That being said, how to do you go about getting the job done. Here's how I did it. In 1999 I got an iMac with FireWire, iMovie 1 and Sony Digital 8 camera with analog inputs. I had about 25 hours of VHS tapes to go through. Basically I worked on it one tape at a time. I found like you did that most of what recorded was just waiting for good stuff to happen. So I fast forwarded through much of it, capturing interesting things as I went. I worked on this a little bit each day for about 2 weeks. The process of capturing all that stuff was actually more fun than I expected. Many of those tapes I hadn't ever watched so it was a lot of fun to see what was on them. Also, as I found more and more great things I though of how much my family was going to love this stuff. At the end of the two weeks I had a really good idea of what material I had to work with and during the capture process I came up with lots of ideas about how to put things together.
Then I just started grouping things together - by theme - by event - by holiday - whatever. I ended up creating 45 minutes of short videos out of all of that footage. It was a lot of work but totally worth it. Now those videos will actually get watched. This year I posted one of the clips on my vlog as a Christmas present to my family. Check it out: http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2005/12/25/christmas-92-98/
Good Luck,
Verdi
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