Share Your Memories Over The Internet!
Making home movies has become one the most common hobbies nowadays, but just a few years earlier it was considered a luxury to have your own video camera. Compared to today’s nifty flash drive video recorders and DVD handy-cams, these early predecessors were heavy and bulky devices that recorded poorly on VHS cassettes. However, my fascination with video cameras has always remained ceaseless because they allow me to capture the most precious moments of my life.
Being a true home video enthusiast, I have been constantly learning and adapting as technology has gradually evolved in the home movies industry. I do enjoy using the new and improved cameras, but recently I have developed a new facet of my hobby. I had realized that my old home movies were becoming obsolete because I hardly watched VHS tapes anymore, so I decided to get a TV card installed on my computer. The TV card allows me to connect my old camera to my computer and digitally record from VHS tapes. As a result, I now take delight in managing my personal project of transferring my memorable videos on old VHS tapes onto my computer’s hard disk drive. It has taken me a while to learn this process of converting movies to digital format, but upgrading my old home videos is a fun extra-curricular activity that allows me to relive the good times from my past while availing the conveniences of modern technology.
Converting my VHS tape recordings to digital format has benefited me in many ways. Apart from being able to access my old home movies conveniently through my computer, I can now also share age-old memorabilia with friends and family using video-sharing sites such as YouTube. It is so much fun to have a laugh with friends over the internet and read comments on the videos I made with them during our childhood. I have a large collection of home movies that still need to be converted so these days you’ll always find me tweaking with my old VHS camera and computer settings during my spare time.
Funnily enough, I was just doing this today.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree. Lots of fun and probably quite necessary to keep your memories alive.