Now I’ve got the ability to import and edit DV videos, this is a small taster of Excerpts from China Holiday Video in 2003!
I’ve got 8 hours of videos, to edit and cut down to 1 hour!
Watch the man take his bird for a walk in the park…..
Walking the Bird – Excerpts from China Holiday Video – 2003
March 3rd, 2019Box Opening – Intel NUC DC53427HYE
March 3rd, 2019I was throwing this box out, which used to contain old receipts, so I thought I would make a video before it gets binned!
This was the box on of the first Intel NUC, Model DC53427HYE was supplied in from Intel!
(NUC – Next Unit of Computing)
Big in Japan
February 22nd, 2019The first post of 2019, and the year is slipping away as we almost enter March, the daylight now extends into the evening and the birds are starting to make their nests…
I’ve been re-visiting memories of Japan, when we visited in 2011, the year of the earthquake and then tsunami in Japan (whilst we were holidaying there!), why you may ask?
Read on.. for many years I’ve been trying to find a software package which would import all the clips automatically from a Sony DV Tape HandyCam using Firewire (IEEE 1394) to easily create a 1 hour holiday video.
The problem is that Firewire (IEEE 1394) was retired by Apple in 2012, and has since been abandoned.
BUT, I noticed a Firewire port on my current Windows 10 laptop, and the device drivers were loaded (Device Manager), “Would it be possible that if I simply connected my HandyCam to the firewire port it would be automatically recognized by Windows 10?”
I connected my HandyCam to the firewire port and to my amazement, the Sony DV Tape VCR appeared within Device Manager.
Now to find, a software package, in the past I used to use a Sony laptop, and it’s own DVLink software, but it only ran on Windows 95, and it kept crashing.
I downloaded a trial of Vegas Movie Studio, and it does it exactly what I needed!!!
So the tape currently in the HandyCam, was a Tape from Japan!
So here are a few trailers…
Merry Christmas 2018 from Andysworld!
December 12th, 2018It’s possible this is the last blog of 2018, as the Hosting company is upgrading PHP (a computer development language) on 14th December 2018 and it’s very possible that underlying change will break the blog!
So here is a photo of some Christmas Tree lights near where I live!
Merry Chrimbles everybody!
This Christmas Tree tractor, is in dedication to a local farmer, which died of cancer a few years ago. So all donations raised go to Cancer Research UK.
Merry Christmas from Andysworld! and York iconic St Nicholas Fair?
November 25th, 2018
We don’t venture out to York very much, but Lindsey took me to Ippuku Tea House yesterday for my Birthday meal, which is a Japanese Tea room in York. If you like Japanese food, the food is excellent!
The Christmas Shoppers in York, were terrible, drawn by the iconic St Nicholas Fair?
Iceland’s Banned TV Christmas Advert… Say hello to Rang-tan. #NoPalmOilChristmas
November 14th, 2018Just in case you had not seen Iceland’s Christmas Advert, because it was BANNED because it was too political!
Stan Lee – 1922 – 2018 – Excelsior!!!
November 13th, 2018Today, sees the right day to publish this blog….
I’ve dipped in and out of the X-Men, Fantastic Four, SpiderMan, Iron Man, Deadpool – but did not have any appreciation (then), of the Marvel Universe!
I never collected the comics as a “child”, although I’m aware of there existence from The Big Bang Theory and Stan Lee!
So about a month ago, I finished watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe in chronological order!
I created a playlist on PLEX, and watched all Marvel Cinematic Universe films, 1 day and 18 hours worth, back to back. I didn’t watch Agents of Shield… Captain Marvel is released next year (2019).
if you didn’t know Stan Lee had a cameo in the movies.
“What a loss to the world of geeks, nerds, superheros, and everyone who has enjoyed the marvelous Universe” -@missmayim
Return to China – on our own this time!
November 12th, 2018It’s been about 15 years since we visited China, and as it’s one of my favourite countries, I’ve visited so far, so it was about time we returned to see how China has changed in 15 years!
So in early spring this year (2018), we returned to China.
We visited
1.Beijing
2.Datong
3.Pingyao
4.Xian
5.Luoyang
6.Shaolin
7.Kaifeng
8.Qufu
9.Taian
10.Shuzhou
11.Shanghai
It’s taken Lindsey a while to sort through all the thousands of pictures which were taken on a digital SLR and my mobile phone, so please enjoy:- these are the best.
They’ve been uploaded to the Holiday Photo Album, which also contains all the other photos taken since 2006.
Holiday Photograph Album 2006 – Present
I’ve also uploaded some of the videos, to You Tube here, in a playlist
and WOW has it changed!
My collection of Intel 8086/8088 processors
November 3rd, 2018Sorting through my computing related stuff, I’ve acquired over the last 30 years…. I found my collection of Intel 8086, 8088 CPUs and Intel 8087 maths co-processor.
Released 40 years ago, the birth of a standard which has kept me in a job for my working career!
Intel 8086, 8088, 8087 Processors
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 PC motherboard which caught fire!
September 19th, 2018This is a photograph of a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard which caught fire, inside a PC case, whilst a co-worker was playing Civilization!
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard
Close-up of Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard
So maybe you should not leave PCs turned on at night – unattended! – or have a smoke alarm fitted and fire extinguisher near by!
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