My wife's pet hate is "wires" as I tend to leave them all over the place, also any flat surface I will put something on it and something on top of that as well ! Sue likes books and is an avid reader and writes a day to day diary since she was 13/14 years old. She keeps them in a sideboard in our cottage in the UK and as she is now 74 there are "a lot"!   However they do come in use every once in a while as we all tend to forget things as we get older and they have been very helpful in legal matters a few times !

Hi Ali, thanks for coming back, so much for Sunny Spain it's been pouring hard this morning !! However we have been here (on and off) since 1972 and some years it hasn't rained at all !
We do have a flight booked this week to the UK as we have things to do (not that I want to)!

Ok all fixed it was a ram problem (not the kind with horns) a quick clean out and a restart seems to have sorted it as I have finished the video of the New Years Day swim.
As I said, I was using my camcorder and Sue was in the water using one of my old GoPros in an underwater housing without any stabilization. It all went well with no dramas at all, but it was not that warm (23c ambient) and the sea was 15c. I am always amazed at how good an old fixed focus GoPro can be in good lighting scenario's at 2.7k (MoviePlus can handle it) whereas my all adjustable hand held camcorder had a struggle with serious against the light problems. Anyway here it is for what it's worth as the people that organized it wanted it quickly, so it was really "thrown together" and the sound was a mixture of both ! however the GoPro was in a housing so not the best https://youtu.be/H1jU7SPa0Mo

Thanks for that Alfred, I will try a reset on the laptop as it is a "runtime error" and may not be a problem with MoviePlus ?

Alfred I am in the middle of editing it at this moment that is going to be a problem to make it look good !
I was filming from the beach into direct sunlight that is quite low in the sky at this time of year down here. On just about all shots I am using masses of contrast along with any other "tweeks" that I can find and Sue was using one of my GoPros in a waterproof housing in the sea. The GoPro actually works well colour and rendition wise with it's fixed focus lens and she didn't do too many shots into the sun, but the sea was very wavy and with no stabilization on the camera it's going to be a bit of a chore smoothing out shots at all angles.  I don't think this years one is going to be anything that I would like to put my name to. Apart from that we are having brilliant weather with cloudless blue skies most days.
The best thing we ever did was buy a property down here, and as we haven't got the 90/180 day restriction and live 30 mins from Gatwick we can go at the drop of a hat ! and 2hrs 20mins later with no luggage at all we have our little bolt hole waiting.

I am the same and have installed MVPX6 many times over the years on different computers with no problems, however I still have the original installation disc and keep the unlock codes on a flash drive.  I too have tried various other video editing systems but I still use X6 for all of my "GStree" YouTube videos.  I even edit 4k on X6 in small amounts and then render it in 2.7k. It was and is still one of the easiest/best video editing systems that has been made, and I am sure if they or someone updated it there would be plenty of sales.

Try holding control key down and open Movieplus, that should reset it to how you originally had it.

I certainly enjoyed the video Albert, now I don't need to go and see it !!! At this moment I am not in the best of heath living on pain killers and I am going "cold turkey" today as the medication is causing problems.   They have a good Christmas showing at Hever Castle that is only 10/15 mins from our house in the UK but I haven't the enthusiasm to go out in the cold unfortunately.  I have a flight booked for the 28th December and I am determined to go as Sue for some reason loves doing the new years day swim with 300 other nutters and I always make a video of the complete day.
All the best for Christmas and hopefully a healthy new year where we can all make a few more videos. Incidentally the trip last month to Spain with my 84 year old brother was a huge success (it must have been because he left his slippers down there ) !!!! We took him to all the best places and views and he could not believe what he saw as it was his first time in another country and first time in an airplane.  I made a video of the complete holiday for him that I have just finished editing, it is an hour and a quarter long and I had to really trim it to fit it to that "short" time.

Eric, Sometimes I wish that I could swap places with some of those animals, but only if I could have a full life and not turn up as lunch for someone !!
I enjoyed that and can relate to it, as when we are in the UK we live in the countryside and are surrounded by such animals including an alpaca in a neighbors field. I am back from Spain at the moment with tons of footage showing my brother around our area in the sun, so a lot of editing to do. I am having to live on pain killers at the moment as I find it impossible to walk without them ! As someone that thinks he is still a teenager but nearing 80, I am going to have to have a rethink of my life from now on.

Well I have the results, lots of big words that are new to me regarding problems with my lower back like "evidence of generalized disc dehydration and "scattered osteophyte formation" and lots more ! Basically it means my back is f***** ! 
I have lived a life around racing on two and four wheels from 1968 to 2013 with Motocross (used to be called scrambling) to out and out car racing. I was a sponsored car driver for years with about 300 race wins and two British championships and was in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) support races for several years, and raced abroad in international events. Also I have been a motor mechanic since 1962 so lifting heavy parts have also taken it's toll. Possibly if I had lived my life wrapped in cotton wool I might not have worn myself out like I have ? but who knows as I am often going to funerals of my friends who are several years younger than me, I think it's the luck of the draw. What does the panel think ?

Thanks for that Paul, brilliant! it just shows with a bit of inspiration and talent you can make a good short interesting little film without all the bells n whistles equipment ! also not having to pay anybody else (unless it's your twin brother)?
I am off to the doctors in the morning to see the results of the MRI scan and hopefully get enough pain killers to help me through this. I am determined to fly to Spain on Saturday as I am taking my 84 year old brother with us for his first trip abroad and his first on an aero plane ! He is so looking forward to it and I can't let him down. Wish me luck !!!!

Yes it is, (and that's what all we old boys all know it as), but that's the technical term on the MRI scan. I don't know if I will be able to recover enough to fly off to Spain in a weeks time though !!!!!