earthsedge

For my last birthday, I decided to get a flip video camera. I don’t aspire to be much of a movie maker, but we wanted something for family videos (something better than our ancient digital camera) and maybe for the occasional touristy thing.  I didn’t really want to drop a lot on a high camcorder, and even if I did, the issue for us is portability. So when I heard about an insanely good deal on the flip at amazon (I think I got it for about $60), I went for it. I did some research before, and most of the reviews were overwhelming positive. My verdict? It’s been perfect for us. It’s small, incredibly easy to use, and the quality is fine for us. I’m not sure I would have paid full price for it, but for $60, it’s amazing (I’ve noticed Amazon has runs the same special from time to time). Sometimes I’ll just carry it around in my pocket and video Aidan throughout the day, and I know we’ll enjoy these videos later down the road.

Of course, what I don’t like is managing all these videos. My project this weekend is to sort through the all the files that have accumulated on our computer, and then upload the keepers to flickr. I’ll probably delete everything but the best of the best, and save the editing for another day. Here’s a few that I just looked at:

Aidan gets a “new tractor.” Almost as good as the first one!

I like this next one because it catches a few things that Aidan does. Like randomly saying “pop” (even though he understands the question and knows what he should say-he does this a lot, and sometimes he cracks himself up), hearing the car outside and immediately saying “car”-he hears the traffic outside our window and he can tell by the noise whether it is a car, tractor, motorcycle, or bus. But I especially like the “bye bye” at the end:

Dancing: