Technology and Dressage

My parents have recently purchased this very cool Apple computer. With it came all this move editing software and DVD software. Very simple. So I was their house for the weekend participating in the family thing (mainly sitting around drinking and telling all the same stories we always do and laughing our heads off, oh yeah and watching UNC make it to the final game, go Heels!). I took my digital video camera with all my videos of my dressage rides, lessons, and shows.

I sat down on Friday and moved most of the video on to the computer. Then Saturday and Sunday I did a lot of editing and made a little video. My wonderful husband has trudged around many a horseshow and willingly videoing all my rides. As wonderful as that is, he tends to get a lot of shots of the ground or a trash can or his foot. So with this fabulous software (iMove) I pulled all the video clips into the software package and could edit out all those lovely "artistic" shots of the ground. Instead of 60 minutes of video where there is at least 5 minutes of foot shots, or something like it, I now have 45 minutes of wonderful video of just Dublin. And I worked really hard not to remove the bad parts of my ride. I have to watch those and learn from it, right?