HI Paz and momoffduty! PaZ, I think you have the wrong island. The "famous" Oak Island, subject of the TV series, is in Nova Scotia. Our little (12x1) island has no celebrities and no notoriety. We are in NC. But its a great place to live! The odd thing about this storm was that this was t...

Thanks all for your kind words. We have spent the last few days picking up small debris and restoring our bird feeder/bath environment and now all pretty much back to normal. They have opened the beaches again. But lots of people still displaced and suffering in the county. Yes, that Oak Island from...

HI Steve. Thanks for the comments and support. Yes, it was difficult. Our only ray of hope was that we have never had flooding in any of the bad storms since we have been here. But there are many homes here in Brunswick County that are still underwater and probably totally damaged. BTYW, the beachfr...

HI all! I got a PM from Dave McElderry asking about how we made out in the storm, so here is my story. We live on Oak Island, a barrier island (read: glorified sand bar) off the NC coast. We are separated only by the Intracoastal Waterway, but are a true island. The mainland to the north of the isla...

Thanks Steve.

Memories clicking in. K-Lite Codec Pack ???

I am trying to work on one of my old video projects, now that I am somewhat "back". When I open an old project in PRE10 (my latest version) the Media files come in OK, but the timeline is blank, obviously losing all my work. If I load up PRE7 which was probably used to create the project, ...

Good info - thanks. Just for grins I tried a quick video on my iPhone 7 and yes a stabilizer is definitely needed!

Thanks Bob. I agree on all and I will keep an eye out on that stabilizer. Also thanks for the tip on Handbrake - I just downloaded it - looks powerful.

Oh yes, big can. Let's wait until the muvipix biggies weigh in! Yes, it's true that many people take portrait mode for videos. What I find interesting is that you see lots of them on the TV news when they have gotten clips from people "on the scene". Very often they are portrait, and the v...

I agree Sidd. My wife has made the transition to doing all photos and videos with her iPhone7 and is happy with the results. (I am not so sanguine but it's her choice.) Back to my video setup, I need to do a short video for a memorial to my wife's sister who passed recently. I was able to get PE10 r...

Thanks Peru. That makes sense, except that there was a LOT of time devoted to making those old projects! But I really don't have a burning requirement to re-edit any of my old projects, just attempting to preserve the capability if I do need it. I did install PE7 (the last version I had before 10) a...

On to the next phase. I opened an existing .prel with the only version of PE that I have installed on the new PC - PE10. I recall that I had installed PE10 just before I started my hiatus, but probably hadn't used it much. But I would have expected it to open projects made with earlier versions, alt...

Thanks Dave. Mine were all big so that may explain it.

HI Bob - thanks for the help! I erased the OpenDVD folder and VLC then played it fine. Well, it's interesting. There are no error messages when I try to" VLC Open Folder" to the folder containing both the OpenDVD folder and the video_ts folder. It just doesn't play, although one time (not ...