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We have got the old PMP Editing deck working again, it is downloading from video, using the old machine which has multiple ports for all types of sockets is ideal as it means the super computer beast can do all the hard stuff and the old one costs nothing other than the little monitoring screen and a new keyboard, had to go to Currys for that as the EBay purchase didn't work, gone for wired now as opposed to wireless.

 We can edit from VHS S-VHS VHS-C Video 8and  Hi8 plus of course any digital source. From cine we can copy Std8 and S8 plus tele-cine 16mm.

We have announced a date for dropping DVDs if not done before it will be 16th March 2032. We will then have downloads or streaming as we cannot really manage all the heavy boxes now and less so when I'm 80. Perhaps I won't survive that long but everything will go to the safe hands of OTA.

We can arrange commercial access to their film, our own is already available online as analogue downloads or discs, this will swing over to HD as time goes by. We have around 400,000 still in addition to many thousand hours of footage

The car is packed ready for Showbus, we will leave early tomorrow and film at Milton Keynes and St Albans. Lets have a good turn out for the last of the event, their 50th. Our attendance at rallies is decreasing but we will probably attend more country wide to film at.

Hoping to get more upgraded 60fps HD clips on Youtube in the coming week.

So much happening and so little time thus short blog narrative ! I went to Bury and filmed the quite colourful bus scene with several operators now including Vision. I went on to Wigan, parked up at random and located road to bus station, it then went into monsoon mode so never even got started. Wigan a forlorn hole if there ever was one, town now marooned in ring roads and centre blocked off, most shops shut, one bit was like the no man's land in Cyprus, almost Victorian time machine.

Pulling my hair out with Paypal, they are worse than scammers we have had constant battles with them since they split from Ebay  and I've now found that the money held did not come via Ebay but our own PMP shop. Do not use Paypal we have not received any payment made via them for the past month. Impossible to talk to them they are absolute scum.

Today I filmed on the Woodhead Pass but it rained and I had to retreat back down to Hyde roundabout and got three programmes on the lorries in total ( I hope). Here are some shots I took. I'm also working on the 1990's coverage of the heavy lift on Hastings seafront which will go on Youtube at 60 fps HD.

These should all be on the PMP shop by tonight.

It happens to be my turn to be sidesperson and reader at today's service at St Oswald's in our village today so the morning is pretty well taken up. I'm just taking the last files off the Wakefield truck films ready to put trailers on Youtube which can load while we are at church. I've now received the new keyboard and mouse so I can use the 'old' editing set up for capturing from analogue sources. I spelt out my requirements carefully when I ordered the new super computer but they said that the capture card was no longer required and it all went in via a USB lead. Wrong they were so wrong, a capture card is still required and as it is all set up in the old machine on an earlier version of Edius I can use that when the mini monitor arrives just a 7" which will save space. I had already given up on switching devices my old one has worked for years in the day job and now at home on the everyday computer which I do these blogs, email internet orders and work for our charities etc.

Todays slide show is from Chatham on hHursday this past week watch out for the royal destination bidding the Queen to rest in peace. Superb session there, very busy and great variety.

We have completed our update of buses in Kent and Sussex as far as time allowed, I know Chelmsford has some new buses so that can be top of the next round of Essex film. Chatham was really busy, a superb visit, Canterbury was quite good too. Colchester was a battle against difficult lighting, sunshine and cloud alternating. Grays late afternoon caught a lot of buses on school related services, a bit of hassle from young louts though, the schools and parents need to get a grip on their children.

Very busy at present, it was Polio Fellowship AGM this morning and then 4th Covid jab and mowing lawns. Now finishing editing the 1st volume of lorries at Wakefield, three in all there and then on to the Kent and Sussex film. Also getting the DVD orders ready to go out Tuesday but of course as all recent release are on HD as digital downloads they are not just cheaper but higher quality.

We have cleared all DVD orders and will resume on Tuesday next, today was a funeral but before leaving we managed to get more clips of Liverpool buses 1989-90 on Youtube. We have edited the first of the three truck films at Wakefield. More at the weekend!!

The sun shone all the time I was at Wakefield Europort today. It seems to have picked up now with most if not all units used and road rail at Maritime. Just one new electric bus seen out from Pelican premises. Anyway we can also confirm our trip to Kent on Thursday now the strike has been put back and then in Essex on Friday. Here are shots from Wakefield today.

1989/90 HD 60fps clips from our archive are now appearing on Youtube and downloads will be added to the appropriate video on the shop ( remember they are fairly ancient DVD numbers ) Easy enough to search them on the shop or check on the full list.

We had a splendid time at Southport yet again meeting up with friends who span our many decades sharing our hobby. I was born in 1952, a few weeks earlier in the year and I would have been born under the old Kings reign, as it is my whole 70 years thus far were led by the Queen. We were really glad we had travelled to Edinburgh on Friday, I don't think we would have got near it today. The Edinburgh bus DVD will be our tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II and is the image that was used so recently for her platinum jubilee. Nearly all our shots were with her portrait visible on the bus stop advert panels. Today the cortège travelled from Ballater through places I knew well from my time working at St Fergus.

The running day today was a chance to catch up with so many friends and an opportunity to meet lots more who view us on the Youtube clips, I think Danny was the last to greet us as we took ice cream back to the car and rounded a very British day off enjoying our various interests and hobbies and celebrating our culture, engineering and heritage.

Tonight we have pictures from Glasgow where  in the city booze and drugs belays the tradition of good schools and high achievement in past eras. Even the bus drivers in the city cannot manage a flicker of recognition let alone a smile but thankfully they stream into Buchanan Bus Station from all parts and it is so much safer there and more friendly. Here are some Glasgow shots from Friday afternoon, the MTT running day tomorrow.

I'm now preparing to share the latest HD 60fps scenes from my 1989/90 coverage of Liverpool, it takes a while to upload and save as it has had a good deal of 'treatment', clean sharp images free of most blemishes and these will go on our shop as downloads.