And I do that a lot. And some of it has me trying to figure out the best way to pay for it. I'll be frank with ya, I got my IRA money back in May and I've been getting stuff I wouldn't get otherwise. I'm saving the majority of it, I have it in an interest-bearing account. But having a little fun as well. And I still have funds on the California Middle Class incentive card we got at the beginning of the year. The money I was GOING to use to replace my audio receiver, but when reorganizing the equipment, realized that the old one still worked fine. The last time I used the incentive card was for supplies for Chloe. (Who was only here a month, she was pretty sick when she came to live with us.)
Anyway, I'm sure it's obvious I like techy stuff. When my dad passed away my mom gave me all of his camera equipment. I still have it. I got into digital photography. I still have my first digital camera. It was huge and so were the memory cards.
The first video I was able to take was an Olympus camera (I think, I probably still have that one). It took fifteen-second videos with no audio. I took lots of videos of the cats. DaNiece, Autumn, Opie, and Richie were just tiny kittens. And I have video. But it's tiny. There's no audio on some of it (it wasn't available yet in affordable cameras).
Well, here we are in 2023. I found some little videos dated March 2008. I'm sure I have earlier ones, but these are what I was using with this new software. David Gerrold over on Facebook has shown videos he's worked with using this software and I figured I'd try it out.
I did and I think it's swell. The name of the program is Topaz Video AI, Right now, until next Friday, August 4, 2023), you can purchase it for fifty dollars less than it's normally priced. I downloaded the trial version, worked with a video of Mystie, and loved the end result. So, I bought it.
Here's what I did this morning. The first video is 320 x 240 (and that's why it looks so pixelated). The second is 1920 x 1080. Watch in full screen mode. Reminder, there is no sound.
I am really looking forward to upgrading these old videos.
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