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Transferring your movies from your digital video photographic camera or camcorder to your computer is easy and volition allow y'all to edit the videos with software already installed on near computers.
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Check the digital camcorder or camera for its ports. These ports permit yous to transfer data from the camcorder to the computer. Look at your two ports, and purchase a cablevision that connects them.
- If you take an SD slot on your computer, and your camera a uses an SD card, that is the simplest possible compatibility option. Well-nigh camcorders have ports for a FireWire and a USB ii.0. A FireWire, which was developed by Apple, is usually the best choice because it volition transfer your video more speedily to the computer.[1]
- If you don't have those ports, you will demand to buy what is called a FireWire expansion carte du jour at a local computer store or a FireWire adapter for a Mac. They are non very expensive. But don't get too hung up on the names; the lesser line: You need to check the camera port, and computer port, and then find or buy a cord which has those specific ends or pin sets.
- If you take a USB cable instead, y'all tin can also use that cablevision to transfer movies/videos to your computer. The same is true whether you are transferring the movies to a PC or a MAC and for diverse types of camcorders.
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Use a removable disk. You lot could store your videos in a memory card that you insert into your camera or camcorder. Memory cards are small square disks that store your videos.
- To transfer these videos to your figurer, simply insert the memory card in the slot on your computer. Some older computers don't have slots for SD memory cards, merely you can buy an external menu reader that attaches into the USB port of your calculator.[2]
- Go to your computer's settings, usually My Computer, and look for devices and drives. You should run across the SD memory card pop up once yous insert it.
- Click on the icon for the card, and you should encounter your videos (and photos) popular upward on the computer. It'due south that elementary. Move them to any file folder you want.
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Check your PC'southward ports and compatibility. You should figure out whether your computer has the ports needed to transfer movies from a camera.
- Check and see whether the device has a port for a FireWire and/or USB cable too every bit a SD memory slot. The SD retention card slot is a thinner slot the width of a small-scale retentiveness card. It's usually located on the front end or side of your computer.
- To determine whether you have a FireWire port, click on Control Panel, and and so Network Connections (or Network & Net Connections). Look for an icon labeled 1394 Connection. A FireWire port is a narrower slit, whereas a USB port is thicker and resembles a square with a smaller square on meridian.[3]
- To determine whether in that location is a USB port, click on the commencement carte of your computer, select "Control Panel." Then choose "Performance and Maintenance" and "See basic information about your computer." You will exist in a System Backdrop Window. Locate the "Hardware" tab at the screen's elevation, and click on information technology, and and then "Device Manager." Locate "Universal Series Double-decker controllers" on the list and click on the plus sign to open it. If you lot have a USB port, y'all should run across the word "enhanced" as ane of the titles.
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Check for ports on a Mac. Be aware that Mac recently phased the FireWire ports out of its computers in favor of something called the Thunderbolt.[4]
- You can buy Thunderbolt to FireWire adapters pretty cheaply, though. The Macs use USB 3.0 connectors.
- The Thunderbolt engineering allows for faster transfer speeds. You can often observe the Thunderbolt ports on the back of the computer.[5]
- For example, on the back of the Mac pro, y'all will observe six Thunderbolt ports, along with ii USB 3.0 ports.
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Connect the cable. You will connect one end of the cablevision into the photographic camera or other device, and the other end will go into the corresponding port on the PC or Mac (again, note, that yous would need a FireWire adapter for many Macs). You need a cable that connects the two ports.
- A FireWire is too known as an IEEE 1394 cable.[6] A USB 2.0 connection can perform the same transfer with most devices. Well-nigh new PCS already have a FireWire port, where you plug in the cablevision or a USB 2.0 connection.
- There are two types of FireWire connectors. They are chosen 4 pivot and 6 pivot. The FireWire port on the PC generally has 6 pins. The digital camcorder'south FireWire port (sometimes called DV out or i.Link) usually has iv pins. Then you generally need a FireWire cable with four pins for the camcorder or camera stop, and vi pins for the computer end.
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Plug in the FireWire or USB cablevision to the PC. Plug ane end of the cable into the camera. Plug the other end into the port in the PC or Mac..
- This will connect your camcorder or camera to your computer. You volition be able to make movies on the estimator using free tools built into Windows or the Mac, such as Movie maker and iMovie.
- Connect the 4-pin end of the cable into the camcorder and the other end into the IEEE1395 four-pin or 6-pin FireWire port on your computer.
- If you lot don't accept a FireWire port, buy a FireWire CardBus Adapter to plug into the computer first.[7]
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Connect your camcorder or camera to your MAC. Use the cable that came with the device or purchase a USB cable or FireWire adapter. You can too effort connecting the Thunderbolt cable to your video camcorder or camera, but y'all may need the adapter.
- If yous are using a camcorder, ready it to PC Connect way. Your device might have a unlike name. This may happen automatically if your camcorder is connected to the figurer and y'all switch information technology to playback mode.[eight]
- Yous could but remove the memory card from your device, and insert it into the card slot on your Mac (you tin also attempt doing this with a PC.)
- Click on the import button in the toolbar. In the camera's department of the import window, select your camcorder or photographic camera or other device. Sometimes you volition see photos adjacent with video clips.
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Turn the camera on. Your computer should automatically recognize your camcorder or camera device. Connect your photographic camera to your estimator, and turn it on.
- If your photographic camera came with software, the reckoner will recognize the camera. In well-nigh cases, it will be able to read it.
- Windows is going to automatically install the necessary drivers. You will be prompted to import video using Windows Import Video. This comes free with Windows. Merely select import, and the videos volition be loaded onto your computer.
- Windows Import Video volition rewind your MiniDV cassette and begin importing your video. It will play your video while importing it, and turn it into an .AVI file.
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Install video editing software if necessary. On your reckoner, you will demand to open or install video editing software if you desire to alter the video.
- Well-nigh computers have video editing software already installed. Yous will employ this software to consummate the video transfer process.
- For case, Windows has basic video editing software already installed. It's called Windows Moving-picture show Maker. If you have a Mac, y'all won't exist able to use Windows Movie Maker. Instead, Macs have the iMovie video editing plan installed in them.
- You will be able to use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie to edit the video. Y'all could purchase more than professional person video editing software if you wanted to but it will not be necessary for near edits.
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Import your video files. Editing software can ordinarily direct you to the correct spot to import videos from a connected device. Open your Bone's native software and find the Import role to begin.
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Download Picture show Maker. Windows typically comes with Movie Maker already installed just if not y'all tin download it online for free.[nine] [10]
- The videos will be in either MOV or .AVI format. You tin simply drag the files into a folder in your computer.[11]
- The program volition give you an option to import video. Give information technology a name. Either import the unabridged video, which will rewind it, and import it all into the file, or you could choose parts of the video to import.
- For case, you lot could import 30 minutes at a time. The screen allows y'all to select the amount of minutes you lot want it to stop importing after. You can rewind or forward. And so click import.[12]
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Review organize and select imported videos. Click review, organize and group items to import. Click side by side.
- Click import all new items now if you want to do so at once. Type a name for the videos, and click import. Handle photos the same way. All of the photos and videos will be imported.
- Select groups of videos to import. If yous want to select several videos to import but not others, y'all tin can bank check the box adjacent to the groups of videos you want to import. Do not check the boxes adjacent to the videos you lot exercise not.
- You can view all of the videos in a group of videos, by clicking view all items next to the group. Become to photo gallery. Select the check box in the upper left corner for each video you want to use in your movie. On the create tab, in the share group, click picture. This will add selected videos to the storyboard in Picture show Maker.
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Import video from a videotape in a DV photographic camera. In Picture Maker, for case, yous will desire to connect your digital video (DV) camera to the PC using a FireWire or IEEE 1394 cable.
- Switch your digital video camera to Playback/VCR mode. Click the Movie Maker push, and then click import from device. If the photos and videos will exist imported into photo gallery message appears, click OK.
- In the import photos and videos window, select the DC photographic camera and then click import. On the import video page, click more than options.
- Select a file name. If the videotape contains several different scenes, y'all can import each scene every bit a different file by choosing the Import videos as multiple files (unavailable for Hd video) check box.
- On the import video page, blazon a proper name of the video you desire to import, and and then click import the unabridged video to import it all or choose parts of the video to import.
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What if my computer doesn't notice my device?
When you lot do turn on the camcorder, Windows should automatically find it. If nothing happens it's possible your DV port on the camcorder or computer is not working or that you lot will need a new cable. If it'southward still not working, attempt connecting it to a unlike PC. If it'south still non detected, it's probably a problematic DV port in the camera.
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Why tin't I view the videos on my PC, (they are all blacked out) just they can be viewed with the SD menu installed ?
You have to delete system32 get-go. You lot can play them with the SD card inserted considering the SD card doesn't have a system32 folder.
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I cannot detect the video file on the removable disk, why?
It might be as well large to encounter on your computer. Endeavour transferring it using a USB cable or FireWire.
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