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I tried to add an edit but was timed-out!

A very simple way of adding data is to use the meta data ‘comments’ field. This can be edited in free format and gives you about five lines of comments.

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If you explore Photos does ‘folders’ as well.

I’ve not tried sorting on exif data in Photos as you can do it perfectly well in Windows Explorer. Open a photo folder, using the ‘Details’ view. Find a ‘blank’ area on the top of a column and right click.

You should get a dialog box with ‘Size all columns to fit’ at the top, and ‘more’ on the bottom.

Click on ‘More; and you will find that you can display and sort on more info than you can throw a stick at! These use the ‘properties’ tab on a file which for a photo is where all the exif stuff resides. Select the fields you want displayed and you can subsequently sort etc on the columns.

If you are a super organised person you can use the properties-details tab on any sort of file see link for a generalised kludge. As I understand it these kludges tend to fail if the file is copied or moved as added meta data is stored in different locations and do not get copied/moved.

Having this sort of metadata file facility could have been really useful in my last job, but I never discovered it!

[Ed P]

Other than the map, M$ Photos does those things as far as I can tell.

[Ed P]

I’m still not 100% sure what you want. To help me understand, what is missing from the Win10 app – Photos?

[Ed P]

This link may be of interest for a Pi only approach, though you may need to look at the site for caddy as well.

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[Ed P]

I suspect that the biggest cards are now used for AI, or vector work, or rolling Bitcoins.

[Ed P]

For Windows try Irfanview. (free). I find it useful enough to throw them a donation, and it has a big, and productive user base for file conversions.

Use the option to view thumbnails, select a head folder e.g. Photos, then choose option show thumbnails from all sub folders.

It has other options such as slideshow of course.

To be honest that option just drives me scatty as it gives me ALL my digital photos for the last twenty+ years with no sorting or classification!  I could however just choose Family->2018 as the head folder for a more rational view.

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I thought I had read all her ‘app’ horror stories, but the latest takes the biscuit and Mushroom Matt was caught out in Parliament lying being mistaken again!

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[edit] I think The Commons should have a ‘naughty step’ for all those Ministers who are caught out ‘being mistaken’.

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She was made a Baroness by David Cameron and is on the board of the Jockey Club – hence the disastrous decision to delay the first lock-down to allow the Cheltenham Festival to take place. Her career reads like the script for a business disaster movie, and culminated in a “Marketing” headline which is still appropriate today:

‘…. Dido Harding’s utter ignorance is a lesson to us all’.

I’m not sure she could even remember where any political bodies are buried – its the old story of ‘not what, but who you know’

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Sack Dido Harding — The Queen of Carnage!

I see that even the Conservative leadership are getting fed-up with her, and referring to “a vacuum of leadership in Test and Trace”. I suppose that is a nice way of calling her an empty headed air-head who just flaps around!

They really should have known better than to ever appoint her given her terrible leadership of Talk Talk.

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I’m by no means an expert with kdenlive, and I’ll agree it can be as confusing as hell. Rather than confuse you with my own idiosyncrasies I think it best to refer you to The Manual. While you can get away with bumbling around between the project and tools tabs, the one area I find really confusing is adding effects, and I think the page  for that section is essential!

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Irrational decisions such as continuing to use Lightning vs the better USBC are often a result of some head honcho in the Corporation being deeply involved in the original design or marketing of the device. They tend to defend impossible positions as they think that U-turns are weak — probably explains some dumb-ass moves by this Government too.

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WOF, typically hardware rendering on the GPU gives a massive speed-up. Checking out FFMPG (which is used by both Openshot and KDEnlive) there is a hardware rendering option link.

In KDEnlive this is just a check the box configuration option, and if the hardware acceleration is not available it will tell you so. I suspect that Openshot will behave in a similar fashion.

However it would not surprise me if this is not available on a laptop due to cooling constraints.

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Try the HEVC codec (h265). It gives much smaller files with no discernable loss in quality.

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As Dave so often reminds us, 99% of security problems are caused by the A-Hole at the keyboard.

Trump has once again demonstrated his position as the world’s biggest A-Hole by securing his Twitter account with the password MAGA2020, he also failed to set up two factor authentication. We were lucky that the ‘hole’ was discovered by a White Hat as I hate to think of the diplomatic incidents that a miscreant could have caused.

Details Here

[Ed P]

Correction – I did a test 4K render, my vm is ~20 times faster!

[Ed P]

Sack Dido Harding — The Queen of Carnage!

Our “world-beating” :wacko: Test & Trace system seems to get worse by the day.

However, at long last they are rolling out sewage testing at 90 sites across mainland UK, and maybe the work by Bangor Uni (and others) will get Dido Harding out of the poo!

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[Ed P]

That is REALLY slow, even my vm machine is probably at least 5 times faster, though I suspect kdenlive’s ability to use hardware rendering probably makes the big difference.

[Ed P]

Meant to add the 4K render from kdenlive is 4K UHD and using HEVC means file sizes are about 60% of normal 4K files. My guess would be that you will find this a perfectly acceptable editor, though as is usual with FOSS you will need to dig around in the forums for visual effects, and only find out later that mplayer and frei0r should be installed to use some tools such as sharpening etc.

Well worthwhile playing with it as it punches well above its weight.

[Ed P]

Take a look at Linux kdenlive. The editing part is slick and the rendering step renders up to 4K in HEVC. I run it as a vm and speed never bothers me as using a vm means the pc can be used for other things while rendering is taking place. The host is a first gen Ryzen with 16Gb of memory so it is probably pretty close to the specs of most middle ground laptops.

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