{"id":491529,"date":"2010-03-29T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mentor.com:\/\/1f092ec3de1289c8397f00a93668f68a"},"modified":"2010-03-29T21:44:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:44:06","slug":"blog-postdad-the-av-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491529","title":{"rendered":"blog post:Dad, the AV guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, like a lot of fathers I suspect, am the AV person at home.\u00a0 It is my responsibility that all still images and video are properly archived, and retrievable for quick historical reference.\u00a0 This is a heavy responsibility that I doubt my father had while I was growing up.\u00a0 I remember watching projected slides of our family outings so there was some burden to bear for my father I\u2019m sure (dad, in case you\u2019re reading this) .\u00a0 The game has changed since I was a kid, accumulating content is a lot easier than it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Right after our first child was born we invested in our first video camera. \u00a0 I chose a refurbished mini dv camera that was a consumer reports best buy.\u00a0 A reasonable choice at the time but not anything I would recommend to new dads.\u00a0 One of the biggest challenges I have is transferring this video to the computer.\u00a0 First,\u00a0 if you have 60 minutes of video it will take you 60 minutes to transfer it.\u00a0 This is okay, I guess, but every time I start to transfer video the computer loses connection with the camera.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I bought a refurbished camera.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I bought a cheap cable.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping it is the cable.\u00a0 I am resisting paying someone to transfer the videos but if I had the money it would be well spent transferring the headache to someone else.\u00a0 This is something I have to sort out soon because I have about 30 tapes at home that have not been properly archived. To mitigate this issue I recently purchased a portable HD video camera for the primary reasons of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Sharing video clips with family scattered around the country<\/li>\n<li>Capturing short clips<\/li>\n<li>Ease of transfer to my computer<\/li>\n<li>Dissect my golf swing\u00a0 (60 frames per second)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was pretty happy with the purchase but soon starting questioning my need to record in HD.\u00a0 This happened right after I saw that a 3 minute video was 500+MB.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if I remember exactly what the size was but it was certainly HUGE!\u00a0 At this rate my 1TB external drive would fill up in no time.\u00a0 I quickly fell in love with 640\u00d7480.\u00a0 It is a hard sell at home though.\u00a0\u00a0 It is hard to convince everyone in the family that even though you can record in 1080, we probably don\u2019t need to.\u00a0 First,\u00a0 unless the lighting is spectacular the video quality won\u2019t be that good.\u00a0 Second,\u00a0 in our house we have no way of displaying the majesty of HD unless we leave it on the camera.\u00a0 I currently have no method of delivering archived HD content to our HD TV unless it is piped there from the device that generated it.\u00a0 This is why when we buy our next laptop it will have HDMI out!<\/p>\n<p>I do think it\u2019s great that we can collect all of these memories in videos and images but is it better than what my parents had when I was a kid?\u00a0 Will my kids look back as fondly as I do when I think about how we would load up the carousel, gather the family, turnoff the lights, and watch the slide show?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/mgc_mechanical\/~4\/Qwl7uFEuZK4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, like a lot of fathers I suspect, am the AV person at home.\u00a0 It is my responsibility that all still images and video are properly archived, and retrievable for quick historical reference.\u00a0 This is a heavy responsibility that I doubt my father had while I was growing up.\u00a0 I remember watching projected slides of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}