My digital camera, like most others now a days, will shoot short video clips. My question is what do you do with them? What program, on a pc, would you use to manipulate this footage? If you wanted to post it to the net where would you do this? (www.streamload.com?) This is the only site I could find and haven’t figured it out yet because I can’t get the clip from the camera to the computer.
Either quicktime pro or vlc. vlc is free, quicktime pro costs, but you can find serial numbers on the net for nothing.
If it’s a still digicam, you should be able to transfer the clips exactly the same as a still video. It’ll probably be in avi format.
need to know more before I can help more. What camera, pc platform, connection are you using.
camera is a vivtar 3760, I am using a pc, pentium III, 1000mhz with win2k. Currently on dial up but should be wireless broadband by the end of the month. Thanks.
When you connect the camera to the computer and view the images that are on it, can you see the movie files?
If you can, what happens when you try and move them over to the computer?
I am able to transfer the file to “My Documents” as a mpg file and media player will play it.
For little clips like that, I have used Windows Movie Maker. It comes as a standard application in Windows and therefore FREE! I think it resides in “accesories”. It is pretty straight forward and simple. I have even used it to post little movies to a web site I produce…
If you have an old operating system you can download an upgrade for free from Microsoft’s site.
Good luck.
Trisha
If its those 120 seconds or less movies (depending on your memory card) from a digital camera, those “movies” will probably be in MPG. Each camera software is different however there should be a folder which is created when you plug in your digital camera into your USB port to see the pictures you’ve taken. Click through the folders and double click the pictures and files to find the movie one, it should end with a .mpg
Once you locate it, copy it over to your desktop or drag it from that folder, and you can FTP it to you website, or email it, or upload it to one of the many free image hosting sites (given some limits on size).
Don’t email anyone the file if its over 10 megs without telling them in advance, those movies files are big.