Before you edit a file make a copy, then edit the copy. Always archive the original.
Meanwhile I’m busy attempting to master Sigil applied to putting a book together.
keep on keepin’ on
Hi @Bobbi
I agree entirely. As the original was on my phone and copied to my laptop to work on, I effectively did this. Although it’s no so much of a risk as it sounds. I didn’t explain it fully, but VirtualDub doesn’t actually delete anything, it just creates a database of edits and applies them when you view, so the original is untouched, which is quite nice. Then, if you’re happy with your edits, you save the video as a new name and you have the untouched original and the chopped up output as a new file.
What’s Sigil? I googled it, but don’t really get it. Is it a software installer?
Cheers
Steve
ps ordered a new laptop from Dell today. Twice the speed, twice the RAM and 4x the disk space and a screen that’s a touch over 4K. Can’t wait, but will have to. I’d forgotten Dell’s lead times. 24 days! Think they must be walking it here! At £1600, it’s a bit more than I wanted to spend, but I always like to buy bigger and better than I need, so it lasts a long time
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SIGIL
If this guy leaves you in the air I think he means to, but he does describe using sigil.
There are other guides on you tube. That make it seem simpler.
keep on keepin’ on
o the other hand this might be more straight forward:
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The pictures are lovely…I thought you stole my cat but one was close enough to see yours is missing a furry patch on it’s nose.
And I did not know you all puffins over there! Actually I am joking. The blue on the wings is brilliant, making whatever this is a pretty bird. Those feathers and the fact the birds are not twaddling around upright like a penguin tell me they are definitely not puffins. Do you know what they are?
@DeAnn the birds with some white feathers are magpies. The all black ones are crows. We have them in abundance over here.
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Hi @DeAnn
Glad you liked them. I really like the fact they are pretty candid and ‘up close and personal’. I’d like to improve the quality if I can, but will wait for my new laptop to arrive as the processing is pretty slow on my wind-up laptop 
Yes they do look like puffins , but as mentioned in threads above., they are magpies.
Actually none of the cats are mine. ‘word on the street’ was there’s free cat biscuits in our back garden and the guy who lives there can’t tell the difference to peanuts! . Our cats were too busy stuffing heir faces with Felix indoors. So I guess your cat has a doppelganger? .
Keep Smilin’
Steve
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We have the starlings someone brought across the pond many moons ago. They are pretty, their flight formations are awesome, but with no natural preditors here, the numbers have grown to overwhelming. Still lovely to look at though, and thankfully don’t eat the other birds, although might starve them a bit by eating all the goodies.
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Ok almost there. The new mounting plate came today, so have mounted the 36x. I did consider using the same mount for both lenses and taking a screwdriver so I could swap lenses, but that seemed like a lot of messing around, so each is mounted on its own plate.
All I need to do now is get off my botty and tray for that piccy of the French clock or the moon again, should there happen to be and evening with no cloud!
Pic follows…
Cheers
Steve
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Red Kites are frequent visitors to the trees in our garden. They sit there making a heck of a racket! This was taken from my bedroom window.
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What a great photo. Love it.
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Thank you! They are very photogenic!
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Wow! That is a regal bird. Looks like a cross between and owl and a hawk.
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A selection of photographs I have taken since my strokes:-
The Anther of an Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) flower.
Small Tortoiseshell in Garden
Peacock Butterfly in Garden
Hover Fly 2
The Moon, (taken had held)
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What a great selection of photos. Very talented.
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Hello Simon
Thanks for the compliment.
Having 5 axis in-body image stabilization helps immensely, some of the Metadata details are:-
Lens – 75 – 300mm Set at 300 with a 2 x Digital Converter on (being it’s a Micro Four Thirds camera that equates to a 1200mm lens on a full frame 35mm format).
Aperture - F8
Exposure - 1/100 sec
ISO 200
Metering - Spot
Exposure - Manual
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Out for a walk with friends on a glorious day today (Easter Monday). Near Polstead and Raydon in Suffolk. First of the bluebells in flower, quite early but lovely to see.
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Hope you enjoyed your walk. It looks beautiful x
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Wonderful selection of photographs
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Looks like a great time was had. Great photos.
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Wow! I think we have another thing in common…an eye for intricate or complicated artistry…whether architecture, clothing, patterns, textures…(asking if I am assuming correctly?) Do you also have an ear for complicated music styles? I would say I do, but I also like very simple, more acoustic styles…perhaps when my mind needs a bit of rest. In the complicated, my mind gets much more creative, I see the music, I see what I would add or subtract from the architecture or art or music to make it more attractive to me. It’s kind of a fun puzzle to do in my head.
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