Thanks John.   I’m off to shoot geese and ducks (videoshoot, that is ...)

Thanks for kind comments Bill.  Actually I edited out a lot more wobbly stuff before rendering.  But as you might have intuited, the video wasn’t meant to be a finished work of art, it was simply to show that I could indeed open projects and process them and that my computer could handle PE11.   (And hence – of course – the probably incomprehensible note about the hapless cyclist stealing my .prel files  )   I’m still  not entirely certain that I’ve solved the problem about opening “Recent Projects” – I got around this one by taking the 3 or so minutes of clips I had and putting them ALL together on the timeline, as distinct from attempting to edit each 8- or 10-second clip separately.  (I think that’s what you might have suggested I do anyway, but I’ve got to re-read that note you made.)

Yes of course I should have edited out that banding stuff but by then it was about 2 a.m. and I just wanted to get the wretched thing over and out.

Re the links, I can’t explain that – the tinyurl is simply the clever piece of work, by a mathematician surely, that reduces the first longer URL (as you all know, sorry).   If the 2nd link works, the 1st one should too, no?  It worked for me.  Perhaps it just doesn’t travel well.

I used (this afternoon in freezing weather) a different lens – Canon’s 40mm (ie equiv to 64 mm fullframe) prime lens, fast at f2.8.   The problem I’ve found with it is that it has no image stabilization so one has to be extra careful.

I’ve  not worked on it yet, but I doubt I’ll post the ducks and geese – unless I can make a funny cartoon out of it (I really like PE11’s cartoon effects).   And the access to SmartSound is a terrific bonus.  Amazing bit of software.

BTW, just received Steve Grisetti’s book.  My knowledge should now increase exponentially.

Thanks again for your continued encouragement, understanding and support.

From an oul codger in freeeezing Britain .........

Brian