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wcerto
Ahonui
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 Posted - 05/13/2008 : 12:37:22 PM
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Boy, I really screwed up. Big time. I don't think I can make it good.     
Last night we filmed the hula ladies dancing and Paul playing and singing "Ko Ma`i Ho`eu`eu" to send to Auntie Mapuana de Silva for her blessing before it is performed in public. We did not have a video camera, so I used the movie function on my digital camera. I have taken films a couple or three times with it and put them on the computer in the "My Pictures" folder.
Whatever happened this time, I do not know, but all that is there is a still photo. I used Picasa to download them off my camera, just plugged the camera in to the USB and the computer asks me what I want to do, and I told it to take them off the camera and save them in a folder called Hula for Mapu. It took them off the camera's memory and did put all the still pictures in "My Picturese", but alkas no movie.
Anyone have any idea what I did wrong? Or any easy ways of taking short movies and being able to e-mail them. If I was able to save this file properly as a movie instead of a jpg, could I e-mail it as an attachment?
Any help is greatly appreciated. And maybe the hula sisters won't kill me. (I hope)
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Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
850 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2008 : 02:19:10 AM
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| Best I can suggest is to do a search using the date or file extention as parameter. Maybe it went somewhere you did not expect and the search wil find it. |
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Claudia
Lokahi
USA
152 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2008 : 02:44:55 AM
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I asked my 15 year old daughter to take a look at your movie problem, since she takes movies with her digital camara all the time and uploads them to her Mac. Her only advice was that when you do your upload from camara to the computer, never let it erase the movie in the camara's memory. Keep the movie in your camara until you are certain the upload was successful- then, you can delete it.
I know, not much help for the Hula movie! Advice for the future. |
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islandboo
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 05/14/2008 : 10:21:28 AM
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This is probably a dumb question, but are you certain that the movie file is no longer on the camera?? I use iPhoto and it will upload only photos, not videos. The videos remain on my memory card until I move them manually from the camera (which shows up as a device on my desktop) to the computer - or until I wipe the card.
And Claudia is absolutely correct - never allow the computer to auto-delete. |
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keoladonaghy
Lokahi
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Posted - 05/15/2008 : 11:32:32 PM
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Aloha Wanda. I'm not a big Windows users but you might want to try this:
Connect the camera again. When you get that "Import" question (if you do see it) just cancel it. Now go to "My Computer" and see if you see an icon for the camera there. Sometimes it's hard to tell by name, but it might appear as a camera icon or even just a disk drive. You computer will treat the camera just like it will a PEN drive or external hard drive. If you do see it there, double click and it should show you the contents. Sometime the photos and videos are stored in different folders in the camera memory, but if you poke around you may find it. If you do, just copy it to your desktop or wherever else you like. The movie may have the suffix .avi. mp4 or something else that is different from the pictures.
It works like this on a Mac, too. iPhoto can auto-import from a camera but you can also just connect it and treat the camera like a portable memory device.
Hope this helps.
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 05/17/2008 : 2:06:01 PM
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He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
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