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How to achieve immortality!
Times of Your Life
We hear stories of all time, if someone burns down the house, the first thing you grab the album of family photos and home movies to go before running out the door. But in reality, while these products may be the first thing Resort, is home to the movies most people and collections of photos in assorted boxes locked up in a dusty cupboard scattered or stored together in a photo album cheap plan scattered basement of a library where you rarely see the light of day. What do people do with their movies would cry Steven Spielberg.
Your family can do more than just a scattered collection of media images and video cassettes. Together they can properly is worth more than the world's biggest diamond or a fancy sports car. When all is said and done, you end your diamonds and fought over by greedy relatives, and ends up in your sports car used car lot. But your family, the media has the potential and impact on people who live for eternity. In a sense, is the closest we have at this point for immortality. Something that can be the next generation in terms of provision by the tradition of small fragments of our lives.
The stark reality of Home Video Editing
Home video editing is a bitch. Sorry to be formulated this way, but there's really no other way to say what is a cruel cold, hard facts of life. Organize and edit home movies is one of those projects that still would not say that somehow never seems to get done, and by the time we decided to forward to the real task to do with socks on his pile of home videos off Everest proportions of the cabinet was that the sight of defeats, most of us now, before we start to function properly organize our film. Therefore, the pile grows, the video degraded, and our memories are cast off into the sea of oblivion digital.
The task of organizing and editing your movies is so overwhelming in the rule that made no right to obtain, if ever done. And this is a sin. These memories are one of the most valuable assets you have. It 'very daunting that most people more time and money for the purchase and maintenance of a new car then do it for the storage of video from the first spin their child on a bicycle without training wheels. These are the times in our lives, and if nothing is done to obtain correct information and digitally storing perishable items, are lost for eternity.
We are the first generation that is technically possible, is to capture these moments of prosperity. A few years ago all you had when you were lucky, she was a shoe box filled with three minutes to hand-movie in which our relatives or in front of the camera is usually something incredibly stupid in glorious scratchy, washed-out dance silence. Now with the technology to the masses, you can record and document some of these lives.
Just as this great idea to document the lives of your family, a shoe box of unmarked video gathering dust in a closet and put them together to make a great DVD that does not bring people to tears. It is not easy, but it's worth trying. Consider this. Prefer to give a gift that disintegrates after a few years and then falls to the ground, or give your family a good care of all the wonderful moments that DVD, which increase up together, we hope that in turn pass up for children . E 'in a sense, one of the few things behind the potential that has left your legacy alive. There are few things in life that offer this to give. But the reality of this gift that you take the trouble to do it enters into force for it.
I have just a couple of weeks for this item and the bottom line is, unfortunately, these articles, if necessary, because there is someone who is trying to sell something, do something, although you can buy whatever it is, they sell, you should not be able to. Problem with editing and organizing your movies is that, like everything else, there are more traders rip off artists and then there are actually people who can do what you need to do well.
When it comes to treatment and care of their movies, the first thing you need that no one can sell, is time. So be careful before you change something that you buy a movie in context. The market is flooded with products that claim to do just that task. There is no easy task. In order to be properly put together your home videos, you will have someone, or take the time to learn to do, how to do it themselves. The key ingredient is time. The time to install the hardware, the time to install the software to digitize the time to sit down from time to time and material actually lied and do the editing.
Get motivated to do so and the voice is probably the biggest obstacle you've overcome. Im a professional video producer, and it took me a year and a half my ass motivated enough to sit down and work hard together to get dirty Assembly a video of our holiday at the seaside. What is really involved when I started was disappointing, even a professional like me.
To begin with there is the collection of all materials that are needed to produce a decent production. Here you can around the house looking for all those films that you are at home, your family is characterized in the years to go. E 'at this point you may decide to sit down and decide what you are trying to do. If you plan to address all your movie collection at home, in a meeting, forget it. Will not happen overnight. It 'best to take the task of home video editing in small manageable units.
Then, after gathering all your videos and photos sill, you must make sure you have the technical means for implementing the project. E 'at this point that you will probably find that you are missing something, and you must spend money to buy what is needed to produce what you want to do. Again, spend money! Just like everything else art in life, you get what you are willing to put in it. And sure enough, you can edit your movies to spend money. There's really nothing to do.
There are several ways to approach the process of creative editing and save your movies. Apart from one exception, require that all of these options represent a major commitment of time and extreme effort. Any publication or sales pitch is the promise that this process is simple and easy, should be avoided, shredded and returned to the publisher. If someone tells you that the process of producing a documentary of the family and the media family is simple, then you are and try to buy something. If your money is everything these two words is "easy and simple" in their advertising or on the website, or plan to be scrapped.
What I try to describe in this article, the information that you take a decision that will change your life forever you can use. Why? In fact, if done correctly, can home movies, a medium that can be used as an extension of themselves, able to overcome generations. It 'a way to communicate feelings that we humans do not even know that yet. Imagine for a moment, the warmth and joy that you are watching the first steps of your child. Imagine now able to convey these feelings, the child is ten years later. Now we have the technology in itself immortal.
Ten or twenty years, we are not the same people that we are now. The house is moving, we can share if used correctly, allow us to run through these fields in time and give us the opportunity to express exactly who we were. This makes the task or the organization and the creation of these memories is not easy to say. Then begin.
Getting Started
Can make a film well produced at home, all those wonderful feelings that we have just spoken, and can also cause people to want to kill and maim themselves, if they are movies that are not exposed to the creative process. There is nothing more visitors to your home then you hear dreaded question: "and all, to see some of our movies?" Usually at this point that people complain about food poisoning or other feel the disease, or purporting to start their mothers work and go home. Home movies, as they are normally equipped with high pressure to suck the life of a friendly meeting and an evening of true killer. Personally I would rather stick forks in my eyes will see some of these first home video of a trip to Disneyland. But in the hands of others, you can observe a well edited movie of an artwork and a pleasant surprise for everyone.
Twenty years from now you want something that you want to fork in the eye or something to remember the wonderful life that hopefully have lived, will stick? Remember, if you make the decisions that will effect your videos.
OPTIONS
Leave to professionals.
The first option is that you pay a company like "Times of Your Life" to do it for you. If you can afford it, and not many of us mortals, I can recommend this for a number of reasons, too many to list them all here. If you can afford it, then by all means, do some very creative producer put together for you. Yes, you pay a lot of money, but eventually you will find the documentation on the quality of your family, you need to be delivered on a DVD that can be shared with everyone. You will also get the whole family, and organize media files stored on hard disks that you followed for personal access. Once this is done correctly the first time, the updated file is not that difficult and can be carried out annually. Compared to what most people can do on their own account, the results have a professional do it for you, in the shade.
Problem with this option is that there are too many companies that can really do a good job. But if you're lucky enough supplies of cash and access to a manufacturer, as I (A little 'Shameless self-promotion here) for our company, Times of Your Life Media, then this is the last chance you offers the highest quality production will deliver better organized the delivery of digital media, and what we like most Americans, and this is the easiest way to do it.
Well, just like mine, that car is expensive, the option referred to two main obstacles. Funding and looking for someone who can do well. The market is with wedding photographers, who claim to be also edit and organize your home videos for you flooded. Do not you believe it! Most marriages are amateur photographers, the hacks, since it calls purchased a semi-professional camera, on e-bay who think they have a right to professional video producers. Just like any other profession, you get what you pay for. Go cheap, and then to the gallows with popcorn, if you show people the results.
If you spend the lender in order to produce a user to your family home videos, spend wisely and someone who knows what the hell they do. Find someone who is a real TV producer / editor and someone who is in what they do and passionate. Finally, the times are in your life. Your home video, no matter what the quantity and quality in family heirlooms when they can be converted properly prepared.
Even if you're going to put money for this option, you ensure that the back support so you can access it, preferably on a disk with all organized in bins that your future home cinema add.
Do-it-yourself route.
There are many do-it-yourself options available to anyone with a powerful computer, a lot of disk space, the right software and access to all machines is that it is independent of the format is that you need for your movies shot playing. And do not forget the main ingredient, a lot of time.
The easiest do-it-yourself route is on a computer with all the right video and sound cards, memory, and all this is that to use with your editing software is compatible must be equipped to buy. The key word here is the fire-wire and conversion from analog to digital. FireWire is a god send, if the digitization of your movies. In most cases all you have to do is fire in the cable connector from the camera to your computer, start the software and you're set. Since most of our movies, more than five years, somewhere in the process, if not all your videos with a camera, you must convert from analog to digital. God has his analogy, and the conversion to digital was not one of them. If you are not familiar with the analogy word, then add more time for learning curve. More on that later.
If all your video and multimedia in the digital area, then you have enough in front of you in terms of ever filmed in a usable format, which can be of you and your computer and then finally used on a DVD or a portion of another medium digital storage. This means that you should ask that question is that whoever is in terms of configuration of the computer. How can analog to digital?
Digitization Home Movie Home Movies
16 mm, 8 mm and Super 8 home movie film, the way your father or grandfather used to roll three minutes of short silent film cameras should be transferred to a DVD or other digital file before being used to shoot you and your computer. To make this process successfully means that you will be digitized to send the movie to a DVD. The cost of this is usually around 15 to $ 30 per roll, depending on who and where it is made. The same goes for any other type of movie you want might be transferred.
One trick might be to get the films into digital domain work, the camera on a tripod and the images shot blocked by a wall with his digital camera. Sometimes this idea works, but only if you have a halfway decent camera, with which even in dim light. Do you know if it works, if you look through the viewfinder. If you look crappy in the viewfinder, it will be even worse when you are in your home movie masterpiece.
Normally, I hate to give this advice, because people then replace good production values for saving a dollar. The rule is that if you can do, and it looks good then do it. But the best is not sure of doing things, is to invest time and money to do it well, first. If possible, send these films and professionally transferred to DVD.
A lot of people who have transferred their film home movies on VHS tape had. While it can not transmit movies home movies, the quality of VHS home movies to get a little 'to be desired. If possible, for purposes of quality, the film was transferred to a DVD. Looks better, and if you have, you can easily multiple copies for themselves and future generations. It also makes loading a copy your home videos on computers much easier damn. If this is not an option, and VHS copies are better than nothing. But remember, the VHS tape, like any other source band eventually degrade. Tape is not a long term solution for home media storage solution.
Tape and digital formats Oblivion
Built through competition of enterprises and obsolescence, we concluded the consumer with different video formats in the entire band of the eighties and nineties of the new millennium. Now we consumers are paying only the price, again for corporate greed and our own stupidity with the media in the family. One major problem is faced by many of us that our collections of home movies are divided into different formats. Problem number one. The tape we shot these precious memories are in danger of falling apart.
The problem with the videos in any format is that it helps. Do not believe me? Ask the networks that spend hundreds of millions of dollars to digitize ten years worth of video tapes and find that a lot of stuff is broken to the point of unusable. Why not anything in the end the tape on them and what is the past. Once the video is on the tapes are gone, is lost forever.
The rule of thumb, if the group is more than six years, you should better check to see if it is humiliating. You will be able to see how bad it is for the number of visits trademarks humiliating for your TV screen. Lots of clicks and early departure, then your band is humiliating is already in the process. The successes are in fact the way through the oxide layer on the tape leaving the band due to the narrowing of the current band. This problem will increase as the age band. It 'not only reduces the quality of the video, it also blocks the head of' institution with which you can transfer the video.
If you have your tapes more than ten years, there is a better then 50/50 chance that the tapes are likely to be damaged to the point of unusable. I recommend that if your tapes for over five years, remember that you are, at least initially, the process of transferring to another format so that when these tapes are gone, he continued. Now that you know the risks and run to your wardrobe for the preservation process to begin, start the fun part.
Since most of us no longer the original device, which was used to get our movies at home turn to the tapes will play its first task to be a path to your movies for a different type of media that is can use to edit and watch your movies. This means that you remove the old drive, obtain a new or rental of us (Times of Your Life Media), or any other company to do it for you. In both cases, depending on the number of tapes you have, you can plan to eliminate some much one of money to do it. The longer we wait, the greater the chance that your tapes will be completely unusable.
Video Shot most of my family are at home to Hello, I am 8-cassettes, which were in their time, as the state of the art. Now, none of us is to have a working device to play. In other words, our films at home sitting in a closet to rot, and none of us can enjoy, because it would respect a machine to show up. In the meantime, these bands are in the process of degradation.
If your movies are shot on a "Hi-8 or 8 mm, units, there are few companies left that produce these machines. The few companies know that most of us will surely have one of their cars and consequently the price of their products. The last time I checked, I, the cost of a new Hi-8 engine has been almost a thousand dollars. If the format is VHS, you're lucky, because there is still a lot of VHS machines in the market. VHS-C, the same, assuming that you have the adapter. If the media into another format, and must play without access to a machine to your tapes again, then you will pay to return to your home video into a format that can be accessed. The only recommendation is here on e-bay or other online auction site and see if you have an old system that still works so at least you can copy your home videos are saved in another format, go here.
Even if you're not willing to give your movies, edit, save some, in some way on a DVD. Give the crossbar, and what have other vices, it is possible and spend time and dollars to do it before it's too late!
Computer.
Producers would you believe that the continuation of your movies is as easy as a click of the mouse. Make sure it is. Until you get home, turn on your computer and telling people what you want, can not be done without talking about something else, so it works. The truth is that someone who knows to ask, not someone who is trying to sell something. The research, then make a list and then buy what you are sharing a system that can be processed to produce and organize your video and digital media. One of the best places for this is the magazine PC World.
Hard Drives
Here you will find large and much needed disk space correctly edit your movies. They need more space on your hard drive, if this is where you plan to store movies. I advise you to store media files on your hard disk, and make backup copies of DVDs. This way, you have two copies of the media only when the hard disk fails, that at some point, or you may damage your discs.
Hard drives are a strange gadget life. Go with these children in favor, and you will cry later, when all the home videos you've spent hours scanning the end digital oblivion. Again, research and buy more space on your hard disk, you can afford from a reputable company.
With the digitalization of home video, keep in mind that you want to maintain the highest possible resolution. Digitization means that the maximum resolution. And with the introduction of HDTV, this means you need twice the space needed to change, if that format. Sound confusing? But it is the most important thing to be concerned about receiving your material in the digital domain. Once the material is in the digital domain, you can work with it and place it in different formats. And if you just copy your home videos shot in HDTV format, then do not worry.
How much digital storage space you need? The answer to this depends on what you want with your movie collection. If you're trying to create a backup copy of the entire collection, then simply count the number of tapes which, the times per minute tapes, then divide by five minutes per gigabyte. This will give you some sort of idea of how much space you need to get your whole collection. The other option is to load up to ten hours of footage from home, until it will solidify modify and delete the material master and start over with a new batch.
One thing to consider is that your movies in the best clip bins, and then delete the unused material from the disk to make room for the raw materials that are best clips in the sequences. Please note that once you delete the original material, that the only thing you have is the best material. If the original material, you must access digitized. Sound confusing? Not really, considering that you edit your movies in the garbage is that this is the material that you want to keep still. But if for some reason you decide that you want to keep all records, you may need to buy hard drives to accommodate the material.
One thing that is life in the digital domain, that this material is subject to technological changes, changes in digital and loss of material due to failures or technical malfunction. Most of the media, if handled correctly, it should be until you live your life if you remain on this technology, and run the data back from your home media. But the risk of losing your support is still there. One thing you can do to prevent the loss of the media is a backup of your home media from a few different sources.
For most people, a backup of some DVD should be sufficient only for the time ever on DVD in a safe place. But at some point you must decide whether to save you share your DVD with a family member for safe storage or off-site storage server. The off-site servers provide some protection, but it's best to dispel the copies of DVDs with family members and hope that all is not to move their DVD at the same time.
Since the digital area is relatively new, it's difficult to measure the ability of long-term conservation of the medium. Is there a way to make permanent the average? No, not really. But when you get to save, protect and maintain your average, should last a lifetime, and maybe this time your children and grandchildren to have access to something that will have the stability a bit 'more. But until then, be careful and save the media files.
Editing Software
There are a lot of editing software out there. Part of it is good, very, not so good. One thing is certain, if your familiar with half of the treatment, most of them confusing and unless you read the instructions carefully and spend a lot of time learning by trial and error. Despite requests from the producers of these so-called "easy to use software packages for use" I noticed that most software cheaper, with better editing software packages are incompatible, and with the help of the software is more convenient Later, if you want to improve the cost and size, that means change, which is working. Depending on your project, remember that what you do today will not necessarily be together with another computer or software later on the job. So once again, do your homework for the purchase of hardware and software.
I noticed that the line of Avid editing software is incredibly reliable and the best extent possible, works most of the time without crashing the computer. Avid software is easy to learn, half, and the company seems as if it is a support for a while 'until the software.
Avid is one of the two platforms, the other is Final Cut Pro, there seems to be the industry leader and intended for long-term survival of the company. This is an important factor when considering what to buy. The long-term durability of your movies will depend on it. Edit / Remove Programs from a low fly-by-night operation, your movie is a good time to be devoted to digital forgotten the software may be no way to replace damaged or lost.
Since you have waited so long to begin the project, it is probably a good idea to give the bar for a few months and use the money saved to buy some decent editing software. You will not regret this decision, especially when you're sitting at two clock in the morning wondering why the $ 49 99-editing software ate the baby before Christmas and do not give it back.
No matter what they tell you to be you their products, the learning curve for the treatment of high software sales. Depending on the brand you buy at least a weekend stay or longer master the basic knowledge needed to use the software. You will probably lose his temper at the end to find out how you can get your video into your computer.
In the digital realm, everything is provided with a thread of fire well. Aber wenn Sie Vorhaben, mit Video, Analog, digital die auf umgestellt werden muss, ist, dann werden Sie schnell entdecken, was ich sage über Lernkurven.
Windows Movie Maker kommt in vielen der neueren Systemen installiert, und zwar ziemlich einfach zu benutzen, ist es extrem, was es tun kann, soweit professionelle Ergebnisse geben begrenzt. Was uns zu einem sehr wichtigen Punkt bringt und das ist, was sind die Ergebnisse, die Sie erreichen wollen.
Die kreative Bearbeitung Home Movies. . .
Problem mit eigenen Filmen ist, dass sie zum größten Teil langweilig sind. Ich hatte gerade einen Blick auf eine Website, die präsentiert roh Heimvideos Menschen, und der Mensch lernt ich Ihnen sagen, das Pentagon zwingen Terrorverdächtigen zu denken Sie als eine Form der unbearbeiteten Heimvideos Gewinnung von Informationen zu sehen. Nichts für ungut, aber neben Menschen zu sehen, dass Sie erkennen, um auf Silvester mit Lampenschirm Tanz auf dem Kopf, geschnittenen selbst einem Film, in seiner rohen Zustand ist nicht wirklich, was ich eine Art und Weise zu verbringen unterhaltsam Sie einen Abend Betracht ziehen würde. Now auf der anderen Seite, ein ordnungsgemäß bearbeitet haben, können produziert kreativ home movie eine Wertvolle Andenken, die sich von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben werden können. Die Stichworte sind hier produziert kreativ.
Sommer habe ich im vergangenen Jahre Fünfzehn Strandurlaub home video bearbeitet und sie in einer Stunde langen Mini-Dokumentarfilm über unserer Familie Urlaub am Strand. In meiner Production Filmmaterial ich nach Hause und ich ging um Interviews mit Menschen in meiner Familie und bat sie, mich dort am besten Strand Geschichten zu erzählen. Ich habe auch noch Bilder und unsere Lieblingsmusik. Das war ein sehr Endergebnis hergestellt Programm, das die Geschichte unserer Familie erzählt Ausflüge an den Strand. Das Programm fertig sah toll aus, laut, und ist nun eine permanent Aufzeichnung von einigen der größten Momente in unserem Leben. Jedes Jahr alles, was ich tun müssen, bearbeiten ist, was im Lauf der folgenden geschossen Urlaub und Aktualisierung von Kopien für meine Familie. Es ist nicht nur eine von einigen der schönsten permanent Aufzeichnung Tage unseres Lebens, sondern auch zu unterhaltsam beobachten, auch für Menschen, die nicht Teil des Clans sind.
  Was war so weit wie Arbeit und Zeit ist etwas, das Sie zu prüfen, bei der Annäherung an das Projekt haben wird. Denn gerade die Sommerferien musste ich über 46 Stunden in verschiedenen Format Heimvideos digitalisieren. Diese bezog sich auf fünf 300 Gigabyte-Festplatten. Unzählige Stunden für den Umgang mit Video, das nicht erfassen würde, und da Maschinen, die ich nutzen könnte, um die Wiedergabe vom Video-Material, das war von analog auf digital umgestellt werden.
  Dann werden alle von diesem Material hatte beschriftet werden, in Behältern, zugeschnitten und korrigiert werden farblich sortiert. Dann war da der Umgang mit und das Scannen von Hunderten von Fotos und Familie finden, die Musik, die wollte ich nutzen. Am Anfang von all dem ging ich herum und interviewt die meisten meiner Familienmitglieder über ihre Lieblings-Strand Momente, und digitalisiert dieses Material als gut. Alles in allem dauerte das Verfahren fast 5 Wochen Vollzeit. Und das war vor dem eigentlichen Bearbeitungsprozess selbst begann.
  Sobald das Material digitalisiert ist es relativ einfach zu bearbeiten. Aber noch einmal, je nachdem, welche Art von Ergebnissen, die Sie versuchen zu erreichen, kann die kreative Bearbeitung Prozess eine Weile dauern. Am Ende ist es die Bearbeitung und wie du es zusammen oder machen Pause, dass Sie Ihr fertiges Produkt wird.
  Bei der Erfassung und Digitalisierung von Material, um nicht faul durch nicht ordnungsgemäß Beschriftung der Clips, die Sie zur Speicherung in den Festplatten an. Gelingt dies nicht, wird ordnungsgemäß in den Stunden der Bearbeitung, die ausgegeben werden auf der Suche nach Dateien, die Sie keine Ahnung, was sie enthalten haben. Das Gleiche gilt für die Musik-Dateien. Label und organisiert.
  Es ist eine gute Idee, auf den Titeln zu entscheiden, bevor Sie mit der Bearbeitung beginnen. Was ich damit meine Titel sind die Grafiken, die Sie verwenden wollen. Ich finde, dass so weit gehen wie die Titel, die weniger ist besser. Ein paar einfache Kapitel Karten, wie zB ein schwarzer Bildschirm mit weißer Schrift sagt: "This is my Life" ist alles, was Sie brauchen. Fancy, auffällige Grafiken in der Regel von der Produktion.
  Der kreative Prozess zur Bearbeitung Home Movies
  Bevor Sie die eigentliche Bearbeitung zu beginnen, ist es eine gute Idee, zu entscheiden, was es ist, die Sie bearbeiten möchten. The choices vary between a full blown Discovery Channel family documentary, a single edited event like a wedding or an anniversary, the birth of a child or whatever you topic that you want. Each project has to be approached differently. Some people will be satisfied with just having edited home movies that are in no particular order, while others will opt for more ambitious projects like a detailed history of how grand mom or grand pop came to America and started the family.
  Personally, IM currently editing a project for my daughter. I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience of being married and being a father. IM now experiencing the best times of my life and I have made a concerted effort to document those moments to share with my daughter and her children. I want her to know just how much I and her mother loved being her parents. I want to share with her the joy of being a parent, so that when she grows up, and decides to have her own children she can share that joy with them as well. This medium offers me the opportunity to share with her moments that I will remember, and now see again, for the rest of my life. Nothing substitutes for the love of a parent, but this medium defiantly allows us to share with others who and what we are and to share them with others. I firmly believe that this will have a positive effect on my daughter’s life and how she sees herself, and the relationships she develops throughout her life.
  So when preparing for your production keep in mind what your message is and stays on track. One great way to enhance any production is to conduct interviews with yourself and other people in your family about the events you see in the home movies. A great way to make otherwise boring video come to life is to use those interviews with video laid on top to help tell the story. It’s also a great way to communicate the way you feel about people.
  The point IM trying to make here is that when planning a production, spend a little time figuring out what you want it to look like. Design some graphics, use a combination of video and still shots interlaced with music. When possible, let the pictures and the words of the people in the home movies tell the story.
  The actual editing…
  All one has to do is take a look at all of the video material that is on You Tube. Most of the material posted is footage of people beating each other up, vomiting, peeing, burping or doing other stupid things that most other people could care less about. Oh from time to time you see a good video or two, but for the most part it is a waste land. Same goes for most of our home movies.
  One of the problems when editing home movies is that it is extremely hard to detach yourself from the material. My goal was to edit together a video that could be viewed and enjoyed in an hour or less. Try taking fifty hours of video material and compressing it into an hour when you think everything that your kid did was the cutest thing in the world.
  Assuming that all of your video has been successfully digitized, and is resting comfortably in your hard drives and all of your software is functioning properly, the first thing that has to be done, is that you watch all of the material and do what they call a rough cut. That means you begin the process of selecting the shots that you want to include in your finished production.
  What I suggest doing is setting up bins and clip files. For example if your video is covering multiple years, organize your bins by the year, season or event. Then as you’re going through all of your home movies, clip out the best birthday shots, Halloween shots, etc. . . and collect them into these bins. Same goes for other events like beach vacations, Christmas, etc. . You may also find it helpful to set up bins for cute moments, and other outstanding best of shots that you like. This process takes a while, so be patient. Sometimes finding the good shots is like finding a needle in the hay stack so to speak. If you go through the material too fast, you’re going to miss something that will probably never be seen again. So take your time and enjoy.
  When you’re finished clipping your reels, it’s probably a good time to make back up copies of the clipped material. So while you’re in between editing sessions, burn off a copy of the clipped files and put them away. This serves two purposes. One, you have back ups just in case something should happen during the edit process. And two, these are your condensed versions of your home movies for you to enjoy later.
  The editing process for a creatively produced home movie is tedious and slow. That is if you want a decent product that will not bore people into burying their heads into the wall from boredom. You will find, especially if you can not stand back from the footage and view it as a producer, verses a proud dad, that you want to keep everything. As an editor and a producer, this is not a good. The whole idea about doing a video project like this is to produce something that is not painful to watch. Your main goal at this point should be to produce an entertaining and heartfelt family heirloom that can be passed down through the ages without disappointing the fans.
  When editing, keep in mind, that you are trying to tell people a story about you and your family. If necessary use voice over’s of yourself and others laid under the pictures to help tell the story. Remember this while filming future home movies. Try to get people to explain what they are doing while they are doing it. But the main thing is that you want the end product to tell your family story without boring people to tears. This is not an easy task for a professional let alone someone who is a weekend editor, but it can be done.
  A good home movie production is a work of art. For it to be produced well takes a creative soul who is able to organize, prioritize and finally complete what they started. For those about to embark on taking on such a project, we salute you.
  The ultimate option? Let a professional do it for you.
  Should you not be so inclined, let me leave you with this final option. Let a professional do it for you. That’s what my company “Times of your Life” does. We are a full service production company producing high quality, documentary style videos for consumers. What it means is that we take peoples home movies, pictures and actually develop a scripted documentary about someone’s family that looks as good as anything that you see on regular television. This means that we use the same approach that we do for our network clients like Discovery, TLC and Court TV to produce a finished television production. The results are impressive.
  Times of You Life, produces anything from a full blown family documentary, to short professionally produced video projects that include a “Day in Your Life videos, or an anniversary tape for grand parents. We also produce projects that cover specific home movie productions for family events like vacations, kids birthdays and holidays.
  In the past we have produced short projects that cover the life of a child or a relative that can be given to loved ones as mementoes. These projects cover specific time periods and are not as involved as the production of family documentaries, but the results are, once again impressive. Give us a call and either my self or one of our producers will fill you in on the details.
  I do not take this business of home movies lightly. For me, it is one of the few things that I will be able to give my daughter that will allow her to understand who I was and the role I played in her life. When I’m gone, she will have these collections in which to learn about where she came from, and who I was. So in a way, I will be able to be with her
  For most of us mortals, producing a project like this is out of reach financially. But if you are interested, give us a call or visit our web site a www. timesofyourlifemedia. com. For the rest of us, we will have to make do with the means available.
  A few closing notes. . .
  Protecting and preserving your home movies should be the first thing that you do. If you’re a family person, then those video tapes should be treated like gold. Except this gold will end up worthless unless you take proper care to make sure that it maintains its value.
  Back up your back ups.
  It’s a good idea to make multiple copies of home movies regardless of format. If it’s a DVD, then while you’re burning one copy, burn another and stash it away. If possible make a copy of the more important DVDs, such as a child’s birth or first birthday, then burn off a few extra copies and give them to responsible relatives to hold on to.
  In this digital age, the memories of all those wonderful family moments are on your hard drives, flash drives, memory sticks and whatever other digital storage devices you use. Eventually these hard drives will crash. The only way to really protect them is to make backing up the media a part of your life. So back them up every few years. Spend a few bucks now, and you’ll be crying over watching your kid’s first ride without training wheels instead of crying over a smoking hard drive. You owe this to your children and their children.
  It’s All in Your Hands
  So, it’s all in your hands. The good news is, that once you get started, the process gets easier. Once your home movies are properly maintained it’s just a matter of taking a few moments each month to update your family media files. After you’re done shooting a tape, or a DVD, take an hour or so and edit down the material and keep the best of material on a clip reel, or even better yet. Keep adding to the epic that you have already started.
  In the end
  Think about it. You are part of the first generation that is able to hand down a visual record of the life that you are living. Without that, you’re just a deleted social security number and a tomb stone. I just finished editing the home movies for the first four years of my daughter’s life. I love my child more then I ever thought possible, and I have from time to time, sat in front of the camera and told her just how wonderful it is to be her father. Now thanks to this medium, and the fact that I took the time and made the effort to produce her video, I can share those feelings of joy with her now and for the rest of our lives.
  The Family Media that I have produced is something that will live on beyond my mortal life. And someday, when my daughter becomes her own person and shows these video productions to her children, I too will live once more.
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