My grandmother recently died and left behind a cupboard full of VHS home movies from the 80s. Turning them into DVDs has become my responsibility. There's too much unwanted footage to transfer the tapes directly to disk; they'll need to be edited first.
Editing your family's memories is a daunting task, and in this case I'm dealing with a lot of aunts, uncles and cousins. I don't want to take responsibility for cutting someone out and leaving someone else in, so I'm going to let my family members do the editing themselves.
And no, I'm not going to invite them all into the studio to offer their input. Thanks to online video editing services like Motionbox and Pixorial, collaborative video editing can happen from any computer connected to the internet.
And I don't even have to digitize and upload the tapes - if I mail them in the companies will do it for me. I'll share the account information with my relatives and they can each go on and edit an individual version of the video. This can be shared online, or ordered on DVD.
Very cool, and very easy (for me especially)!
great info. i’m in the same boat with family videos…gonna pass this along to other family members. thanks.
(btw: I’d recommend adding a “share this” link on this page…I want to tweet it and fb it)