Due to a family project I’m working on, I have just come to remember how much I love, and hate, video editing.
My parents have video footage from 1990 onwards, all shot on a Video8 camera. Now we live in the digital age, my parents want the footage put onto DVDs so that we’ll always have a copy of these moments in some form.
However, the entire process takes a long, long time. For each tape, I have to follow this process… Video Tape + Testing + Editing + Compression + Burning To DVD + Testing = Wonderful DVD Of Memories
This takes up a lot of time and resources. Hard Drive space is limited at best, so the search for more space is needed. Plus I need somewhere to archive it digitally as well. Oh my, the list goes on.
On the plus side however, this means I have a whole load of archive footage which I can use whenever I want to add spice to my videos. Plus, I can see video from my past. I remeber bits and bobs as a kid, but video adds to it all. Anyway, with it all being digital, it means I’ll have a copy for the next 40 to 50 years at least. Something to show future relatives. Just like this blog.
The above is a photo of my house, all the way back from 1934. It was taken by the owner of the house and often contains their young family. This really gives me an incite into what my house was like in the past.
I’ve taken scans of most of the old film photos, which the only copies are now only in basic photographic paper, and plan to get them back to good quality in The GIMP. I’m uploading a copy of each of these photos to my Flickr in an specific 1934 album just for these pictures.
To put how much the house has changed, the first photo is from 1934, the second was taken 3 months ago. Surprisingly, things have changed after 74 years.
College activty sign up has rered its ugly head again, and this time I’ve decided not to do yoga. Instead, Robotics. Student built, personally designed, Robot War-esque robots. Except these ones run off the user programed AI. No sweaty middle aged men with remote controls here.
The whole thing is run by the University Of Southampton, so it should be all top of the line, super nerd stuff. Infact, the robot runs on open source software, and can be programmed in Python. Import stuff.do and all that.
My friend Sam (website offline at the moment) did it last year, and said it was pretty good. So I’m all up for that if Sam says its good. Apparently its mainly chosen as an activity by many of the hardcore maths students and the eccentric programmers. Character filled it will be.
The first meeting is on Thursday, but until then, heres a clip from the brilliant Spaced…
