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<\/a><\/p>\nTo my delight, when I fired the new one up and did a few recordings with it I found that the results were of significantly higher quality than I’d got with the old model. However, there was a downside. When I came to edit the clips into a full movie, I found that although my editing software (Corel VideoStudio Pro X8) recognised them, it refused to render the completed movie and just kept stopping after looking as though it had done around 30% or so. <\/p>\n
So it was up to me to find a solution, which I was fortunately able to do, by searching for and finding some suitable video conversion software. It took a few days because although there’s lots out there, some of it gives really shocking levels of quality that I just couldn’t tolerate. After all my efforts, I’m now getting superb results as can be viewed by linking to the move that comes up later in this post.<\/p>\n
One of the things that this episode brought home to me is how much I miss all of the stuff that was on the crappy Seagate hard drive that let me down before Christmas. I didn’t just lose all of my original images and videos but also all of my editing and processing tools that I’d built up over the years, many of which I can’t find now and have to find replacements for.<\/p>\n
The footnote to the sports cam story is that I eventually found what the problem is with the old model, which is that one of the battery contacts has come loose. I’ve found that if I press it in hard with the blade of a small screwdriver back towards the cam’s motherboard, everything works fine. That’s until it somehow works a bit loose again. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to carefully take the cam apart and resolder the contact and if I’m successful I’ll then have two cams that I’ll be able to set up on the aircraft to take different views. That’ll be great editing fun, so watch this space \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
The next main task has been my house project, not just planning what form it should take but also researching the French building and planning rules and regulations. I’ll come back to the project concept in a moment, but first a few key comments on the latter. I’ve had a debate with friends about whether I’ll be officially required to hire an architect, which I don’t want to do, not just for financial reasons but because I believe that I’m quite capable of producing the necessary working drawings that’ll be needed for the contractors. After much time and effort, I’ve now managed to have confirmed that (a) a single house on a building plot is the exception to the new planning rules which in part stipulated that an architect must be used and (b) any development that involves less than 170 sq metres is exempt anyway.<\/p>\n
This is good news and I’ve been pressing forward with my ideas, and here’s a picture of my final idea for my scheme.<\/p>\n
Having thought more deeply about the whole thing, I now recognise (without being told \ud83d\ude09 ) that my earlier ideas were merely expensive vanity projects. This now gives me everything that I’m looking for, as I’ll explain in another post, and is likely to come out quite a lot less expensive. However, there is a downside to my researches. Not employing an architect doesn’t mean that I won’t have to submit a highly detailed dossier with my plans that I’ll also go into in a later post. And I’ve also found that due to the timescales and delays that are inbuilt in the ‘new’ French planning system that amount to months actually, there’s little doubt that I’ll be able to put a shovel into the ground much before the autumn of this year.<\/p>\n But this doesn’t mean that I won’t be able to get rid of the huge, lovely, old but incredibly messy lime tree that stands in front of my house, because there’s no planning consent needed for that in France. So I’m about to contact the contractor who has already submitted a ‘devis’ for doing so plus the ground work for my extension to get him to submit another for removing the tree and doing a little bit more work that I have in mind.<\/p>\n I’ve also been applying myself to creating the plans for my building job. I’ve identified some suitable Architect’s CAD software and have been teaching myself how to use it. As I’ve got to submit detailed current plans (that I think no-one has ever done before) I thought that I’d start with that because once I’ve mastered that, I can go on to add my proposed extension and the changes I have in my mind upstairs for my ‘grenier’. Here’s the stage that I’ve got to so far.<\/p>\n It’s taken a few days just to get this far because as well as learning how to use the software, I’ve also had to create all of the windows and doors used so they match the real ones by editing the default objects included in the software. But anyway, I’m quite happy with the process thus far.<\/p>\n To end this post, we had a huge storm back on 11th January with very strong winds from the north, so strong that on this occasion I was quite worried about 56NE because that’s the direction from which it has no shelter or protection. I went across to Galinat on 13th January to check how things were and to my relief found that although the winds had lifted the aircraft slightly (the concrete blocks under the wings had moved slightly inwards) and the covers had moved a little bit, there was no real damage. The seats were wet, the pitot cover had been blown off (but was still hanging suspended on its tether) and the two wing cover end flaps, that I never finished properly but should have, had been blown loose. But fortunately that was all, despite the wind having been ‘like a tornado’ as a local resident, who dropped by while I was getting everything back into shape, told me.<\/p>\n Click on the picture below to see the movie that I made of my visit.<\/p>\n I also have some additional, much more important, developments to write about. However, I’ll cover those in my next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t posted anything on My Trike since my family left for home on 6th January because quite honestly, I’ve been too busy with lots of things. It’s amazing how, when you’re retired, the days are just not long enough for all of the things that you have to do! 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