Home and Hobby Video
For decades, since the first 8mm film home movie cameras became widely available, countless dads have shot mountains of family films and video tapes. In the early days, there was no sound, and a whole roll of film was only three minutes long. If you wanted to edit your vacation memories together, you had to cut the film with scissors and literally tape it together piece by piece.
When consumer analog video tape became affordable with the invention of VHS and Beta (remember BetaMax?) cartridges, glorious stereo sound and hours-long running time became possible, but editing took on new challenges. You had to copy your tapes back and forth between two decks, and each time you made a copy, the quality became noticeably worse.
With the advent of digital video, all of those trials and problems are in the past. Anyone with a home computer, the right software, and a little imagination and skill can turn their own home movies into mini-Hollywood epics.
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