I Cried When I Saw The Video I Created at MyHeritage
Over the weekend, I was notified of a new feature at MyHeritage called Tribute Reels. This feature lets you take photos from your MyHeritage photos, colorize and enhance them, animate them, and create a tribute reel.
Yesterday, I got busy, tried it out, and was amazed by what it did. I was especially surprised by my reaction to one photo in particular of my mom and me when we were in Calesbad, California, standing in a tulip field. As I watched it, I began to cry. I cried because it seemed real… There was no distortion, you sometimes see with AI, which can make a person’s profile look off. It was exactly right.
I was recording all of this so I could put it on my YouTube channel. You’ll see my first-hand, step-by-step making of the videos for both my mom and my dad, and you’ll also hear the emotion I felt when I watched that particular part of my mom’s video. At the end of my video, you’ll see the actual video as I got it from MyHeritage, and you can watch it all at the link below.
I did make several reels for my mom and my dad, and interestingly, each time the pieces of the video were a bit different. So this morning I decided to take all the videos I created and, using a video editing tool called Wondershare, put together “the best of” them, so all the pieces that looked natural (at least as I remembered my parents). I added music from Wondershare, and I like how it turned out.
If you’d like to watch my own versions of the MyHeritage videos, you can watch them below.
Don’t get me wrong, I like what I created at MyHeritage because, after all, if I didn’t have these videos, I wouldn’t have been able to create anything.
As AI continues to evolve, we’ll be able to create even more meaningful ways to preserve and experience our family stories — like what I created with MyHeritage Tribute Reels, and perhaps far beyond that in the future. Even through the tears, I felt closer to my mom again, as though those memories had been brought back to life in a very personal way.
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