{"id":4501,"date":"2014-12-04T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2014-12-04T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:41:24","slug":"too-many-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"canon<\/a>A long time ago, 1987 actually, I joined the board of directors for our local community access television station, Mel-TV. I was a member of the board for 20 years, many of those as the chairman. I retired from the board a few years before the City of Melrose decided to shut it down and keep the cable franchise fees in the general fund. Many people, myself included, thought this was a big mistake. After all, how many cities of our size had a community access channel that was actually being used, and used well. Citizens thought the station was a huge asset but the city council did not feel the same way.<\/p>\n

During those 20 years I videotaped a lot of Boy Scout courts of honor and troop activities. I would edit them at the studio and they would be scheduled during the week’s programming, usually a few times. It was a fantastic way for the community to keep up with what the Scouting program offered the youth. It was a great promotional and public relations tool.<\/p>\n

I still video record most of the troop’s courts of honor and some of the activities, even though I do not have the station available to show them any longer. I guess I just got into the habit and have not quit it yet. I do edit some of the shorter videos to use on the Melrose Scout Productions Podcast, but the bulk of it just sits on the computer or on tapes, unedited.<\/p>\n

There are videos from summer camp, of the Watchamagumee egg drop competition, of courts of honor, and more. I would guess these files are using hundreds of gigabytes on my hard drives. I really should do something with them or just delete them, but I find I have a hard time deleting them. Some people hoard material items and fill up their house. I hoard video files and fill up my hard drives.<\/p>\n

My goal this winter is too sit down at the computer and get serious about editing these video projects and share them with the Scouting families. I should be able to find some to share on the MSPP podcast. Maybe the local cable company would like some of the courts of honor for their local channel. I just need to sit down and start getting to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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