Home movies in the digital age?

What do you use for home movies?  How do you store them?  How do you keep them backed up?  How do you show them to your family?

Inquiring BayDads want to know!

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3 Responses to “Home movies in the digital age?”

  1. howard says:
    September 4, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    I shoot on a DV camcorder. Edit in Final Cut Pro. (I outgrew iMovie several years ago.) Burn DVDs for the extended family. Compress for AppleTV at home. Store everything on my Mac Pro, but also backup to a Drobo. Also make a firewire drive with all photos and video about once a year and keep it somewhere else (we had one house fire, made me paranoid).

    I typically do one movie per kid each year for their birthday, which we show at their birthday party. They are 3-4 minute long music videos set to one of their favorite songs of the last year.

  2. estephen says:
    September 5, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    We just have a Panasonic and I haven’t tried digitizing it yet.

    I’ve been thinking about a Flip though:
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016BVKAQ/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&s=photo

  3. slacy says:
    September 7, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    So, neither of you guys have any movies on the internet? What about private YouTube videos? Uploads elsewhere? Hosted on your own server?

    I agree that having a good backup strategy is essential, and I’ve been doing a lot of that, but it doesn’t help the videos become *consumable* which is the important part. It would be great if there were a quick and easy way to browse through movies and play them, that wasn’t just YouTube, and that was available to my entire family…

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