Transfering video clips from digital cameras

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Wed 10 Nov 2010 08:58
Transfering video clips from digital cameras - Chris S

My old-fashioned camera has broken and I'm going to replace it with a digital one.

From what I understand most digital cameras have some video capacity but how easy is it to transfer this to a laptop?

Is it normally done using the memory card or do you need some sort of USB device and software?

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Wed 10 Nov 2010 09:12
Transfering video clips from digital cameras - FP

(See my reply in "the other place".)

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Wed 10 Nov 2010 10:17
Transfering video clips from digital cameras - bonzo dog

Hi Chris, you can stick the memory card into the computer if it has a suitable slot; either way the camera will almost certainly come with a suitable camera to USB lead.

The camera will again almost certainly come with suitable software to transfer, store & edit your photos / videos but Windows has a more than adequate software to transfer & store photos & videos. If you're using Windows 7 you will probably have to install Windows Live Photo Gallery which is FOC, which I use to edit my photos. Windows Live Movie Maker is also FOC but I've never done video editing so can't speak as to its capabilities

Good luck

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Wed 10 Nov 2010 21:30
Transfering video clips from digital cameras - injection doc
£30 quid can buy an excellent video to usb convertor complete with software. I have just bought one to take all my old video cam films onto Disc.
A new digital camera now will have a lead to plug into a Pc and transfer photos and most Pc's will also play the video files.
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Thu 18 Nov 2010 18:19
Transfering video clips from digital cameras - Cymrogwyllt
If your computer does not have a suitable slot to insert the card then USB multi card readers are readily available as well as ones specific to a type of card and can be found for peanuts online rather than the in store retail price. Transferring the file is then a case of opening the card folder containing the image/video, opening a destination folder on the computer then drag and drop.

edit: To mods: am I allowed to post a link to a place that I've found to be reliable and competitive please?

Edited by Cymrogwyllt on 18/11/2010 at 18:20

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Fri 14 Jan 2011 16:32
Transfering video clips from digital cameras - Big John
Look out for a camera with HD video (mine is Cannon Ixus 100 - many makes now have HD video as well now). I simply move the SD card from the camera to the PC and can view photos / videos. I also use some superb free software called DVDFlick to burn the video to DVD which downscales from 720p(1280X720) to 576p - still really good quality. Camera SD video (usually 640X480) looks poor in comparison.
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