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Join us as we look back on a three-week mission trip to Sindangan, Mindanao, in the Philippines, where our small team helped build a nursery school.

When we arrived on 11 July 2026, the foundations were in place and the blockwork had begun. By 26 July, the centre was complete and officially opened, ready to welcome children from the local community.

During our stay, we also visited a church built and funded by Gorsley Baptist Chapel in 2019, delivered 150 meals and gifts to prisoners at Sindangan Jail, and took part in a Persons with Disabilities Conference attended by 800 people.

Three weeks of building, serving and sharing, with memories and friendships to last a lifetime.

The first video release from the Philippine trip in July 2026. Also available on the Peace & Hope Building Brighter Futures Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/186536498351523 - One more video to release on the 30th September.

I’ve been using FreeShow at our Chapel in conjunction with iSing as we don’t have any musicians to play hymns. It’s a system that worked well, project in FreeShow (readings and slides), CMD Tab (or window click) to iSing for a hymn and then CMD Tab (window click) back to FreeShow.

A couple of months ago we were notified iSing would cease and was being replaced by Worship Player. I downloaded the trial version and found out CMD Tab didn’t work (iSing apparently displayed in a full size window). An email to the devs came back with some workarounds and I found out a ‘triple click’ in FreeShow also worked.

Come forward 2 weeks and the Worship Player dev had written some code into Worship Player and it now worked with CMD Tab and FreeShow!

Our service on Sunday now worked perfectly between FreeShow and Worship Player, so if you’ve found this from a Google search your problems should be solved.

5 days on from the Facebook disaster that looked as if I would have to cancel my trip to the Philippines. Thankfully I was able to create a new Facebook account which I'm now being extra cautious with! The next problem was getting on the same flight as the other team members, again thankfully that's now been done. So for the 2nd time (actually the third as I went in 1996) I'm off to The Philippines.

Thanks to Google, I've now got a website to document the trip - https://sites.google.com/view/sindangan2026/home

I set up to record a sermon at our Chapel using the same settings as last week, audio levels looked fine on the side screen. Ingesting the footage into Resolve 21 Beta 3, I noticed some audio had peaked. I thought I’d deal with it in the morning.

Next day I went to pull some one minute clips for TikTok and confirmed the worst with peaked, slightly distorted audio on the timeline. Time to try out the 32-bit float files stored on the transmitter. I downloaded Røde Connect, plugged the transmitter into my M4 Mac, found the saved file, and imported it into Resolve. Selected the original video and audio with the new audio, hit sync by waveform, done instantly. Deleted the old audio track.

Perfect audio. In sync. No distortion. Problem solved.

Resolve 21 Beta 3: A Smooth Start…?

I installed Resolve 21 Beta on my iMac for a quick look while keeping a couple of personal projects running in Resolve 20 on my M4 Mini. Thanks to the dongle license, swapping between machines is painless, so it was easy to compare both versions. I also kept an eye on the Resolve 21 Beta bug forum to see what others were running into.

When Beta 3 dropped, I rolled the iMac back to Resolve 20, moved my two small projects over as a backup, checked everything still worked, and then installed Resolve Beta 3 on the M4, my projects still opened and ran just fine.

A while back I bought RiotDQ, an EQ plugin. When the final version was released, I installed it in Resolve 20, then moved it over to 21 to test. The EQ worked, but the dial animation didn’t. The Inspector sliders still applied EQ, but the plugin’s UI wasn’t behaving. I sent the developer a video, and he replied saying it wasn’t something he’d seen before but would look into it.

About That New Photo Page…

I have to say, I don’t really see the point. Resolve is a video editing package. Every user, pro or amateur already has an established, preferred photo editor installed, whether that’s Photoshop, Lightroom, Affinity, or any of the many options out there. So why introduce what feels like a version 1.0 photo tool with limited features and bugs?

Final Cut seems to be slowing down in development and playing catch‑up to Resolve and Blackmagic are clearly gaining users from it. With that momentum, Resolve adding photo editing feels like a step sideways, maybe even backwards when users are still reporting bugs left over from v20.