I spent yesterday evening and all this morning trying to resolve a problem on the editing suite with burning the DVDs, there was something not right but I gave up trying last night and continued this morning. The Edius support was non existent, they don't support queries on operational issues which is strange as what else can go wrong other than the programme not working as it should so a suitable riposte going on Trust pilot. I found that Siren at Oldham who supplied all my equipment and who trained me had sold out some years ago, my last contact was 2014 when I got a new computer and upgraded to Edius 7. The company which took them over is I think the media supplier we use in Barnsley who do not have any support for users, they just flog the stuff which in any case you can buy on the net whereas originally the change from tape to digital meant a huge new business and now the bubble has well and truely burst, thankfully one chap has survived albeit now as a lone player near Brighton and was able to guide me through the very quick and simple remedy probably caused in the first place by hitting a wrong key, easily fixed if you know what to do. Anyway I've safely and securely saved his contact details and when I need to upgrade or replace I will know where to go and we did discuss the logistic viz Cheshire-Sussex but he could get everything set up ready to go and do a training session if and when the time comes. If computers and the people who write programmes are so clever how do we get in such a fix and we no way out, the manual for the programmes is worse than useless as it doesn't address going wrong just what to do in the first place. We went to Ellesmere Port as I'd missed the chance of stocking up on bird food and getting my hair cut when we had an unexpected visitor on the day of the January Polio Fellowship meeting at the Port. We got our fruit for dieting days and Mandy picked up a new coat, I passed on looking at coats, not in the mood at all for clothes thats if I ever in such a frame of mind. Anyway with everything back up and running the three DVDs from the A50 Uttoxeter filming ( again our slide show this evening) all finished, covers to make. It remains a quiet spell, I guess until folk get their January pay through, I remember that we got paid early for Christmas then it was a long run through to the end of January, thankfully in retirement we have no such worries. Tomorrow the weather looks rough again, if the roads are open I may try to get through to Buxton and get more snow scenes but it looks difficult through to Thursday and Friday, not much going to happen on the bus side thias week but I will try and get a couple of Bus Spot Ultra production finished, I'm just about to start on Oldham. Comments are closed.
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