Thinking of Doing It Yourself?

We received an email from a reader suggesting we write an article comparing the cost and time it takes to create your own keepsake video as opposed to hiring us to create a Legacy video for you. We thought this was a great idea.

When you walk into your local computer store, you are met with aisles of the newest technological toys. They are enticing indeed. We can barely walk into a computer store without turning into a 3 year old at eye-level with the candy aisle! How simple it all looks. Just plug this equipment into the computer, install this new "amazingly simple" video software and TA DA, a Hollywood production spits out your DVD drive. If only it were that simple.

As our reader explained, "I figured that between the cost to upgrade (Scanner $170, video card $100, slide show software $100, VCR $80, DVD Burner $75, ram (just for the video) $45) I ended up spending over $570 just so I could create one family keepsake video for my mother for Mother’s Day. I estimate I spent about 80 hours from start to finish, mostly to figure out what I was doing and work around bugs and crashes."

He wanted to do this himself because, as he explained, "I guess the reason I chose to do it myself was more for CUSTOMIZATION, but perhaps you could stress that the do it yourselves might save themselves some time, money and aggravation by using your services."

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