When our six year old son Hunter heard about the earthquake in Haiti he wanted to help. Hunter asked if we could set up a lemonade stand to raise for the people of Haiti. My wife Jennifer and I wanted to encourage this compassionate behavior and planned a yard sale with a lemonade and cookie booth with all the proceeds going to Haiti. Like most parents, I shoot alot of video of the kids. The problem is, most of the video tapes end up in a drawer and we never look at them. This was a defining moment in my son’s life and I was not about to let it slip away with out documenting the day. I encourage you to dust off your collection of tapes and suprise your family with a short video of a special occasion. I will give you one editing tip since this blog is about documenting your life with video. Pick one scene and let the second scenes audio be heard over the video from scene one before you cut to scene number two. You can see an example of it in this video as the scene of Jon hanging the sign transitions to the customers from the yard sale. This technique helps bring together a cut that would otherwise be too abrupt. Most nonlinear editors can perform this by unlinking the audio and video tracks which allows you to trim them individually.
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