More technology

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was throwing a surprise birthday party for my hsuband. I surprised myself with my use of technology.

I put together a slide show and I incorporated video clips of our three boys as well. I imported it all into imovie and therefore the video will play along with the slide show without having to click on anything. I inserted these video clips into the beginning and the end of the slide show, I put in a few title slides, and I put in three 80's songs: Footloose, Authority Song, Glory Days and our wedding song (which is by Greenday).

The most impressive thing? I did it almost in its entirity by myself !! (I bow) I had a few questions about importing music and getting it to fade in and out, but for the most part, it was done by me. What a lot of work!!

I came to three realizations after doing this.

1. Working with technology builds on itself; some things I did I figured out because I've imported video before. This helped me figure out how to import photos and music. Some of it is confidence too (And the edit undo key!)

2. This could really be putzy. My show isn't perfect; I can see how I should have made some photos last longer so the music would change with a new slide- rather than in the middle of a slide etc.... It would be easy to spend hours perfecting a show. Sometimes you have to settle for less than perfect.

And 3. It's addicting and it makes me want a whole bunch of new equipment. I found out that I don't have a digital video camera (I thought it was, but it's just the zoom part that is digital) -- so my footage isn't as nice as it could have been. I want a scanner at home too, so that I can make slide shows of my kids as Christmas presents for grandparents. They would just love that. It would be fun to have the kids talk about memories of the year in clips between still shots.

Better start saving my money...