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🗓️ 19 October 2025
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On Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps out listener Mike with how to organize old videos based on the people in them.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, what do we do if we've got a bunch of old video and we want to |
| 0:05.8 | organize it based on the people showing up in the video? Well, I plan to answer that just now. |
| 0:11.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:17.2 | Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech. |
| 0:22.6 | My name is Micah Sargent. |
| 0:24.2 | And as you know, this is the show where I take your tech questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I read them and then I answer them. |
| 0:31.1 | This week's tech question. |
| 0:33.1 | Love this because I think, anytime, I always say this, anytime, |
| 0:36.6 | it's a question that I feel there are at |
| 0:40.6 | least five, right? Other people out there who are also asking the same question. Love it when it's |
| 0:45.8 | even more. I'm going, yes, yes, yes, let's answer this question. So this one comes in from Mike. |
| 0:50.9 | Mike writes, I've been a Twitter podcast listener since the very beginning and a |
| 0:55.2 | long-time Twit club member. Thank you, Mike, for being a member of Club Twit and also being a Twitter |
| 1:00.2 | podcast listener. Mike says, I recently digitized into MP4s my late father's collection of standard |
| 1:06.9 | and super 8 millimeter sign films or scene films containing family memories going back to the 1950s. |
| 1:14.6 | I'd like to edit them so that I get shorter videos that each have, say, the shots with this aunt or with that uncle, that cousin, and so on. |
| 1:23.2 | Obviously, I can do this manually using something like DaVinci Resolve or I-Movie, |
| 1:27.8 | but it could be much quicker if there was any facial recognition software that works with movies. |
| 1:33.9 | Do you know of any? |
| 1:35.0 | I do most of my video editing with DaVinci Resolve and Topaz video on a Windows 11 PC, |
| 1:39.8 | but I also have a Mac Mini M4. |
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