ANOTHER DAY OF IDEAL CONDITIONS FILMING COVENTRY

I decided to take advantage of the promised light cloud to film the new electric buses at Coventry, we left about 7.30am and were parked up by around 9am. We had an immediate problem, one of Mandy's wheelchair wheels at the front had lost its retaining bolt. It took a bit but I managed a bit of bush engineering with an allen key and duct tape. The factory is near Chasetown so it wouldn't be hugely out of the way to call there on the way home. The light was spot on most of the time, the usual positions, I don't even bother with the bus station these days. There are only Nat Express and Stagecoach serving this city but plenty of them. RGK sorted out the wheelchair and I've edited the Burton on Trent film and will follow with Coventry and get the covers done at the weekend. I'm still downloading material for a couple of projects I've in my mind. I updated my Topaz software editing suite which promised a lot but delivered nothing new, still takes forever to render and there smoothing of jumpy shots makes it look worse than Edius ever did. I'll ask for a refund again , I'll stick with NEAT, Aimersoft etc tried and tested plus Pixbeam doing the colourisation.

We got a couple of orders from EBay but with the advertising bill at £600 a month the present level of orders means that we are subsidising the order by at least 50%. It seems sensible at some stage perhaps the end of 2023 to go internet only, it would certainly lose some of the non computer people but they can still fill in an order form and get the DVD updates list. The only alternative is to just do things as my own hobby and load clips to Youtube. I've tried filming in a higher frame rate at 1080 at 50fps but it certainly gets through the memory on the chips so much so that although it says I've used an hour on the counter it could only be 50 minutes, hence a few slightly shorter DVDs. Mind you there are now a lot less buses to film in most locations. Photos from Coventry today.