Some praise for Microsoft
About three weeks leading up to our wedding, Ashley and I started to have second thoughts about not hiring a videographer. I preferred to put our money in photography, which I think can capture special moments better than videography. We were only going to get married once, though, so we decided to buy a relatively inexpensive miniDV camcorder and have a friend record the wedding and the reception. We did it, and now we have a video of our big day.
The day after the wedding, we wanted to watch the video. The video was stored on a miniDV tape and only miniDV player we had was the camcorder itself. I wanted to get the video on a computer (and from there, a DVD), but I had absolutely no experience doing so. Here is where some thanks to Microsoft and Windows XP is due.
I knew that the camcorder had a firewire connector, so I went to target and bought a firewire cable. When I plugged in the camcorder to the computer, Windows XP immediately popped up the Windows Movie Maker software and a dialog box asking if I wanted to copy my video to the computer. I clicked yes, told it to record it at the highest video quality, and the computer did the rest. Now I have a 8+ gig high-quality video of my wedding that’s ready to be copied to DVD.
I didn’t have to mess with finding and buying new software to handle this one-time need. All I had to do was plug the camcorder in to my computer, and Windows did the rest. My problem was solved before I knew I had the problem! Thank you, Microsoft!
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