Video

I borrowed a video camera from a friend with the intent being to shoot a little video of VK, pull the digital video to my PC, edit it and make some DVD's for family to enjoy. All the while Andrea and I would assess the need for one of our own.

Well . . . let me just say that video cameras have a ways to go. The camera I borrowed is a very nice one, and the software seems pretty good too. However it is a time consuming process. The capturing takes the exact same time as the amount of video you want to capture. If you want 20 minutes of video . . . find it, mark it, press capture and wait 20 minutes. then you edit, insert transitions and any other whizzy effects, then save it to a file which takes . . . you guessed it . . . 20 minutes.

What does all of this mean? I am reluctantly admitting is that parenting takes time (I am not reluctant that parenting takes time, only that I didn't factor the limited amout of time that is available in an earth day to the equation) and regardless of how much I would like to create DVD's of my daughter and my birthday jam it is doubtful that it will happen just because there aren't enough hours in the day.

If you are one of the likely recipients of the DVD that I would have made. . . sorry. Who knows I might get a burst of late night energy, but don't count on it. It also means that it is unlikely that I will spend hundreds of dollars on a digital paperweight that we shoot video on and never do anything with.

What the heck is happening to me that I sound so damn rational?