What's Possible with your Home Movies

Today I'm going to start off by providing an example of what's possible when you edit your home movies, or videos. Most of my videos are of family and I'm a little reluctant to be posting them on the open internet. Too many perverts lurking around, and others looking to use things in a malicious way. I do have some footage that I shot about 4 yrs ago now, in December 2007.

This example is of the ice and snow we received back then. The video is composed of video and photos, along with some background music. The video was shot on my old Sony DCR-TRV 120 digital-8 camcorder, which records to tape in the DV format. Photographs used were shot on my Kodak EasyShare P880 digital camera. These raw materials were transferred to my PC and edited together using Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8, a product now discontinued by Corel. You see Corel bought out Ulead, and then proceeded to dump all of Ulead's really great products, like MediaStudio Pro, DVD Workshop, GIF 5, and now PhotoImpact. Anyway back to producing the video. The soundtrack is from Smartsound.com, Quicktracks. using their editor SonicFire Pro. These are all tools that are used when producing a video.

Kansas Ice and Snow

 

 That's a small example that about any video footage can be made into something viewable. Later I will start into a series of tutorials on how to edit your videos.