You've been saving them for a reason. The clips from the trip, the photos, the videos you took because you wanted to remember. You're keeping them for the people who were there. Maybe for the kids when they're older.
Here's the hard truth: they're never going to watch 400 raw clips.
Not because they don't care.
Because nobody does.
Nobody sits down and scrolls through an unsorted camera roll from a trip two years ago. The footage just sits there, and the memory it was supposed to preserve slowly fades anyway.
But a finished video? That gets watched.
That gets shared in the family group chat. That gets played at Thanksgiving when everyone's together. That becomes the thing the kids actually remember the trip by.
The footage you saved was the right instinct. It just needs to become something people will actually press play on.
That's the whole difference between having the memories and getting to relive them. One sits in a folder. The other becomes part of how your family remembers being together.
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