Friday
Hubs: I cleaned off 40 gigs from our hard drive today when I erased some videos we’ve already uploaded on-line.
Me: Great! So we’ll just store them there and when we get around to organizing all our home movies, we’ll download them and make DVD’s?
Hubs: Yes!
Me: Great!
Saturday
I was looking at some of our videos on-line and I realized they were not as clear as when we made the movie.
OH MY WORD. TERROR FILLED MY MIND.
Our home movies are gone. Did we think to burn a dvd before Hubs deleted them? Of course not. We trusted a free on-line service.
Thus, began The Great 40 Gig Oops of 2009.
Here’s what we realized in just 24 hours…
We need to get a family DVD filing system.
We can not continue to ignore all this footage that we have.
Seriously, right now, I have no clue where Schäfer’s 1st Christmas 2007 footage is.
So, how do you do it?
How often to you edit home movies?
What software do you use?
How do you store them? Do you burn to DVD and back-up your videos somewhere on-line?
Sigh. Even though ALOT of recent footage is in a smaller version on Vimeo, we still have originals to Schäfer’s 2nd birthday & Christmas 2008. Whew.
Why is this important? Because I am the type of person who will sit around and watch old home movies. That is my definition of a good time.
We have the same definition of a good time…can’t get enough home moives. I am horrible at backing up ANYTHING, in fact it crosses my mind at least once a day that I really need to start backing some stuff up! Ha!
I’ve been backing up all my stuff onto an external hard drive instead of DVD’s. Much easier and space-saving.
hmmm…I have no advice, only sympathy. Last year, we lost a whole gaggle of pictures in a hard drive crash. I’m constantly remembering new “events” whose pictures are lost. sigh. tears.
we, too, have billions of home videos and I’m trying to burn them on dvds, but I actually haven’t figured it out yet on my mac. do you guys use imovie to do it, or some other software that you bought?
I totally get the home movie thing. My favorite family fun night activity as a kid — sit down, now — watching home movies. We had to beg my dad to do it, but finally after months of endless begging, he gave in. We regularly do this, and my kids think its great fun. I’m glad you’re in the same boat with me. I’d watch your home movies with you sometime. =)
i think you use macs? i would suggest investing in a time capsule. they back up everything constantly. it has saved me a few times and my boyfriend who works in i.t. for the george lucas education foundation swears by it. it has saved him more times that he can count. another consideration would be to use an extra external drive to store all the videos and photos. let me know how this progresses.
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