Andy gave me beautiful flowers! Andy gave me a chocolate cake! And . . . Andy gave me a digital video camera! I have to admit I feel a bit daunted by it, although I am pretty handy with gadgets. We are really bad about taking videos of the kids on our regular camcorder. We have probably 6 or 7 hours of tape total for all 3 kids. I never want to be one of those parents who documents every waking hour of their lives, or films every minute of their show or game or party, but sometimes months go by and I don't even take a single minute of video. So maybe if I have this funky little camera, and maybe if I can futz with the videos on my 'puter, and maybe if I can e-mail video clips, I'll have more incentive to turn the darn thing on. As Andy rightly points out, a generation from now, our kids and their kids will be glad to know what we all looked like way back when.
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April 25, 2005
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Woo! Digital video is great. It used to be that everybody had those VHS or Hi8 camcorders and ended up with a dozen cassettes in the closet that nobody ever wanted to watch. Mostly the reason is that you had no capacity to edit. Life is boring and no matter how cute your little ones are nobody wants to see twenty minutes of them not quite taking their first steps. Computer-based editing resolves much of that, helping average folks make a boring 43 minute home video into a 4.3 minute masterpiece which can go to DVD, VHS, CD or the web.
I'm gushing like an infomercial becase I teach folks how to do this at the university. If you need help let me know!
Posted by: scott | April 25, 2005 at 09:49 PM