I write from aboard the Island Princess where I am enjoying
myself and thinking about how nice it would be to have a good DVD related to my
transit of the Panama Canal. Also, it seems I may end up in one of the videos
produced as I ended up a few times on the camera while they were shooting on
the ship’s excursion we took today. These DVDs are somewhat expensive compared to
what you would pay for a movie when shopping at Target or Wal-Mart. The DVD
typically is a mix of stock video collected over many cruises and updated
periodically and lots of events collected on your specific cruise.
The video is one great way to memorialize the cruise. If you
have friends who likely will want to see the cruise it also serves as a great
way to show them what you saw and what happened on the ship. Of course unless
you are followed constantly by the ship’s videographer all of what you do and
see will not be on the video, but given the amount of video you could create
think of the editing that you would have to do to make it palatable to the
general audience.
Yes, you can shoot all your own video, but the time it takes
to edit it all down to one or two reasonable length shows can get lengthy. That
said, do you really want to spend hours creating one or two videos that you can
show your friends? Yes when you make it
yourself you are able to then go put it on Youtube
etc… but unless you plan to post your video out there having a nice DVD
from the cruise often is much easier to have.
Prices vary from really not too bad to fairly
expensive depending on exactly what you purchase. The longer more involved
cruises often have special packages that provide more than one DVD which allows
you to tailor your presentation of DVDs to the audience you have watching
them. Overall in most cases if you want
a unique and nice souvenir from the cruise, getting the DVD tends to work out
to be a nice idea. 
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