Birthday Parties and Pictures

These past few days have been busy, busy, busy. With two separate birthday parties for two of my grandchildren, and editing all the photos and videos I took at each party, it has been a busy week so far. I also finally got my old negatives put into the shoebox. I know it isn't the proper way to store them, but for now it will have to do. All the scanning of photos I had planned to get done is now done along with some additional photos I hadn't planned on. I'm glad I bought an extra memory card, this time a 2G instead of the 1G I already had. Daughter wants the pictures kept on the memory card until we can go to WalMart and get prints made. So Grandson's party pics are on one memory card and Granddaughter's party pics are on the other one. All in all, I got over 200 photos and at least 45 videos. Until I can figure out which file conversion program to get, I am uploading the videos to www.photobucket.com so that people I share the videos with can hear the sound. The only drawback there is that I have to limit the length of the videos so that they will upload. But I did figure out how to remix and combine the individual videos into one video for easier viewing. The photos are all temporarily uploaded to my Kodak gallery for the same reason of easy sharing. Once I get these photos and videos onto dvd or cd, I might remove them from these online storage places. They are not set for public viewing so my family and grandkids can keep their privacy.
Speaking of photos, have you checked my photography blog since I started adding pictures? It won't be long before I will need to get out and get more pictures for the blog. In the meantime, take a look and let me know what you think of them. There will be more added as time goes by. I don't want to add them all at once now. Wouldn't want to do that and end up with nothing to add to the blog now would I?

Frustrated and Confused

Some people who know me might say I am always confused...

Okay, if you check into my photography blog you will see what is upsetting me so much right now. As much as I love my new camera, especially taking home videos of my grandkids, I am now having problems with the fact that those same videos come out in .mov format. They work great on my computer. But the sound does not burn to CD's along with the video, and without the sound, the videos don't mean a lot. The kids are doing a lot of talking to me, to the camera, to each other. Unless you can read lips, without the sound, the videos are pretty ineffective.

Am I to give up? No. I am looking into ways to convert the .mov format to .avi without losing anything in the process. Any ideas? All I am reading is just frustrating and confusing me more.

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I am changing topics now because I am tired of dealing with that issue.

Daughter and I went shopping and out to lunch today. I got that monitor off this morning finally. Two weeks of that was long enough. Grandson was cute as usual. He is a little flirt like most babies his age are.

Easter was quiet--very quiet since Daughter and Son do their Easter with their other sides of the family, as they do all the main holidays. I had a relaxing day that ended with my favorite movie, The Sound of Music. I wanted to watch The Passion of the Christ again but since I don't have that video, I settled for checking out the website and then looking online to maybe buy the video. Instead I decided to check at WalMart today when we were shopping to see if I could get it there. They were out. So I will have to wait until next paycheck and see if they have it by then...unless I decide to go ahead and order it online.

In the meantime, sit back and enjoy these clips from The Sound of Music that I found on YouTube.

Now seriously...what would these videos mean without sound if these were taken of your family? I know these are movies and the sound works. Just imagine though that your children or grandchildren were singing a good night song at a big party at your house and you took really nice video of it...and oh no...no sound!!!

Someone out there must know how to fix my problem! Come on, speak up.