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Lasting Legacies Blog

Diving deeper behind the scenes into what it means to help people preserve their legacy, memoir or family documentary, through video.

Lee. Meaningful work. Work we were designed to do.

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a family sits on a couch, watching an end-of-life video created for them by the Grandmother, where she tells a story about growing up on a farm. There is a sunset and the farm and fields.
So much talk of disrupting, AI coming for our jobs, scaling, selling, growing... After so many years in the race, I find myself in a place that I wish I had found much sooner. One that calls out the inner artist. One tha... Read More

Beyond The Feed

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family trip
I hear this often. "Which social platforms will you be posting to?"It comes in the form of emails and surveys from the various tools that I use to edit videos for clients:"None." Is my usual response.  Th... Read More

I feel for the edits that get away...

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a blue door in the clouds opens and takes the viewer down to a town where a child is building a blanket fort in his room.
I've had the unfortunate experience of having a client project go sideways prior to a video being completed. This was a while ago, and it was the first (and only) time, since opening my video editing business, that this has happened. As I look back at the comments and emai... Read More
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