With the imminent arrival of a new baby, your life will become a whirlwind. If you're planning to capture the whole experience on video, plan carefully and you'll have a priceless record of those fleeting early days to savour long after interrupted sleep and mashed bananas fade from memory.
| 1. Plan ahead 2. What you'll need 3. Choose your shots |
4. Capture the moments 5. Edit your footage 6. Render, view and distribute |
Step 6: Render, view and distribute
Once you've finished channelling Francis Ford Coppola, render your video to hard-disk in the highest possible quality. This will ensure that you have a high-quality original for your archives. Now it's time to share baby's best, and worst, moments with all and sundry.
Invite friends and family over for a barbeque and the premiere of Baby's First Year. For those far-flung friends, upload your clip to video streaming sites, such as YouTube. Grainy 320 x 240 Web video won't cut it if your nearest and dearest family members are overseas. It's probably best to burn them a DVD and mail it. Most video editors and DVD-burning software will have instructions for laying out and burning discs, including templates for the disc's menu navigation.
Those going down the high-def path should screen Best of Baby at home in HD, but distribute it on DVD. There's a number of reasons for this: the format wars between Blu-ray and HD DVD are still a long way from being resolved, few homes have players capable of reading either format, and both burners and writeable discs are still jaw-droppingly expensive.
Now ship those discs out to your friends and family, have a sip of coffee and get ready to start filming the next instalment of the Baby Diaries.
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