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GStree wrote:I still like some of the old hippy music and some of our local musicians in Spain can still play it. I filmed this at a local bar a couple of years back to entertain the OAPS (including me) !! and yes that is my wife who appears at the start !
https://youtu.be/naaKfCyd5qg
That, was great, really got me going, think I'll come back to it again later for another session
I love Donkeys, I'd like 2 or 3 donkeys in our field, but the Vet bills can be quite high.
ericlnz wrote:Alan Hodkinson wrote:Just for something to put up, here's a little video of our dogs that have passed over the rainbow bridge
https://youtu.be/CFEhDFJTv1w
Thanks Alan. Calculating their ages as the dates flashed by indicated quite a variation. What was the oldest of them all?
Eric, 4 of the Elkhounds made 14, Fred made 11 (went off his legs), Solomon and Joy died of Cancer 11 and 6, The average age for an Elkhound is 14. The GSD's were rescue dogs, we didn't know their age.
Thanks for watching.
Hi Eric, just looked at my discs, and yes, they are X3, X5, and X6
Yes thank you Alfred.
I do enjoy working with Movieplus, it outstrips other editors as far as I'm concerned, I used to use Adobe, my wife uses a lot of Serif stuff, and when she told me they did a video editor, this was some years ago, I thought I'd give it a try, Started with version 3, I think it was, I never went looked back after that.
Then when Serif said they were dropping it I tried others, but still kept coming back to Movieplus, fortunately I put the Unlock Files on a dongle so I can move it on to my new computer, and all is working fine, long may it do so.
I have just unlinked Video and Audio tracks in a project so I can move the audio track to get it in Lip Sync, now it's done I'd like to link them again, can this be done.
Thank you, if anyone can help with this I'd be very grateful
OK folks, just found out how to do it, nothing like just playing around is there
As you say, a different way of life, thank you for putting it up, it's nice to see a bit of sunshine
Just for something to put up, here's a little video of our dogs that have passed over the rainbow bridge
https://youtu.be/CFEhDFJTv1w
ericlnz wrote:These avi files are obviously your source material which you are archiving. Personally I'd keep them at the best available quality which is how they were downloaded. Converting to mp4 will change their image pixel size and pixel aspect ratio and with MVPX6 you will go from 50i to 25p which means one field is totally lost. 25fps can also make movement look jerky.
Best to buy more external drives if space is getting limited on your storage drive. They are relatively inexpensive nowadays.
Point taken Eric, thank you
ericlnz wrote:Your AVI files are presumably interlaced and with stretched pixels. What exactly are they and what mp4 format are you using?
My old SD AVI files I converted to mpg for use on my TV and to mp4 for Vimeo and YouTube.
My 1080 50i HD I export as AVCHD and/or Blu-ray for TV use. I convert the Blu-ray file to mp4 for Vimeo and YouTube.
Nowadays I use Handbrake, a free utility, for my mp4 conversions. Several reasons but the main one being I can keep my 50 fps framerate. If you use MVPX6 it only does PAL mp4 at 25fps. Or 30 if you are NTSC.
My old 8mm tapes were downloaded on to the computer via Firewire some years ago, they are good, but they take up such a lot of space on the storage drive, but just wondered if it would be OK (clarity wise) to make them into mp4 clips using Movieplus x6.
When I view them as mp4's they seem OK, just wondered if there's any detriment in doing so.
I'm 25fps Pal
I'm in the process of converting my video AVI files to Mp4's, I can't see much difference in picture quality but the saving in GB's for storage is amazing.
What do you folks think, what file system do you store.
Getting a new computer has made me wake up a bit.
Wonder if anyone has done this, I've got two computers and only one monitor, I've only room for the one monitor so I have to keep changing the cable over when I want to change computers. Is there any way of connecting both cables to the one monitor and switch to either computer
I know there is a cable for two but that is for a split screen.
I wondered if there is a switched cable.
I'd be grateful if anyone can help.
Cheers
Alan
pberk wrote:Alan -- you got me thinking about "looping" dialogue. Here's an example from about 15 years ago. We were on a cruise. I wanted to make a short film drama. I soon realized there was no place on the ship that was quiet enough to shoot "live sound" .. So I "looped" the whole thing. Meaning I recorded the dialogue separately and then sync'd it to the picture by hand.
Zoey's Secret .. 5 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qWrDCwGto
pberk, Great, that's really really good, well done. That's topped my efforts
Any More ?
Thank you guys, I do love editing. We have Norwegian Elkhounds, my wife Jackie showed them, we camped at the shows and I used to go along and video all the Elkhound classes and then edit them down for our dog friends, with titles up of the dogs kennel names as they were gone over, but due to mobility probs at 93, last year and this year we've stopped doing the shows. Shame, but that's life.
Thank you both, Here's another little Lip Sync I did for a bit of fun. Many years ago I did an Old Time Music Hall, I did an act Impersonating the old music hall artist Gus Elen, the show was recorded, a few years ago I downloaded an old film of Gus Elen and had a go at trying to Lip Sync the old audio recording to the 1930's film.
It's not very good as the phrasing was difficult to match, but I got the speed right adjusting the film and the audio tape, but keeping the tone of the voice right.
Just to point out, this was under my stage name, Alan Clark
https://youtu.be/uhBFX0mdD6E
This is a little project I did with MoviePlus, In the early 70's I filmed my wife in our garden and had an Audio tape recording her conversation, a short time ago I came across the film and the audio tape, digitised the film and put them both into a Project to Lip Sync them.
Sorry about the Aircraft noise, we lived at the top of a large hill not far from Luton Airport.
Here it is https://youtu.be/JJCCsoduahA
This is the anniversary of the fire that destroyed the Wolverhampton Hippodrome in 1956, I wonder if by any chance there is anyone on here who may remember it.
I was in the show that was playing there that week, and the fire took hold somewhere in the auditorium whilst we were packing up on the Saturday night.
A Wolverhampton history group asked me to do a piece for them. http://historywebsite.co.uk/articles/hi … last01.htm
Alan
Alfred wrote:Or, to put it another way, your brother’s brother-in-law. 
I didn't know the best way to describe him.
pberk wrote:Wow! .. James Needs was born on October 17, 1919 in Holborn, London, England, UK. He was an editor, known for Horror of Dracula (1958), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967).
He started with Gainsborough Studio as a Lift Boy when he left school, I suppose that's a good way to go up in the world, he went on to be a cutter, then moved up from there, I only talked with him on a couple of occasions
pberk wrote:Yipes. I first used a Sony PortaPak in about 1967 while a grad student at UCLA. Talk about analogue. There was no way to edit that stuff. It was 1/2" I think but later on it was 1" .. Not sure. But it was helical scan so you couldn't physically edited the tape as it generated a horrible roll bar as the helican scan caught up. But it did give us a "cheap" way to shoot. It was B&W but it was sound and picture. We learned to do "optical transfer add-on edits" in our TV studio which had a 2" broadcast standard VCR. I shot something like 30 hours on a particular documentary, did the laborious "add-on"editing in the studio and the show aired on our local PBS station. Nifty.
That's very interesting, thank you, my first days with film was cut and splice with film cement, the same with my early audio tape recording
My brothers Wife's Brother was a film editor, started with Gainsborough Studios, went on to edit the Hammer Horror films, his name was James Needs.
How easy it is video editing today on a computer, I bought my first video camera and tape machines in 1979, we crash edited from machine to machine, it was very time consuming then.
here is my set up in the early 80's
Alfred wrote:Thanks for the update, Alan. It’s good to hear that MoviePlus is once again working as you expected.
Thank you all on here Alfred, It's good to have this forum, what a great pity Serif dropped MoviePlus, it's one of the nicest to use video editor I've used
Albert, you're a real gent, that explained it move by move, worked a treat, all working now, thank you so much, I obviously was loading it wrongly.
Can't thank you enough
Alan
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