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# ✱ Happiness
- URL: https://www.trxl.co/happiness/
- Published: 2014-09-22T13:11:16.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-25T00:27:11.000Z
- Author: Evan Troxel
- Tags: family, Making Things, #sqs, #Import-blog1, #evantroxel-me-com

Here's a video showing our adventures from this past weekend. We had such a great time that I decided to make a video about it. Besides the main content of the video, our kids, I had a great time filming them and capturing many great moments on the new iPhone 6\. My iPhone has always been a versatile workhorse, and the latest is no exception. It's an indispensable tool that is always with me. It's the best one yet, and it helps me make things like this.

I received my new space grey 64gb iPhone 6 on Friday after work. Needless to say I put it through its paces over the weekend and found it to be a true joy to use. The new camera stuff is just amazing; it's hard to explain just how good it is so I thought I'd just show you instead. Seriously - this thing is less than a quarter of an inch thick, makes crystal-clear images and video, and it's with me all day long. *I couldn't wait to make something with it.*

I used a few apps to create all of the raw files I used for the final footage including:

- Camera - Regular photo mode, HDR mode, Slo-Mo mode (240 FPS rocks!), Video mode, Time-Lapse mode, Pano mode
- Instagram
- Hyperlapse

So here I am editing this all together in iMovie on my Mac Mini late Sunday night. I've watched it many times to get the timing better and the edit tighter, and I'm just *in love* the whole thing. This is what technology is so good for - helping me create something that my family will remember forever.

Both songs in the slideshow are by Bloc Party, and they make me want to dance:

- [This Modern Love](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/this-modern-love/id50232347?i=50232362&uo=4&at=10l8LY) (iTunes link)
- [So Here We Are](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/so-here-we-are/id50232347?i=50232374&uo=4&at=10l8LY) (iTunes link)

I hope you like it as much as I do, because it makes me smile :D