In the days when home movies were complicated, we didn't take many in my family. We didn't have a movie camera but an uncle did, so my early home movies were taken by him. We had a video camcorder once, but it ended up falling overboard and was never replaced. Now, it is so easy to take video with a smart phone. I take mine with a digital camera as it gives a little better quality. And there are far more ways to share these videos. I think this is Progress (with a capital P), making it much easier to capture memories.
I spent quite a lot of time this week digitizing some VHS tapes. One of these was converted into VHS, so the quality is definitely not HD. However, these short 5-15 minute movies were wonderful to see. I miss my dad, and seeing him again was great. I vaguely remember him like he was in the early shots, and definitely as he was in the later ones.
A while back, I spent time doing this with dance recitals my daughter was in. I'm not quite finished with that, but I turned to these as a favor to my niece. I'll put them on DVD for her and others in the family as well as posting them to the YouTube channel I've created.
Sharing these on YouTube will allow others who are interested to have access. I hope other family members will also enjoy these. I hope we will continue to take advantage of technology to preserve these moments.
My sister uploaded a video of a treasure hunt with my grandkids. I never want to lose track of such wonderful times together.
My daughter uploads movies to her channel so we can see the major events in her kids lives. She shares them on Facebook, but YouTube provides a nice archive for us.
If you have old movies to convert, there are many services which do that. We had some converted to VHS in the 80s, and those were some of what I digitized this week. As technology changes, we often have to go back and do this all over again. Watching as I convert has been very nostalgic. What a great way to spend some tube time.
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Digitizing the past
At the end of the Blue Bloods episode from Friday April 11, The family is watching some home movies that Erin had digitized. They were doing some reconnecting with what is important in the family. At our house, on Saturday, we watched a dance recital from 1989 and also did some of that reconnecting.
I am turning dance recitals, a high school production, middle school band, and some home movies into digital content. I have watched most of it as I'm dubbing it over the first time. After that, for the additional copies, I am not watching again. It has been a trip down memory lane.
My daughter realized that her daughter shares many of her characteristics. Although the dance video isn't high quality, she is usually easy to pick out. When she watched the first one, she realized that her daughter could have made some of the hand gestures. I noticed that too when I was searching for the numbers she was in. I had missed one of the numbers because it seems she is in two acrobat numbers which I hadn't expected. Watching it together was a lot of fun.
New digital technologies let us store our tangible evidence of activities much longer. My niece and I are going to be scanning a bunch of family photos. Since my office is so cool all year, I plan to do mine all summer. After scanning them, I am adding in names and dates, where available. Then we're uploading to dropbox where we can share them. Some will also make it into blogs and Facebook.
My aunt has been a scrapbooker most of her life. She has wonderful scrapbooks full of her family history. I hope we can add that to our digital collection. I have some in scrapbooks, but mostly, I have photos and programs that are confined in a couple of boxes.
I look forward to spending the time with these memories and then sharing them with family members who are interested. I am grateful for technology that lets us capture these for the future. To my mind, that is what all families need.
I am turning dance recitals, a high school production, middle school band, and some home movies into digital content. I have watched most of it as I'm dubbing it over the first time. After that, for the additional copies, I am not watching again. It has been a trip down memory lane.
My daughter realized that her daughter shares many of her characteristics. Although the dance video isn't high quality, she is usually easy to pick out. When she watched the first one, she realized that her daughter could have made some of the hand gestures. I noticed that too when I was searching for the numbers she was in. I had missed one of the numbers because it seems she is in two acrobat numbers which I hadn't expected. Watching it together was a lot of fun.
New digital technologies let us store our tangible evidence of activities much longer. My niece and I are going to be scanning a bunch of family photos. Since my office is so cool all year, I plan to do mine all summer. After scanning them, I am adding in names and dates, where available. Then we're uploading to dropbox where we can share them. Some will also make it into blogs and Facebook.
My aunt has been a scrapbooker most of her life. She has wonderful scrapbooks full of her family history. I hope we can add that to our digital collection. I have some in scrapbooks, but mostly, I have photos and programs that are confined in a couple of boxes.
I look forward to spending the time with these memories and then sharing them with family members who are interested. I am grateful for technology that lets us capture these for the future. To my mind, that is what all families need.
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