It only took two years to do this...

Two years ago, we finally purchased a digital camcorder with the very best intentions. And then came a couple days later when I tried to take the video off the camcorder to no avail. The directions didn't help. My husband didn't help. The Internet didn't really help. Periodically, I'd bring it up again and again with again, the very best intentions. I started to resent the camcorder since it seemed I'd never retrieve anything from it in order to share it, which was my intention. I gave up.

Then, Friday night, I took the camcorder with me to Bailey's recital despite telling everyone I wouldn't. And with that on there, I knew I HAD to get it off from the wicked camcorder and find a way, no matter what because I was really tired of saying, "what's the use of videotaping anything, I'll never get it onto the computer anyway."

We came home and I was on a mission and after some heavy duty research I discovered that many people with my same Sony handycam model had the same issues and they too were discouraged and angry. The biggest flaw? The manual never tells you to use a firewire cable, nor did it come with one. It just told us to use a USB cable over and over again with pointless results.

So rambling aside, and after a little extra work, Houston, we finally have video. Just don't expect us to use it that often, because then you'll be the disappointed ones. And yes, I do realize it's incredibly small. In another two years or so, I'll make the files larger.

Enjoy.

You can also view this video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny2kF9KQlFc