Memories Rescue

Hi!

Several months ago, my dad asked me to do a rescue task, transform a bunch of 8mm tapes from a handycam into a digital format. That's what I've been doing since the start of the strike, better known as “paro”.

As I said before, in another blog, I don't get along very well with technology, so at the beginning it was pretty difficult for me and I didn't know if what I was doing was right.

The process for change the format from a tape to digital is slooow and I had a lot of problems, first I was missing a very important cable, then I couldn't install a program that allowed me to do the format change and finally, one of the tapes got stuck in the machine, I just wanted to cry… so I cried…and then I asked for help.

When all the problems were resolved I started the transformation, and that happened in real time, so if one of the tapes has 2 hours of recordings, the transformations take 2 hours. Many of the tapes were recorded months apart, so I have to be really focused to make cuts and keep a chronological order.

During this rescue process, I've seen recordings from 18 years ago or even more, I've been able to see my older brother when was a kid and a younger version of my parents and grandparents.

Has really been a time travel full of emotions, a very demanding process but very nice too.

Goodbye and take care!