Video Capture - Mega Task DONE with Multi-System and Hi8 VCR

Yay, on November 29, I completed my video conversion from analog to digital for uploading it onto YouTube or else.

Great feeling and oh so happy!

Archiving is quite a mega task...

Action with the Elgato Video Capture...
Such an easy hardware to use!
Seen on the screen is our beloved Mamita, the mama cat that mysteriously disappeared on November 4, 2007

Other end is connected directly to the U.S. VCR...
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Husband Pieter got already lots of viewing hours out of his new iPad Pro 12.9" that gives also excellent color display and clarity - pure JOY and Kudos to Apple!

Elgato Video Capture - Digitize Video for Mac, PC or iPad... click on link

Have to confess that I'd ordered the above from Amazon on January 31, 2017 so it sat on my desk unboxed for quite a while! But such is life, things get in-between and time is passing way too fast for doing it all.

Doing this is SO EASY!

You just go to their website for downloading the software for either Windows click and click through again.

Or, like I had to do, for my Mac and even for the Newest updated Mac! So very easy do do click and click through again.
Did most with our regular US VCR, moved it just into my office, close to my Mac on the 2nd adjacent desk.

Am thrilled for even having been able to capture the Dutch PAL system video from Mom & Dad's 50th wedding anniversary!
Also my youngest brother's wedding etc.
That RARE SHARP VC-VH990WH 6-HEAD HI-FI MULTI-SYSTEM VCR for PAL/MESECAM/NTSC in BOX I've used for doing so, is now available on eBay for others to use it likewise, just click and click through the link here.

Even works for MESECAM = Middle Eastern SECAM system and France has the SECAM system.

Easy task for doing this with the Sharp Multi-System VCR direct to your PC...
WHY is the world still so complicated and divided? Making it oh so hard for immigrants to hold on to their memories?!

SORRY SOLD...

Also for those that still have some 8 or Hi8 tapes from loved ones they want to digitalize, that too can be easily done with the Elgato Video Capture and I've also offered our Sony EV-C200 Video Hi8 VCR in ORIGINAL BOX to DIGITIZE your old VIDEOS! for sale on eBay, just click and click through again.

SORRY SOLD...

With the Elgato Video Capture hardware this is such an easy job...
So happy for having tackled this!
Fond family memories now safe and ready for reliving over and over.
Guess now is the perfect time for tackling such projects when daylight is short and evenings kind of long...

Good luck to anyone wanting to finish such a family archiving task!

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Langermannia gigantea or Giant puffball

It seems like mushrooms will be following us our entire life...

This one popped up on our front lawn and was rather huge with about 10 inches diameter or 25 cm.

Photo got taken of this 'Langermannia gigantea' or Giant puffball on November 24.

Looking kind of pleated... Similar though to the one from hidden forest in New Zealand, click on the name to see its picture and scroll to the bottom.

The same one now on November 30... Darker brown and even more pleated.

December 6, still darker and now measuring its diameter.

Almost 10 inches or 25 cm in diameter!

Maybe someone can tell its name with more certainty...

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We INDULGED in Japanese Persimmons

Before I will post about our very special trip, don't reveal it yet... I have to show you our perfect Japanese Persimmons that we found at the Charlottesville, Virginia Whole Foods Market.

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LOVE these Japanese Persimmons... they are the non-astringent ones, you bite them like an apple and they also keep very well.

They looked near perfect!

One such beauty, looking like true art work!

They were grown here in the USA from the Madera Persimmon Growers Inc. in Madera, California

FUYU PERSIMMONS KAKIS FUYU

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