The Old and New

I actually did something yesterday I never saw myself doing again.  I learnt a new program.
In a way it was forced on me.  I had used movie maker often to make movies of holidays and for friends.  I actually found it incredibly easy to use and intuitive.  Yet it seems there has been a real battle to retain that program.
The time has come again that Microsoft has removed it and replaced it with something else.  The something else is certainly not as straight forward to use.  But beggars can’t be chooses. 
I could still get movie maker but I decided it was time I moved on rather than live in the past.  So I learned Clipchamp.  It is a Microsoft program.  If I wanted to get all the bells and whistles, I could pay for the premium version.  But my aim has been to do what I could do and maybe a little bit more.  I can do that.
The reason I got onto it was Merril said I have just discovered Clipchamp.  That sparked my interest, and I spent the rest of the day mastering the basics.
I sure learned as I went along and discovered an order I should follow (I learned that the hard way).  But the end product was something I was satisfied with.  The program exported end products as mp4’s so I needed a program that made mp4’s into mp3’s.  It seems to me mp4’s are the way everything is going and many programs I use will need to adapt.
Anyway what I worked on yesterday I called “Menzone memories” and I gathered together the photo’s I had, and built a bit of a story.  I was hoping the movie could be used in a digital photo frame I have (like the screens in shops that advertise say a menu).  But alas the photo frame I have is old, and I will need to discover the format it will take.  I have set up a bit of a photo gallery on that one but again I think it can do more than I possibly realize.
Still I have made a movie and it will work on computers so I am a happy camper.  I actually think it was time well spent.  Young or old, stretching the brain is important.