Over twelve years ago I thought my husband was cutting edge. His "hobby" was creating movies. At the time I was a bit annoyed by the cost of this hobby. He needed an expensive powerful computer with a powerful graphics card. The software he used was Adobe Premiere. He would spend hours in his home office creating the most wonderful home movie videos. He carefully put them to music and cut and pasted and "blue-screened" the kids into crazy backgrounds. The effort was worthwhile. The family loved our home movies. My younger brother even laughed that his buddies requested our home movies to watch during happy hour. They were creative and hysterical. Rendering the videos would take over 24 hours. The movies would take months to produce in my husband's spare time.
Now times have changed.... the digital video editing hobby of my husband has been replaced by golf and now the subjects in these movies (my kids) are 11 and 14 years old. I am amazed at how technology allows them to create videos on their iPhones. They can add music and special effects in a couple of minutes. No more overnight renderings. The movies are somtimes digitally edited on the iMac and then posted to youTube to share with friends. Digital video has grown up... it's affordable and easy to use. It doesn't take much time either - it's a perfect additional to our technical goody-bag of tools in the classroom.
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