From time to time a customer will ask me to edit out someone in their videos.
Everyone has had relationships go bad – girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses, relatives or friends that we just don’t want to see again.
For some people, it’s a real problem to see these people pop up in their home movies again and again. They usually end up focusing on the person rather than the event that was being filmed/taped.
It can be a real problem.
One customer brought me some old home movies from the 1950’s that they had never seen. They were planning a family reunion and thought it would be great to show the old movies and give everyone a copy. But, they wanted to preview the footage before I completed the DVD and made copies. Their reason – “Mom and Dad used to throw some really wild parties back in those days, so we want to make sure there’s nothing too racy in there.”
Another customer brought be a large box of 8mm movies – on film not video. He wasn’t sure what was what. There were almost no labels on the reels. He said If you see anything about a wedding, reception or anything in Hawaii don’t put it on the DVD. He wanted no images of his wedding and honeymoon.
It’s easy to just eliminate entire events like weddings and honeymoons but it’s really difficult to go through every scene scanning for that unwanted individual. And….I have to charge for custom editing for the time that takes.
So, yes, I can cut out people, places and events, but it can be costly.
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