Using Your Cellphones to Film for the Holidays

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To all My Followers:   This will be my last blog for 2015. Instead of pictures and videos of vacations I am just going to give a few helpful video tips. With the Holidays upon us family and friends will all be filming with their Cellphones , Ipads, and some will still bring out their old video cameras for this once a year celebration.  All of these tips you have already heard and possibly remember, so these are just a simple reminder.

#1 Remember that Cellphones do not have any type of stabilization monitor, so do not wave your phone around, try to keep it as still as possible when you are filming. If not when you put it on a 50″ screen it does not take long to start getting nautious.

#2  On any video device after hitting record button wait at least 1 or 2 seconds before speaking. If you ever want to have your film edited this will allow it to be a cleaner transition from scene to scene.

#3 Last Tip: You always want to film in the horizontal position if you are using a Cellphone.

I hope this helps enhance your video experience while you are filming for the holidays and as always if you ever have any questions or need any video, photo,  or audio to DVD or Digital File conversions done, please call , email, or check out our website,

thanks Bill
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May 1975, Motorcycle Journey across Eastern US

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 3 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business. Now with all this being said:
Welcome to our 7th, installment of our traveling blogs.
The year is 1975, the month is May. My college roommate and I are riding our motorcycles from Nacogdoches,Texas cross country thru Florida, the Cumberland Gap to Washington DC and on to Ohio to visit our other roommate. We are all on the 3 week break before summer school starts.
Ray , my roommate, and I had a lot of strange adventures and I will just touch on a few of the strangest.
Starting out : Ray on a Yamaha 650. Bill on a Water Cooled Suzuki 750, (still my favorite out of the 12 bikes that I have owned). 1975 s_20151108_0002 (1)
1st day we drove all the way to New Orleans. You could definitely tell the difference in highways when we hit Louisiana.1975 s_20151108_0002 (4)
Florida: The next few days we stopped in Pensacola and Panama City. Ray had all the problems in these 2 locations. We got kicked out of the campground we were staying in because of his loud pipes (we were told “damn bikers”), and then around 9 at night a dog jumped into his head light. When we pulled over the owner of the dog started beating the hell out of him. No worries the dog was fine. 1975 s_20151108_0002 (2)Next morning we told Florida adios and onto DC via Georgia and a pouring rain thru the Cumberland Gap. I do remember the semis going up the steep grades and it was raining so hard they would lose grip and start to slide back at us.IMG mayo_20151110_0001
Washington DC : looked at sights for a day and then off to Columbus,Ohio to visit our other roommate. IMG mayo_20151110_0003
The almost Big Bust: remember the year is 1975, 2 guys traveling on motorcycles were considered, by rednecks, ( see Florida above) and all highway patrol alike, as outlaw bikers even though they are on Japanese bikes and one was a 2 cycle rice rocket to boot. 1975 s_20151108_0002 (6) So here we are cruising down the Ohio highway and the trooper pulls us over, jumps out of his car, levels his gun at us and tells us to lay face down on the ground. As it turns out at about the same time he pulled us over they actually caught the 2 guys on bikes that had just robbed the store 50 or so miles back, roughly an hour earlier, riding west, same as us, on the same highway that we were on. I hate to think what kind of crap we would have gone thru if they had not caught those guys. Every time I see the movie,” My Cousin Vinnie” it reminds of that moment.
Falling asleep on the Suzuki: on our way back to Texas going thru Missouri Ray honked his horn at me and literally for the last 3 to 5 miles I could not remember anything. We pulled over to get coffee and I asked him why he honked his horn? His response was my “ my mouth was not moving”. Now you have to realize that whenever I ride a motorcycle I am ALWAYS singing. It is something I have always done to concentrate on the road. So for 1800 miles my mouth was always moving except for this last 5 miles or so. Luckily Ray noticed or it would have been a pretty nasty crash at 80mph. Moral of this story is never wear a yellow snow ski face shield.1975 s_20151108_0002 (8)
Well that’s it for the 7th installment. Hope you enjoyed it, and as always if you have any questions or need any Video Slide Shows with music background, VHS or Sony8 video, photo, or audio to DVD, CD, or Digital File conversions done, please call , email, or check out our website. Until our next blog,
thanks Bill
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Part 2, Midwest Vacation July 1996

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 3 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business. Now with all this being said:
Welcome to our 6th, Part 2, installment of our traveling blogs.
The year is 1996, the month is July. We are driving from Texas thru St Louis to visit relatives in Chicago and Holland, Michigan. On our way back we took a detour to the Indianopolis Motor Speedway. This blog will be in 2 parts. This is the 2nd part, “Michigan thru Indy”.
The highlights from the 2nd part of our trip. Visiting relatives in Holland ,Michigan. What a beautiful place with great relatives. The highlight for me though of the trip was the visit to the Indianapolis Speedway. The Indy 500 held every Memorial weekend is literally my Super Bowl. It is a must watch with no interruptions , outside noise or chatter. I was absolutely amazed at the length of the track (2miles), when you actually see it in person. TV does it no justice.

Hope you enjoyed this 6th, Part 2, segment video blog. As always if you have any questions or need any Video Slide Shows with music background, VHS or Sony8 video, photo, or audio to DVD, CD, or Digital File conversions done, please call , email, or check out our website,
thanks Bill
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Our Midwest Vacation July 1996

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 3 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business. Now with all this being said:
Welcome to our 6th installment of our traveling blogs.
The year is 1996, the month is July. We are driving from Texas thru St Louis to visit relatives in Chicago and Holland, Michigan. On our way back we took a detour to the Indianopolis Motor Speedway. This blog will be in 2 parts. From Texas to Chicago this month and Michigan thru Indy next month.
Some of the highlights are taking the train 40 miles into Chicago from Mary’s cousins house. The 1st time the boys had ever been on a train. We saw the Cubs play at Wrigley Field. The boys were used to going to pro baseball games and always watching a losing effort, so nothing was different this day either ( Can you say Rangers?), and then of course the Sears Tower.

Hope you enjoyed this 6th segment video blog, Part 1,( Part 2 coming next month), As always if you have any questions or need any Video Slide Shows with music background, VHS or Sony8 video, photo, or audio to DVD, CD, or Digital File conversions done, please call , email, or check out our website,
thanks Bill
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Our Disneyworld Vacation 1998

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 3 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business. Now with all this being said:
Welcome to the 5th installment of our traveling blogs.
This month we are going back to 1998. We are visiting the state of Florida.
We start at Daytona, then on to Disneyworld and Universal Studios, and we finish the week out with the Kennedy Center at Cape Canaveral.
A few items to note about this vacation:
The track at Daytona is astounding. The high banked oval track is so steep that you can barely walk on it.
My middle son was 12 at the time and was embarrassed to go to the land of the mouse. I bought all the Disney hats for everyone to wear,( that’s the Clark Griswold in me I guess). He was afraid one of his friends might see him, 1500 miles from home. I explained to him if they did, they would not say anything because that meant they were there too.
We all a had a fantastic time and everything went as planned. I have to admit that I was amazed that for a whole week not once, with 3 boys, did we have a Clark Griswold moment.
For some reason we did not take any video on this trip, so we took 100’s of pictures. This video is comprised of only a few of those pictures done at a faster rate of speed than normal for this Slide Show Video along with the music background. Let us make a Slide Show Video for you.
Hope you enjoy this 5th segment video and as always if you have any questions or need any video, photo, or audio to DVD or Digital File conversions done, please call , email, or check out our website,
thanks Bill

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Shadow the Wonder dog

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 2 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. With this being said:

For this blog I am going to get away from the usual family blogs. I came upon this video a few weeks ago of “Shadow the Wonder Dog”. Shadow was our dog in the late 80’s. I would put him in his chain link fence kennel that was in our wood gated backyard. Almost every day I would get home from work and 1 neighbor or another was bringing him home. I could not figure out how he kept getting out, especially since I was putting a Master lock in the chain link gate latch (the lock was unlocked). Actually, I thought the boys were leaving the gates open but they swore they were not. I decided to put up a video camera and this is what I discovered.
Note: This video was made a few months later because at the time I accidentally recorded over the original. I hope you enjoy this and all the upcoming videos as well, thanks Bill

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Hawaii 1981, Our Honeymoon

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 2 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. With this being said:
Welcome to the 3rd installment of our traveling blogs. This months blog takes place in Honolulu and Maui, Hawaii, March 1981 which happens to be our honeymoon.
Besides the fact we had a great time doing the normal sightseeing , racing, yes racing the Hana highway,( Mary stayed asleep, I think she was afraid to open her eyes for fear of flying off the cliff), and just hanging out in Lahaina.
Remember the year is 1981 and the scenescape has changed quite a bit. The slide show video attached is about 1 /100th of the photos actually taken.
I hope you enjoy this and all the upcoming videos as well, thanks Bill
Mayrath Video Solutions, PO Box 3644, Coppell Tx. 75019
469 865 7666
Please check out our website : www.hsv2dvd.com. If we can answer any of your questions about converting your video, photos or audio,please give us a call or email. Thanks again, Bill

1977 24 Hours of Le Mans

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 2 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all we “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business.
This 2nd video is from 1977. It is of the 1977 24 hour motorcycle race in Le Mans, France. The greatest part of this race is that they allowed you to walk the complete course during the race which meant lots of pictures from different angles from all corners of the track. This is only a fraction of the pictures that I took but this video was originally made and still is a sample on our website. Hope you enjoy this and all the upcoming videos as well, thanks Bill

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469 865 7666
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North to Alaska 1961

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To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 2 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all we “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business.
This 1st video is a trip to Alaska , down the 1000 dirt mile highway. What I remember was, 1000 miles of dirt road, no AC, and every time a car came by if you were too slow to roll up the windows you were pretty much dusted. Of course the old saying of “Don’t Feed the Bears”, obviously did not apply to our family. Hope you enjoy this and all the upcoming videos as well, thanks Bill
Mayrath Video Solutions, PO Box 3644, Coppell Tx. 75019
469 865 7666
Please check out our website : www.hsv2dvd.com

Merry Christmas from Mayrath Video Solutions

To all our new and old customers, new Facebook, Linked In, and Networking friends, we want to share a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday with one and all. So this year instead of the usual Christmas card, we decided to put our dogs in a Christmas Card-EO (they need to work for their upkeep also). Please click on the link below.

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