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3 years ago ::
May 26, 2009 - 2:48PM
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Help... I feel like a total idiot for having to ask this question. I mean, I have my Masters in Analytical Chemistry for goodness sake and now I'm having trouble uploading all my great HD videos without loosing them. I guess that's what happens to your brain when you have 4 kids in less than 18 months time! ha, ha I happily use Picasa for uploading and manipulating my digital photos. For some reason, when I try to upload videos from my new HD video camera the files are being lost somewhere on my laptop. I wasn't too concerned about it until I realized that I can't find some of them even by searching through the computer directly to the cards and some of them are no longer on the SD cards... I'm sure because I use the "erase everything that is copied" function on Picasa for all my pictures I just accidentally did the same for video one day. I'm not sure whether to go straight to Roxio with the videos, burn them to disk, or what? I would really love to start editing and sharing some of the precious videos that I've been capturing lately, but now I'm gun shy... afraid I'll loose more of them! Would someone please kindly do a how-to on video editing from the point of taking the sd card out of their camera? I know this is supposed to be an HD forum and not remedial technology, but can someone please help me out?!?
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3 years ago ::
May 27, 2009 - 9:31PM
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Wow. There are so many options. All I can tell you is how I have done it. I either put the SD card in my PC or I use the USB to transfer, depending on which camera, etc. Then I always copy it through Windows Explorer to a folder I have marked as Raw Photos or Raw Video. This gives me a place to store whatever item it is, without any alterations being done. Then I open the editing program, which can be something as simple as Windows Movie Maker, and open the raw file. When I save it, I make sure to save it to a different folder/directory. Maybe Edited Video or a folder specific for the event. Then every few months or videos or hundreds of photos, I burn the raw videos to a DVD for storage and then wipe it off the hard drive. I hope this helps some!
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3 years ago ::
May 28, 2009 - 5:31PM
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When you pull the HD video in using the HD Writer program, it seems to save them in a hard-to-find spot. It took Greg Harper a while to find mine on my laptop, but they were there. Now, I burn DVDs directly from the video camera and keep them as a back-up (I use an external DVD burner from Panasonic to do this.) Then I bring them into Pinnacle, edit them and save them in several different formats (I'll burn the edited movie to disk, save as a Pinnacle project, save as a windows movie file and then also upload to youtube and/or yahoo video). I then move them the saved files to an external hard drive so they don't take up so much space on my computer. But you have to be careful doing that - if you move them and there are any photos associated with your movie, the photos don't necessarily move with the file. I have a degree in chemical engineering, but I am still often puzzled and frustrated when moving things on and off and around the computer.
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3 years ago ::
May 31, 2009 - 3:26PM
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External hard drives are great. But every now and then, write them off to a DVD. Can't lose them in a crash :)
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3 years ago ::
May 31, 2009 - 3:36PM
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I have used both Roxio and the HD Writer that came with the Toughbook to transfer video. The problem I am having is that when I used Roxio (or Picassa) to send the file to YouTube, my HD video came out in slow motion! A 33 second video was one minute and 6 seconds- weird. When I used the HD Writer, it came out fine. It is frustrating to take such beautiful quality video on my Panasonic Camcorder and have it lose quality when I post it to the web. What are others doing? How can I keep the high quality of the video and post it to the web? I have no problem when making disks or viewing the HD video on my computer where it is stored, I am only having this problem (loss of quality) when sending it to the web. Any thoughts?
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3 years ago ::
May 31, 2009 - 7:58PM
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I don't know if you can really get an HD experience on youtube, but of course you don't want it to be slow motion! Pinnacle has a button to go directly to youtube or yahoo video. That's what I've used. I've also saved in .wmv format and then uploaded by browsing when in my youtube account.
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