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My friend, Marie Ynami, asked me to be a guest speaker at her Holiday Season Kick Off today at 1:00 pm (CST). We will be discussing things like what tools you need to get started video scrapbooking, what types of video scrapbooks you can make, and basic video editing tips. She will have a chat room open to take your questions.

I hope you can drop by to visit with us.

LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling announced this week the LightScribe Photography Kit. This is a DVD and CD labeling packaged created for professional photographers and photo hobbyists. If you own a lightscribe, you can use this kit to create professional custom designs on your CDs and DVDs.

You can download this kit for free at www.lightscribe.com.

Last week, I created a video scrapbook for my neighbor who just graduated from high school. Her mother wanted to show the video at her graduation party. We spent a lot of time researching songs to see if they would be a fit for a graduation video. So I thought I would share them here. Here’s what we came up with:

• This is My Now — Jordin Sparks
• Do I Make You Proud — Taylor Hicks
• Good Riddance — Green Day
• Then They Do — Trace Atkins
• Thank God for Kids — Eddie Raven
• Bad to the Bone — George Thorogood
• She’s a Beauty — The Tubes
• Photographs & Memories — Jim Croce
• My Girl — The Temptations
• Graduation’s Here — The Fleetwoods
• Graduation — Vitamin C
• I Wanna Be Rich — Calloway
• Blessed — Elton John
• Dancing in the Streets — Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
• Don’t Stop — Fleetwood Mac
• Everybody Wants To Rule the World — Tears for Fears
• Forever Young — Rod Stewart
• I’ll Be There for You — Rembrandts
• I Hope You Dance — Lee Ann Womack
• It’s the End of the World (as we know it) — R.E.M.
• Landslide — Fleetwood Mac
• Life is a Highway — Tim Cochrane
• My Generation — The Who
• My Wish — Rascal Flatts
• Right Now — Van Halen
• Roam — The B-52’s
• School’s Out — Alice Cooper
• Takin’ Care of Business — Bachman Turner Overdrive
• Teach Your Children — Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
• That’s What Friends are For — Dionne Warwick
• Turn! Turn! Turn! — The Byrds
• Walk of Life — Dire Straits
• Walking on Sunshine — Nikki Cleary
• When You Wish Upon a Star — Johnny Mathis
• You’ve Got a Friend — James Taylor
• You Are The Sunshine of my Life — Stevie Wonder
• The Best is Yet to Come — Tony Bennett
• You’ll Be in My Heart — Phil Collins
• Let’s Get it Started — Black Eyed Peas
• Photograph — Nickelback
• What a Wonderful World — Louis Armstrong

Please leave a comment if you can think of any more graduation song suggestions.

Wow! I’ve converted some old VHS tapes to DVD. But I’ve never run across anything like this. Last year, a group of men brought a store clerk a VHS tape that they wanted on DVD. When the store clerk saw that the VHS contained video of the men firing assault weapons and chanting “God is great!” in Arabic, he alerted authorities. The FBI kept a close eye on these individuals and recently charged them with plotting a terrorist attack on Fort Dix.

Check out the story on Fox news…

Do you have any personal or business dreams/goals you want to achieve? Instead of just writing them down, why not create a Video Vision Statement? A vision statement describes what is important to you and what you want to achieve.

You can keep your video on your computer to watch every day to keep you focussed on your dreams/goals. Your video will help you build and maintain the motivation and the focus to achieve your dreams/goals.

The following video provides gives some information on Video Vision Statements:

Here’s an example of a Video Vision Statement that focusses on Tranquility.

No, I haven’t started my personal Video Vision Statement yet. However, I plan to do so in the near future.

If you would like more information on Video Vision Statements, check this out.

Impress your friends with this awesome video effect for web pages! With the use of a blue screen or green screen, a person can appear to actually walk onto a web page and move around. Josh Anderson, president of Internet Business Ideas Inc., shows you exactly how to create this effect in his video tutorials.

Click here to check it out!

Both men and women should use makeup sparingly when appearing on screen. Here are a few tips to consider when getting ready for a shoot:

Check out these 101 fabulous freebies listed on PC World’s website. There’s all kinds of neat downloads such as a PDF Creator, a zip file creator, an online encyclopedia, a podcast organizer, etc.

You can find it all here.

Over the next few months, I will be adding a lot of great resources to www.ScrapbooksAlive.com. It won’t just be a blog. It will be an online community for video scrapbooking enthusiasts. It will be the perfect place for you to meet up with other video scrapbooking enthusiasts and share ideas. This site will cover topics such as video editing on a Mac vs PC, digital scrapbooking software, video editing software, camcorders and cameras for hobbyists, where to buy video products such as blank CDs, DVDs, DVD jackets, etc.

To stay up to date with the latest news at Scrapbooks Alive, make sure you sign up for our ezine (in the right column). You will be the first to know when new features are added to this site.

If you have any suggestions of what you would like to see, please leave a comment.

I’ve been reading Videomaker magazine for the last couple of years and LOVE it! It’s written more for the professional videographer. For example, it provides lots of information on high-end products that hobbyists would probably never invest in. However, it has lots of great tips for the hobbyist.

It’s worth taking a look at. You can grab your free issue of Videomaker here.