I used Movie Maker as I have for many of my projects. I spent many hours putting together a tribute video. I was looking forward to burning many DVD copies and mailing it to interested relatives as well as playing the DVD at the memorial. I had hundreds of photos over 90+ years of his life, 8mm and Super8 film reels as far back as the 50s, combined with digital video going all the way back to 1998 from my own collection. I had 30 minutes of audio of Uncle Ronnie that I recorded for a never-aired podcast.

I immediately got to work creating a DVD for his memorial service. Around the same time my Uncle Ronald - the closet person I've ever had to a grandfather - passed away. Regardless, I recently installed Windows 8 on my home machines and my laptop. Perhaps making DVDs is a lost art and I'm an old fogey. Rearranging MP3s and emailing a list isn't the same as waiting for specific songs to get played on the radio and pressing Record within the first two notes. Random Aside: It's a shame that today's young people won't realize how much effort it took to create a mix tape for someone. Here in the US we've got lots of older relatives who don't have computers, or perhaps they only have an iPad and a link to a YouTube video doesn't have the sense of meaning or permanence that a DVD does. We've got lots of relatives overseas who don't have a laptop at home nor do they have any internet in their home. First, believe it or not, there's a lot of people in the world who don't have high-speed internet.

Why don't you put all that stuff online, Scott? Why don't you put it on Facebook/YouTube/Vimeo/Whatever? There's a couple reasons. I make trip DVDs and memory DVDs and all sorts of stuff.

I make them for weddings for family and for funerals and memorials.

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