PS: You make good use of your "better half"! Was she allowed to make the purchases?
YES! .. But I wouldn't use the word "allowed". I have little control over her. Amy is an artist. She bought that Lamy Safari pen in that shop in Devonport and still uses it.
I like to make a record of what things we have bought on our travels.
Devonport - I nearly forgot. My short 1979 film was for my movie club's "50 ft uncut competition". That is no editing allowed. It all had to be done with your camera at time of shooting. With Std 8 you were allowed one splice being the one Kodak made after developing your film and splitting and joining the two halves. Std 8 reels were 16 mm in width.
Making uncut films did require planning. I'd take my title, then go out and shoot, then do the end title(s). When converting to digital a few years ago I redid the title on the timeline and removed any flash frames. These are the overexposed frames you sometimes got at the start of a scene as your camera got up to speed.
Doing superimposed titles was an extra challenge. The film needed to be wound back and run through the camera a second time. A nightmare with Super 8 cartridges. I recall having a gadget that allowed me to wind back the film a short amount but it had to be done in a "changing bag". That's a black bag with arms so you could work by feel in the dark. Plus the hardest part was shooting twice on the same area of film. We have it so easy nowadays.
Oh boy oh boy .. You took me back to 8mm days. We did the same thing. I rarely did any editing. It was all done in the camera. I remember using a "whip pan" for a transition. But I never rolled the film back to do a superimposition. I don't think that was possible with Super 8mm cartridges??? I never owned a Reg 8mm camera but I had a friend who did and we made several "trip" films together. We staged things and were well aware of editing in the camera.
Changing bags. Ahhhh yes. I did use changing backs to load 400 foot cores for the 16mm Arriflex and Eclair.
We certainly do have it easy today. I am still constantly amazed at what one can do by themselves in regards to film making.
Whilst going through some old videos to show at my monthly video group meeting I came across this old SD video I made of Devonport https://vimeo.com/50461456. Only 5 minutes. An interesting corner of Auckland.
Excellent as always .. We took the Ferry out to Devonport back in 2013 .. So some of it looked familiar. It struck me that it was a fair amount of hard work to get the coverage. You had to spend some time and effort to get the shots you did. I assume that the script gets written after you review the footage. I wondered if you had some "Town guide" that gave you ideas for things locations and things to shoot?
When you set out to do a video, do you think of who is going to see it? That was clearly the case with Gordon in his recent post. I always think of our two girls as my audience. But it turns out, I'm my best audience. I love to view my own stuff years later. My wife also enjoys our trip videos. She thinks they're too short !!! Imagine that !
My technique for "trip video" is different. I try to make a video record of where we went, what we saw and most importantly what comments we might have had at the time. I also love to get shots and comments from the locals we run into. The trick is to buy something -- then they don't object to being filmed.
Devonport .. 6 min.
https://vimeo.com/827858524?share=copy
Hi, I went to a local street party for the Coronation on Sunday and took a few shots that I strung together on Sunday night. I could have made a better job in editing but the residents wanted it quickly.
Obviously it is interesting to the locals as it is a bit of history, they were the only village in our area to actually make an effort to organize it. At least the weather held out and we actually had some sun towards the end of the day.
Sue and I are of to Spain for a while at the weekend where I shall endeavor to try and make some decent films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nO4x0BDlB4
Deadly dull home movie footage .. the residences must have loved it !! ... The thing is that a hundred years from now, historians will, no doubt, prefer this footage to the glowing sun sunsets and snow covered mountains so many of us take time to shoot.
You've capture the way it was and how ordinary people gathered in good fellowship in a time when you'd think that spirit had long departed from modern life.
Good job of shooting faces for historical record.
Thanks Eric .. The music could be Lord of the Rings .. I don't remember what I used. This little piece was tucked away online and I happened on it while looking for something else. I keep telling myself that I'll get all these video pieces organized.
This brings up a thought about YouTube. How long will they keep my videos? It's hard to imagine how much stuff they actually have. The sheer weight of the stuff must someday collapse the Universe.
Ran across this little video I made nearly 10 years ago while in England.
A unique experience -- "Bells of Dedham". Runs about 10 min. The end few minutes is the best.
This little piece got over 5,000 hits on youtube !! Yippppeee.
I recently went into Serif to make some changes to my site (thecanadianschooloffrenchmarquetry.com) and found all the pages in the work area to have big X's marked across them and some random superimposed lettering as well. I'm afraid to try to make changes, haven't even tried yet, because the site as viewed online doesn't seem to be failing except for a couple of little glitches that I was going in to fix and I don't want to upload problems.
I'm using WebPlus X8. I designed the site several years ago and although I'm no techie it has served me well enough.
I'm attaching a screenshot of what my workspace looks like. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Paul
Looks to me like a template. The random lettering comes from a template. Did you use a template to build the site?
Thanks Gordon. Very nice. It's what I'd call an Audio Visual.
I made something similar ten years ago. Not as good as yours. Mine was made to play Kevin MacLeod's "Last Kiss Goodnight", a track that I find haunting.
Haunting. That describes it. Nice music. Nice work Eric.
I wish the world would slow down and smell the roses. But fat chance.
I've never made one of these flower/song videos. You guys are inspiring me to try one. Who knows?
Apart from bands and wedding videos I don't tend to make many videos that would appeal to many others. We came back from Spain on Tuesday and as the weather has started to buck up today in the UK I had a look around the garden at the flowers. I normally try and do time lapse of the plants opening but they are not that far advanced this year.
This is a short film from last year that I made at a similar time from still images that I took off of my camcorder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzESpcoWgpI
Nice and relaxing. Quiet the opposite pace of modern times, but what do the flowers care?
Speaking of A.I. .. Here's my little A.I. Movie .. This is the same one I recently posted on the Vegas Forum. Eric saw it over there. But what the heck, I'll post it here too.
This little robot story was written with the help of ChatGPT.
Romulus 13 min.
https://youtu.be/tBE2qAcqmuc
Hi Guys, see if this sounds any better with some ambient background in
That's the idea Alan .. sounds much better as the ambient sound covers some of the harshness as the dialogue punches in
.. No doubt about it, the "removal" software that does this sort of thing has improved, apparently due to A.I.
pberk wrote:GStree wrote:OK I have now processed the original.
https://youtu.be/sLNVtRj1v3sWOW. Pretty good. It doesn't sound natural -- but it is clear and not a hint of the piano. That means separating those piano frequencies or something.
What's the software? Same as Alan is using?
I use the Splitter Studio software that is free but I believe that the upgrades (that you have to pay for) are better. However the problem with most of this type of software is that although it can remove the background sound of certain frequencies it wont remove the other background human voices of people talking at the same time as you. Obviously it could be possible as human voices are different, but it would mean it would have to be more sophisticated and be more "hands on" to control it.
I agree that it doesn't sound "natural" but have found that most times that I have used it (like for wedding videos) I have then put in the same background music (but at a lower volume) that disguises it somewhat and I have got away with it. Something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcoU62njOE4
WOW.. Double wow Gordon .. sounds great that way .. proves it can be done. You've had some practice at this. And it proves me wrong when i said that "we're going to have to loop this entire section" .. Good stuff to master as SOUND IS IMPORTANT.
OK I have now processed the original.
https://youtu.be/sLNVtRj1v3s
WOW. Pretty good. It doesn't sound natural -- but it is clear and not a hint of the piano. That means separating those piano frequencies or something.
What's the software? Same as Alan is using?
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