Your vacation photos and videos files are fine. They'll be just as editable in five years as they are today. After all, we work on footage from a decade ago all the time, and it turns out beautifully.
What changes is everything you're carrying around in your head right now.
This week you know which day was which, whose phone has the good clip, what your kid said at the overlook, which restaurant was the one.
A few months from now that's gone, and the folder stops being a trip and starts being a pile of files.
So while it's all still fresh, a few things worth doing.
Get everything into one place, because the single biggest reason trips never get finished is that the footage lives on four devices. Back it up before anything else. We've heard about more trips being lost to a formatted card than to bad footage. Jot down five things you want to remember: the day it rained, the wrong turn that turned out fine, the meal everyone still talks about. You don't need a plan. Just notes.
And one thing not to do: don't start editing.
That's where most trip videos die. You open the software, spend two hours, get through four clips, and never come back.
If you'd rather hand it off, that's what we're here for.
One folder, a few notes, and a real editor takes it from there. And if you've got older trips sitting around too, those are just as workable. They only take a little more remembering.
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