Sure, I've got two children and I have recorded various memories of them with our digital camera, but I simply turned it on and pressed record. My husband also usually confiscates the camera often because he attaches it to his race car and then comes home and studies the lines at the track. Therefore, he usually downloads, stores, and deals with all of the videos. I consider him very tech savvy, and I'm quick to pick up the phone or call him to deal with my computer problems. He's also a professor of finance at SMU, and has been integrating multimedia projects into his classes since we lived in Bloomington, Indiana almost 8 years ago. So, I usually trust him when he has technology advice.
I had all the knowledge I needed to shoot clips for the two assignments we were given. I got this part of the assignment finished, sat down to download the files, found a hole in my computer where the chip would fit and transferred the clips easily. I viewed the clips and they looked great. I opened MovieMaker, and this is where my problems began. Every time I attempted to import the video I received a horrible error. I did some Internet searching found out I needed a codec to turn my mod files into avi files. At this point I decided to call my husband to see if he had experienced the same situation. His answer was, "I hate to tell you this, but I've spent days and weeks working on this same problem, and I have never been able to download the video into MovieMaker." My spirits dropped, I asked him if he had ever tried DivX, and I thought to myself, I'll give at least one converter a shot and then I will give up. After a quick download, I was converting files within 10 minutes. Hahaha, I did it. I was so pumped and excited, to be honest. I had mastered a technology problem and felt quite empowered. I spent the next 5 hours converting files. It was very tedious, but I was able to get it done. Now my first assignment is complete and I'm ready to work with my clips for DCN's website.
P.S. If you are wondering if I called my husband back to rub it in that I was able to convert files he had tried for weeks to do......of course I did.
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