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<!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">There are many traps that keep me from making videos for my blog.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Here are 5 of them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Trap 1 &#8211; Video is much too complicated<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><o :p=\"\"><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">This is the first trap I overcame.&nbsp; Video can be complicated &#8211; but it need not be.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">I used to work at a cable access station and had to learn to use all sorts of complicated equipment and programs to upload a video, digitize it and then edit it.&nbsp; It took hours to do and sometimes more hours than I liked.<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><o :p=\"\"><\/o><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Now I have 2 cameras that take video and I use the small less expensive one as that video is easier to upload to my computer and all I then need to do is some quick editing on imovie.&nbsp; The other is a film camera and that makes for many extra uploading steps &#8211; so I use that one more sparingly now. <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><o 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