Photos by Robin » videos http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Let Them Be Little http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/let-them-be-little/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/let-them-be-little/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:48:31 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=6978 Well, I spent pretty much the last 3 days trying to put together a video/photo slideshow for Jacob’s graduation. WHEW! This is a ton of work! Especially the video portion! I’ll admit I’m thoroughly disgusted and frustrated with myself that I can’t just figure it out immediately! I thought it would be fun and easy, but it is NOT. Plus our computer is super S-L-O-W and keeps locking up!

All my problems aside, it was fun to see these videos from almost 18 years ago! Wow, time flies! Gotta say too when I showed the initial “rough draft” to Scott and Claire last night, we were all a total MESS – pretty much bawling our eyes out – haha! Very bittersweet. :-)

Anyway, I plan to do at least 2 more songs, so this is just the first portion. Song credit goes to the band Lonestar – “Let Them Be Little”.

If anyone is interested in the process…I first had to buy a VHS to DVD converter – I bought THIS ONE. Works pretty well, but what they don’t tell you is you need a VCR to use it – all you get are cables, a little converter box and software. So I dug out an old VCR and luckily it still worked!

Then I thought I needed some video editing software, so I bought the top-rated consumer-recommended one – ugh – it SUCKS!!! I probably can’t say the name here, but I’m trying to get my $$ back! ugh! It kept locking up my computer and it was NOT very user-friendly. So I tried making my slideshow on my old fav ProShow Gold, well, that kept locking up too and I couldn’t easily clip the video segments. I tried Roxio Easy Media Creator – which I use all the time to burn CDs/DVDs and that kept locking up too – and it took like 10 minutes to even open the video program. I think our computer’s processor needs to be upgraded or something. So I ended up just doing it all on Windows Movie Maker. Good enough. I seriously wasted so much time trying to do this! But hopefully it will be worth it in the end! :-)

 

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/let-them-be-little/feed/ 2 Some videos http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/some-videos/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/some-videos/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:03:16 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=5903 I’ll admit I have NO idea what I’m doing when it comes to video – but I’d love to learn!  I think when I’m done with photography, video may be my next “adventure”….we’ll see.  ;-)  Seems awfully complicated and I’d have to invest a lot of $$ into a really nice camera….hmmmm….

Anyway, Jacob made some videos a few years ago and I wanted to see if I could still find them on you tube.  Here’s a really cool one of a caterpillar going into the chrysalis.

Here’s one of Claire singing (Jacob recording) about 4 years ago – hehe ;-) Don’t ask me why they chose that song….pretty darn depressing lyrics if you ask me!

These were taken w/ Scott’s iPhone – so totally low-res, but you get the idea. Just messing around cuz believe it or not, I’m sorta bored tonight. ;-)

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btw I used the 8mm app on my ipod touch for the video!!  I used it on “70′s” and LOVE the dimension it adds to the slideshow.  I definitely want to do a lot more of that in the future!

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Just a quick video I put together for Claire’s birthday today.  Happy Birthday Claire – we love you!  :-)  

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They played it in church on Sunday – very powerful and emotional!  Thank you to ALL the men and women who fought and continue to fight for our freedom!

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Getting ready for our big Halloween party!  Caution:  some photos are rated PG-13.  ;-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/happy-halloween-2/feed/ 0 Our Family 2008 (flashback) | Animoto http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/our-family-2008-flashback-animoto/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/our-family-2008-flashback-animoto/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:15:58 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=3099 Animoto sent a free hi-res movie credit and I had to do it before the end of the month so here is our family from 2008.  {but first scroll down to the bottom to pause the music on my playlist…  :-) }

photos are www.melissalouise.com

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Photos by www.melissalouise.com :-)

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