La Rochelle videos

I’ve at last managed to put together the videos for my last flights up to La Rochelle and back. It’s been a bit challenging because the paid-for video editor that I’ve been using for several years, Corel VideoStudio Ultimate, which has been ‘upgraded’ several times without ever changing much, let me down and just refused to open. I found that an older version that I’ve kept on my computer did the same, so I think it’s something to do with an incompatibility with a recent Windows 11 update, but when I contacted Corel support the best they could suggest was that I embarked on a lengthy investigative process with them to track down the problem.

I thought this was pretty pathetic as it’s clearly a problem with their software as I’ve changed nothing at my end except allow Windows to update, so I declined anyway as in the meantime I don’t have the time. Instead I spent my time better by becoming familiar with an alternative editor, DaVinci Resolve. Don’t be put off by the name. It comes in two version, free and paid-for. I’m using the former and I’ve got into the basics in a few hours. I’ve found it better in most respects than Corel VideoStudio which has now let me down once too often so I’m aiming to stick with DaVinci in the future. I think that the Corel software is based on old architecture and is at about the end of its life. DaVinci, however, performs better in all sorts of ways and its developers keep coming out regularly with new updates.

Anyway, perhaps more of the technical stuff later. For now, here are the two latest videos. The only thing I’d like to improve is titling which I haven’t delved into yet in DaVinci but will be doing in the future.