In addition to the class notes that follow, I have prepared detailed instructions on how to digitize all family memories here:
How to Preserve Your Own Digital Materials
PREPARATION - Bring
pictures, scrap box, framed photo, negatives, scrapbook, etc.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Make a list of all the "stuff" you're saving for family history --
Photos, Videos,
Snapchats, FB Posts, Blogs, Selfies, Old Home Movies, Documents, Certificates,
Report Cards, Kindergarten Art, Family pictures, vacation videos
- Highlight the Pictures
Begin with the end
in mind - What do you want to do with each one? Each group?
PRESERVE / ORGANIZE
- Acid free paper, CD / DVD, photos / negatives, slides - long lasting (cool,
dry)
- Multiple locations
- Never one hard drive or one cloud
- Online / Cloud
- Filesharing (Google Drive, MS One Drive, Dropbox,
- Mirroring, autobackup
- Photos (Snapfish, Picasa,
- Filenaming (future generations, organizing)
- Albums (deconstruct, reconstruct?)
INCORPORATE - Tie to
family tree, Crest, (FamilySearch handout)
SHARE - Throwback
Thursday, Jigsaw Puzzle, Mosaic, Greeting Card, Coloring Book, Online Sharing
Apps (Handout / comparison)
- Digitize (DPI/pixels, format, size (dimension & file)),
- Photo Scanning (Allen's, Costco, Family History Center) Photocopy?
- Access, View, Edit (Professional to Amateur - Photoshop, Picasa,
- Printed photobooks
NO
"ALL-IN-ONE" SOLUTION - May have to use multiple methods
VIDEOS:
Covert old VHS to
DVD
- Store online (at least in two places
- Use source closest to original (8mm if you have them)
Save original -
work/edit/clip/color correct copies
Frame grab photos
(or take original film (8mm) to Allen's for enlargement)
Have a family movie
night where everybody brings their oldest videos and serve popcorn
.VOD - Rip
Demonstrate Premiere
Pro
Collect videos from
phone & categorize / share online - Smugmug
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