Introduce yourself to other members in this thread.

[babdi]

Thank you Ken for that eloquent praise. Thought I should do my bit as a responsible member. The "later joinees" may not know me as much as many of you do. Also I am bogged with work which keeps me away .

Thank you Ken Berry once again

[cobo04]

Hi, better late then never I suppose.

My name is Colin Bodger, 53, I'm married with a 12 year old son, live in West London, about 2 miles north of Heathrow Airport and work in the city of London, currently as a project manager, before my current role, all my roles have been technical (currently looking to move back to a technical role).

Anyway - photography/video didn't come first for me, my thing was electrics and electronics, early starter as I was re-wiring houses by the time I was 8. My fathers world revolved around photography, he worked for Technicolor in special effects, so really I put the two together, designed and built the electronic in fathers darkroom, at 17 I designed and build a TV camera then settled down to life at Uni. Where I designed and built a computer (okay a simple computer but it worked!). In the field of Photography, I worked mainly in 35mm mono then Colour before migrating onto video when the first Hi8 cameras came out. After losing my first camera (okay it got nicked), I got another (and still working Canon UC-X2). I used this all over the world on my travels before in the mid 2000's I looked to move up market for a better camera but waited as I wanted one with a view finder (not one of those silly view screens that stick out the side and can't be seen in any bright light), eventually I obtained a Sony VX1000. Bit big for my travel case but I almost used it into the ground then I got mysefl a job in creating videos for marketing, travelling all over the UK and Europe with my growing video kit. Realising that I relly needed to have a portable edit suite, I tried many video editing apps, some good others not. Then I got myself Ulead Video Studio 10. It was just too easy to edit the short clips (marketing videos are not more then 4 minutes I found).

Then in early 2010 I needed to move into HD for work, so went looking and again (possbily due to using an SLR camera for so many years) it had to have a view finder, none of the ones I saw in the shops has this, only a view screen. So after a lot of magaines, shopping and google searches, I eventually found the Panasonic HDC range, finally going for the HDC-TM700. Only to find that VS10 wouldn't see the camera far less edit the footage, so went for X2, this didn't see either my Sony via Firewire or my HD cam over USB !! Now using X3 withs sees and 'edits' my HD footage but doesn't see my sony. So have both 10 and X3 loaded to see both cameras, well I capture on 10 for my sony then edit on X3 along with the HD footage.

[WarningU2]

Posting a hello as a newbie to the forum.

I am a long time user of Paint Shop Pro and recently adopted Movie Factory as my choice for DVD software (tired of constant issues with Roxio).

I must say (think Martin Short) ... that I am really impressed with Movie Factory. Installed and running without any issue.

First time I can say that about any software.

If the Corel folks browse this forum ... congrats on a great product.

I'm glad to join the family.

[Mike Warren]

Sorry but I'm now in Burma with power outages. Will introduce myself when I return to New York this summer.
All my best,
Mike

[AussieTX]

Here goes.
Pat Thiele born and raised in Australia up till the age of 24 when I decided on a new carrier path in pre-hospital care. I was captain of one of Queensland's largest Surf Life Saving Clubs, North Burleigh, and worked for the then South East Queensland Electricity board (now Energex). I was working many many long hours voluntary with Queensland Ambulance hoping to get get hired on. When I was not, and the person who was, was stuck under me, I was quite annoyed (Her Daddy was on the board and she needed a job). A fellow medic suggested I head to Nth America where it all happens and you can get training far beyond anything in Australia.
I was able to secure a working permit for Canada for 12 months and proceeded to cross that country working and volunteering at any Ambulance or Fire Company that would allow me. Well they all did cause when you're in dropping off a patient at the ER with a bloke with an Aussie accent and Aussie Ambulance uniform well all the nurses would come out (including the males in some towns).
I decided to go for a drive down the California coast one day and arrived in LA where I ran into a bunch of guys who played Rugby in Huntington Beach. I was going to stay for a week or 2 before heading back to my job in Calgary but after an afternoon of beers at Blackie's bar in Newport Beach watching the thong roller skaters I was staying put. For a little while longer anyway.
Not long after I met my wife (Green Card) Susan who worked for the rodent (Mickey Mouse) in Anaheim. I got a job with a small local telephone PBX company which is where I was introduced to computers. I still remember when the 486DX was released and how fast it was. The other day I found the receipt for my first PC and it was the 486 with 15 inch monitor (upgrade cause every one had only 14's) and 8 meg of RAM (another upgrade as everyone was still at 4) all for $3200. Wow what I could buy now. I taught myself computer hardware and started building PC's for Voice Mail systems to save my company money of pre-built systems. I remember News Groups and bulletin boards which proceeded the internet.
Fast forward to now and I moved to Dallas Texas in 1998 to take a job with NEC as a senior Telecommunications Engineer. Playing with PBX's routers, and all sorts of stuff nowadays.
A few years a go (7 to be exact) my eldest son graduated Pre-School and in the ceremony on a big screen there was a slide show of pictures taken through out the year of the kids all set to music. I was so moved by this I decided I wanted to try this too.
So the first Christmas Aussie Texas DVD was attempted. I started with Pinnicle and was so frustrated with the crashes and other problems I almost gave up then. A friend at work mentioned VS8 by ULEAD that he was using and having a lot of luck with. I found that the current release VS9 was out and got stuck into it.
I have not looked back. My Christmas DVD's are demanded now each year from family and friends across the world. I also put together other projects as thanks to people such as the one I did for the Super Bowl when I was lucky enough to be invited this year.
I really enjoy using VS9, 11.5, X2, X3 and now really love VSX4. Can't wait to try some animation and also try and offer back help to others as I have received and learnt so much from this forum

[phaseman]

Hi all

First I like to say this board is great, I made a few post so I thought it was time to introduce myself.

First of I’m Dutch and lived in Australia for my schools years. At the age of 22 I decided to explore the world, eventually ended back in Holland and staying for 7 years.

I worked my way up in the fitness industry which lead me on my career path, working as club manager around the world. China, Singapore, Dubai and lastly Thailand where I now live with my wife and daughter.

I was once a world champion Bodybuilder, now I train others to become one.

I recently became interested in making films, and wish to learn as much as I can. Right now you can classify me as a total noob, hell I can’t even take good pictures. I tried a few video editing software and found VSprox4 suited me the best. Now all I need to do is learn the darn thing..lol.

I have my own fitness business and wish to make short health tips video’s for my clients. My first sample is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfdcjMqkPw
eventually I will use green screen once I figure how to do that.

I won’t bore you with a wall of text, I appreciate any help and advice that is given.

[kal]

Hi all,

I'm new here, but not new to PSP. Been using PSP since JASC version 5 -- maybe 4 not sure. At any rate. I love PSP. I've recently upgraded to X3 and hoping to dig into it soon.

Cheers!

[tmsco]

Hello
I am a newbie with Corel Video pro
for 2 years. I use many of Corel products for years and really enjoy Corel Painter. I started to make videos in between my digital art works. I'm trying to perfect the use of Video Studio Pro and I feel I am in the right place with very talented people on this community forum.

I would like to have my avatar of myself on here but it will not show up. I did have it when I joined but it went away. Sorry. I tried again but I cannot click the upload it is not there to ask except for a url address which I dont have.

I'm a Nova Scotian from Canada and live along the Bay of Fundy. This is mainly a scallop and lobster fishing area. Also we have the highest tides in the world.
Glad to be here and accepting me to be part of your group.
Sincerely TMSCO

[logoiweb]

Hi!
I'm newbie here. My name is David & from US. Happy to be members of the forum.
I hope we will have great time here. And I'll try to contribute to forum develop more.
I'm positively looking forward to the forum and its members hope all will guide, share and help me to increase my knowledge.

[Anders W]

Hi
I'm new on the forum, but not as a CorelDRAW user. I've been using it since Corel Draw 7. Mostly for drawing films for photo etching but also a litle lay-oyt and so on.
My ame is Anders: I live in Norway. I'm 59 years old and I work in television.
Etching brass plates is a part of my hobby as a model builder.

[Cok W]

Hi,
My name is Cok van Werkhoven, i am 61 years old, live in the Netherlands in a place called Veenendaal.
I'm working for an architect and love to take pictures and making home videos.

[LynnCOrmond]

Hi, My name is Lynn Ormond. I work as an engraver using CorelDraw 9 and a Universal laser.
I started my current job, after a couple of years of unemployment, last March, and within
a couple of months all the other employees are gone (not my fault, as far as I know...).

We have about 30,000 job files, which are stored without any logic I can determine, so
finding a previous job file is difficult. I wonder if there is any way within CorelDraw, or
some utility out there that will search the files for specific text (which hasn't been converted
to curves)? Any ideas?

Lynn C. Ormond
Awards of Praise
Everett, WA

[Ken Berry]

Lyn -- sorry, but are in the wrong web board. There is a separate board for the Corel DRAW group of products: coreldraw.com/forums

[beneix]

I'm a long-standing user of Bibble Pro, who is now joining the "Corel family" as a user of AfterShot Pro. I can see a lot of the folks from the old forum are already here and look forward to the good spirit from that forum being continued here.

[lata]

Hi beneix

Welcome to the forums, I'm sure the spirit will continue, enjoy